WITH a big chance in front of him, Townsville schoolboy Matt Symes plans to take his starting opportunity with the Northern Fury this evening in both hands.
Fury player/coach Gareth Edds will hand Symes his first start for the senior team against Palm Beach on the Gold Coast as a reward for consistently good efforts in training all year and performances with the Fury's under-18 side.
Symes, 16, came on last week and played the last 20 minutes in the 3-0 win against the Queensland Academy of Sport as a substitute for Burrows, and was called upon to play out from the back and make a save.
Burrows, 18, has been solid between the sticks this year in his 16 games for the Fury, keeping three clean sheets, but Edds said he was going to give his other keepers the chance to play with just six games left in the season.
"Matty's going to play 90 minutes and he's going to have an opportunity to go there and perform and see how he goes," Edds said.
"It's a good chance against a good team. Brad has done terrific in his work and in the last two games kept clean sheets, and I know where Brad's at now but we've got to give opportunities to other players."
Edds said the 'keeper switch had nothing to do with form and that he had plenty of confidence that Symes would be able to do the job against the Gold Coast side.
"In training and in the under-18s he's been terrific and he's been working really hard," Edds said.
"He's done it all season, so players who are putting those efforts in need to be rewarded from time to time. I'm going to reward him with a start and he deserves it."
The Ignatius Park College Year 12 student said he was excited to make his debut and was looking to continue Burrows' good work and claim another clean sheet in hopefully another Fury win.
Symes said he wasn't expecting to come on as a substitute last week, but he relished the chance after Reyze Kelly's goal.
"When it was 2-0, Gareth said that I'd be going on, so I was pretty excited about that and really hoping we'd find that third goal," he said. "I was just focused on going out there and continuing the team and play well, I didn't want to stuff up the 3-0 lead."
While he expects some nerves this afternoon, Symes said he wouldn't let it change the way he played and intended to make the most of the chance.
"(My coach) he told me to go out there and play the way I usually play and he wouldn't be putting me there if he wasn't confident in me," he said.
Source: http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2013/07/13/385441_sport.html
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