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Matera to miss Bombers clash
3:06:38 PM Sat 31 May, 2003
Mic Cullen
afl.com.au
Phil Matera has not travelled to Melbourne as part of the West Coast Eagles team to play Essendon at Telstra Dome on Sunday.
Matera, the competition’s equal-leading goal-scorer this season with Melbourne full-forward David Neitz, pulled up sore after training during the week and West Coast has decided not to risk him on the trip east.
West Coast took Chad Morrison and Kane Munro as its emergencies, and will decide which one will play just before the game.
The pocket dynamo has averaged nearly four goals a game this season, and West Coast assistant coach Peter Sumich, West Coast’s all-time leading scorer, said at the airport on Saturday that the midfield would need to improve on last week’s performance to compensate.
“No, he won’t play – he’s pulled up sore so he won’t travel today,” Sumich said.
“We’ll take Munro and Morrison and decide tomorrow who gets a guernsey.”
“We’ve got to make sure we look after Phillip – after yesterday’s training, he did most of it but he just pulled up a little bit sore, and we’ve got to make sure we look after him because it’s still a long season, and we don’t want him out for three four or five weeks.”
After last week’s poor scoring return from the midfield, Sumich said the chance was there for the other forwards to show what they could do.
“It probably gives them an opportunity, I suppose that because Phillip’s been going that well that (David) Haynes, (Ashley) Sampi and probably (Daniel) Chick back into the side, maybe going up forward, could help them to … and you’ve got Jako (Glen Jakovich) - all those players up forward have got to stand up now.”
3:06:38 PM Sat 31 May, 2003
Mic Cullen
afl.com.au
Phil Matera has not travelled to Melbourne as part of the West Coast Eagles team to play Essendon at Telstra Dome on Sunday.
Matera, the competition’s equal-leading goal-scorer this season with Melbourne full-forward David Neitz, pulled up sore after training during the week and West Coast has decided not to risk him on the trip east.
West Coast took Chad Morrison and Kane Munro as its emergencies, and will decide which one will play just before the game.
The pocket dynamo has averaged nearly four goals a game this season, and West Coast assistant coach Peter Sumich, West Coast’s all-time leading scorer, said at the airport on Saturday that the midfield would need to improve on last week’s performance to compensate.
“No, he won’t play – he’s pulled up sore so he won’t travel today,” Sumich said.
“We’ll take Munro and Morrison and decide tomorrow who gets a guernsey.”
“We’ve got to make sure we look after Phillip – after yesterday’s training, he did most of it but he just pulled up a little bit sore, and we’ve got to make sure we look after him because it’s still a long season, and we don’t want him out for three four or five weeks.”
After last week’s poor scoring return from the midfield, Sumich said the chance was there for the other forwards to show what they could do.
“It probably gives them an opportunity, I suppose that because Phillip’s been going that well that (David) Haynes, (Ashley) Sampi and probably (Daniel) Chick back into the side, maybe going up forward, could help them to … and you’ve got Jako (Glen Jakovich) - all those players up forward have got to stand up now.”
