MPNFL legend urges league bosses to schedule start date for 2020 season
Let’s get the show on the road...country footy legend Simon Goosey has strong feelings about what should happen with the local football season.
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Country football legend Simon Goosey says he’s had enough of the negative Nancies who have written off the season, declaring “let’s play”.
Goosey, who coaches Mornington in the MPNFL, is convinced local football will be played this season and has urged league bosses to show leadership by scheduling a start date.
“Oh mate, yeah, we’ll be playing — for sure,” he said.
“Mate, we’ll be playing. We don’t train for nothing. We are training to play.
“We go to 20s next week and then I think the Monday after that we go to competitive so we’re not doing that not to play.
“And if you read the mantra on the AFL, they want community football to play.”
Goosey says too many clubs have taken the “easy option” and given up hope.
“The easy option is to pull out and not have a season,” he said.
”The leagues that pull out and not have a season will go back five years because players will go to whatever league (is playing). You know what players are like, they just want to play the game.
“We love the game, so let’s play it.”
Goosey says, with restrictions starting to ease, there is plenty of time to fit in a season.
He’s been telling his Bulldogs players to prepare to play for premiership points.
“As a league we’ve got to show enough leadership to say we’re getting out there and starting,” he said.
“What are we waiting for?
“The NRL, people laughed at them. Who’s laughing now? They’re even going to have crowds.
“You’ve got more chance to win TattsLotto than you are of getting COVID-19. We’ve got to be sensible and work out what we can do.”
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Last season’s MPNFL Division 1 grand finalists Dromana and Sorrento have decided against resuming training until more information on the season emerges.
Goosey said: “Let’s get up and about. If we all sat on our hands we’d get nowhere.”