After a heartbreaking one point loss to the Gilgandra Panthers in last year’s Christie and Hood Castlereagh League grand final, the Gulgong Bull Terriers are fueling the disappointment to do one better in 2019.
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While most of the 2018’s Terriers line up remains in tact with some names having dropped off the books, coach Mark Gorrie says he’s feeling good about the season.
“I’m confident it’s going to be a very successful season,” Gorrie said.
“We’ve got a good group of mates who form the Gulgong Terriers, and there are a lot of young players that have stuck together and are playing this season so there’s a good core group of friends that are playing."
Gorrie flagged the Gulgong jersey for 11 years as a player and had his first stint as coach in 1999 where he led the blue and white to a premiership win, followed by a third placing in 2000 and that unsatisfying narrow loss last year.
When asked why he returned to lead the team, Gorrie says he couldn’t walk away with last year lingering.
“My main reason is due to my two sons playing,” he said.
“But, I found it very hard to stop coaching last year after we won the minor premiership then got beaten in the grand final, I didn’t want to walk away under those circumstances.
I think I owe it to the team to put another season in so we can actually win the premiership.
- Mark Gorrie
“It was a very empty feeling knowing that we had done everything we said we were going to do, we got ourselves in the best possible position, we could have given ourselves a win but then to let it slip away.
“It was very difficult to watch it unfold and it was a very hollow feeling afterwards. I know the whole side and town were disappointed in the way the game had finished after the effort we had put in.”
Andrew Warwicker, Harry May, Dan Crane, Thomas Reddish and Sam Gorrie are the ones to watch this season.
“We will use last year’s disappointment as motivation,” Gorrie said.
We play and train as hard as we can for one reason and that is to win a premiership. That’s what we were there to do last year but that didn’t happen, so we will make sure it happens this year.
“We were very happy with the support we got last year and hope that everybody can turn up again and support us against for our quest in 2019.”
Jay-Anna Sleeman
Reporter for the Western Advocate. First began as a sports journalist with ACM in 2018 before moving on to cover news and court.
Reporter for the Western Advocate. First began as a sports journalist with ACM in 2018 before moving on to cover news and court.
