Quote Kettykat="Kettykat"With our best team on the park and the wind in our sails we are a match for anyone on our day.it’s when the injuries start to bite into the squad ,but that goes for quite a few clubs where they don’t have huge squads .Look on schoey’s comments as motivation to prove we’re not the easy beats .For my mind it’s consistency that has always been our Achilles heel ,and eluded us for far too long .I’m hoping that with the coaching set up we have in place now we can start to chip away at this monkey on our backs and really kick on this season .Stay injury free and put some good performances in and you never know where we might end up.As I’ve said we have the roster to trouble most when fit and on the park ,we just need Lady Luck on our side and I’m positive we”ll be up there amongst the so called big boys.'"
Wind in our sails is a great way to put it.
Truth is all the signings in the world are not worth a good start to the season where we are concerned. That and some luck with injuries.
The talent is clearly there and if Lino fires then I see no reason why we can’t challenge.
But in fairness to the negative nellies, there is no doubt that it’s on a knife-edge. Get ourselves in a rut as in the last two seasons and we are in serious bother. Normally I'd have a customary ding dong with Belly on this and accuse him of posting the same old stock doom and gloom he does every year. He is the ultimate boy cried wolf but for once I'm not willing to put my neck on the line for this team just yet. The mini-revival last year was nice but even then they didn't seem to have the minerals to take it all the way, something was still definitely lacking for me.
Of course, that applies to many teams but this current squad has shown an alarming lack of resilience on occasions. Not a Trinity trait usually and one made even more concerning due to the fact that IMHO this is a very talented team.
It’s a worry, everything should be right but that’s not seemed enough of late.
What I am hoping is that the vastly improve coaching set up will help but at the end of the day if the players haven’t got the guts it won’t help much.
We the fans and those who run the club have done our best to keep the team together in difficult times. Now the players need to step up, it’s down to them and only them.
