New Bucs coach Jonevret says he will make Pirates ’Happy People’ again

New Orlando Pirates coach Kjell Jonevret says he has inherited a disheartened changeroom and his immediate challenge is to put the smiles back on his players' faces.

The Swede has said all the right things since his appointment on Monday and he admitted that he has a huge task on his hands.

‘‘I am going to do what I normally do and I think that is the thing that Orlando Pirates want from me also‚” he said.

‘‘But of course I have seen them play in a few games and they are a very talented group of players‚ but a little less of confidence I think.

‘‘We have to go back to basics and start a little bit all over. I am not going to change everything and will sit down with the staff and the coaches and discuss what we can do better.

‘‘I think we have to wait and see because often football is no quick fix.

"It takes some time and the situation Pirates find themselves in‚ seven or eight games in a row without a win (it’s actually nine games)‚ I think it is also important to try and win a game as quickly as possible to get some happiness and laughing again in the locket room.

‘‘I suppose they are a little bit down.”

The Bucs fans nicknamed themselves ’Happy People’ after the R Kelly hit song in the days when the club purred like a well-fed tiger and peerless R&B king's steppers' groove would reverberate in stadiums around the country.

It remains to be seen if Jonevret can take them back to those days and move them away from the current malaise. — TMG Digital