Tamworth FC are a rebuild that will take up to two years to complete.
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So says FC coach Robert Jeffery, after the side lost again when Armidale City Westside beat them 2-0 at Gipps Street.
Jeffery said his players performed with "courage" after six players had to back up from reserve grade due to the absence of seven first-graders on the day.
"It's probably where we thought we'd be," Jeffery said of FC's current form. "We knew it was always gonna be a tough year, and we're still in the rebuilding phase.
"And we've got at least another 12-18 months, two years to get to where we wanna be."
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"But it is definitely progressing," Jeffery said of the side's development. "And we've just got a champion bunch of young blokes now in the squad."
He said Tamworth FC - premiers in 2018 and 2019, and grand finallists in 2020 - had undergone "a lot of soul searching".
It had been "a hard slog" to get to this stage with the side, he said, adding: "But we're starting to reap the rewards now. So, very happy."
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