COACH'S COLUMN
 
The boys have recorded good wins in both games against Brigades and Railways and this should see us play in Grand Final of the night series.
 
The Railways game was a good contest with both teams having plenty of players to pick from. Both teams rotated players regularly and with Towns having 30 players it was not easy at times rotating players on and off the bench. It is great to see the numbers though and the players were given as much game time as possible.
 
Towns got off to a good start with the breeze against Railways kicking 3-3 to 0-2 in the first quarter. Railways bounced back in the second term kicking 4 goals to Towns one and it was game on at half time. During the second quarter Railways out ran and out skilled Towns but the boys were still able to hold up and stay in the game.

The Towns boys regrouped at three quarter time and the third quarter was very good indeed kicking 4 goals to Railways 1 and setting up a winning margin. During the third quarter the boys ran hard and were committed to gaining possession of the ball and not allowing Railways any freedom at all.

The final quarter saw Towns with a 4 goal lead and Railway kicking with the breeze and a challenge in front of the Towns boys to maintain the pressure. Once again in the last quarter Towns outscored Railways 3 goals to one point, Final scores being Towns12-6 to Railways 5.5

This sets us up to play in the Grand Final on April 4th. The boys have a bit of a break and can recover from two games in four days in pre-season which is a tough ask.

Overall a really good effort by all the players, the young guys were good when they were on and this all looks good for our Colts. A number of the young guys are consistently at pre-season training which is great. They need to keep this up and bring their mates along.
It is hard to rotate so many players but is good to see them all have a hit out after putting in the training efforts.
 
Pre-season gets back to normal for a couple of weeks now and I know the coach and players are really looking forward to that. All the running, boxing, skipping and, exercises and use of the footballs every now and then “great stuff”.

Reg Hall

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Goal Kickers:
3: Kane O’Malley, Dale Baynes, 2: Calib Mourish, 1: Rick Marrianna, Revis Alone Adrian Moses, Scott McLeish
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Best Players:
Clayton Radcliffe, Calib Mourish, Dale Baynes,Kane O’Malley, Rhys Knight, Kim Farrell
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Grand Final on April 4th.