Tam McManus - the nearly man.
It's a tag which has sat with me throughout my playing career and I only have myself to blame for not shaking it off. A kid who was top scorer for Hibs in one campaign but didn't sustain it, had I followed that up with another season of goals then I'd have flown far higher - but I didn't.
The truth was I was never fit enough, I couldn't play 90 minutes and it all caught up with me. Every close-season I would get a training programme for the time off but I stuck it in a drawer and went on holiday.I hated running, I'd do nothing and then the week before we were due back to training I'd run a lap of a public park and believe that would do me. Unfulfilled potential and a huge regret. I coach kids at Braidhurst High School and it's the boys with the best attitudes rather than ability who I back to make it. It's mental but true.
