| | To be Frank - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Against such a backdrop, the suspicion had to be that the final element of Hadden’s pre-season preparations would be to crawl under a table, curl up in a ball and sob quietly to himself, yet there was a surprisingly jaunty aspect to his conversation on Friday as he anticipated the campaign ahead. |
 | | Hadden could be forgiven for viewing the first few weeks of the Celtic League as a holding operation, but he rejected forcefully the suggestion that his side would simply be biding their time unti the injury situation improves: “We can’t afford to do that,” he stressed. |
 | | Yet Hadden, with the innate concern of the schoolteacher he used to be, is cautious about putting too much responsibility on young shoulders. |
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