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Wests player Rei Nozaki rounds on the ball in his team’s 2nd Division clash with the Panthers; Wests went on to come out with a 2-1 win<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 17, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kingaroy team Gunners will play against Nanango’s Panthers at the Burnett Street Soccer Fields this Saturday, and it may turn into a pivotal match for both sides.<\/p>\n

Last week Gunners 1st Division squad enjoyed a 6-nil win against Barambah, which was an improvement over Gunners 2-all draw with Wests the week before.<\/p>\n

While the win against Barambah wasn’t entirely unexpected, given that most of the Bears’ squad had played in the 2nd Division game earlier the same day (where they beat Gunners 1-nil), the victory should help inspire the team.<\/p>\n

Gunners have temporarily lost two key players – Will Ambrose and Lachlan Hurt, who left for a soccer tour of Germany on Thursday and won’t be back until early July.<\/p>\n

So the rest of the team will need to ramp up their efforts in the next few rounds to make up for this.<\/p>\n

Nanango’s 1st Division side, for their part, delivered a blistering 6-2 thumping to Wests last Saturday which has kept Wests 1st Division side in the lower half of the ladder.<\/p>\n

This was partly to repay Wests for downing Panthers’ 2nd Division squad 2-1 earlier the same day, but mostly because the Panthers are once again shaping up as the team to beat in this year’s competition, following five unbroken years of premiership victories.<\/p>\n

The Panthers top draw team are certainly not invincible – Gunners defeated them the first time the two sides met this year – but they are no easybeats, either, downing Gunners the next two times both teams met.<\/p>\n

The aggressive, intimidatory style that has served the big cats so well since 2012 is something Gunners will have to shrug off if they want to gain ascendancy.<\/p>\n

Gunners coach Debbie Ovens believes ramping up the side’s attack is the best strategy, and she will be trying to encourage her players to go down this road.<\/p>\n

Panthers’ coach Lauren Mangan, for her part, will have little incentive to change the formula that has delivered the Panthers a seemingly unending stream over victories over the past five years, and seems set to do it again in 2017.<\/p>\n

Who’ll triumph at Nanango’s Burnett Street sports grounds this Saturday?<\/p>\n

Most of the smart money seems to be on the Panthers, but Gunners could well produce a surprise.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In last Saturday’s Women’s Division games, Barambah scored a 2-1 victory over the Gunnettes, and the lady Panthers defeated Wests 3-1.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Barambah’s victory was a morale booster for the team, which has had to endure a few losses this season.<\/p>\n

If they stay true to form, the Lady Bears tend to get better and better as the season progresses, and last year they wound up contesting the Grand Finals.<\/p>\n

But the clash was also a bit of a boost for the plucky Gunnettes, who have shown solid improvement this year after 2016’s bitterly disappointing results.<\/p>\n

The lady Panthers win against Wests was also one where both teams took something positive away from the encounter.<\/p>\n

The lady Panthers, for their part, continued to keep a firm grasp on the top of the Women’s Division league tale, pursuing a similar attacking, aggressive style to their men’s 1st Division squad.<\/p>\n

Wests, for their part, proved they were able to find a hole in the Panthers’ defence and hold their opponents down to a tight game where the margins between victory and defeat were fairly narrow.<\/p>\n

This weekend, it will be the Gunnettes turn to come up against the lady Panthers, while Wests will battle it out with the lady Bears.<\/p>\n

Here, the smart money is probably backing Panthers and Barambah … but again, Wests and Gunnettes could turn the tables and if they do, they will be very interesting matches to watch.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This Saturday’s Games:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In Nanango: Nanango v Gunners<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • 2nd Division – 12:30pm<\/li>\n
  • Women’s Division – 2:00pm<\/li>\n
  • 1st Division – 3:15pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    In Kingaroy: Wests v Barambah<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • 2nd Division – 2:00pm<\/li>\n
    • Women’s Division – 3:30pm<\/li>\n
    • 1st Division – 5:00pm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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