Roos cruise past Hillsmen

By Rob Popplestone

BOTTOM of the ladder Hill End strolled into the home of top team Fish Creek, not with extraordinary confidence, but at least with some belief they could keep in touch, such was their performance just seven days earlier against Yinnar. 

It soon became obvious however that the Kangaroos were going to be a very different proposition.

“A pleasing performance by us yesterday,” Jarrad Walker, Fish Creek coach stated.

“We started moving the ball a lot better in the second half which helped to create more space in the forward line and get some better looks at goal. It was good to see our forwards continue to work together and share the footy around to have a more even contribution of goal scorers. Darcy Berryman is in a hot run of form and was great to see Jai Stefani get on the end of a couple after working really hard on the track. 

“Hats off to Hill End who made us earn it all day, especially the Hill End ruckman who went all day in the ruck and made us make a few changes in our ruck stocks. They’ve got some handy juniors coming through so good luck to them for the rest of the year.”

“They are a very good side, they are awesome, they had some players out and we had eight players out ourselves, the boys that were in did a good job, we had a fifteen-year-old that did a good job young Hamish Phoenix is a ripper, so it wasn’t all bad but I would’ve like a bit more of a fight from us,” Adrian Burns, Hill End coach said.

Sometimes a loss can hurt a side for more than the week in which it happened, the challenge for Hill End now is to respond in a more worthy round twelve against Toora.