Complacency a danger for Giants

Giants coach Tony Nixon acknowledges complacency will be the main danger for his team in their Hutt Valley premier league and Inter-City series men's softball matches with Dodgers at South Park, Masterton tomorrow.
Dodgers are a young, enthusiastic side who will be lively in the field but Nixon agrees that if paper strengths count for anything Giants should win both the 1pm and 3pm games in comfortable fashion.
"It's one of those situations where you can say anything less than two wins won't be good enough," Nixon said.
A narrow loss to powerful Poneke-Kilbirnie in atrocious conditions last weekend was a clear indication of the potential within the current Giants side. They matched P-K all over the park and were somewhat unlucky the game did not go to a tiebreaker.
"We created just as many scoring chances as they did, it was touch and go all the way through," Nixon said. The Giants coach anticipates his batters relishing the chance to hone their skills against a Dodgers pitching staff lacking the experience and guile of that fielded by
P-K. And he also believes his own pitchers should be able to restrict Dodgers at their turn at bat.
"Obviously it's dangerous to be too confident but, honestly, I think complacency is about the only thing which can beat us," Nixon said.
It will be a case of full-on softball action at South Park tomorrow with the Giants under-15 boys ( 10.30am), premier two men (1pm) and President grade (3pm) teams also playing Dodgers and all three of them should finish on the right side of the ledger as well.