Keifer Power will have plenty of familiar foes as he fights to keep Wagga City’s season alive in the Southern Inland elimination final on Saturday.
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The 24-year-old made the switch from Ag College this season, the team that stands in the way of the hopes of the Boiled Lollies at Exies Oval.
The New Zealander spent the last two seasons with Ag College before making the move to the Boiled Lollies but has enjoyed the move.
“I am loving it,” Power said.
“They are more my age group.”
After losing his first clash against his old club, Power got the better in the return and is looking to ensure he fires it the clash that matters the most.
“It will be good,” Power said. “A lot of them (Aggies) I haven’t played with, maybe a handful I have played with just because the team has changed so much, but they still have a couple of guns players.”
Wagga City have been forced to make plenty of changes to its forward pack in the last fortnight, and the centre expects that will be the key to the game.
“If our forwards turn up I think our backs will play pretty well off that,” Power said.
However he expects the team will miss James Newnian after he returned and forced a number of changes to the front row.
When the 24-year-old first moved to Wagga, coming across with his sister and her partner Pani Manuwatu to Southcity, he played rugby league but feels much more at home in the 15-man game he grew playing in Christchurch.
“It is different, but it is good,” Power said.
If our forwards turn up I think our backs will play pretty well off that.
- Wagga City's Keifer Power
“Being a New Zealander union is everything whereas over here it is pretty small.
“It isn’t what is back home as league and AFL are heaps bigger here.”