By Tara Murray
Western United’s Aimee Medwin hopes they are building at the right time of the A-League women’s season.
After a slow start, Western started to find its feet to qualify for finals with a couple of rounds to go.
The side finished the regular season on Saturday night against Adelaide.
Medwin said it was exciting to be in the finals for a third successive season and it was good to have locked that up a couple of weeks ago.
“It has come around quickly,” she said. “A few of the girls were saying that it felt like round one was a few weeks ago.
“We’re 21 rounds in, which is pretty crazy. The longer season has been really good, but time flies.”
Medwin said they always saw themselves as a finals team and a team that could have success.
It took Western a bit of time to get going this season.
“We had a rocky start,” she said. “It’s been a good back end and now we’re starting to find a lot of consistency with the way we are playing.
“Hopefully we can continue that in finals.”
Medwin said while they had a number of players return this season there was a new bunch of girls come in.
She said they had to change things up to work out what suited them best.
“We adjusted our game style and played a few different formations and starting positions,” she said.
“It was a short pre-season and were still figuring it out early. We had some good team results and some really poor ones as well.
“We were able to solidify the way we wanted to play at the back end of the season and it’s now the most important part of the season.”
Medwin, who moved into the attacking role earlier in the season, has moved back to her familiar role at full back.
She said she was still getting forward when she had the opportunity.
Having only come back for the last part of last season after an ACL season, it’s the first full season Medwin has had in a couple of seasons.
She said it had been really good to have been able to be part of it for the whole season.
“I’ve played a couple of different positions,” she said. “It’s good to integrate in for a whole season.”
Speaking ahead of their final home game of the season, Medwin said it was an important match to try and lock in a home elimination final.
The side had looked at some tactical plans to try and come away with the win.
A win would ensure that Western hosts a home final at Ironbark Fields.
Medwin said having a final at Ironbark Fields would be pretty special.
“We don’t want to travel, we’ve done enough travelling,” she said. “If we could enjoy a home final that would be nice.”
