Ellinbank DFL Preliminary Final preview

PRELIMINARY FINAL MATCH PREVIEW – LONGWARRY V WARRAGUL INDUSTRIALS

Longwarry and Warragul Industrials have met three times this season. Each time the Crows have prevailed. It won by less than a kick in both home and away games but beat the Dusties convincingly by 40 points in the Qualifying Final. This time around Warragul will be imbued with new spirit after it brought the in form Poowong’s seven game winning streak to and end last Sunday. For Longwarry centreman Russell Lehman, ruckman Nick Redley and coach and coach and forward Daniel Fry with tight defence led by Aaron Serong, Cole Cook and Ken Towt have been the keys behind their success.

For the Dusties the on-ball brigade led by Tyson Bale, Shane Brewster and Tye Holland always offer consistent performances while its half back line of Travis Odgen, Josh Peterson and Joel Morgan was terrific last week. Mind you it made heavy weather of beating the Magpies with a risk averse approach to work the ball through the Poowong defence with plenty of short precise kicks. It will need to play far more adventurously to knock over the Crows. It stands to reason that Longwarry with a comfortable final win two weeks ago over the Dusties and inadvertent home ground advantage should progress to the grand final – but Warragul will use the use the adage if you take the field you must be a chance.