If the spine of the team last year was Eastwood-Dickie-Brannagan-Henry-Taylor, this season’s offering has a case of scoliosis.
Eastwood is out of form or at best patchy, Dickie has departed and his replacement Atkinson is both learning and recovering, Brannagan is out, Henry isn't firing on all cylinders yet and Taylor is isolated. We look like a team with a chemical memory of how to do things well but with a makeshift defence, we have nothing to build on from the back.
I can’t predict anything until I see the XI for this one. I’m worried but take solace that this is a home game to sort things out and we’ve mustered some of our better results at the KasStad so far. A win could take us to 18th and on par with that lot that we play on Saturday.