The Cardies were ready for the second hardest game (Ballajura number one) of the year against the tall and fast Coolbinia.
The first bounce went up, and we cleared it out straight away. Once the ball was in our forward line, we locked it in there; but we couldn’t manage to get a goal because of the height of Coolbinia. They managed to break free, and we had none of our men back so they ran and ran and kicked a goal. At that stage we knew it wouldn’t be an easy game.
In the second quarter, we didn’t have any attack of the footy and Coolbinia were beating us in every single challenge, which made it very frustrating for us. They always attacked and kept us well away from the ball. We didn’t score that quarter and Coolbinia scored 4 goals and we knew it was going to be hard to come back and win the game.
After the half time talk of what we are doing wrong and what we’re doing right we knew we were still in the game and it was only four easy goals to chase down. We tried our best in that quarter and push our selves, but the bigger bodies of Coolbinia always beat us in the air which made it very hard to get the ball to the ground. We kicked two goals and they also kicked two goal. So when the siren went they were only up by four goals. Thanks to Ryan in defence they didn’t score more.
The final quarter was the best quarter of the day we defended very well and applied pressure when it was needed but it wasn’t enough to stop Coolbinia attacking and kick two goal and we only kick one goal. When the siren went we were all disappointed because we all knew we could beat them and next time we will.
