COMETS’ COLLISION A POSITIVE

Post-game clash a positive sign of passion

SHOULD Southside Comets enjoy any level of success this season you can trace the origin to the moments after the club’s 4-1 FFA Cup flogging at the hands of Edge Hill United.

The Comets were beaten across the park in that 90-minute bout, the first meeting of FNQ Football’s 2017 Premier League grand finalists this season, as the Tigers dominated almost every facet. O’Hare said Salmon was representative of the club’s “reward for form philosophy” in which age is truly just a number: if a player is good enough, they deserve and get their shot.

In Salmon’s case, if he continues to play like he did against the Comets, you’ll see a

Sure, it was game two in Southside’s year, and the infancy of the campaign generally means you can’t read too deeply into their form.

But what you can see is the passion, the desire, and the need for success.

Southside demonstrated those key characteristics well after the full-time whistle had sounded in the FFA Cup.

Comets coach Dion Readman lot more of him throughout the Premier League season.

“Kaine played centre back and was man of the match,” O’Hare said.

“It was fantastic for a 16year-old to come into a game like this, a physical game, he was unreal. knocked over his TV interview quickly then returned to his players, who were joined by captain Dylan Soares, the Portuguese midfielder sent off after he questioned the referee’s lack of action on a foul which left his teenage teammate out cold.

You could hear the exchange from across the field. Players’ frustration at Soares for being dismissed and

“That’s what the club is about, bringing those young players in. We spoke at the start of the season and if you’re good enough to play, you’ll play, it doesn’t matter what age you are.

“He came into the first team straight from the under-16s leaving them a man short. Soares’ explanation of what happened on the field and why he so passionately defended his teammate. The collective group’s embarrassment at being dominated on their home field by a team they would very much prefer to beat, and beat well.

Readman was not concerned at the exchange, far from it. and just hasn’t looked out of place at all.”

Edge Hill United’s quest for a FNQ Football Men’s Premier League title took a back seat as all fixtures were cancelled due to the week’s wet weather.

The Tigers’ next assignment is an away trip over the

The Comets coach saw the passion to play, the desire to win, and, from it, the extra motivation which could lift his team into the top four and give them another crack at the title.

“There was a bit of angst among the group,” he said.

“Obviously they’re competitive men and they don’t like losing. There was a bit of Q and A about whether certain decisions made were the right range to Mareeba’s Lindsay Australia Stadium to face the Bulls, who fell 5-2 to the Leichhardt Lions in their FFA Cup fixture last week.

That remains the Bulls’ sole competitive game this season after a first-round bye in the Premier League. ones. They didn’t want to lose, and that’s what it was.

“It was a case of the boys being upset about losing, not about the group. they’re a tight group of lads. It’s easy to smile and win, but you’ve got to smile when you lose because sometimes you just won’t win.”

If the Comets can maintain that rage on the field, and find the back of the net when it counts, it will be the difference between a successful season, and one which underdelivers on their potential.