General News
26 July, 2024
Keep getting better: Cameron’s push in final month of season
WITH four matches left in the North Central league season, Boort coach Dale Cameron has a simple aim for his young players – just keep improving. A hard-fought seven-point win over Wycheproof-Narraport last Saturday saw the Magpies stay in seventh...
WITH four matches left in the North Central league season, Boort coach Dale Cameron has a simple aim for his young players – just keep improving.
A hard-fought seven-point win over Wycheproof-Narraport last Saturday saw the Magpies stay in seventh place on the ladder, just a game behind fourth-placed Wedderburn but with a much inferior percentage.
While finals remain a mathematical possibility, a tough run home has second-year coach Cameron looking to the future.
“Generally, in the first year you have a list that is not yours. Second year, you want to see some improvement. Third year, that’s when it goes bang, and the fourth year is when you are really consistent,” he said.
Cameron will coach again next season and expects the nucleus of the team to remain together, with a focus on emulating the league’s most successful clubs. “They have all played together for four or five years and have a core of good players. We’ve got an exciting group who can do something special on their day,” he said.
“From this time last year, we have already improved massively. There have been eight games we’ve been pretty consistent in.”
Staying in the contest longer and avoiding in-game lapses was the main target for the rest of the season, Cameron said.
Talk about even stevens. After 12 games, Nullawil’s senior team has a percentage of exactly 100. And the Maroons have got there by scoring 1000 points and giving up the same number.
Wedderburn used its bye last weekend to announce the re-appointed of coach Tom Metherell.
Metherell has the Redbacks poised to play finals this season.