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Union manager Jim Curtin gets along with sporting director Ernst Tanner, but still has to earn his job for next year – and hasn’t yet

Union manager Jim Curtin knows his future is far from certain. The Oreland native has been on a series of one-year extensions to his initial contract signed in 2015, and with a new boss in Ernst Tanner, he knows he has to prove himself all over again.

Curtin isn't worrying too much right now, though, and not just because he has plenty on his plate as the Union head toward the playoffs.

"You're always proving something," Curtin said. "Coaches are always on an interim basis … It's year-by-year, it's day-by-day. As much as you'd like long-term security, it's just not the nature of professional sports.