SELF belief - it is an important quality for any sporting team so that is why Eglinton's 2-all draw with Bathurst District Football women's premier league rivals Panorama on Sunday was so important.
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While defending premiers Panorama have not lost a game this season, that Eglinton was able to split the points with them at Proctor Park not only helps their bid to grab second, but it comes as an important confidence boost.
"It was a good result and we hit the crossbar with about seven minutes to go too, so it could have been 3-2," Eglinton coach Ian Crook said. "We're very happy, we really needed that to happen just to sort of confirm to them that they can do it.
"Both with Pano and CSU it's a matter of the girls believing they can do it, but they were pretty pumped for it this week, they were talking about it and keen as."
Eglinton scored both its goals early on in the contest, Hailee Provest finding the mark for the opener before Tayla Brasier made it 2-0 with some 15 minutes gone.
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While down, as has been the case in other games this season, Panorama kept its composure and was back on level terms by half-time thanks to successful strikes from Courtney Hayter and Maddy Gallegos.
In the second stanza both teams pushed, but neither could find a match-winner.
"They play a different structure to us, which normally dictates our girls, but finally we realised we can be dictators. Pano had to change their structure to combat what we were doing," Crook said.
"They are a very good team, they are always going to score goals against you, I wasn't expecting that 2-0 was going to be the result or that we were going to run away with it. They were always going to come back and score goals with people in their team like Maddy Gallegos - she can score from anywhere.
"It was just a dour battle in the second half. Eileen [Cosgrove] had a cracking shot, their keeper was looking into the sun, so she would have been really struggling, and it just hit the crossbar.
"Early in that second half, they probably dominated that first 10 minutes, but then we got back into the contest. There really wasn't a lot of shots, there was just a lot of defending and turning up for each other."
