North Ballarat's acting coach Stacey Matthews

The Courier

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00:00 It looks like you're trying a few new combinations and you were low on numbers today.

00:03 Yeah, yeah.

00:04 Well, we actually only have the eight in our A grade team, but it allows room for our junior

00:08 girls and our other girls in our other grades to come through.

00:11 So we did have our eight today, but I did try different combinations.

00:16 Sometimes you can kind of do that.

00:17 So it was nice to put Ed Porter, one of our younger girls, into goals for a half and then

00:21 to bring Poppy out into the midcourt.

00:22 Well, I was going to say that was obviously, that was the obvious change that I could see

00:25 that was different.

00:26 Yeah, usually it's pops and mads in the ring.

00:27 But today we could actually pop Ed out there and just rotate a few of the midcourts around

00:32 as well.

00:33 So as I say, it was just good to try different combinations and it does take a little while

00:36 to settle, but because we were a few goals up, we could kind of do that.

00:40 And I thought the girls adapted well.

00:41 Well, yeah, you were 15 up at halftime, you've won by 19.

00:43 So you're able to give yourself that opportunity.

00:46 Yeah, that's right.

00:47 And like, you know, like sometimes it's, you just got to kind of use those games to work

00:51 on those different concepts and then we can kind of come back to it at training and see

00:53 what worked and what didn't work.

00:55 And as I say, it never hurts to have a few different combinations up your sleeve if things

00:58 aren't working on the day.

00:59 So yeah.

01:00 What did work for you today, do you think?

01:02 I thought defensively, we really shut down Sebastian, that attack end.

01:06 That was one of our game plans.

01:07 They're quite a quick, fast moving from like the transverse to the ring.

01:11 So we really worked on, you know, shutting down that to allow our defenders to get those

01:14 intercepts and I thought Shannon and Keely really did a good job in there, putting the

01:18 pressure on and stopping them through there.

01:20 And I also thought we really tried to work on our transition from defence to attack and

01:24 I thought, yeah, running that through and using the middle channel worked really well

01:27 today.

01:28 Where do you think you guys are at?

01:29 Three, one and one.

01:30 Obviously a narrow, Larry lost to Darlie a draw with Sunbury.

01:33 Yeah.

01:34 Are you okay with where you're at?

01:35 Yeah, well we looked at the, probably, we had probably one of the harder draws at the

01:39 start of the season and we knew that coming in.

01:42 And with the new look team this year, we always knew it would take us a few games to kind

01:45 of get our, I guess our rhythm and yeah, our systems in place.

01:49 So I think dropping those two games by a draw and a goal, you know, we're still really

01:54 happy where we're kind of progressing.

01:56 And I guess they say you can't win, you know, a grand final in the first half of the season.

01:59 So as long as we keep improving throughout the rest of the, rest of the season, I think,

02:03 yeah, we're setting ourself up hopefully for a good half of the second end of it.

02:07 And quickly just on Annie as well, do you think she'd be happy with what she saw today?

02:10 I hope so.

02:11 Yeah.

02:12 Yeah.

02:13 I think, I think she'll probably be happy with the first half and we probably, you know,

02:15 the second half, like you can't, it can happen like that.

02:17 There was a few giggles out there and a few, you know, funny passes, but I think she's

02:21 happy.

02:22 Yeah.

02:23 I think if we can kind of keep ticking along, getting a few wins under our belt and then

02:27 Annie can come back and take over hopefully in about four weeks.

02:30 And I'm sure by then everyone will lift another gear once she gets back and yeah, we'll hopefully

02:34 be in good stead then.

02:35 Thanks Saisley.

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