NEWS: Rosehill not resting on laurels for Storm return

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Glasgow Braehead Clan forward Jay Rosehill says the team’s defeat of Manchester Storm will still be fresh in their memory when Ryan Finnerty and his men return there on Saturday.

 

Clan took a 5-2 victory from Silverblades last week as they returned to action following a brief hiatus.

 

And Rosehill says the players made sure they were mentally tuned to the job at hand after their break as they claimed the win over Omar Pacha’s men.

 

“We’re back on the road again and I think it will feel familiar going to Manchester on Saturday so if we can replicate that whole day basically, hopefully we can find it again,” he said.

 

“Manchester are always tough and we try to dictate what we do out there and not worry about what they do. When you beat a team as soon as we did last week, they’re going to remember that.

 

“They’ll want to clean up the mistakes they made, but we’re by no means thinking we’re going there for an easy game. It wasn’t last time and we have to bring our best game again.

 

“When you take time off, your mind can go any way so we made sure when we came back together, we were focussed on what we had to do.

 

“I think we came out pretty solid and we won the first game. At the end of the day, we’re professionals and had to go out and do a job.”

 

Rosehill believes that despite winning one and losing one last weekend, the team are starting to find their identity as performances improve.

 

And he gave his reaction to the news that Clan would be up against Nottingham Panthers in the Challenge Cup quarter finals next month.

 

He added: “We’re putting together a lot better games and we’re finding our identity. We still, to be honest, show flashes of two different teams sometimes.

 

“We’ll come at the opposition in waves and that’s the team we want to be. The times where we’re not finding that is when we make mistakes.

 

“So if can continue on the trend we’re on, but bring it quicker and find that solid, we’re going to win a lot of games so we have to stay on that.

 

“Looking ahead to the Challenge Cup, we played Nottingham Panthers right before the break and we played well against them. We matched up well and it’s going to be a play-off atmosphere.

 

“I’m expecting it to be a good game and the fans to come and make it really loud. We’ve got the dates circled on the calendar for sure.”