bagster wrote:we at united need to learn to take the oppotunity to win when its presented , too many times this season we have been in good positions to win and we havnt , we dont think its negative to want to avoid relegation, its where we are at... talking finals would be getting a little bit ahead of ourselves id think.. a little different sitting 2nd to 7th
Unfortunately this is going to be the cruellest season in Grade 1 for quite some time, Smithfield, One Tree Hill or Central United will be relegated despite being competitive throughout the season.
You guys have done everything right over the past few years, I remember chatting to you after the 09/10 semi final and you said "We needed to stay down in Grade 2 for now, we just aren't ready for it".
You've gone away, worked on pretty much the same group and came up when you are ready for it, it would be a shame if you were to get relegated straight away as you don't deserve it.
We on the other hand went up and lost Bluey McMillan and then Aaron Bateson for most of last season, they were 2 big losses for us as they had outstanding seasons the previous year.
Losing Alex Tuckwell this season put us on the backfoot as we put quite a bit of time into him and him and Shane formed an excellent opening partnership.
Gaining Scotty Keylock has been handy but Bateson hasn't hit the heights that we know he can produce, we've stuck by mediocre performances trying to give players more Grade 1 experience and it hasn't paid off. Now we have to blood some youth and hope we can do enough to stay up and continue to re-build.
One of our biggest problems has been focussing on what could've been, the list of prospective players that indicated that they will suit up for us compared to the ones that actually do is dis-heartening, even still, I've heard in the past month 4 players that want to come across next season that would be automatically in our A grade squad, now it's a wait and see process to see what pans out.
