The all-important Rio Olympics is just a year away, and the Indian hockey team is not quite in a position it would have liked to be.

The national team’s inconsistent results have found them managing a bronze at the six-nation Sultan Azlan Shah event in Malaysia — a tournament they have always done well in previously (India won gold five times since the tournament’s inception in 1983). And the first person to admit this inconsistency is skipper Sardar Singh.