SERVICES Workies drilled Tudor Wests by seven on Sunday to wrap up the Tamworth men’s competition minor premiership.
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Isaac Farmilo led the charge for the defending champions with four as they converted a 2-nil half-time lead into a 7-nil win.
It made it a hat-trick of seven- goal margins, following 9-2 and 10-3 wins over South United, and pushed them too far ahead to be caught with five rounds remaining.
Captain-coach Andrew Farmilo, while happy with the end result, thought their first half “wasn’t that great”.
It was the same old problem.
“The build-up and everything was great but our options in the circle were not that great,” he said.
“That improved in the second half.
“We went for that extra pass and got the tap-in rather than big rockets past the
goalkeeper.”
“We probably also executed our short corners better.”
Two of Isaac Farmilo’s goals were from corners.
“We didn’t really look like scoring off a short corner in the first half,” Andrew Farmilo said.
He thought Ehren Hazell and Ryan Saban were brilliant in defence.
“They hardly gave them a chance,” he said.
And when they were outnumbered they were able to hold up the play long enough to allow the midfielders to get back in cover.
The second graders backing up also did well, he said.
Tudors captain-coach Sam Lobsey said Workies were “too good” in the end.
“We thought we were competing well going into the half-time break,” he said.
“They’d taken two chances.”
“We’d had a fair crack as well but couldn’t put our chances away.”
But they just fell away in the second half.
“We let a few things get to us in the second half and they ran away with it,” Lobsey said.
“We dropped a bit in terms of our mentality on the field and weren’t able to get back from a couple of opportunities we missed and they buried us.”
It could have been worse if not for keeper Troy Gross. He made a few good saves, he said.
The two Andrews – Millman and Finch – also played pretty well, and Sam Holt was pretty good up front.