Giant killers wary of cellar dwellers
KINGBOROUGH sent shockwaves through the NPL Tasmania when it thumped the table-topping Hobart Zebras last week, but Lions coach Mark Broadbent says it will all be for nothing if they can’t beat the bottom side tomorrow.
The Lions had only picked up a point from three games before they hammered the previously unbeaten Zebras 5-0.
“We concentrated very hard on nullifying their forward third, and worked on a plan to break down their leaky defence,” Broadbent said.
“We just tried to execute it, and it was just one of those lucky games that it paid off.”
Kingborough takes on bottom side Clarence United at Wentworth Park in tomorrow’s Round 5 clash.
Clarence has struggled to date this season. It has lost all four of its NPL Tas matches, scoring three and conceding 22 goals, and comes into the match on the back of a 7-1 thrashing at the hands of the Northern Rangers last week.
However, Broadbent said his side would “not be taking Clarence lightly by any stretch of the imagination”.
“We had a debrief meeting on Sunday and touched on it again on Monday night at training that we can’t be complacent, thinking that we’ve achieved something when we’ve only won one game,” he said. “It can all come unstuck if we go into Clarence a little bit cocksure, because really if we lose to Clarence then all of a sudden all of the work we’ve done against Zebras is just undone.”
Defending champion South Hobart finds itself in an unfamiliar position in seventh place with just one win from four games, and it faces another tough task this week.
South travels North tomorrow to take on the tabletopping Launceston City at Buckby Land Rover Park.
The sixth-placed Rangers will look to build on last week’s thumping of Clarence when they take on the third-placed Devonport Strikers at the NTCA tomorrow.
Devonport comes into the game with strong form of its own, after a thrilling 2-1 win over South last week.
Hobart Zebras and Olympia Warriors meet on Anzac Day at North Hobart Oval.