Ballarat coach Chris Maple after win over Redan

Ballarat Coach Chris Maple talks after win over Redan in Round 12

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00:00Said Chris, congratulations on a real professional performance. You must be

00:03wrapped with the way the boys are going. Yeah, they adapted to the conditions well,

00:08pretty wet and heavy at times and I thought we were really good around the contest and

00:13our different phases of the game. We played quite well, particularly after the first 10 or 15

00:19minutes. Redan really come out through everything at us and, you know, tried to unsettle us a little

00:25bit but to our boys credit, they withstood that and went about their business and had a great

00:30result. So I know a good side that you're not getting flustered when a team comes at you

00:34and you're able to then, as I say, put away second quarter, you got yourself an eight-goal

00:37lead and it was game over. Yeah, strong in the second quarter, just our contested ball

00:44and clearances were really good so that helped us in the territory game and, yeah, got on top.

00:52You're obviously in the best form you've shown all season. What do you put that down to?

00:57Oh, there's a little bit of confidence there. Young team, playing some reasonable footy but

01:04I think we've been playing okay. It's just at times we drop off in our concentration and

01:12we haven't done that in the past eight quarters so that's good.

01:16It's obviously far too early to mention the F word at the moment but what would finals mean

01:20to this group? You're two games and about 20% clear now. Oh, look, it's an old adage but there's

01:26still five games in the season and, you know, when it's mathematically impossible to make them,

01:35we'll be celebrating but it's, look, it's got a lot of games to play yet and

01:41Lakers had a good win today. We play them in a fortnight so we have to make sure we're

01:46combative as well as we were today. Who do you see as your better players out there today?

01:52I thought Marcus Powling was pretty good in the ruck. Will Liston around the ball was really good.

01:57Paddy Simpson was really good around the ball. He's had a good year, Paddy. Yeah, he's been going

02:02really well. I thought our defence was fantastic. Angus Bate did a great job. So did Reece Perry

02:10and then forwards-wise, Hoops hit the scoreboard a little bit today and so did, I thought,

02:18great to have Harry Butler back in the team and Zach Rinaldic was outstanding.

02:23Well, you've just listed off about 10 names there. It's obviously hard to find a,

02:29you know, a bad player out there when you win by 11 goals. Oh, look, it's difficult to find a top

02:34six. You guys don't let me write team effort, but no, we'll find them. Yeah,

02:40fantastic. Did you get that injury free in the end? Yeah, pretty good. Yeah, excellent.