Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge says a 19-point win over AFL premiership contenders Port Adelaide will construct belief in his gamers.
Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge says an aesthetic 19-point away win over Port Adelaide will do wonders for the belief of his AFL gamers.
The Bulldogs overcame the lack of influential backman Easton Wood to a different hamstring pressure to defeat fellow premiership contender Port on Saturday night time.
And Beveridge has hailed the 15.6 (96) to 12.5 (77) triumph at Adelaide Oval as stuffed with significance for his crew.
“It will do wonders for the belief of the group,” he mentioned.
“The significance of those outings and these experiences can’t be undersold.
“You discover encouragement within the truth, and the gamers do, in believing in what we’re attempting to do collectively.
“And towards a crew like Port on their house deck, the place they’ve been considerably robust and don’t drop many (video games), we are able to undoubtedly financial institution that and be ok with it.
“And, hopefully, it’s an experience that as we continue on will help us.”
Beveridge mentioned he would take an optimistic view of the most recent damage to Wood, who can have scans to find out the severity of his newest hamstring downside.
“We should be able to cover it,” he mentioned.
“As a lot as Easton is an excellent participant…you form of take a look at these occasions with a glass-half-full outlook as a result of sooner or later we are going to get him again.
“He has had that many (hamstring injuries) on both sides it has sort of all blurred into each other.”
The Bulldogs led Port by as a lot as 26 factors within the first quarter, booting 5 targets in 16 minutes.
But the Power rallied to hit the entrance within the second time period with 5 targets of their very own in slightly below ten minutes.
Beveridge praised the power of his gamers to then settle, with out a lot route from the coaches’ field.
“We have got ourselves into a space where the players are trouble-shooting and problem-solving and working some things out on the run,” Beveridge mentioned.
“We held our nerve – and the gamers undoubtedly did, and full credit score to them.
“We didn’t do something vital from the field in any respect, a job or two modified right here or there.
“But the players were just enormous and won the game in the end through their own self.”
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