DANNY Mayor believes Bury players’ post-match inquests have helped turn around their recent bad run.

The Shakers go into tomorrow’s trip to relegation-threatened Dagenham and Redbridge following their first back-to-back victories in the league since September.

Mayor played an instrumental role in wins at Northampton on Boxing Day and at home to Mansfield on Sunday, scoring in both matches to take his recent tally to three in the last four games.

But rather than take the plaudits, Mayor believes the side have overcome their recent problems by sticking together as a team, holding frank debates in the dressing room after every match.

“I wouldn’t mind if we had been playing bad but it was just down to individual mistakes. Once we cut them out you can see the outcome,” he said.

“At the beginning, we just came into the dressing room and said ‘it is all right, we will get back on track’.

“But as it kept happening, the lads had to be (told).

“We said it in the right way, and the lads took it in the right way, and I think that’s the main thing.

“I have been in teams where you walk out and it’s done, but the lads stay in and talk about it.

“We do want to solve the problems and the last two games we have.

“The togetherness has definitely helped. When you go on a bad run teams can split and it is harder to get out of that rut, but we have always stuck together and hopefully things have started to change over the last few games.”

Mayor’s own high standards have not dropped in the recent poor run of the results.

The 24-year-old midfielder regularly picks up the sponsor’s award for man-of-the-match, and repeated the trick on Sunday following his sixth goal of the season.

But he is more interested in points for the team than individual honours, and the former Preston and Sheffield Wednesday wide man has his fingers crossed Bury’s promotion charge is now back on track.

“We are a positive group,” he said. “We saw what we did to top teams, like Burton, at the beginning of the season.

“We have had our sticky patch but hopefully now we are out of it and can start doing to teams what we did before.”

Mayor’s high-quality displays have, of course, caught the eye of visiting scouts, but far from rebuffing rumours of interest from other clubs Bury boss David Flitcroft has welcomed any interest.

“Danny Mayor is someone who lights up your day,” he said.

“Whether he is scoring goals, setting goals up or gliding across ground he is a phenomenon and I love working with him.

“His end product is getting better – it is still not the finished article but it is getting better and we are reaping the rewards.

“I came to the club to develop players and to make sure we get them performing to their maximum. Danny has been a very consistent performer - wherever I have played him he has been consistent.

“It’s just part of the territory that when you get players performing, bigger fish will come in for them and the vultures will circle. That is football.”