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Shrimps had Will to hold on to Haining
Sammy McIlroy rates Scottish defender Will Haining as the best in League Two.
McIlroy fought off St Johnstone's keen interest to keep the 27-year-old stopper at Christie Park this week.
The Scottish Premier League club made a transfer-deadline day bid for the ex-St Mirren and Oldham stopper but Morecambe said 'no'.
McIlroy said: "I had agents on trying to get us to sell him on the cheap, but there was no way they were going to nick him.
"Some of the figures they were suggesting were derisory, and they just thought we'd sell because it was Morecambe.
"But the lad is a class act, and we want him here to try to help Morecambe win promotion.
"I don't see a better defender in this division than Haining in his current form."
Haining missed the first three months of the campaign through injury, but his impressive form since has seen Morecambe power into play-off contention.
The Shrimps are four points behind the pack and they make the short hop to Accrington Stanley tomorrow on a revenge mission after John Coleman's side inflicted defeat on Morecambe at Christie Park on Boxing Day.
Coleman has worked miracles this term, with Stanley also in the promotion hunt, winning six of their last seven league games.
The Shrimps have yet to beat Stanley since winning promotion to the Football League in 2007 and it is a run McIlroy is anxious to end.
"It was a disappointing performance against Chesterfield, and now is the time to show our character, how we react from that," added
McIlroy.
"This is the stage of the season when good teams kick on and I think we've enough character in the squad."
Full story in Friday's Lancashire Evening Post
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