Sunday, 2pm at Edwin Flack Reserve
Round 8: Doveton 19.10.124 d Pakenham 12.13.85.
Pakenham: The Lions have an under-rated spread of talls with Jeremy Everett and Glen Wouters supported around the ground by Jake Matthews, Daniel Fry, Nathan Brown and Clint Walker. They could hold the key to the aerial contests this weekend.
Doveton: Individually the Doves have the best football skills in the competition. Names like Hendy, Hill, Hayes, Gabriel, Casset and Henry would light up the list of any Casey Cardinia League opponent.
Pakenham: Cranbourne is one thing but the Doves are a different proposition all together? Can the Lions lift to the level required to match their opponents’ brilliance?
Doveton: How much effect will the fact that the Doves have played only one game in the last 27 days have on their match fitness and mental focus?
Pakenham: Key defender, key forward, ruckman, wingman or on-baller – 2009 best-and-fairest winner Jared Goldsack is a ripper.
Doveton: He is the X, Y and Z factor and has been for two decades across many clubs and just as many leagues. Danny Casset is a match-winner and the bigger the stage the better he plays. They will all come to watch.
Pakenham needs to improve about another 50 per cent on last week’s win over Cranbourne to create even a small blip on the Doves’ radar. Turnovers are costly at the best of times but if the Lions turn the ball over through basic errors as much as they did in the qualifying final, the Doveton playmakers will have an absolute field-day, and Casset will kick a bag. It’s the Doves by 31 points this week.
