From Frankston Standand Leader
THE good news for Frankston is that it returns to home comforts this week.
The bad is that it hosts North Ballarat, the reigning premier and going along nicely at 3-1 as it constructs its title defence.
An upset victory over the Coburg Tigers in Round 2 gave the Dolphins heart and hope, but it fell to Geelong by 91 points the week after and, on Saturday, took a 105-point thrashing from the Northern Bullants at Visy Park.
"We only played one decent quarter of footy, the third," coach Simon Goosey said on Sunday.
"We held our structures and were prepared to work for each other. We need to be able to do that every quarter.
Sometimes as a young group we get ahead of ourselves. We're inexperienced and the more games we play the better we'll get. But we need to bring our A grade game every week.''
The Dolphins brought in another first-gamer in Matthew Cavedon.
Midfielders Luke Potts and Shane Hockey never gave it up, Russ Gabriel more than held his own in the ruck against quality opposition, and Michael Hibberd had 20 possessions in the second half.
There was a bizarre element to the day when the siren and emergency siren at Visy Park failed to fire.
With no other back-up available, a Frankston trainer's van was driven to the edge of the ground, between the Heroes and Legends stands, and timekeepers Michael Robinson (Dolphins) and Shane Harris (Bullants) sat in it and used the horn as the siren.
At half time of the reserves it was decided a Northern Bullants official's car had a louder horn so a swap was made.
