South Warrnambool's Josh Saunders speaks to The Standard after winning the 2023 Hampden league senior football grand final.
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00:00 Joshua, a premiership, how does it feel to get that one done today?
00:04 Yeah, it feels amazing. It's probably been a few years in the making and you know having
00:10 a young list probably three or four years ago and keeping them all together has paid
00:13 off now and it does, it feels amazing, it's awesome.
00:16 You came back in 2016 or so, had the two stints, wanted to come back and play with your mates.
00:22 How does that feel to come back and go through that hard road to get to here today?
00:27 Yeah, I had a few years down here and then shifted back to Geelong and yeah just being
00:33 away from the footy club it just realises how good the place actually is and yeah last
00:37 year we came up a bit short but you know credit to the boys and the coaching staff and everyone
00:42 around there, we've grown and learnt from mistakes we probably made last year and stuff
00:46 and had a fit list come the right time of year and had a really good game today and
00:49 got a win so yeah it was really exciting and it was going off in there so it's going to
00:53 be a big couple of days I reckon.
00:55 You had a runner up finish in the Master of Medal race, how did you feel you were able
01:00 to play your role for the team?
01:02 Yeah it's been really good this year and just with the amount of depth we have you don't
01:07 feel like you have to be doing anything more than your role that you've been given by the
01:11 coach so yeah just crack it in and whatever the coach has been giving us is what it's
01:16 doing, no one has to stand out and it showed today, it was a really big team effort and
01:19 it got us the chocolate so yeah it was awesome.
01:21 So you're going to be a father coming up, what's that like?
01:28 Yeah so to February, yeah it's sort of as a male and you don't get the physical changes
01:34 it's probably a little bit, you know it hasn't sort of maybe taken a grip yet but you know
01:40 eventually I'm sure it will you know once it obviously comes around and changes a lot
01:45 of things and stuff it'll be interesting but yeah we're both very excited and yeah it's
01:49 going to be a big change for us but it'll be good.
01:52 So obviously celebrate this one tonight with everyone back at Brindley's?
01:56 Yeah we will I think Ollie Smith might be leading the way so we'll let him lead the
01:59 way and we'll follow him.
02:00 Yeah.
02:01 Yeah.
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