The Harrow Balmoral Southern Roos coach, Jai Thompson, addresses his team and talks with John Hall about the 2023 HDFNL grand final.
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00:00 First of all, congratulations to both teams.
00:02 (cheering)
00:04 Two teams straight through, which means, you know,
00:09 we get to do this whole process together.
00:11 The next two weeks we can do what we wanna do
00:14 in terms of training, training Saturday,
00:17 really get around each other for a whole fortnight
00:20 and really soak up what this is
00:23 and what this means to the club
00:24 and what this means to you individually.
00:26 And make sure you do take the time to soak that in.
00:31 As I said on Saturday,
00:33 like this doesn't happen every year for everyone.
00:35 I played footy for 13 years
00:37 and I think I've played in three grand finals,
00:39 two losing and a winning one.
00:40 So that can be a long time in between.
00:44 So enjoy it.
00:45 People will ask you about it.
00:45 How you feeling?
00:47 Just chat to people, soak it all up.
00:48 Yeah, just enjoy it.
00:55 - What sort of challenge do you think Chippewa
00:56 have to impose in the grand final?
00:59 - I think they'll move the ball a lot quicker.
01:03 I think they'll work out ways.
01:04 They'll probably watch a bit of our defense,
01:05 bit of our zone and work out ways
01:07 to be able to chip through us.
01:08 They're obviously a fast side
01:09 when they do get their attacking game going.
01:11 They showed a few times in that last game against us
01:14 that they can move the ball very quick
01:16 and they can score very fast as well.
01:18 So it's definitely, you know, we won that game well,
01:22 but yeah, coming into the grand final,
01:24 I think it's, you know, once again, you start zero-zero
01:26 and if they can get their attacking game going
01:28 the way they want to, you know, that's a big threat for us.
01:30 So we'll shut that down.
01:32 Well, we've done plenty of work throughout the year
01:34 to make sure that we were right for this situation
01:36 and the boys should be fine.
01:37 I reckon they'll be ready, fit and fine.
01:39 I'm very proud of them.
01:40 (laughing)
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