COLTS KEEN TO BOUNCE BACK

Sherwood Colts will be looking to have a big bounce-back match against Morningside this week. It was a great week on track with all the boys looking to rise to the challenge and continuing to work on structures and ball movement.

This week the Colts are looking to bring more physicality around the ball to ensure we are winning the ball at the contest and generating our own ball movement. Coaching staff are excited to see how we bounce back and continue our development as a team.

We welcome Zane Barrett into the side for the first time this year. He has been putting the extras in at training and has been unlucky not to get a run earlier. We have a couple of players under some injury clouds, but we will have a strong 22 on the park as we bring back Mitch Lake after being injured last week and move Charlie Thorpe onto the wing. Both these players are talented and we are hoping they impacted the game on the inside and give us spread through the middle of the ground.

 Our forward line will miss Connor Bulley, who has been promoted to the Reserves  so but we will look to push Cooper Crowell up the ground and play Lamont Kalolo deeper this week. Abu Kante and Andrae Mackay will be asked to provide ground pressure to lock the ball in.

Our mids have a massive job to shutdown Morningside’s ability to feed back and ensure we are getting first use. We are excited to see this group grow and see some great outside spread from Morgan Smith, Xavier Knight and Sean Ryan. At the same time, we have Mitchell Lake  and Tom Kearney win that ball for us and get it to our good ball users like Josh Lane and Brodie Gardner. Our backs will look to continue their strong start to the season with Oscar Murphy coming back in should provide the directional voice we lacked last week. We are hoping to continue to have Tom Evans and Will Hunt having massive impacts by intercepting marks across our halfback and looking to use Lawson Campbell and Rory Edwards run and carry coming out of our back half.

QAFL Rd 3: Sherwood Colts v Morningside at Jack Esplen Oval, Hawthorne on Saturday, July 25th at 10 am

B: Tom Evans - Oscar Murphy - William Hunt:

HB: Rory Edwards - Lawson Campbell - Jack Spry

C: Morgan Smith - Sean Ryan - Brodie Gardner

HF: Abu Kante – Andrae Mackay  - William Cruice

F: Lamont Kalolo - Cooper Crowell – Zane Bennett

Foll: Ethan Harris - Joshua Lane - Thomas Kearney

Int: Mitchell Lake- Xavier Knight – Jake Fennelly – Lachlan Harvey