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00:00 I'm really proud of the boys for making the second consecutive grand final.

00:03 Hopefully we can go one better and it's been a massive day and a great season so far.

00:10 Hopefully we can finish it off.

00:11 Look, you won fairly comfortably at the end, I'd say that, but I'll tell you what,

00:15 you got away on a couple of occasions but Hepburn just keep coming at you.

00:19 Yeah, absolutely. You talked about Hepburn, you had to play four quarters to beat them.

00:23 They're a great side, they've got some really experienced heads and they're a good club.

00:29 We knew there was going to be times we were going to get on top,

00:32 as soon as we got on top a little bit quickly and pulled on a few goals a bit quick.

00:37 But full credit to my boys. It probably stems down from playing one out of three weeks and

00:45 I think we're better for that hit out and that experience too.

00:47 It was a good spread of contributions today. There were no, what we thought, standouts.

00:53 Perhaps Todd Finko was the man that got you going and was that ongoing danger up forward,

00:59 but looking through your midfield, everyone contributed.

01:02 Yeah, absolutely. We're really lucky we've got five or six, seven that bat deep in the midfield.

01:07 We're able to get it done through there by a collective team effort.

01:14 Obviously, Todd Finko is fantastic. He played a lot forward this week and

01:17 he still runs through the midfield, but he's very dangerous up forward.

01:23 He's been fantastic. Heaps of praise on him, but heaps of praise on the midfield as well

01:26 for doing it collectively in a team together as well.

01:28 Tell us about Paddy Glanford's season. A great effort today. A tremendous battle with

01:35 Sean Ty, the league's best and fairest. He ran all day and he's come on,

01:42 leaped some bounds even this year to what he did in 2022.

01:46 I absolutely love Paddy. As a coach, coaching a guy like Paddy, he's fantastic.

01:51 He improves. He always wants to improve. He gives his whole heart out in the game.

01:54 I think sometimes, I say it to him sometimes, you probably don't get as much credit as he deserves.

02:01 He's not one of those ruckmen that's going to get 20, 30 possessions, but he'll give it his all and

02:06 he'll always give it out midfield. Generally, it gives him first use pretty well. He's created a

02:12 bit of a system in there and probably gave a bit of leash to the midfield and said, "You guys work

02:17 out how you want to set out your touch." Paddy's been massive in saying, "This is what we're doing."

02:22 Around the grounds with a few other boys, he's really taken charge of that. Full credit to him.

02:27 He's had a great season and hopefully he can cap it off next week as well.

02:31 I was going to say, one more big game out of him. That's going to be a crucial factor in a game on

02:38 the big, wide-open spaces of Mars Stadium. The role he's going to play and the way he's going

02:45 to link up with your midfield. Yeah, absolutely. I think if he's out there,

02:50 he's right on the ground. There's massive pockets of space out there.

02:54 Hopefully, he can give us another big game and give it to our mids. Hopefully, we can get the job

03:03 done. You've spoken about in recent times, in particular, about the fact you brought more leg

03:07 speed into the team this year and defensive pressure, which is an ongoing result of that leg

03:15 speed. That's going to be important on the big, open spaces of Mars Stadium because I think you

03:20 got called out there a bit last year. Yeah. I think last year, I always go back. We had a

03:26 really hard run in the finals. That 12-point loss to Gordon. It was a six-point win to Skipton,

03:33 a six-point win to Hebden. I think we were quite tired. It's not an excuse. Gordon were a lot

03:38 better side than us. I think the way we've been able to defend this year, I think us and Buckley

03:45 pretty much finished on the least amount of points that we gave away this year. We're trying to hold

03:50 our head high on that. We want to try and cover the ground as much as possible and defend the

03:54 ground as much as possible. We try and play that press where we try and stop at the source of the

04:01 football from them getting a lot of time on space. Obviously, that'll be a key factor. It always is

04:05 for us. We train it every week. I think if we can do that on the weekend, then we're in with a really

04:13 good shot.

Springbank coach Andrew Challis | The Courier | September 14, 2023

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