Pressure on Chargers

TIME is fast slipping away from the Chargers to become a serious SEABL championship threat.

But coach Dwain Davie continues to have faith that his battered side can turn its fortunes around.

Hobart heads into tomorrow night’s home clash — its second last of the regular season — against Dandenong sitting two wins outside the top eight with six games remaining.

Davie forecasts at least four victories will be required to feature in the play-offs, with the biggest hurdle simply getting continuity within the team each week.

Kathleen Scheer, Britt Smart and Klara Wischer continue to battle soreness from early season complaints, while Kylie McCauley rolled her ankle late in last week’s second match on the road against Canberra and may struggle to suit up against the Rangers.

“It’s getting to the stage where we are going to have to shape up or ship out I suppose,” Davie said.

“I know it is kind of a broken record but we just need to focus on playing the way we want to play and doing that more consistently.

“Total faith in the group we have in terms of our ability and capability to challenge the best teams in the comp, we just haven’t been able to do it consistently enough.

“We will be right to go pretty much full strength this week, but it has been the case all season of just managing the loads during the week.

“That is probably playing a part in terms of our lack of consistency and continuity, we are just not able to get on the floor enough together during the week to get that.

“It is telling.”

Four of Hobart’s last six matches are against teams currently sitting above it on the ladder.

But if the Chargers are good enough to dispatch several of those it will deserve to feature in the finals.

“Probably at least four of the next six we need to get, that will put us around six or seven, depending on other results of course and the more we get the closer we get to the top,” Davie said.