Saturday’s win at Brora fairly set the cat amongst the pigeons. Sitting at the top of the league is very pleasant but doing it at this time of year doesn’t bear any comparison with doing so immediately after the last game of the season. When it counts.
But a lot of what we did on Saturday still counts – not as much and in different ways but still it counts for a lot that we took the game to Brora and showed better shape and discipline (in that sense of the word) to end up beating them at Dudgeon Park – something that seems confined to Kris Hunter teams (it was his Broch team that was the last to come away from there with three points knocking on for a couple of years back).
I’m sure that we exposed some frailties in Brora too – I don’t want to advertise them to our other rivals so won’t name them – but that counts for a lot as well.
What counts most of all though is that if you are brave enough to believe then what you can achieve knows few bounds.
This Formartine side were brave enough to believe that they could take Brora and went on to do so with a wee bit of style too. If they can hold onto the recognition of that – and my hunch is that they can – they can take it forward through the season.
If they can avoid any tendency to underestimate opposition or think a game is won before the 90th minute and still hold on to the bravery to believe, they will be rewarded.
It’s miles too early to punt them as Championship winners and I ain’t daft enough to do so but now that they have shown that they have a lot of the stuff that counts my dreams can become hopes.