On what’s needed to improve on recent results:

We must be more efficient. We must score our chances and stop the leakage if you will. We will tweak a bit of the tactical shape and maybe change the personnel a little bit, get some fresh legs in and get some players that can give us a different aspect. Training has been very good. The boys have worked very hard and everybody is still feeling quite positive.

On the team’s defending:

We can defend our box a bit better. We’ve identified the goals we’ve given up and they’re goals we think we should not be conceding. We have work to do with our defending, but you will take the pressure off your defending if you score the chances you create. We have until the last couple of games been creating a lot of chances, which could have given us the three points, but we missed those. We need to put those away, because that will help us in both attacking and defending.

On breaking down stubborn opponents:

The Marumo Gallants game was a difficult game. They played long, they played deep, they didn’t really want to turn the ball over and therefore we had to pick our way through a very compact defence, which is difficult. We’ve got to learn to stretch out and pick out opponents through that sort of game and when a team wants to come at us, we can also play in transition. We’ve got work to do in every aspect of the game. On set plays, we need to be more clinical. Transitions we’re quite good at, but we need to realise when the opportunity presents itself. When a team plays long and deep against us, we need to get a hold of the ball and rotate it and pick our way through them, so that we create chances as well. Then we have to take those chances.

On the short and long term prospects for success:

We still have work to do. It will take two or three games. This is over a long season. Once you pick up and once it catches fire, once things happen, then it can go very quickly. At the moment, we’re waiting and working very hard to achieve that.

On injuries and suspensions:

We’ve got our injuries. It will allow me to look at different combinations, finding out what we can and what we can’t do and who’s ready and who’s not ready. We will have a look and we will solve that. We have options. We have (Sibusiso) Mabiliso, who is ready to step up. We have Reeve Frosler that could move across to the left hand side, so we will make a decision closer to the game. Lebo (Manyama) I pushed him a little bit too quickly I think. He was very good in training and he made everybody very optimistic that he was clinically fit, but whether he was ready to start that was a little bit of a mismatch. But he’s looked good in training and will be back very soon. Leonardo Castro is back from Colombia and should be back in 4-5 weeks. Samir (Nurković) had his operation this week, which went well, and so we hope that won’t be too long as well. (Phathutshedzo) Nange, we are hoping will be back in the frame, that will be a plus for us.

On managing supporter expectations:

In the bigger picture, the supporters are always interested in results now. That has been going on for eight seasons now, everybody wants it now. What we’re trying to do, we’re trying to say let’s peel back the desire and the dreams and the hopes on social media and of our supporters. Let’s pull back and find the strategy that will not just give us one cup now, but that will set us up at the top again for a longer period of time. That sometimes takes a little bit longer and in today’s football people don’t want to wait. I would say to the supporters, be a little bit patient, enjoy what we can provide right now. Just know that when we arrive, we’re not arriving to stay for five minutes. When we arrive with the team and we have the strategy and culture back with the club, then we will be staying around for a long, long time.

On facing AmaZulu:

AmaZulu have some good players. They were successful last year. They’re also struggling a little bit to get back to where they were, but they will be a difficult one to crack, especially away from home.