By Tara Murray
The glass is still half full for Macedon despite just one win on the board in the Riddell District Football League.
The Cats have been in every match this season but have been unable to get over the line against a number of sides that will also be pushing for top six spots.
While disappointed with the win-loss record, Cats coach Al Meldrum said it wasn’t all bad news for the side.
“This year was going to be tough with a pretty even comp this year, which is great,” he said.
“In terms of win loss we are disappointed but we are definitely glass half full.
“We have been in every game close to three quarter time and a couple of them have not been able to get the job done.
“A couple of times while we played well, we played opposition that are right now better than us, which sometimes you have to accept and learn from.”
Meldrum said they had started to add some talent back into the side in the last couple of weeks and would add some more back in the next few weeks.
Jason Cooke now has two games under his belt, while Matt Dick played in the match against Kyneton.
Cooke has kicked 12 goals in his two games.
“He has been unbelievable,” Meldrum said of Cooke.
“He did a really bad calf injury in January when we came back after the Christmas break.
“He come back in against Wallan. He had been training, in terms of match fitness he had nothing and just got to work.
“He’s really talented, hard to beat one on one, beat you in multiple ways showed that over the last two weeks
“We’ll look to get another couple of weeks of training into him. He is such a good player in our league for such a long time. I don’t think he’s slowing down, I think he’s potentially getting better.”
Meldrum said they have played some of their best football against teams that have been playing well.
They drew against Diggers Rest despite having more scoring shots and had more shots on goal against Wallan as well.
Speaking before the side’s bye on the weekend, Meldrum said they know they have a few things to work on.
“We’re just trying to really nail down a few things that we aren’t quite getting right,” he said.
“I think our best footy is still pretty good.
“It’s probably good to just reset and refresh and get a bit healthier, we will be back at home after the bye which will be really good.
“There’s a number of elements in pretty good shape but there’s a couple that we are disappointed in, One of those is the defensive aspect of the game that we were renowned for last year. Sometimes when you look to gain in areas like we have in the off season in offence, can sometimes take away from your defence.
“We need to find a balance a bit more.”
The Cats face Woodend-Hesket this Saturday.
