Road to the Grand Final

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Boys had disability. I've always wondered by football I'd play for Williamstown Seagulls because it gives me a sense of team, gives me a sense of pride. Pretty much just for enjoyment, to get down and have a laugh with mates, just to have fun.

Ah, this week hopefully our boys wake up a bit, concentrate. I hope that we—I just hope we do our best. It means a lot to have clubs for kids with disabilities to be able to play football. A lot of kids like us can be allowed to be active. We are the great many things that your physical educator. The main thing with our competition is that these guys, at whatever level, get a chance to play footy and to experience that team camaraderie. Hopefully they make good friends.

The idea is to give people with a disability a chance to play football in a competitive but safe competition. All the things that you learn fully are things that you can apply to your life: you get knocked down, you get up again, you ride the bumps, you keep going. They're good messages for players who've got disabilities, who are on pensions, who don't have all the opportunities that perhaps other people get.

This Sunday we've got the biggest day our clubs ever had. It's really important that we play in the way we've played over here. We need to be a club that is strong and sticks together. We need to beat the club that keeps growing and keeps developing. Those are really important things for us because that's how we keep the footy game alive—that's how we make sure it's always a game for someone who wants to play football.

So on Sunday when you come out to play footy, we're not just playing with you for the day; we're playing for the whole future of the club. But the most important thing is that you bring yourself to the game on Sunday, ready to play football. What we've got to do is believe. We're in this. Let's do it, because there's a long way before the next final and a long way before next season starts.

While you're playing you get to talk to other people, you get to strengthen these skills, you get off the couch. It means a lot. It's overall pretty much the same, so when everyone is on the same wavelength it's awesome because you're all there for the same reasons. It's amazing—it's taken a long time. It's really valuable to see these coaches train us and get us to where we are now.

I think playing footy is one of those basic Australian things that we all kind of take for granted a bit. For a lot of these guys, the opportunity to play junior footy is the opportunity to play in our mainstream club. It's just being able to play football.

Road to the Grand Final

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