Lake Wendouree U-19 coaches grand final win interview - The Courier
Greg Gliddon chats with Under-19 Lake Wendouree coach Shaun Finlayson and assistant coach Tyler Davis about the side's 2024 BFNL premiership win.
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00:00Morning Tyler, what does this mean to the club to finally get a premiership and I imagine it's been a fair while since the boys celebrated.
00:07Yeah I think from a 19's point of view I think 2003 was the last one so it's meant a lot to the club and really just starting to kick things off with the kids and come through and hopefully some success now as we move up the ranks.
00:22Well 2003 as you say, I mean none of these boys were born when the last one was, it's amazing isn't it?
00:28And we've spoken about that during the week as an opportunity that these blokes have in front of them and they've done well enough to take it today.
00:38What is it about this group that's been so special this year?
00:41I think the way that we've come together, like we've really come together as a group. We haven't just been 22, there's been 30 players I think across the list that have contributed with a couple that have missed out today and I think the fact that we've had a group together has been what we've had success in.
00:58They've all been great mates on and off the field and I think that's contributed.
01:02Tyler, tell me a little bit about that last quarter level going in and there was a couple of free goals down the other end, what did you think when they went through?
01:08Yeah I was surprised when they went through, we'd sort of struggled to score all day but both teams had but then once the last quarter hit we were hungry going into it so we knew that we were going to get the job done.
01:17And how do you keep these boys together? I mean obviously there's such a great group of young players coming together, now we've got to translate this into seniors don't we?
01:25A lot of them have gone to school together so hopefully they hang around and all get along so well so hopefully that brings them together and they stick around for a lot longer.
01:34Fantastic and Sean one last thing, how special is this club and what does it mean to you?
01:39Yeah well this has been amazing, the club took a chance on letting me coach this year and I've really enjoyed it and really loved the boys and it's fantastic for the club.
01:50From a footy point of view it's been a long time since we've had final success so it's been fantastic and amazing.