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00:00 Well you had to really dig deep to get that win against a team in form.
00:05 Yeah, definitely in form.
00:06 They were the team to beat sitting at the top and the boys really dug hard that sort
00:09 of last quarter and brought it home with the win so it was good.
00:12 Tell us about the win because it was obviously quite decisive and you need to look at the
00:17 scores that most of the scoring was done to the old highway into the ground.
00:21 The first quarter, look back on that, you actually kicked four into the breeze to take
00:25 a two goal lead into the second term.
00:28 That was pretty important when you look back on it.
00:30 Yeah, we really had a game plan going into the wind.
00:33 If we can use our short kicks and go off line we'd be able to get it forward and that's
00:37 what we did and we set up our forwards where we weren't just bombing down the line, we
00:42 were coming inside and getting the better look so it was really good for the boys.
00:47 So you've got a nice little buffer against the breeze and you go into that second quarter
00:52 and I reckon even the most optimistic eagle wouldn't have imagined that you'd take the
00:56 game away like that.
00:57 Yeah, I would say that was our best quarter of the year by far.
01:01 We really just stuck to our game plan with the breeze, didn't really think about bombing
01:05 it long, once again used it off line, set up our forwards, Adam Toohey took over in
01:09 that second quarter for us.
01:10 Right, you go in, you're almost nine goals in front, the game is seemingly there for
01:17 you to take away and just run away with.
01:20 What was the message at half time?
01:22 The message at half time is always nil-nil.
01:24 We always try and go into that second half with fresh legs and try and really go back
01:30 to our game plan but credit to them, they came back, they kicked a lot of goals, put
01:34 us under the pump, we were only that last one goal up at three quarter time and then
01:39 we came in at three quarter time and we said to each other, 'that's alright boys, we knew
01:43 it was coming, we knew that goal was going to throw everything at us, it's what good
01:45 sides do' so we just had to hold it and rebound in that last quarter.
01:50 You play a key role in defence, the ball must have been just coming at you and at you in
01:54 that third quarter whereas all you did was see the back of your own players in the second.
01:59 What went wrong in the third quarter because it's more than the wind?
02:02 It's just little brain fades.
02:04 We've seen throughout the year that our second halves and last quarters haven't been good
02:08 against Skipton, against Springbank, those last quarters just really haven't been where
02:13 we want it.
02:14 So it's just about mindset going forward, especially coming into finals, mindset is
02:18 just a massive thing so if we can lock on and talk to each other, get around each other,
02:22 we do a lot better.
02:23 The first five, ten minutes of that last quarter are going to be crucial because they've got
02:27 all the momentum going with them, even though they kick into the wind, they were up and
02:31 about, they could taste blood if you like, demons, and they wanted this game, they wanted
02:36 to start undefeated but you guys steadied and then once you got that run on, you were
02:41 able to restore what you'd put in place in the second quarter.
02:45 We came in, said just one big deep breath, that's all we needed, just go back to what
02:49 we were doing, it was really on our midfields and McCauley and the Ruck, just to win that
02:53 first contest, get it down, we kicked that first goal then we started again and that's
02:56 really what we did, it was good.
02:58 Okay, that one's down, two ones not getting any easier, you've now already mentioned after
03:03 the game, there's another big game around the corner, Karnham, Linton, the big improver,
03:08 it's hard to imagine that this time last year you guys, heading towards the premiership,
03:14 they couldn't get a win no matter how hard they tried, this year they're a completely
03:19 different kettle of fish as they say and it's another big game coming up.
03:22 Yeah, it's a huge credit to Karnham, they've really been the sort of surprise team and
03:26 we're definitely not going to take them lightly, we'll focus everything we've got into it and
03:30 we'll come out guns blazing I reckon.