Harper Sercombe
With two home and away matches to play in the Western Region Football League division 3 season the goal is clear for the Suns.
After going down by just two points in last year’s grand final, the Suns are determined to complete what they couldn’t last season.
Currently they sit at the top of the ladder, only losing a singular match to Sunshine Heights back in round seven.
Having had a bye on the weekend playing coach Dean Cachia said it is a good time of the year to have a rest as they begin to make their charge.
“Probably the perfect time for us, over the last three games we’ve really played some good, hard footy,” he said.
“We’ve just got to keep the foot on the pedal, keep training, and stay focused.
“We know there is plenty of work ahead of us to achieve what we’ve ultimately set out to achieve.
“Our intentions are clear this year, we want to win the premiership, we want to go up to division two.”
This week the Suns will face second placed Albanvale. The sides have fought it out in two tight bouts throughout the year with the Suns getting the rub of the green in both occasions, by six and 10 points respectively.
“Both times the game could have gone either way,” Cachia said.
“We’re looking forward to it… it’s a tune up against them to see how we match up, see how we’re going, we think we’re going well and looking at their results they’re obviously going well as well.
“It’s just the team that comes ready to play on the day and executes their game plan as best as they can.”
Cachia is expecting to see the Cobras again in a few weeks time, when the first plays second in the first week of finals. A grand final spot will be on the line.
“Ultimately the season starts again in the finals. It’s a completely different game, we got some good experience out of it last year,” he said.
“We hope that little bit of experience holds us in good stead this year.
“It can go either way there’s no guarantees… we have to be at our best.
“If we’re not on our game and not focused anything can happen on any day.”
The Suns have been an offensive powerhouse this season adding prolific goal scorer Daniel Hoovey back into the club in the off season. Hoovey now sits at 96 goals while his forward partner in Cachia has 61 for himself. Cachia kicked more than 100 goals last season.
“He’s been fantastic, bags of goals every game,” Cachia said.
“Now with two key forward goal kickers makes it a bit more difficult for the opposition to match up on us.
“But it’s the way the ball comes in, it’s the midfielders and the half forwards and their movement that allows us forwards to kick goals.
“If they’re not getting the ball in transition moving the ball quickly then the goals you see on the weekends.
“If the ball didn’t come in the way that it does we wouldn’t be kicking half of those goals.”
