If sixty odd years in football has taught me anything about myself, it is about how to manage disappointment.
I have learned that recovery from it is all about looking forward to something that can give you future hope. After Saturday’s doing by Cove, and we can’t pretend it wasn’t, what have we too look forward to for future hope?
Well there’s the league for a start, but already it is more a case of it being Cove’s to lose than somebody else’s to win. The basis for whatever slivers of hope we can extract there is that we have played very well in the league to date and very few if any teams go the course without a wobbly period. If that comes to Cove we can cash in; if it doesn’t ,there’s hee haw we or Brora or Turra can do about it.
The other thing about disappointment is to be realistic and we went into that replay decimated by injuries to McKeown, McVitie, and Lawson with Crawford suspended leaving us a back four where every player was playing in relatively unfamiliar positions and three of the four were (of necessity) in different positions from the drawn game. You can’t expect a team of Cove’s quality and experience not to cash in and they did.
Surprisingly, given the number of games we’ve played against them already this season we haven’t finished playing them this season.
Oh how we would love a wee bit of silverware for the boardroom – it looks kind of bare since the Aberdeenshire cup went away and there’s still the chance of the Aberdeenshire shield to give us rays of hope.
Problem is that the biggest obstacle in our way is, you’ve guessed it, Cove b—-y Rangers yet again.