Finals Round 3 - SportingPulse

LUCK OF THE DREWbe futile, the club knows how to play finals footy.And nobody involved at Tormore Reserve would besurprised by a Division 2 berth in 2013.Super coach O ‘Hare is keeping his cards close to his chest.‘It was a bit of a letdown against Glen Waverley twoweeks ago, we coughed up the ball a fair bit and it hurtus in the end,’ he said.‘But thanks to the double chance, we’ve got another shot.’It looks as though the cards are starting to fall Boroniaand O’Hare’s way.Champion midfielder and three-time Division 3 Bestand Fairest winner, Dean Grice, made a successfulcomeback from the knee injury which so cruelly kepthim out of Port Melbourne’s VFL campaign.Grice’s class and smooth use of the footy was awelcome return to the side in ‘Hawk-off III’ afortnight ago.‘We rolled the dice and brought a fair few back inagainst Glen Waverley,’ O’Hare said.‘Sometimes guys get picked on what they’ve done inthe past and on their reputation. A couple of them wereprobably underdone, so they’ll be better for it.’However there will be no respite for poor old O’Hareover the next two weeks.This ‘Choose Tap’ EFL finals series will be as difficult aperiod as he has come across in his tenure at Boronia.The toast of the football club, the seniors, will be playingin yet another preliminary final against their newest EFLrival, the Glen Waverly Hawks, this weekend.Yet his beloved reserves side have booked themselvesa spot in the Grand Final after defeating WantirnaSouth in the second semi-final last weekend.‘That last quarter against Wantirna South wasprobably the best quarter of footy since we beat NorthRingwood in last year’s Grand Final,’ he said.‘All things being fair, we’ll probably play Wantirna Southagain in the Grand Final.‘They are a fantastic side and we certainly can’t takethem for granted.’The challenge now for O’Hare is to finalise his bestsenior 22.Will Matt Buzinskus be back in the mix?Has Jess Bolton done enough to earn a return?Drew O’Hare, the man with the goatee, must find theanswers to these questions in a bid to forever etch himselfinto the Eastern FootballLeague’s record books.What a remarkable effortit would be if O’Hare wasable to deliver the Hawks apremiership double.If that were to happen,surely he would become themayor of Boronia.Maybe he’d even considerretaining his position as thehead coach of two separatefootball teams?BURMEISTER PROJECTS PTY LTDFor a free quote and a professional serviceon all Building & Construction projectsplease call Dave or TimDave: 0422 734 660 Tim: 0421 442 936www.efl.org.au38