Forth injured his knee in the first quarter of Saturday’s thriller and was subbed out not long after coming to the bench. 

Warriors coach Josh Reichman said he was unsure of the extent of the injury and would find out in the coming days whether the forward will be right for next Saturday’s second semi-final against Nirranda.

Despite the injury Reichman was pleased with how his side fought its way back to secure the victory.

The Warriors came out in the second half and kicked three goals to one to scrap a draw and send the final into overtime, where in the first five minutes they were able to score two twice thanks to majors from Izaac Dwyer and Alex Wallis. 

The playing coach said his side would take confidence from the come-from-behind victory when they face premiership favourites Nirranda next weekend.

“We will take a bit of belief knowing we can compete with the best,” Reichman said after the 8.16 (64) to 8.13 (61) victory.

“The chips were down in that first half and we managed to come away with a really gutsy win.”

The Warriors, kicking against the wind, outscored the reigning premiers by four points in the third quarter.

They kicked 2.2 to the Power’s 1.4 to set up their final term charge towards victory.

Reichman praised Alex Wallis, who returned to the Warriors side this week, for his efforts in the third quarter.

The forward kicked one goal and was influential around the ground to combine with late season recruit Izaac Dwyer and classy ex AFL-star Sam Dwyer to keep the Warriors in the hunt for the comeback victory. 

The third-year mentor said his side’s ability to drag itself back into the game was the also a key factor in the third quarter fightback.

“We just needed to make a contest in that third quarter. They were dictating the game through their set ups and used their spare players well,” Reichman said.

“We just wanted to knuckle in on the inside ball and winning there and see where it led us on the outside.”

Reichman said his side would learn plenty from how Kolora-Noorat restricted the Warriors, who kicked 1.9 with the wind, accuracy heading into their forward 50 in the last quarter.

“They put numbers back and it was a tricky wind to read when the ball comes in,” the key forward said.

“We didn’t use it as well as we wanted and we kept kicking it to their spare man and I think we will learn from that going forward and try to lower our eyes a bit more and try and hit the scoreboard that way.”

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