Hampden GF: South Warrnambool's Josh Saunders - Sept 23, 2023 - video Dailymotion

South Warrnambool's Josh Saunders speaks to The Standard after winning the 2023 Hampden league senior football grand final.

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00:00 Joshua, a premiership, how does it feel to get that one done today?

00:04 Yeah, it feels amazing. It's probably been a few years in the making and you know having

00:10 a young list probably three or four years ago and keeping them all together has paid

00:13 off now and it does, it feels amazing, it's awesome.

00:16 You came back in 2016 or so, had the two stints, wanted to come back and play with your mates.

00:22 How does that feel to come back and go through that hard road to get to here today?

00:27 Yeah, I had a few years down here and then shifted back to Geelong and yeah just being

00:33 away from the footy club it just realises how good the place actually is and yeah last

00:37 year we came up a bit short but you know credit to the boys and the coaching staff and everyone

00:42 around there, we've grown and learnt from mistakes we probably made last year and stuff

00:46 and had a fit list come the right time of year and had a really good game today and

00:49 got a win so yeah it was really exciting and it was going off in there so it's going to

00:53 be a big couple of days I reckon.

00:55 You had a runner up finish in the Master of Medal race, how did you feel you were able

01:00 to play your role for the team?

01:02 Yeah it's been really good this year and just with the amount of depth we have you don't

01:07 feel like you have to be doing anything more than your role that you've been given by the

01:11 coach so yeah just crack it in and whatever the coach has been giving us is what it's

01:16 doing, no one has to stand out and it showed today, it was a really big team effort and

01:19 it got us the chocolate so yeah it was awesome.

01:21 So you're going to be a father coming up, what's that like?

01:28 Yeah so to February, yeah it's sort of as a male and you don't get the physical changes

01:34 it's probably a little bit, you know it hasn't sort of maybe taken a grip yet but you know

01:40 eventually I'm sure it will you know once it obviously comes around and changes a lot

01:45 of things and stuff it'll be interesting but yeah we're both very excited and yeah it's

01:49 going to be a big change for us but it'll be good.

01:52 So obviously celebrate this one tonight with everyone back at Brindley's?

01:56 Yeah we will I think Ollie Smith might be leading the way so we'll let him lead the

01:59 way and we'll follow him.

02:00 Yeah.

02:01 Yeah.

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