Gordon's Harry Biggs | The Courier | September 14, 2023
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00:00 Well they don't come much closer than that. The preliminary final going right down to
00:05 the wire and you're in front at the right time. Tell us about the tension in that last
00:10 quarter. Yeah, no I was nervous right up to the end
00:12 there so yeah playing deep on Joel Ma he's always a sneak so yeah I just thought could
00:18 have gone either way but I'm lucky that we sort of kicked the last two and then they
00:22 got one sort of right towards the end there and we managed to hold on so yeah happy as
00:26 can be but yeah it was nervous right to the end so yeah.
00:30 They got off to a flyer, John Butler in particular he was just everywhere and he was running
00:35 you guys around and it took a little bit of time for you blokes to steady. Ty Murphy got
00:40 a free kick down field and that just seemed to ignite things everything just seemed to
00:44 come together then and then it became a pretty tight tussle for the rest of the day.
00:48 Yeah, yeah, no Ty's the type of player who's a leader through and through so he sort of
00:51 gets going he gets the boys motivated and then sort of gets everyone else in and about
00:55 but yeah John Butler very good player he only got a kick five in the end so he played very
01:00 well so yeah nah he got off to a flyer.
01:03 A lot of pressure on the boys today you go in as the reigning Premier they're the favourite
01:09 for this game and Bungaree they did more than take it up to you there was a lot during the
01:16 game that you were chasing their tails and it looked for a while like you might miss
01:20 out on another grand final appearance so what was the message at half time because you came
01:25 out after that break with some real zest in your game.
01:29 Yep, I think we got a few players coming towards sort of the end of their time so we just thought
01:34 well let's do it for them and sort of that was sort of how we found that next level I
01:38 think and I think we had a pretty slow first half just in general and I don't think that
01:42 was really us and we just wanted to really bounce back and not let it affect us too much
01:47 yeah so just sort of that was where we got our motivation from really.
01:50 Tell us about the excitement of the second grand final you're up against Springbank
01:55 again what's happened 12 months ago is gone.
01:59 Yeah 100%.
02:00 You know no relation to what's going to happen this week you're possibly for many you're
02:04 going to be the underdogs this time around and so you know the opportunity is there but
02:09 tell us about the excitement that around the place for another grand final.
02:13 Yeah oh 100% I don't take it for granted one bit I've played the whole juniors and never
02:17 came close to it so I'm just lucky that I've sort of managed to fall into a team that has
02:21 managed to get there two years in a row so I don't take it for granted at all.
02:25 Yeah I'm wrapped up I can't wait to sort of get out there and have a run around yeah hopefully
02:30 can recover well this week they've sort of got the extra day on us but yeah they've got
02:35 that sort of thing against us from last year so they'll be looking to stick it to us and
02:39 hopefully we can sort of make it a good game and sort of see how it goes so yeah they're
02:43 again up there with Bungo I respect them so they'll go well.
02:47 And one of the standout features of today's game was your new hairstyle couldn't help
02:52 avoid it everyone was talking about it I believe it came about in the last 24 hours and you
02:58 just wanted to join the club of what Nick Nolan and Benny Schiltz?
03:03 Yeah I thought they played pretty well so if I could sort of be half the player they
03:06 are that might work and I also thought the sun was going to be a bit out more than it
03:10 was so it would have reflected a bit maybe if someone taking a set shot at me so I don't
03:15 think it put John Butler off too much but yeah hopefully next week it does something.
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