After six rounds of the South East Queensland division one women’s competition, I can say I’m really proud of the efforts of our girls.
We go into Saturday’s game against Souths Logan at Piggabeen (3pm kick-off) with an outstanding win against the current premiers Burleigh Bears then a 14-10 loss to second-placed Brothers Ipswich under our belts, wanting to continue that form after having a bye last weekend.
We took a more experienced Ipswich right down to the wire despite losing prop CJ Sims early in the game with what unfortunately is quite a serious injury.
She suffered several cheekbone fractures after clashing heads with a teammate while making a tackle and she’s going to be out for some time.
We’ll also be missing Shelley Fox up front against Souths Logan, and life will be tougher in that we don’t have a lot of size compared to most other teams and both have been playing well.
But someone will come in and do the job and that’s one thing that has been so pleasing about our team this season – everyone is willing to step up.
Souths and us are sitting equal on 12 points on the ladder but that’s not something we focus too much on. Our aim was to just enjoy our football, improve each week and be competitive enough to give us a chance of winning each match.
And I think we’ve done that.
We’ve been really consistent in the last couple of games and the defensive effort against Ipswich was our best of the season.
They had the likes established Australian players Ali Brigginshaw and Brittany Breayley and their game management was probably the difference as they had a tonne of possession in our half.
There are some areas we want to improve on, putting more polish on the end of our sets and seeing more movement with the footy because we’re not a big combative team, so we need to push up in support and use the ball.
It’s been wonderful for the confidence of the team too to see six of our girls selected in the SE Queensland representative teams.
Tarryn Aiken and Jessika Elliston are in the team that will play in the national championships at Pizzey Park from Thursday to Sunday next week while Abbie Beecher, Serena Martin, Zara Canfield and CJ made the team that will play in the women’s championship carnival at Southport. CJ has had to withdraw unfortunately.
It’s a great reward for their hard work (and talent) and also a good incentive for all the girls to see a first-season team able to get that recognition.
Hopefully we can get a few people to Piggabeen tomorrow to cheer on the girls. They certainly give their all, enjoy competing together, are entertaining to watch and, as I said, I’m really proud of how far they have progressed.
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