Football: Warrnambool under 18 grand final coach Damien Sell

Watch: Warrnambool under 18 premiership coach Damien Sell speaks after Hampden grand final

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00:00Congratulations Damien, back to back on the ice, how are you feeling?

00:03Pretty emotional to be honest. Relieved, probably the overriding emotion, big build up.

00:11You get to the final dance and it's overwhelming. Relief I think is the main emotion.

00:20There were some big moments particularly in that second half when you broke away, was there anything that stood out to you?

00:26No, I think it was just an arm wrestle. We knew it was going to be like that with the grand final.

00:31South are a really good side, so we just said we want to be tougher for longer.

00:37I think we just wore them down a little bit at the end.

00:39Our good players rose to the challenge here in that last quarter.

00:44I think that's all it was, we just stuck at it for a bit longer.

00:49Damien, back to back best of pro medal.

00:52Yeah, he was great, but I think we could have went to half a dozen blokes if we had a lot of really good players today.

01:01But he's a quality player, that's why he's been playing senior footy, so he's great to have back.

01:10Yeah, again another senior player, so I think we had ten senior players or thereabouts today over the course of the year.

01:16It's been a battle to get to the grand final because we had so many players playing seniors or rebels or injuries.

01:23I think the first final about three weeks ago we had ten out of our best side.

01:28So I think getting to the grand final was just a great achievement from the playing group.

01:34Yeah, it was pretty impressive wasn't it?

01:37And there was a few of the boys, Nate Brereton missed last year and he was great.

01:42No, it was a great reward for effort.

01:46Thank you very much, cheers.