With Issac Rodda, Izaia Perese and Liam Wright spending most of the season with the Reds, it was never going to be easy for Easts in 2017. The Tigers lost five matches by seven points or less this season, ending any hope of a finals appearance. However coach Anthony Connellan is confident a bigger Easts' side can be competitive in 2018. Overview with Anthony Connellan: “We missed the finals by two losses and lost five or so games by less than seven points. Quite a few of them were by three or four points, so that was the story of our season really,” Easts’ coach Anthony Connellan said. “It’s definitely a disappointing result for us. We had a clear goal going into the season to make the finals, so it’s disappointing to miss that by a couple of wins but at the end of the day, I don’t think we were travelling well enough to trouble the top three teams anyway by the end. “If we’re being honest, we probably got what we deserved this year. We had too many incon