Lochcarron Boss Andrew MacKenzie Calls For More Commitment. | |
15 January 2012 Lochcarron boss Andrew MacKenzie has called for more commitment from his players ahead of the 2012 shinty season. Speaking to Drew Millar on Cuillin FM’s Saturday Sports Show, MacKenzie said, “When I took over half-way through the season, there wasn’t the early warm up games and there wasn’t the fitness there. So to try and get players fit half-way through a season was always going to be a difficult challenge. We are looking to turn that around this season and have plenty of pre-season games to get people more interested and a bit fitter really.” “We had a few good results throughout the season but it seemed to be that one week we had a full team and the next week we were choosing players by who was available rather than on merit. That’s always going to be a problem and we ended up with days like the one on Skye when we had no defence and it didn’t really do much for the moral for the players. We scored four goals that day which should be enough to win any game but we were missing defenders and to lose 10-4 was a bit of a freak result.” “I think Kinlochshiel were the only team in the first division last season who had the fitness and I don’t think there was another team that came close to them.” Like many club, Lochcarron have players based all over the country which brings its own problems. MacKenzie said, “We have players based away and it can be disheartening for the boys training locally because they don’t know what the ones based away are doing. So we will try and get them talking a bit more between themselves this year so that everybody knows what everybody is actually doing.” MacKenzie believes that commitment is key if the team are to progress. “The commitment has got to come back into it and there seems to be too much on in the summer with the summer shinty. We want to try and install into the boys that the shinty has got to come first if they are going to get anywhere with it.” |