Stability has been a key driver of Wyndhamvale’s success in division 2 of the Western Region Football League this season.
You can never be totally sure of what’s going on inside the four walls of a football club unless you’re in the inner sanctum, but outsiders forming a view of the Falcons on face value must be glowing in their appraisal this home-and-away season.
The Falcons took out the minor premiership in an ultra-competitive division with 16 wins from 18 games, did it without hype and under a first-year coach in Troy Beamond. The new coach did not rock the boat when he took the position, opting instead to keep a regular finals side together and drip-feed recruits on a needs basis.
The committee liked the team’s results and Beamond’s style and offered him the role again for 2016 on Thursday night. Chris Graham, Daniel Bunworth and Paul O’Shea were given the chance to be his playing assistants again.
The parties were all on the same wavelength and Beamond and Co needed just 24 hours to accept the club’s offer of a contract extension.
The outsiders were proven right … all is going well inside the Falcons.
There will be no distractions for the Falcons in the finals and that will only aid their push for a premiership.
“The expectations are driven on the inside,” Beamond told Star Weekly. “We’re not worried about external expectations at all; we don’t feel that, we don’t care about that.
“The senior group is a tight-knit group of guys with pretty strong expectations and that’s what will drive us throughout the finals.
“They all want to try for success together.”
The Falcons have a chance to seal a direct passage to the grand final on Saturday, but face a mammoth task against West Footscray in the second semi-final at Hogans Road Reserve.
In fact, Beamond expects the whole series to be tough, with all four teams flush with finals experience.
“The four sides in the finals are probably the four most experienced sides in the competition,” he said.
“Yarraville won a flag only two or three years ago, West Footscray is always up there and North Footscray has brought in a lot of experienced finals players.
“Each side will go in confident and we’ll be confident as well.
“The boys are really looking forward to playing finals.”
