10 Sep 2015 | Cricket
Glamorgan head coach Toby Radford says there's no room for an end of season feeling as the club aims to finish the season as high as possible up the league table.
We don't want any end of season or end of term feeling to any game, said Toby talking to BBC Radio Wales.
I don't want that, the players don't want that and no one connected to the club wants to see that, they want to see us perform.
Players are playing for personal pride, for contracts for next season and for members and supporters, they are professionals, so every game we play we are up for winning that game.
For a long period of the season we were right up there in contention for promotion then we hit a bit of a roadblock half way through.
We're now in fifth a couple of points behind but with this game in hand which if it ends well could see us back into third.
At the outset of the season we said if we can finish in the top four we'd see that as success and a move forward for the club from where we had been in the last few years.
Radford concurred with director of cricket Hugh Morris in identifying the bowling department as a key area for strengthening the team ahead of next season.
One of the challenges we had this season was with 15 full-time professionals we were probably the smallest squad on the circuit this season albeit with three or four guys coming from University later in the summer.
But it's a very small main squad and certainly from a bowling point of view we've played Michael Hogan, Graham Wagg and Craig Meschede in pretty much every game this season across all three formats.
When you get to July and early August there's been a lot of cricket and it starts to take its toll so for us moving forward with a view on getting to Division 1 we need to add a couple of seam bowlers to allow us to rotate the bowlers going forward and give people rest and choose when to play games would be the ideal scenario.
The small squad has allowed Glamorgan to bring in some youngsters, with Jeremy Lawlor the latest to make his first-class debut and the 395th player to do so in the club's history.
A small squad has allowed us to bring young lads in and develop home-grown talent and bring players through the academy and second team into first-class cricket.
There's no set way how you bring a player in the team, someone like David Lloyd is a fine batter but his bowling has developed quickly so we've brought him in more as a seam bowler then as he's getting confidence we've slided him up the order.
It's something Surrey did with Mark Butcher starting down at 8 or 9, then ended up opening the batting for England so you've got to look at how people develop individually and it's an enormous jump up from Second XI so it takes time for players so as a coaching and management team we have to work out who we think is going to make it and work out how to get the best from them.
Reflecting on the season as a whole, Radford is ready to look at how to improve the team for next season.
There have been highlights this year, with Graham Wagg getting a double hundred, Colin Ingram scoring centuries regularly in 50-over games and beating Surrey away.
We've had good performances this year, but the top order has struggled to score runs consistently, certainly in Championship cricket. In one-day cricket when we've been away from home and on good pitches we've scored heavily in a lot of games, so we've probably played better away from home than at home in one-day cricket and generally in four day cricket it's been the other way round where we've found it more difficult away.
So you look at the squad at the end of the season and you look to see how you can be better next year.