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HUNT: HOPEFULLY WE CAN START TAKING OUR CHANCES AND NOT CONCEDE STUPID GOALS
Wits have a big problem putting the ball in the net.
Gavin Hunt says he has had absolutely no discussions with the Bidvest Wits hierarchy about his future, even though the Clever Boys are currently rooted to the bottom of the Absa Premiership.
“There has been nothing like that, nothing,” said Hunt yesterday, ahead of tomorrow’s Absa Premiership clash at home to SuperSport United.
One would have thought Hunt would have some grace at Wits, given that the Clever Boys won a first top-flight title in their history last season and also captured the MTN8, while they won the Telkom Knockout this season even in the midst of an awful defence of their league crown.
Still, the Wits head coach admits that all he has achieved means little as his side languish at the bottom of the Premiership.
“It doesn’t matter what I have done, with three trophies in the last 14 months,” he said.
“With taking the club from nothing to being champions … it means nothing, we need to get away (from the bottom of the table).”
It is not difficult to figure out what Wits’ main problem is – their 1-0 loss at home to Free State Stars on Friday evening was the sixth league game in a row where the Clever Boys had failed to hit the back of the net on their own ground.
“We have to keep working on the training ground and hopefully we can take our chances and not concede stupid goals, it is not rocket science,” added Hunt, who confirmed Wits were looking to add a couple more players in the January transfer window.
The Clever Boys are still trying to get Polokwane City forward Thobani Mncwango released from his contract early, so he can join them now, instead of in July, but appear to have given up hope of getting Cape Town City defender Robyn Johannes, who is also set to join them in July.
SuperSport have had their own problems of late, without a win in six league matches, but Hunt admitted he has not followed them much amid his side’s own woeful run.
“I have not monitored their progress, we have to play and try and win the second half of the season, that is all we have to do, then things will be fine. We are on top of shot at goals in the statistics, on top of crosses into the box, so you tell me (what the problem is).”