North Warrnambool Eagles' Charlie McKinnon speaks after his team's one-point Hampden league qualifying final win against Terang Mortlake on Saturday, September 2.
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00:00 Charlie, you've just won a senior football final with the Eagles, how does it feel?
00:04 Yeah, it feels great. That was the first final I've ever played so it was good to get the win but yeah, really special.
00:09 With something like this, you've come in, you've made your senior debut earlier in the season and to be able to submit a spot in the senior side,
00:17 how have you just felt like, I guess, your confidence and your performance has rised throughout the year?
00:22 Yeah, I feel like the more games I play, the more confidence I get and the boys really got around me and Wigsy really backed me in,
00:27 especially after a bad first quarter, to keep me on wheel. It's a good day backing me in though, it's really good.
00:34 What's it like being in that environment in the rooms after, be honest, in the song and just having that final feeling around and being able to progress to another week?
00:43 Yeah, it's great. The amount of people here today and the amount of people in the rooms was just crazy.
00:48 It was so loud when you walked in, it puts a smile on your face, it's really good. But yeah, good feeling. Hopefully we can get a win next Saturday.
00:54 You've played under 16 champs. What's the year been like in terms of playing some really high level football but then obviously coming back and playing for your home club?
01:05 Yeah, it's been a good year. I've really enjoyed it. I wasn't sure after the big country stuff if I'd get in the senior side but Wigsy put me in and yeah,
01:13 it's been backing me in ever since so hopefully we can keep going.
01:16 A lot of experienced guys in the team but a lot of younger guys as well. What's that been like to learn off both of them but also experience it with the younger group as well?
01:23 They've really got around us, especially there's a few of us young boys. So Tom Batten, Matthew Wines, Ben Muggovan, all of them, Dylan Parrish,
01:31 they've all got around us this year and especially this morning in the meeting and that, they made sure to get us up and about for our first final.
01:37 Obviously Adam Dow is going to be finishing at the end of this year. How special would it be to send him off with a grand final run and premiership?
01:45 Yeah, it'd be so special. He's won a grand final at every club he's gone to and if we could do that in his last year and finish on that note, that'd be just great.
01:52 Yeah.
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