Football
11 June, 2025
Dimboola look to claim Eagles' scalp
Fifth-placed Dimboola and the eighth-seeded Warrack will battle it out in round eight of the Wimmera Football Netball League on Saturday.
Both sides are fresh from the break last week, but before Saturday, Dimboola experienced a loss, albeit narrowly, to Stawell, while the Eagles banked their first win of the season from their last match against the Demons.
Andrew Moore, co-coach of Dimboola, said he is expecting their clash against the Eagles to be a challenging game.
"It will depend a bit on the weather, and I'm not sure what it is going to look like this Saturday, I'll have a look getting a bit closer to it, but given the nature of the competition, and yes, they (Eagles) have struggled for wins so far this year, but we can see it is such a competitive competition, which is great," Moore said.
"It means we need to be on our game, and it's going to come down to a lot of the contest work.
"We speak about it all the time in terms of contested footy and our ground ball gets, so that's winning it in the contest, but also around the ground, and I think it's going to be a similiar game style (on Saturday) and with the weather settling in now, I think it will be a bit dewy, a bit wet, so the skills are probably going to not as efficient as what they would be normally.
"I'm expecting a competitive game, a good game, and it should be exciting."
Moore said his side is in a good spot where contributions from players have been even, and because of that, there wasn't a focus on any individual player in particular standing up for the team this Saturday.
"I think in previous years we have been reliant on too few and at the moment, we have been able to give many opportunities to a lot of players, creating balance across the field," Moore said.
"You aren't relying on any particular player, each and every person has a role to play, and that might be your Benny Miller's, the in and unders, hunting the footy, contested side of the game, or it might be an Ev Hunter, who's probably got a bit of a lock down role as a defender.
"Every single player on our list, that is going to be playing, is going to need to play their role, and there is no one in particular that I want to single out that is going to change the game.
"It's a collective, and that's the attitude we have for this year, and it seems to be working at the moment in terms of that even spread."