Hunt's brutal assessment of narrow Stellies win

GAVIN HUNT has used the refrains “we should have won the match’ or ‘we should have scored more goals’ so much in his post match media addresses that to hear him say anything else gets one doing a second take.

- MATSHELANE MAMABOLO

It has become somewhat of a cliché really, an expected statement from a coach even when the reality of proceedings had been different.

It was thus somewhat of a shock when ‘Huntie’s' maiden post-match address as coach of Stellenbosch FC did not include those lines.

Perhaps most surprising was to hear the multiple championship-winner admitting his team were lucky to win their Betway Premiership tie at Sekhukhune United 1-0.

‘Tsheogatso Mabasa scored on debut for the Cape Winelands outfit he joined this week on loan from Orlando Pirates to help extricate Stellies off the bottom rung of the table albeit by just one position into 13th place.

“Let’s be honest, the longer the game went on, the better they got. They should have got a point,” Hunt said in the bowels of the Peter Mokaba Stadium. In the first half we were good and had some opportunities and then there was that big chance in the second half. But we were fortunate to win”