Belmont Bombers Reserves versus Gosnells at Forster Park – Saturday 28 April – post game

POST-MORTEM

We managed to win the first centre clearance and inside fifty, but that would be the last clear win we’d have fmost he next ten minutes. With Gosnells half backs leading Belmont’s forwards into the centre  square at every bounce down, any Matthew froggatt rove or Chris Doherty.s ruck win saw the midfielders overwhelmed at every ball-up.

All the encouragement, berating or education in the world couldn’t help make any in-roads whatsoever  and this was pretty much the case for all but the last ten minutes of the day.

Gosnells apparently left 15 players out of their side this week and will be challenging at the business enif of the season.

Unfortunately we didn’t even manage a “sausage roll” for the day while our opposition feasted on our lack of fitness & experience. A few players didn’t turn up on the day leaving me to even pull on the boots for the first time in 5 years.

There were some good performers on the day though with Froggatt the stand-out.  “froggy” roved tirelessly for the majority of the day winning the ball off  the opposing ruckman’s hands all day.

Our resident Brickie, William Young at fullback out marked his direct opponents  on numerous occasions, even playing a cameo in the ruck late.

New boy, Travis Taylor (cousin of Noel) was outstanding all the day. Travis roved, tackled hassled and used the football well. This was a great display especially after spewing his guts up at his firststranding sessionplastic Tuesday.

Other players to impress included Kris Doherty, Dylan Grayden, Travis Lyndsay & Daniel Stefano.

Thomas Hindmarsh’s second half was inspired as was the last quarter of Brett Oxley.

Dennis Weaver & Adam Lee did a stirling of coaching while I was in the ground. It was great to also have Warren Hotchninjas runner for the day.

Our next mission impossible is Cockburn at Anning Park on Saturday where we’ll be looking to improve markedly.

Juggy

Belmont Reserves Coach

Belmont Bombers Reserves versus Gosnells – Pregame

After 2 massive defeats at the hands of Swan Valley & Canning the realization of the difficulties in moving up a grade with an inexperienced outfit have hit hard but all hope is not lost, although expectations are a little lower than before.

I only took over the reigns as reserves coach 1 week before the season proper after the shock resignation of  the league coach left the clubwith the feelinthreat numbers on the track were to poor to justify his time.

Numbers are not the problem but experience & fitness are probably behind the better clubs at this level.

Coming up against Gosnells this week will likely be another awakening, but I can’t wait to see how much we’ve improved since last week. We managed to get more ressie players on the track this week although there’ll be over 10 changes from last week’s squad due to FIFO’s, soft tissue injuries, holidays and ghosts.

An hour on the old Five point drill (foot, hand, left & right) followed up by half an hour of 101 in midfield stoppage education saw an after 8pm finish and hopefully leads to an increase in efficiency and endurance on Saturday.

Thanks for reading my blog, see you after Saturday

JUGGY

BDFC Reserve’s Coach