Lawn bowls: 2024 Western District Playing Area finals

Watch: Mortlake Blue skipper George Draffen on his side making the WDPA weekend pennant grand final

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00:00 Thanks for joining us George, hard to wipe the smile off your face.

00:03 Malt Lake into the Bowls Grand Final for the first time ever?

00:06 First time in Division 1, yeah. Well as far as I know anyway.

00:09 Going back a long time if it isn't now.

00:11 And what does it mean to you and the club to be able to achieve that?

00:14 Oh fantastic, well it's just sort of a culmination of a long time, of long progress,

00:18 of slowly getting better as a club, as players, and yeah it's fantastic, fantastic to give ourselves a chance to maybe win a flag.

00:27 What do you think it will mean for the town, do you think they'll throw their support behind you?

00:30 Oh I think so, yeah, there's quite a lot of support.

00:33 We get a lot of people to come and play Twilight stuff and that aren't members,

00:37 and like small towns you follow the footing and the cricket and all the clubs that are involved,

00:42 you're always sort of keeping an eye on what they're doing, so yeah I'm sure they will.

00:46 And what do you think you guys have done well this year to make the Grand Final?

00:49 We've sort of won a lot of close games.

00:51 We've played well in the past and I've noticed having played for a long time that the good sides,

00:57 you get towards the end of the game and if there are a few behind, they find a way to get up and get over the line

01:02 and they just keep putting the pressure on.

01:04 And this year we've done that, so we've won a lot of games where we've been behind with three or four innings to go

01:09 and just got up over the line and yeah it's just been, we've got a great mix of blokes and it's just been fun.

01:17 Well all the best of luck in two weeks' time.

01:20 Thanks Justin, very good.