Hampden GF: South Warrnambool's Dan Nicholson, Sept 23, 2023

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South Warrnambool's Dan Nicholson speaks to The Standard after winning the 2023 Hampden league grand final and best on ground honour.

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00:00 And then, a premiership rooster, how does it feel today?

00:04 Awesome, awesome.

00:05 It's been a long journey, obviously.

00:08 Started at Port Ferry, spent a couple of years

00:11 just on the hill here at Creek, and then finally

00:13 at the roosters.

00:15 My partner went to the roosters and just--

00:17 [CHEERING]

00:19 --and loved it.

00:20 So it was a pretty simple decision for me to come over,

00:23 and it's paid dividends.

00:25 The club's been amazing.

00:27 So yeah, I just come along for the journey, pretty much.

00:30 Obviously, you were kind of the proposed premiership players

00:33 today.

00:33 What's that like to go six years?

00:35 Oh, that's amazing.

00:36 You know, I sat back and watched last year

00:38 and watched her win one, and all the celebrations

00:41 that she enjoyed that we're about to go through together.

00:43 So bring on the next four or five days, week,

00:46 whatever it is.

00:48 Can't wait.

00:49 Festival of Grand Performance, how do you feel out there?

00:53 And what did you just look to contribute to the team

00:55 and obviously do so well?

00:57 Yeah, well, I think I started all right in the first quarter,

00:59 and then was pretty quiet through the middle.

01:02 Then Jett Birmingham got off the leash a little bit.

01:04 So I sort of put my hand up and said, oh, I

01:06 wanted that match up.

01:07 And I had a couple of balls fall in my lap for those goals,

01:11 and it panned out well for us.

01:15 But the best on ground stuff, you

01:17 give that up for a premiership every day of the week.

01:19 So it's a huge team effort, and couldn't be happier.

01:22 Yeah, how's it been just settling into Southend,

01:26 speaking to some people, the under-18 boys,

01:29 to be like, they're helping out at the trainings.

01:32 What's that like, just being involved in the club

01:35 and giving back in that way as well?

01:36 Yeah, well, as you said, Carly was here last year

01:39 and loved it.

01:40 And every time I came and watched her,

01:42 the club just embraced me.

01:43 I had nothing to do with them, but they embraced me.

01:46 And my little daughter, my daughter, I take her

01:50 to the game, and then I don't see her

01:51 until the end of the game sort of thing.

01:53 She's in the canteen with the ladies, working in the canteen.

01:56 And the whole club's just embraced us as a whole.

01:59 So yeah, I can't thank the club enough.

02:03 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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