Sunbury coach Kim Bailey after win over Ballarat

The Courier

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00:00In the win, let's start with the cold figure.

00:03Beth Hicks got 94 out of 96 goals today.

00:06Yeah, she was amazing today.

00:08You know, we didn't expect that because, you know,

00:11Ballarat were quite close to a couple of teams before,

00:14so we came here thinking this was going to be a really tough game,

00:17but she was not strong today.

00:19She was really confident and we fed food to play until we could have fed better,

00:23to be honest, but, yeah, she's been amazing for our club

00:27and, you know, just to see the support that she brings,

00:30I'd have all the boys come over and support her as well

00:32when we thought she more than only hit 100 goals.

00:34She shot 94, which is insane.

00:37Insane in this league.

00:37I don't know if anyone's ever shot 100,

00:39but to do what she did today is insane.

00:41How do you motivate a team for a game like this?

00:46I mean, it's a game that you should be winning.

00:48It's a game that you've got the quality,

00:49you know you've got the quality team out there.

00:51I think they said that at an average age of 18.

00:54How do you get that extra motivation for the girls

00:56to perform the way they do?

00:57I think one of the motivations is that we know that, you know,

01:00we're defending premiers, people are going to want to beat us,

01:03so we've just got to remember that people come for us

01:05and we can't let our guard down at every time.

01:07We do set incremental targets per quarter

01:10that we have to work to as well,

01:12and that helps, especially when the score's quite bad.

01:16But you look at that game there,

01:17they've got some really good players out there.

01:19In a couple of years,

01:20you're going to have a really strong team with all the youth,

01:22but that's what we have to do to keep our girls motivated.

01:25Yeah, exactly right.

01:26So take me through the first four weeks of the season.

01:28As you said, Redan gave you a bit of a shake-up.

01:30You had a bit of a, you know,

01:31you got a fairly convincing win over North Belaride last week.

01:34That must have done wonders for confidence.

01:35Yeah, that was surprising.

01:38The conditions were awful.

01:39And we're not a good wet weather team.

01:42We know that because we're so fast and we like to run.

01:44So that was surprising.

01:47But I think, as I just said to the girls before,

01:49we play together all the time now.

01:51We train together, we play together.

01:52And I think that's actually starting to shine through,

01:56that we know each other so well.

01:57And, you know, we've got some players out still.

01:59Caitlin Hill's playing Etienne Desire,

02:01so we won't have her.

02:03Eliza Glant's still a couple of weeks away from the meniscus injury.

02:07You know, Tara O'Grady's not here at the moment.

02:13She's missing the next three.

02:15So we've got the depth, luckily, to keep going.

02:18Like, we brought a couple of B-graders up

02:20and they did exceptionally well today.

02:22So we've got the depth nine and then A-grade.

02:23We've got it in B-grade to support those players.

02:26It's a scary proposition going forward with him.

02:28Oh, look, but as I said, you know,

02:31for a jam, for a jam, we're really cool.

02:32And we've got a couple of really hard games coming up as well.

02:35We've got Lakes in a couple of weeks

02:36and I think they were 50 seconds at the moment.

02:38So, yeah, we just have to keep improving.

02:41Yeah, exactly.

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