WIN, lose or draw on Sunday, the Queanbeyan Kangaroos have already rewritten the record books this season.
This weekend will see the Kangaroos contest grand finals in all three senior grades – the first time the club has ever achieved such a feat.
The Roos will meet traditional rivals the Queanbeyan Blues in both the first grade and reserve grade deciders while squaring off against Gungahlin for the under-18s division two title.
Combined with the fact the Kangaroos will be lining up in a fourth-straight first grade grand final, this generation of “Roo Dogs” as they’re known, has firmly established itself as the greatest in the club’s history.
Not bad for a club that, before its breakthrough premiership victory in 2009, had gone 25 long years without tasting grand final success.
But while it’s the players who’ll invariably occupy the grand final spotlight this weekend, spare a thought for those whose names won’t be listed on the team sheet but whose contributions have been no less significant.
“There’s a hell of a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes in order for a club to be as successful as we have been and we’ve only got a small committee to get things done,” Kangaroo Club general manager Leigh Kiely said.
“It’s not about attention or personal glory from our point of view, it’s the players who are up on stage. But it’s just a good feeling to come from a club that had struggled for many years to now be in the position we’re in.”
“There are a lot of other clubs who’d like their first-grade side to be playing in a fourth-straight grand final so that’s a bit of a feather in our caps.”
Source: http://www.queanbeyanage.com.au/story/1740297/kangaroos-aim-for-historic-finals-threepeat/?cs=1655
Topic: Queanbeyan Kangaroos aim for historic finals 'threepeat'
