Nathan Brown column: Confidence is key

May 21 2009 by Chris Roberts, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Are you still feeling disappointed over the way things went against Salford?

It was a very difficult one to take.

I think we’d all hoped that after getting back to winning was with victory over Celtic Crusaders in our previous League game, we’d start to regain some of our best form.

But clearly the performance against Salford showed that wasn’t the case.

We did create the opportunities to score, but Salford scrambled back and found a way to keep us out, or we threw the ball to the ground or kicked the ball dead. We just couldn’t find a way to catch, pass and score.

On the other hand, Salford controlled the ball extremely well, and after 60 minutes had made just two errors, which was a tremendous effort, especially when considering the wet conditions.

That’s something we need to start doing again.

And the only way to do that is to work hard, regain some confidence and get back on the horse.

I think everyone can see that our confidence is a bit down, and that’s been a factor in the way things have been going over the past few weeks.

Having to change the team due to injuries has also knocked us around a bit, and poor execution and lack of skills have also been a concern.

So, I think a combination of all of the above have been at the centre of the problems.

But at least against Salford we were creating opportunities. In fact, we created about eight of them.

We just have to make sure that in future games we take them.