DARREN MONCRIEFF
Tuesday 13 March 2012
HE has the coolest name in football and Mo Motlop will need to keep all his cool as his focus returns once again to the Tiwi Bombers.
The first-year Nightcliff coach oversaw his team's defeat of brother Paul Motlop's Wanderers in the NTFL Premier League preliminary final by 52 points, 16.11 (107) to 7.13 (55), in Darwin on Saturday.
Motlop's thoughts now will be how to turn around a 104-point thumping of his team by the Bombers in the previous weekend's second semi-final.
"They will have to earn it off us," he said of the Tiwis post-match.
"We've got a lot of talent in our side and after a couple of bad games you ask (of them) a few questions.
"It's all about confidence on the day. It could have been that we were unsettled against the Bombers and they had already experienced a big finals campaign."
Both the Tigers and Tiwis will go into Saturday's grand final with several award-winners in their midst.
Nightcliff's Troy Coates has won this season's fairest-and-best, the league's Nichols Medal.
For the Bombers, Ross Tungatalum was voted as the Premier League's MVP and the league's leading goal-kicker Gerard Cunningham the ABC Player of the Year award.
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