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Stacey Hosking has backed Blacks to rediscover that winning feeling
Injury has forced the Aussie to spend most of the season watching from the sidelines after his switch from the Gold Coast, but he says Northwich will soon be smiling again. “Well be climbing the league ladder pretty soon”, he told the Guardian.
Northwich have won only two games in the first half of the season, both against the two teams below them in the table. It’s a stark contrast to their all-conquering campaign last year. But Hosking, who arrived in town in October 2007 from Surface Paradise Dolphins, has a message for their North Two West rivals.
“This team has so much more to come yet”, he warned.
“We’ve had terrible luck with injuries to key players and the boys have been adapting to a different style of play under a new coach”. Paul Reid is a very different character to what I’m used to back home he’s more of a philosopher about the game and thinks deeply about strategy.
But the lads have every faith he’s taking us in the right direction.
Centre Hosking, 25, dislocated his shoulder in the defeat to New Brighton last month on only his second appearance for the club. He hopes to be back in time for the weekend crunch clash with rock bottom Tyldesley. “I’m itching to get out there”, he said.
“I feel like I owe it to the club to give something back to them as everybody has made me feel so welcome”.
Fellow import James Gwynne, a Kiwi, is also at Moss Farm this term.
Hosking admits the pair have found it tough to adjust to conditions in the North West of England.
“I’ve still not sorted my boots out”, he laughed.
“Back home I only play one match a year in the rain but that’s more the norm over here isn’t it?”
Story courtesy of Andrew Simpson Northwich Guardian
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