Kevin Nolan targets Europe.
Posted on May 18th, 2010 | 97 Comments |
Generally they have had to play two games a week, nearly every week, which is something they are not used to after spending most of their careers in the pampered Premier League. So you could forgive them for drifting off quietly to recharge their batteries, right?
Not so it seems, and it looks like our players are already eyeing a return to Europe in the next few years in a fantastic show of ambition from them. People will laugh when they here of a return to Europe, even some of our own fans, who could find the negative angle of recieving a £1 million windfall, but who is to say we can’t make it back into Europe in the near future? Bolton did it, twice in fact, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, survival is what we need to achieve first. Learning to walk before we run and ensuring we are careful enough as a club to thrive long term so that my kids have a team to support.
“We’ll have our own expectations in the dressing room, of course,” Nolan said. “And what we need is to make sure first is make sure that we survive.”
“Then we’ll have another year when we look to go higher and higher again. We can’t get carried away with our goals, but we have to make sure we get to them bit by bit, or step by step, rather than jump a few.”
“If we finished 17th 12 months ago, we’d have been jumping up and down thinking we’d won the league. If we do it next season, it’ll be an improvement.”
You can’t really argue with what Nolan has said there as he has it bang on the money for me. If we had got a point at Villa Park on the final day of the season we would have all been celebrating like crazy, and I may not have ended up having that ‘set-to’ with the only fan of Hull City I have ever seen round by where I live.
Still, that is in the past now, and all we can do is look forward. At least our players still sound positive, and you really couldn’t expect anything less from Kevin Nolan who has established himself as a leader and mouthpiece both on and off the field.
It’s also nice to hear that the players still have goals going forward, targets to achieve, and a goal to aspire to. It will be tougher next season, a lot tougher, but our team know what it’s about as they have over 1400 Premier league appearances between them. That experience should stand them in good stead as we look to implement stage one of our new plan.
Survival.
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will nolan still be playing footie in 5 years time