In the second half of the season, Sanjiro and the rest of the players discuss the team's performance in the first half. They feel that they are stronger than they were at the beginning of the year, and they would like to know what they think of the current team. They ask him what he thinks, and he tells them that he thinks too much of them. He feels that the old man does not know how to run the club, and that he is not capable of running it as well as it should be run. He says that he will go above and beyond his job as manager to make sure that the club does well. He believes that he needs someone who will gather up all the opinions of the people in the club and present them to him. He wants someone who is capable of making people want to do what he wants them to do, someone who they are sure will put his ideas into action. He thinks that he was impressed by the performance of the team in the pre-season match, and feels that he can die with no regrets.