Rangers ready to fight fire with fire in title race

JACOB GRAMS ers, Veall said 1-0 would do.

“Goals don’t matter to me. A win is good enough for me. If I take a 1-0 win, I’m happy,” he said.

Veall said his side was willing to fight fire with fire if needed against an Edge Hill side that has conceded four red cards in the league season, although he was adamant Marlin Coast was right up there in the yellow card stakes.

“It says we’re competitive. That was the objective at the start of the season,” he said.

“We have been competitive in every game.

“None of the clubs have given us a walloping.

“No one has put more than three goals past my team.”

A favourable draw for the last two rounds against Edge Hill and Leichhardt should see Marlin Coast into the finals, but it will be curtains for Mareeba should they go down to Southside.

But the Bulls will have crucial home ground advantage for their final game of the sea- son, before a bye in Round 21.

Mareeba will also go into the match against the ladder leaders, who could clinch the premiership with a win, with the same starting XI for just the third time in 2017.

Bulls coach Alex Srhoj said coping with the pressure of a do-or-die match was nothing new for the club.

“We are used to the pressure, we train hard, we prepare well and we give ourselves every opportunity to perform well and get the result we want,” he said. “On our night we can beat anyone in the league, we just need to make sure we all turn up, we all tick the boxes, do the little things right and we will be OK.”

If the Comets don’t win, Stratford could keep the premiership race alive if they win at Leichhardt on Sunday.

Innisfail United could all but seal the Premier Women’s minor premiership if they beat JCU Strikers today.

The Cutters had a catch-up game with Edge Hill last night.