Geelong & District coach Paul Lynch has paid tribute to the commitment of the competition’s brightest young talent after the Raiders handed Colac and District a 106-point hiding at Winchelsea’s Eastern Reserve on Saturday.
After a seven-point win in last year’s contest, the GDFNL made light work of the CDFNL this time around, retaining the Hickey-Whitley Shield with an 18.21 (129) to 3.5 (23).
“It would have been nice, as a spectator (for the margin) to be a lot closer and all that sort of stuff,” Lynch said. “But, we were there to win a game of footy.
“They probably had a few out. But we did too.
“I just thought we played really well, and we probably just didn’t give them a chance, to be honest.
“Credit to the boys; their buy-in was excellent again this year.
“You could just see at the start of the game that they were there to win. They weren’t there to play an exhibition game; they were there to win a game of footy.”
In an even team performance in the under-25 battle, Belmont Lions midfielder Michael Murdoch won the ‘Sid’ Jones Medal as best-on-ground for the Raiders.
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