Wits and Stars will lock horns in the opening round of this year’s Telkom Knockout, making it four straight years that the two sides have met one another in this competition.
“The draw is always the same, I could have told you before the draw that we would be drawing Free State Stars away. We seem to draw each other [every year],” Hunt joked.
“But we’re under no illusions, it’s going to be a tough game for us. We’re all trying to get through, they want to get through.”
Aside from being defending champions, Hunt is also aware his side risks sitting idle for the whole of November should they fail to beat Ea Lla Koto.
“We know if you get knocked out in the first round of the Telkom it’s a problem because then you don’t play any football for about a month-and-a-half. I think you play one game,” he added.
“If we lose in this first round, we’ll play one game in November, so it’s important for us to try and get through and, as I said, it’s going to be very difficult for us.”
Having met so frequently in recent years, a bit of a rivalry has brewed up between the two sides, with one particular interesting statistic showing Wits to have only beaten Stars three times in their last 10 meetings, while they haven’t won at Goble Park since 2013.
However, the former SuperSport United mentor won’t accept that the Free State-based outfit has some mystical hold over his side.
“We’ve beaten them in the first round [of the league this season]; we beat them last year [in the cup], so I mean, I don’t really take much into that. We have beaten them quite a few times,” he defended