HE admits he was "very angry" at three-quarter-time, but when the final whistle sounded at Bob Roach Field on Saturday St Pat's coach Richard Sharp was a satisfied man.
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It was because his Saints found the structure he wanted to see in the final quarter of their men's Premier League Hockey Indigenous round match against Parkes to ice a 6-0 victory.
When the Saints kept their shape they were best able to capitalise on their dominance of possession against a young Parkes side which had seven players aged under 17.
"We've got plenty of speed, we've just got to match that with ball speed and smart structure," Sharp said.
"We got away from our structure in the third quarter and I got very angry, but we brought it back in there in the last quarter."
Six different Saints got their name on the scoresheet in the victory, which moves them 14 points clear of Parkes on the ladder.
Sharp's men also converted three of their five penalty corner plays for the contest and from another drew a penalty stroke.
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"We haven't put a lot of work into those [corners], I've kept it very simple for them and it's important for short corners I think that you keep it simple because you can complicate the hell out of it otherwise, I don't want to clutter their minds with too many things," he said.
"To have those different scorers, that's the game we want to play. We want to keep it open, we want to make sure that we've got space and that we use the right space as often as we can."
The Saints scored three times in the opening half, with Jaden Ekert's penalty stroke, Zac Sharp finding the mark from a penalty corner play and Brent Naylor blasting in a brilliant chest-high reserve effort.
As Parkes pulled players back behind the ball in the third quarter the Saints lost their shape, Lachie Howard's drag flick from a penalty corner the only addition the to score.
But more slick hockey came to close out the game with Riley Hanrahan and Tyler Willott both adding to the tally.
ST PAT'S 6 (Tyler Willott, Lachie Howard, Zac Sharp, Riley Hanrahan, Jaden Ekert, Brent Naylor) defeated PARKES 0
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