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JIM MCINTYRE
It has been a frustrating time since our last game against Partick Thistle. I think the best way to describe it is bitty, because we’ve had disrupted training sessions and the cancellation of the Dundee game, and we’re going to have a period of nine days between this one and the Caley Thistle match at the start of January.
It has been great getting the boys back going again, having a normal week’s training, and now having the game to look forward to tonight.
What we will then do is add in an extra session next week, on the Saturday morning, given that we’re in Inverness on the Monday afternoon.
Most of the lads will have a bit of time off from their day jobs, so that will help, and it will be good to get back into a routine and have a bit of continuity.
There have been times this season when the games have been coming thick and fast, and we’ve had a catalogue of injuries, so it has been really intense. In some ways, after a three week break, it’s almost like starting all over again.
It is just a case of pressing the reset button, and let’s go again.
We’re coming into a really important period, this will see us complete the second quarter of the campaign, and we all know the importance of the match against Hamilton.
The last time we played them, I had COVID, so missed it, but that was a real, real sore one. It was clearly a game we should have tied up, and we cannot afford to let things slip as we did that day.
Both sets of players are fully aware of how vital tonight could be. It’s a chance for us to open up a really healthy lead over them, but they’ll be looking at it as an opportunity to pull us back closer. We’re at home, we’re generally strong here at Balmoral Stadium, and we’ll be looking to build on the good results we’ve enjoyed here so far.
This halfway point of the season is probably a good time to reflect, and having been away from the game for a few years, I can tell you nothing has really changed in the Championship, it’s as ruthless as it was the last time I worked in it, and I genuinely think that’s the big difference between this division, and say, League One. In the Championship, you get punished.
There’s a lot of good players in the league, and I’ve enjoyed it. I work with a really good group of lads, honest boys who are all together, and if you’re to have any sort of success at all, you cannot overestimate the importance of that.
The boys we have added, along with our loan signings, have all made a contribution, and we look forward to the second half of the season.
Your support is so important to us, I would like to thank you for your backing, and to wish all Cove Rangers fans a merry Christmas and a happy and successful 2023.
Enjoy the game!
Jim McIntyre
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