Tara Murray
New Western Rams coach Connor Grech is keen to continue the momentum the side built in this year’s Western Football League division 2 season.
Back on the winners list for the first time in more than 2000 days, the Rams finished the season with two wins and were competitive in a lot of games.
It was the Rams first season in the Western league.
Grech said it was exciting to take on the opportunity,
“I’m definitely excited and looking forward to it,” he said. “It’s close to where I’m living with all the traffic these days. It works well.
“They were competitive and they turned a corner.”
Grech has been involved in the league before, coaching St Albans under-18 team previously. He’s also been part of the Calder Cannons coaching set up as a development coach for the girls program and coached interleague for the past four years.
Grech highlighted the performances of the side this year as something that attracted him to the role.
“We had five games where we lost by five goals or under against some good teams,” he said.
“At stages we were in front. We’re looking to be as competitive as we can be next season.
“The competition will evening up a little bit with Albion, Newport and Sunshine going up. It opens the competition wide open.”
The Rams have re-signed a lot of the playing group, including Tyler Lewis who polled well in the league best and fairest.
Grech said there was a good culture and the playing group was keen to stick around.
Now they are looking to add some more pieces to the puzzle.
“We’re talking to some guys and hopefully we can get some through the door,” Grech said. “We’ve been very lucky to find two young rucks, 19 and 20-year-old ruckman and we’re pretty happy with those two.
“That will build our ruck division, we were a bit undersized last year. Very happy with some of the signings so far.”
Grech said the main focus for him was to continue to build on the hard work that has been done the past couple of years.
“They won two games last season, we’re looking to build on that,” he said. “We don’t want to put a ceiling on ourselves, we’ll see what happens.
“Want to be an organised, do the best things that we can do, be professional and see where it takes us.”
