Anthony Elliott running rugby on the pitch and off at Bees
“I have done what I needed to off the field – there is still a lot to do but it’s a lot to do over years rather than weeks and we are getting there with that.
“We have a great management team, that is very diverse. Everyone has their own areas of skill and we can use the delegation process so everyone is doing the right job.
“Hopefully now I can start concentrating on the playing side a bit more and I’m really excited about that.
“Although we got beaten some of the guys just turned it on against Rotherham.
“We have got a running team, there is no question about that, we want to throw it around, enjoy it and put on a show for the people watching.
“We want to win the game and will do whatever we need to do that but our style is to run.”
With Ben Patston’s knee injury not as bad as first feared, the former Cambridge and Bedford play-maker will be fit for what the club are billing as the Super Six – in reference to the half-dozen play-off games that will decide their fate, Bees should have the creative instinct to release their strike runners.
Problems remain up front, just as it was against Cornish Pirates, the visitors’ scrum was obliterated by Moseley’s last Saturday and will face two more stern examinations from Doncaster and Nottingham in the next five days.
Yet Elliott thinks a more pressing issue lingers between the ears: “Our best game is still an unknown quantity, even to ourselves,” he says.
“Half the thing standing in our way is to start believing how good we are going to be.
“We have got to believe that we can deliver. It’s getting away from that mentality of ‘here we go again’ to ‘OK they’ve got a try - we’ll get the next one’. It’s going to take time, and fortunately we are starting to develop it.”
That was certainly the case at Billesley Common where Moseley were on cruise control at 25-14 up with just a quarter of an hour to go.
But Hunt conjured ten points in as many minutes and suddenly the outcome was up for negotiation once again. It is that sort of spirit Bees must be able to summon on a week by week basis.
That should not be a problem tomorrow week when they visit Coventry for what will either be viewed as a cards-close-to-the-chest encounter or the best opportunity for a win all season.
The clubs are certain to meet in the Scrap-yard Six in March, in a four-team mini-league that if current form is anything to go by could also include Moseley.
That would provide Bees with four local derbies and a double header with AN Other, Rotherham or Doncaster, to salvage something from the most tortuous season in their history.
