Feeling pessimistic (probably due to my sixth day with a savage cold) but i can't rouse myself into feeling optimistic about our chances of promotion. I just feel that there's something essential lacking in our team that can most often be found in successful contenders for winning the big prizes. We seem to lack that arrogance and swashbuckling confidence especially up front that confident contenders in the past have possessed in abundance.
Those of us who have to be content with listening to the closing minutes of a game that we are winning by the odd goal rarely lay back arrogantly knowing that our defence will suffocate any attempt to draw the game. The opposite is true and we tremble until the final whistle. At the moment it's all hard work and sweat and young lads doing the jobs of seasoned pros. Can't be helped I suppose but we are going to need more than our share of good luck to be where we want to be,
I feel another sneeze coming on.
CAL