The chairman of Black Leopards, Mr David Thidiela, has appealed to his team’s fans not to start pressing the panic buttons now.

He was responding to the call by the team’s fans, who want a complete team overhaul, following their poor performance in their league matches. Lidoda Duvha are still to win a league match this season.

They have played four matches, from which they managed to collect only three points to date. They played to draws with Roses United, Baroka FC and Witbank Spurs and lost 1-2 to African Warriors. Thidiela said that the people should look at the general performance of the team and not to look at the results of the matches they had played so far.

According to him, the team’s performance in all the matches they had played was excellent, despite the fact that they did not manage to collect the maximum points in any of them. Their only weak point was that they were not scoring goals, despite playing entertaining football. He reiterated the fact that the technical team was working on that, saying that sharing the spoils with the opponents would soon be something of the past.

Thidiela further indicated that the fact that they had scored three goals and conceded four to date was a clear indication that the team was on the right track. He asked the team’s supporters to continue rallying behind the team, saying they would soon start to collect the league points home and away. He reiterated that the team was still on course to win the league title, saying it was still too early to rule them out.

“Look, we still have 26 league matches to play before the activities of the current season come to an end and anything can still happen,” he said.