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‘BUFFS’ IN DREAMY 100 PER CENT START

06/10/2015 04:37:00 BY DUMISANI NTIWANE

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Under towering mentor Zenzele ‘Ace’ Dlamini, army side Young Buffaloes look the part in a very long time.

Buffaloes is the only team to have maintained a 100 per cent start to this season’s MTN Premier League, the ultimate competition.
In the four games played, the army side have scored six goals and conceded none. With 12 points to their name, they have a healthy goal difference of six.

It may be still early days, as most coaches would like to argue, but experience has taught us that the early bird usually catches the fattest worm.
The league, as it is often noted, is indeed a marathon and not a sprint. Depending on how Buffaloes treat their forthcoming games, they are slowly but surely underlining their intentions of snatching the crown from the jaws of defending champions, police ensemble Royal Leopard.

Interestingly, coach Dlamini remains their most successful coach yet. He is the only one to have led Buffaloes to league glory in the 2008/09 football season. They have put themselves in a very good position to challenge for honours this time with their impressive start.

As I see it, they are the only team so far that looks capable of breaking the Royal Leopard/Mbabane Swallows monopoly of football’s Holy Grail.
Talking of the two, Leopard had to dig deeper before ousting a tough-as-teak Red Lions in their last encounter, which the police outfit narrowly won 1-0.

The defending champions displayed true traits of champions by bouncing back after the numbing 2-0 defeat at the hands of Swallows in the final of the Castle Premier Challenge. That is what champions do. They bounce back and shrug off whatever negative result of the last outing.

Red and white giants and the Inyatsi-sponsored Swallows, on the other hand, seem to have rediscovered their vibe. I have always thought that the Mbabane giants are the best attacking side in the league and against Malanti Chiefs, they showed what kind of stuff they are made of. On their day, they can be unstoppable and with lanky attacker Felix Badenhorst slowly regaining his form, the swashbuckling Mbabane giants could wrestle the crown from the holders, Leopard. The 5-1 demolition job they did against the gold and black outfit should worry their opponents.