Shower are not letting weight to win a trophy influence them as they go into the modern Prevalence campaign, says head of rugby Johann van Graan.
The club wrapped up runners-up to Northampton in final season’s last at Twickenham in a rollercoaster coordinate that saw them come from behind with 14 men to nearly clinch triumph within the last play of the amusement.
The club have not won a association trophy since 1996 and start the unused season with a get-together against Holy people at the Entertainment Ground on Friday.
“Clearly we need to win a trophy. We’ve never said that we do not need to. But we are not within the [trade of] anticipating when this will happen,” Van Graan told BBC Radio Somerset.
“Ideally it happens sooner instead of afterward and us as a gather have tasted it – we were truly one play absent from winning it and there’s no ensure you’ll get back there once more.”
The 2024-25 campaign is Van Graan’s third at the rudder with the club advancing quickly since he took over.
Most of the squad from final season has been held and the South African trusts the progression over the staff and playing squad proceeds the upward direction this season.
Bolt Ross Molony and back push Fellow Pepper are among fair four modern entries.
“In terms of weight, Shower haven’t won a trophy for a really long time. The as it were weight we have is the weight that we have inside – we need to be portion of something uncommon,” included Van Graan.
“But what don instructs you is in case you win a diversion it doesn’t cruel that you’re fruitful, and in case you lose a amusement it doesn’t cruel you’re unsuccessful.”
Ben Spencer, who holds the captaincy this season, said there was a “colossal sense of pride” taken from coming to final season’s last, indeed more so after wrapping up foot of the table in 2021-22.
But the club don’t need to settle for essentially coming to the league’s show-stopper coordinate, the scrum-half insisted.
“To induce to the ultimate was awesome and it was a extraordinary day but I think we’re certainly looking to go one step assist this year,” Spencer said.
“You continuously set out at the begin of the season needing to win flatware.”
Shower wrapped up moment within the table at the conclusion of the standard season, level on points with Holy people.
Fair six focuses isolated the beat five clubs and Spencer anticipates it’ll be another near challenge this time around.
“The one thing that came over emphatically final year is it’s a long season, each point things,” he included.
“I think there was as it were one diversion where we didn’t come absent with any focuses at all.
“The ancient cliche of remaining one week at a time and looking at one diversion at a time will be truly vital for us this year.”
