Lions out of the den

The highway village of Great Western will be pumping on Saturday night if the Lions can continue their barnstorming start to Mininera and District Football League.

Great Western sits atop the competition ladder with two wins from two games and appears likely to continue its winning form against Hawkesdale-macarthur at Great Western.

The Lions have had a turbulent contemporary history and struggled through some tough seasons, but raised eyebrows with a significant round-one win against Lismore-derrinallum.

The team then followed up with a massive 263-point win against battling Ararat Eagles last weekend.

Game statistics were obviously heavily

in favour in the Lions’ match last week with forward Andrew Cameron leading a best-player list and goal-kicking honours with 13 majors.

Sam Cocks, six goals, and Steven Lorenzo, five, also enjoyed the spoils and others including Jesse Bennett and Nic Dunford were prominent.

Visiting Hawkesdale-macarthur is a different proposition to the Eagles but doesn’t take convincing form into the contest.

The visitors were on the end of a thrashing at the hands of Tatyoon last week despite the efforts of Brady Purcell and Jamie Hetherington.

Woorndoo-mortlake has also been capturing attention and after having a massive win over Moyston-willaura to also secure a two-from-two record now confronts the might of Wickliffe-lake Bolac at Lake Bolac.

Last week it was players such as Sam Gervasoni, Mitch Jubb and six-goal Jordan Buckley who led the way for the Tigers.

Wickliffe-lake Bolac will be hardened from a hard-fought four-goal win against Penshurst and will fully test the Tigers’ mettle.

Last week Rhys Cottam-starkey led best-player honours for the Magpies ahead of Nick Chirnside, Zeb Mckenna and Tom Gibson.

In other games this weekend, Moyston-willaura will take on Caramut, SMW Rovers play Lismore Derrinallum, Tatyoon is up against Penshurst and Ararat Eagles travel to Dunkeld to take on Glenthompson-dunkeld.