Blighty players celebrate after their first senior football win of the season.
Sam Singleton gets to the ball first.
The Blighty Redeyes senior footballers achieved their first win of the season away against Katunga on Saturday.
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It was a fantastic day for the club, supporters and the team.
On the field, the Blighty players really held it together and kept pushing on at all costs.
Sam Singleton really controlled the centre, maximising on the efforts of Jett Lia, not only directing the bounce, but also winning several clearances himself.
Jack Charlton was dominating around the ground, giving the forwards plenty of looks and working back to fill any holes.
Jack Pell was on top, beating every opponent they presented on him and with.
Harley Constable’s long, penetrating kicks gave the team every opportunity.
It was great to see the skipper doing what he does, playing with plenty of confidence after a few weeks out.
Jack Fennell, Ari Glover and Isaac Brown all played well.
Brown used his strength and covered Lia in the ruck exceptionally.
Matt Macansh continually kept the team in the hunt with skill and the experienced Kyel Bain finally remembered to charge his goal kicking radar battery, putting the team in the lead and didn’t he love it.
The list keeps going on but what a great feeling.
The team’s thoughts are with their coach and his family, who are going through a battle at the moment.
The aim for the team is to keep the momentum to finish the year off, as it’s a much more enjoyable game when we’re winning.
Final score: Blighty 10.12 (72) def. Katunga 6.8 (44).
Harley Constable spoils from behind.
Reserves
Blighty were back after a second bye and due for a close clash, with rain on the horizon pushed most magnets off the board and into the tractor seat, unfortunately for the team.
There were glimpses of good ball play and passages of play, especially rebounding from the backline, which was a positive to see.
Although the team were probably not quick enough to react to see it working and continue our mid-structure that we’d been working on.
Mitch Ross and Brock Thomson were great around the ground, stepping in for us.
Jake Harvey was super down the back, stepping up from the thirds along with the general as usual, Shannon Bond.
Birthday boy Brodie Park was a bull in the middle.
Thanks to the thirds boys and others for stepping in and Katunga for working with us numbers wise.
Final score: Blighty 4.5 (29) def by Katunga 11.9 (75).
• Reports for other grades will appear in Friday’s edition.
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