Emerging Gold Coast star Noah Anderson is assured that even with out the injured Touk Miller, the Suns can take down the AFL’s midfield “standard” bearers in Saturday night time’s QClash on the Gabba.
The engine-room battle is about to show essential within the Suns’ bid to finish a run of eight straight losses to the Brisbane Lions.
“Brisbane will be a great test for our group,” Anderson advised SEN’s Pat and Healsshow.
“If we bring the right attitude and our game plan, the result will take care of itself.
“We’re going to back ourselves in that our game plan’s going to work.”
Many doubted the Suns might recuperate after shedding talisman and midfield normal Miller to a critical knee damage.
But in Miller’s absence, Anderson and fellow younger gun Matt Rowell have stepped up in an enormous method.
“It’s a real growing point for us a group,” Anderson mentioned.
“In the past … if we lost a few of our top players, then we might have struggled a little bit, but it’s a real reflection of where the group’s at that we’ve lost Touk … and we’ve still provided good results.”
Anderson was trying ahead to testing himself in opposition to a Lions midfield which included famous person Lachie Neale, prized low season recruits Josh Dunkley and Will Ashcroft, Hugh McCluggage and Jarrod Berry.
“They’re probably the standard for the league at the moment,” he mentioned.
“For our relatively young midfield group, it will be a great test, but we’re also excited to play and test ourselves against the best.”
Lions coach Chris Fagan mentioned he wasn’t shocked Anderson and Rowell had lifted in Miller’s absence.
“That often happens when young blokes are given a little more responsibility,” Fagan mentioned.
“When I saw Touk get injured, I wondered if that would be the case and that’s proven to be.
“Rowell and Anderson are just great players at getting their hands on the ball first. That’s the big challenge this week.
“We’ve got a pretty good midfield, too. It’ll be a great challenge for us and a great challenge for them.
“Our guys are natural competitors in the midfield, so they’ll want to do well in there.”
Anderson mentioned there was nice “belief” within the Gold Coast camp that the Suns, who’ve gained three of their previous 4 matches, cannot solely beat the Lions within the Sir Doug Nicholls Round, but additionally attain the finals for the primary time within the membership’s historical past.
“The start of the year didn’t go the way we would have wanted it to, but we made a few little tweaks and changes and feel like we’ve had a pretty consistent past four or five weeks,” the second decide within the 2019 AFL draft mentioned.
“The belief’s definitely there and it was there heading into this year. We really feel like we can win any game we go into.”
Originally printed as Gold Coast Suns star Noah Anderson ‘excited’ to tackle good Brisbane midfield
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
