North Launceston midfielder-forward Brad Cox-Goodyer would love for his team to send off their coach Zane Littlejohn with a third-straight premiership.
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As Littlejohn enters his last week in charge of the club before heading to Brisbane as an AFL development coach, the dual premiership player said another flag would be the ultimate farewell.
“He is the best coach in Tassie and the best coach I’ve ever had so it would be great to send him off with another premiership but not just for him but for the whole footy club would be enormous,” Cox-Goodyer said.
“I know he has done a lot for a lot of the players who will run out so I am sure they will have that in the back of their mind that it is Zane’s last game coaching us and will want to definitely send him off in the right way.”
Cox-Goodyer described the rivalry between the Northern Bombers and Southern Magpies as “a bit of fun” and said they had not deliberately set out to “suck” Glenorchy into indiscipline during the second semi-final.
“We’re very competitive and obviously have had some great tussles over the past couple of years so it is going to be a pretty big war and it is going to take a full four quarters for either side to win.
”We like to approach it with a warfare mentality and do anything it takes to win and if that’ s one way we can get under their skin and get an advantage then we’ll do it.
“We’re pretty comfortable with where we are at and we know what we need to do to control what we do on the footy field.
“If they feel like there are mental scars there that is fine – we just control what we can control and do what we need to do.”
He said he was not the type of player that tended to be bothered by grand final nerves.
“The build up is a bit bigger but at the end of the day it is just another game of footy and I try to keep it that way and as a leader try to make sure everyone else does that.
“If we can keep the nerves down and do what we need to do that will go a long way toward helping us get the ultimate prize.”