Another Ky percentage booster

Along with other dominant on-ballers Mick Mattingly, Jack Russell, Kaine Herbert and Mitch Googlioti and ruckmen Aidan Robinson and Zac Norris the Bombers overwhelmed their rivals with a relentless running game.

With noted goal-kicker Anthony Depasquale making his VFL debut for Werribee on Friday, Ironside stepped up in front of goals along with Zac Cerrone (four goals) Charlie Barnett (three) and Herbert, Zac Norris, Bohden Learmonth and Mattingly, all with two goals, to ensure United was under scoreboard pressure for most of the game.

Despite what the final scores may have suggested it wasn’t all one-way traffic with United never surrendering and at times unleashing some good link play to put the Kyabram defence under the pump.

Only for the efforts of Jake Parkinson, Jason Morgan and Brad Whitford, in his first for the season, and with help from young talents in Charlie Isaac and Angus Scoble, United, without any reliable go-to forwards, had to scrounge a lot of their goals.

Isaac, Scoble, Learmonth and Mitch Gugliotti, among the baby Bombers in this talented Kyabram team certainly aren’t overawed with the standard they are playing and will be a keen watch when the Bombers meet the powerhouses — Echuca and Shepparton — of the competition.

This Saturday the Bombers will start favourite to start the season with five successive wins when they host Mansfield.

But they won’t need to be complacent.

Mansfield was stopped in its tracks by Rochester last Saturday after an impressive start to the season, so will be extra keen to bounce back to regain some credibility.

Former skipper Josh Dillon will return to the Kyabram side for his first game for the season after suspension and another of the team’s young guns Archie Watt could also be ready to resume after missing the United clash.

My best for Kyabram were: Riley Ironside, Mick Mattingly, Aidan Robinson, Kaine Herbert, Jake Parkinson, Jack Russell, Mitch Gugliotti.

· Kyabram reserves were big winners again, thumping United by a neat 100 points to give their mind boggling percentage another hefty boost.

With six goals Will Wild again did the finishing off work of Cooper Fawcett, former senior coach Brad Edwards, Miller Griffiths, Brady Corso and Billy McLay who ensured the ball was in Kyabram’s forward half for a good portion of the game.

Apart from Wild, Bailey Pyke was a lively forward who kicked three goals along with Jarryd Pertzel, back with club this year.

This is a talented Kyabram side that will be hard to beat in any contest this season if it doesn’t let its guard down.

· Kyabram thirds played a tie with another of the competition’s unbeaten sides in a stirring duel.

But co-coach Peter Ryan was disappointed to only share the premiership points, citing a lack of pressure from his charges.

‘‘We just didn’t keep them under as much pressure as we would have liked,’’ Ryan said.

‘‘We really only got serious in the last 10 minutes after they (United) had a got away to a 14 points lead.’’

Jack Donaldson starred in defence for the young Bombers and got great support again from the ever reliabe Max Carroll.

Isaiah Scoble in the midfield and forward showed off his silky skills at times and kicked three vital goals.

Bottom aged player Tyler Doolan in the midfield and James Hargreaves on a forward flank continued his impressive start to the season.

Star players in Tyler Norman, Hamish Stewart, Charlie Isaac didn’t play so there is plenty of scope for improvement in this talented young Kyabam side.