laser wrote:Something for the Portland and Mitcham posters. D4 sees the return of promoted clubs quite quickly, something your clubs have managed to avoid. What do you see as the major differences between D4 and D3 ? (I know, something semi-serious at this time of the year, but curious on this).
Seriously, I think Attitude is Massive, Like confidence is in Cricket, Attitude is the be all and end all come football, If you can mentally apply yourself through out the year in Div 3 you will be succsesful, In Div 4, you can have a down patch for a week or two and get picked back up with a win against a bottom side.
Pretty much, at Salisbury, the year started well, trial matches and Pre Season training, First game Moral took a blow with the loss to Iggies, The next week we were picked up by a win against Woodie South and had about 40 blokes at training Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights (C's & D's train seperatly) for a week or two, then playing Para Hills and Walkerville our numbers on the track dropped, we came up against Portland who were struggeling at the time and got smashed, Moral was compleet zero, Some blokes left the club and number dwindled so badly, we were getting 18/26 blokes Tuesdays and Thursdays (not enough numbers to train sepretly anymore)
Div 4 this year, you get beaten by CBCOC/PAOC, then the following week you may back up a tough side with another tough side, but to be honest there were 3 very poor sides in that grade, with 5 sides about equal and all beatable.
I strongly feel Salisbury's best side was two players short of being a top 4 Div 3 side this year, A Big Forward to kick +40 goals and a CHB, as good as our young blokes are, Height down back killed us.
Well, see you blokes in 2011
