Football
17 June, 2025
Dimboola get the win in low-scoring match
Dimboola got the better of Warrack in a relatively low-scoring match in round eight of the Wimmera Football Netball League.
The final score was Dimboola 8.10 (58) to Warrack 6.8 (44).
Better players for Dimboola in the clash were Simon Hobbs and Will Griffiths, while Sam Hayden and Sam Hanna were in form for Warrack.
Andrew Moore and Jackson Calder were the only players for Dimboola to boot multiple majors, with a couple each, while for Warrack, Charlie Wilson kicked four goals.
Coach of Dimboola, Dean Toet, said he wouldn't have liked to have been a spectator at the game on Saturday.
"It was low scoring, it was a lot of pressure, a lot of turnovers, just a game that was scrappy," Toet he said.
"But it was good to slog it out and get over the line."
The coach described the weather as "bitter and cold" and laughed about his Darwin players not liking it.
"It got down to 20 degrees on Friday night when they were leaving up there and they got down here and it was a top of five or six," he said.
"I don't know how they do it, with such a big weather change."
But weather aside, Toet said to win the game, his side had a focus on not giving up the match, and they kept in mind that the job wasn't done until the final siren sounded.
He was pleased with the efforts of best on grounds Griffiths and Hobbs.
"Hobbsy's just getting better and better," Toet said.
"He had a year off last year and is at a new club this year with us, and he is taking a bit of time to find his feet and get back into it.
"But his intercept marks in the last quarter – he probably saved us the game.
"He would have eight or 10 in the last 12-13 minutes of the game."
Griffiths, who has always been a back-line player, has been adapting to a bit of a new role, running through the wing.
"He's got a good cardio base and he's just starting to find his feet there after being a bit lost early," Toet said.
"He's got his head around the position and it's not an easy one to play, and he was good on Saturday as well.
"Ben Miller was also good; Jack Landt, Dylan Landt, Johno Ross and Andrew Moore, they were all good."
For the Eagles it was the fifth game this season they had lost by 22 points or under.
Coach of Warrack, Matt Walder, lamented Saturday's tune was a beat similar to the course of the season.
"Just a period where the opposition kick a run of two, three, four goals and that's the difference in the match," Walder said.
"Defensively we are holding up okay, but offensively we are not penetrating enough and not testing the defence of the opposition to get a winning score.
"In one respect we are holding up well, but in the other we aren't putting enough pressure back on the opposition."
Widely regarded by other coaches in the league as having a good team and plenty of potential, Walder said if it was frustrating for people on the outside of the club, they could imagine the feelings on the inside.
"We all know there is something of substance there, we've got something genuine, it's just a matter of finding a way of breaking down that barrier," he said,
"But once we do, once we unlock the code, I think we should be okay, but until then we have to find a way.
"Don't get me wrong: internally we are all looking for ways to be better and improve, a dangerous opponent, but we aren't going to let the frustrations get to us; we are continuing to find ways.
"But at the end of the day you don't want to be the best losing side – that counts for nothing.
"You still have to come away with wins and give yourself a chance to be there at the end of the season."