Hand jobs and other cobblers

Some handballs get you to the World Cup.  Some are jolly nice to look at.  Some are mad moments that torture you until the next time you get to play football to exorcise the demon (I think Barry's working next Thursday, so the poor fella might have to wait fully a fortnight before making amends.  Ouch!)  Anyway, just wanted to say that crazy incident or no crazy incident, Bazza your apology was welcome but it's a team game and when things go wrong, we take collective responsibility and collectively try to put things right.  We didn't do a very good job of putting things right on Thursday, but roll on next week so that we can have another go!

The view from full-back was that for a lot of the game we didn't do what the Coach had asked us to do.  The previous Coach and the Coach before that will no doubt agree that this is the most frustrating thing about that job.  We deserved the criticism we got after the game, just as much as we'd deserved the praise after recent good performances.  The thing that Joe said post-match that most resonated with me was "teams won't give you a 2-0 lead just because you're the Accies".  We have to really earn those good results ("and here's where you start paying. In sweat"). Also, with six subs available to be called into action at any given moment, plus a pacy forward having to miss out because of the high turnout, when you're lucky enough to be on the pitch, you have to work your socks off.  Don't conserve any energy!  Use it all up, then have a breather and let someone else come on and work their socks off!  As Phil says in the previous post, work for each other - especially when we haven't got the ball.

Up the Accies.