By Tara Murray
The City West Falcons aren’t getting ahead of themselves despite another dominant win in the Victorian Netball League on Wednesday night.
The three-time defending championships remain undefeated after seven rounds after a convincing win against the North East Blaze.
The Falcons took a bit of time to get into the game before running away with a 79-51 win.
Falcons coach Marg Lind was pretty happy with the performance.
“It took us a while defensively to get there,” she said. “They had a pretty good moving circle and when Sam [Silvester] was in shooter, she presented different problems.
“We did talk about being adaptable tonight [Wednesday] and we got there in the end, the second half especially.”
Lind said they struggled with both the moving circle and the traditional circle early on before finding match ups that worked.
She said they needed to adapt a bit quicker.
“We rolled the defenders a fair bit too see if we could get some better match ups and that paid off in the end,” she said.
“Lucia [Fauonuku] did a pretty good job on Sam, Sophie [Hanrahan] back and Charity [Nasalio] out was a bit better,
“Sussu [Liai] in goal defence as well. We kept bringing fresh legs on them.
“It took us a while to get where we wanted to be, we ran a bit more of a box in the second half bit more successful.”
Lind was more than pleased with the attack end, with nearly 80 goals against one of the stronger sides in the competition.
She said with the margin blowing out there were able to try a few different things.
Jane Cook finished with 64 goals with just one missed shot. Cook is on track for more than 1000 goals in a season again.
“They were pretty physical and hard one on one,” Lind said of the Blaze defence. “I thought our attack end was solid.
“We made a few passing errors but pretty much when we were up by a fair but I thought we were pretty patient around the transverse line”
Lind said despite the good start they were still wary of how things could go.
“I think we’re in the danger zone with the SSN reserves starting,” she said. “Mon [Holmes] is involved there and it doesn’t look like we’ll get Uneeq [Palavi] back.
“We might have to look at a bit of coverage there going forward.
“Making sure as an older team, keeping them injury free and thinking about what we’re doing at training which so far we have done well, touch wood.”
The Falcons 23s suffered a 59-52 loss to the Blaze.
Lind said they couldn’t afford to give up a 10 goal start against a side like that.
Both Falcons sides face the Hawks this week.
