Former Blues defender John Frost is hoping to see a response from Waterford FC tonight at the RSC when Galway come to town.
"You talk about a good start to the season - a good start would be maybe the first five games. If Waterford can get a good result, a positive result, and a positive performance against Galway and see where that leaves us, then after five games we can look back with four wins and a draw, then you'd go 'that's not bad," Frost told WLR Sport this week.
Frost's comments come after last weekend's 1-1 draw with Longford in the second round of the league where Waterford failed to score against the visitors in what was their first home game of the new season at the RSC. An own goal from the boot of Darragh Lynch gave the Blues their lone score of the game having dominated Wexford the week prior.
Manager Danny Searle described the standard of his team's performance as "not good enough," following the game and continued to say that while Longford were 1-0 down at the break, his opposing manager was likely the happier of the two.
In the second half the home side looked "bored" according to Searle, who says reminded his players that they only had to win the game 1-0 by doing "the ugly bit".
Frost bemoaned their play in that second half, saying that the team were likely trying to take a bit too much out of the ball, with the midfield not controlling the game like they had done against Wexford in the opening game.
If they are to bounce back and re-assert themselves this evening, they will need to do it against one of the sides that have been tipped for glory this season. Galway have won their opening two games and now sit in fourth - one spot better than Waterford - but tied on 6 points with three other sides.
"We have to take those results, we have to take the positive out of it. We didn't lose it," Searle said about the Longford game. "There was times last year when we probably wouldn't have gotten the point out of the game and we showed a little bit of character from that perspective. We should be putting games like that to bed and that's where the training comes in."
Now in his first full term in charge of the side, Searle has also cautioned against hitting the panic button based on one result in the very early goings. 34 games are left in the campaign with undoubtedly plenty of ups and downs along that journey. The next challenge is that of Galway with Searle saying the occasion doesn't come any bigger than this, but, "we can't let that get to us. We have to kind of diminish the emotion out of it, dismiss the emotion and deal with the facts that we've got the capabilities to beat Galway. If we do what we're capable of doing I expect us to win the game."
