WDFNL: Old Collegians’ Jacob Brooks after his 100th game

Watch: Old Collegians captain Jacob Brooks speaks to The Standard after winning in his 100th game for the club.

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00:00 Joined by Jacob Brooks, it's been almost two years since the club lost one at senior footy level.

00:07 Mate, what does that mean to you and obviously the boys after a pretty big win?

00:11 Yeah, it's huge. Probably means more to the volunteers and the supporters,

00:15 especially through last year we get beat every week but they kept coming, they kept supporting us.

00:20 You see the volunteers keep putting in the work during the week and that's probably what it means to me.

00:25 But just for the group I think we've had a pretty big pre-season compared to other years.

00:30 Sort of showed today I think.

00:32 Have you kind of felt like it has been building on field?

00:35 It's been something that you've obviously had a really promising first couple of weeks but did you feel like it was coming?

00:41 Yeah, definitely. I think the first two games we played really good footy but just not for long enough.

00:46 And against Marival and Ed and Pamua it sort of hurt us a bit but today I feel like it was more of a full game effort.

00:53 100 games for the club mate, obviously not a lot of wins in there at the moment but you starting to feel that tide's turning?

00:59 Yeah, definitely. I think sort of when I come into the senior sort of program it was pretty successful but I was sort of only young then.

01:06 But yeah, I think there's plenty of good young kids around and Joey obviously helps a lot.

01:11 Well, I was going to add, what has Joey kind of added to the group?

01:15 Obviously on field pretty dominant and obviously seems to be working really well with Ben.

01:21 Yeah, he's obviously massive on the field but just at training and that he sort of pushes us to be better.

01:26 He wants all of us to be better which is going to make us a better side so yeah, we've loved Joey.