Tara Murray
Thomastown’s finals fate is in its own hands in the Northern Football League division 2 competition.
The Bears sit two points outside the top five with four rounds to go and face clashes with fourth placed Lower Plenty and sixth placed Panton Hill in the run home.
Bears co-coach Sash Spiroski said they know what they need to do if they want to play finals.
“We didn’t want to put ourselves in this position but we now have the last four games which will be finals like” he said.
“We have four tough games. Hopefully we can finish well and play finals.”
The Bears had been in a good position before losing four games since the bye.
Spiroski said they had some challenges.
“We came up against the three top spots in a three week period. We had some mixed results.
“We did well for periods but Whittlesea got a hold of us for the majority of the game.
“Laurimar credit to them they played four quarters of footy and we did not.
“We could have won it, but we were pipped by them.”
Spiroski said their form had been up and down from week to week, but also in games.
He said they were struggling in one area.
“We have not been able to string four quarters to get over the line,” he said. “We can not have lapses and need to have four quarter performances.
“We have to get back to basics and work from there.”
The Bears have a bye on the weekend with no division 2 action across the competition.
Spiroski said they were hoping to come back better from the bye this time round.
“We’re taking it one week at a time,” he said. “We play Lower Plenty and if we win we will be back in a finals spot.
“We will get some bodies back and hopefully the last four weeks we can reproduce what we did before the bye [first one].
“Since then we haven’t won a game so this bye came at the right time. It will be tough and we’ll train hard and go back to basics and recapture that form and obviously make finals.”
