Wooden Spooners - Football Wagga - Lake Albert Men's Coach Chris Ayton

How are you, mate? Yeah,

thanks,

guys.

Mate, very quickly, before we have a look at what's happening this week, I know it's been 10 days now.

90th minute winner for Adil Suleiman to put you into the grand final and defeat a team that's had the wood on you a bit this year.

How are the vibes in the changing rooms after the game?

Oh, look, it was great.

And look, just back on that first one, look, had the wood over us this year.

It's been the last couple of years, to be fair.

I think we'd played them...

Four times.

It was RIV Cup last year and then RIV Cup final this year and then two round games.

And I feel like the best we've done is around that 6-2 mark, I think, for a final score.

So they've given us a bit of a pizzling on all fronts.

Mate, it looked like coming into that game and watched a little bit of you guys in first grade this year, there were a couple of tactical changes that you made.

What had you talked about in the lead up to the match and what did you do to turn those results around?

Well, look, we definitely had to change a few things.

Look, I mean, as coaches, you can change everything that you can do, but it does come down to the boys on the pitch on the night, I think.

Finals footy, it's a different game.

They know they need to put in the extra work on the pitch.

When you think you've got nothing left in the tank, you've got to find some more and empty that too.

I think the boys did that.

It would have been really easy for them to get their heads down after going two goals down in the first 15.

But look, to their credit, they were heads down, butt up, and they kept grinding and kept themselves in the game.

So, yeah, really proud of just that grittiness and that effort and to not drop their heads because it would have been easy to do after the last four games that we've played them at.

How are you, mate? Yeah,

thanks,

guys.

Mate, very quickly, before we have a look at what's happening this week, I know it's been 10 days now.

90th minute winner for Adil Suleiman to put you into the grand final and defeat a team that's had the wood on you a bit this year.

How are the vibes in the changing rooms after the game?

Oh, look, it was great.

And look, just back on that first one, look, had the wood over us this year.

It's been the last couple of years, to be fair.

I think we'd played them...

Four times.

It was RIV Cup last year and then RIV Cup final this year and then two round games.

And I feel like the best we've done is around that 6-2 mark, I think, for a final score.

So they've given us a bit of a pizzling on all fronts.

Mate, it looked like coming into that game and watched a little bit of you guys in first grade this year, there were a couple of tactical changes that you made.

What had you talked about in the lead up to the match and what did you do to turn those results around?

Well, look, we definitely had to change a few things.

Look, I mean, as coaches, you can change everything that you can do, but it does come down to the boys on the pitch on the night, I think.

Finals footy, it's a different game.

They know they need to put in the extra work on the pitch.

When you think you've got nothing left in the tank, you've got to find some more and empty that too.

I think the boys did that.

It would have been really easy for them to get their heads down after going two goals down in the first 15.

But look, to their credit, they were heads down, butt up, and they kept grinding and kept themselves in the game.

So, yeah, really proud of just that grittiness and that effort and to not drop their heads because it would have been easy to do after the last four games that we've played them at.