Fish Creek – it’s time

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Fish Creek – it’s time

IT was 2002 when Fish Creek last won the Alberton Football Netball League Grand Final.
President Jason Harding said he would be “delighted” to fly the flag at Fish Creek once again.
The year has belonged to Fish Creek in many ways and a premiership would be a fitting end to the team that won the minor premiership.
There aren’t much in the way of clouds on the horizon as the moment of truth approaches with nothing more than a couple of minor injuries.
“Some concerns,” Mr Harding said without being prepared to name the players in question.
Injury concerns at Fish Creek are simply that: injury concerns at Fish Creek where the average age of the Senior playing group is 23 to 24.
That makes Fish Creek the youngest in the league and those young legs can outrun an older, heavier side like say Dalyston, which until its loss on Saturday, was one of its potential foes in the grand final.
The victor of the preliminary final, Inverloch-Kongwak, now that makes for a much more evenly contested grand final.
Apart from those unmentionable injury concerns the club is reporting all is, like the night before Christmas, calm.
“It has been a good week,” said the president. “We are 95 percent fit and ready to fire.
“Grand finals are difficult to get into and difficult to win.”
Greg “Reggie” Hoskin is a very good student of the game according to Jason Harding.
“He is a smart coach. He was a smart coach as a player and he is smart now as a non playing coach.”
Out on the ground itself Fish Creek is led by example by Callum Park.
Callum, known for having strength, pace and skills honed by his years playing for Gippsland Power, is a key player but key players at Fish Creek are hard to name because of the evenness of the playing group.
Mr Harding said, “That is the beauty of our team; we are very even.”
Trevor Hooker, the team’s most senior player with premiership experience, playing with Poowong, will need to be at his best – as will the whole team.
Hooker along with Travis Manne (depth of experience borne by age and the league’s best and fairest award 2012) and the other veteran Andrew Seccull will be relied upon to show poise and help settle the nervous energy in the opening period of play and swing momentum the team’s way.
There haven’t been all that many but Jason Harding said a sunny day with a dry surface would not do his team any harm.
“When the ground and ball are dry we are a hard team to match,” he said.
“Whatever the conditions we will have to play our best.”

Pursuit: Fish Creek’s Ashley Snooks accepts a hand ball from a team mate looking to clear the ball from the Kangaroos backline during the last meeting between these two teams on July 30. It was a battle between the top two sides and Fish Creek came out on top by 15 points to displace the Inverloch Kongwak Sea Eagles from top spot.

Pursuit: Fish Creek’s Ashley Snooks accepts a hand ball from a team mate looking to clear the ball from the Kangaroos backline during the last meeting between these two teams on July 30. It was a battle between the top two sides and Fish Creek came out on top by 15 points to displace the Inverloch Kongwak Sea Eagles from top spot.

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