Isaac Sinnott enjoying life playing for Panmure again

Panmure has won four of its first six Warrnambool and District league games and is looking for another against a depleted Russells Creek this weekend.

Sinnott has been strong in each of those games, netting eight goals and three best player mentions including two best on grounds.

"It has been good fun and to get as few wins as well has been nice," he said. "We've dropped a couple of games but only by a couple of goals.

"Both games the team got a run on and banged a couple of quick goals. We led for most of those games but a 10-minute patch ended up costing us the game.

"If we hadn't switched off we could've won them both."

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Sinnott started his football career at Port Fairy when he lived in Yambuk before school mates brought him out to Panmure.

He played under 14s, including in a premiership, and then two years of under 17s before shifting to the Hampden league again to play under 16s and a couple of years of 18s for Koroit.

Sinnott's last full season at Koroit netted him two senior games in Chris McLaren's all-conquering senior side and a win in the Hampden league's Judd Cup, the best and fairest award for the 18.5s.

He enjoyed a stellar 2019 season in an undermanned Saints side, polling 22 votes to hold off Camperdown's Toby Kent.

The fourth-year Bryan and Petersen building apprentice played three games in 2020 before the Hampden league junior season was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Sinnott said mates and opportunity to play senior football for the Bulldogs drew him back.

The 19-year-old has been trying improve his kicking whilst playing in a midfield-forward role.

"I play mostly through the midfield and through the forward line as we have got a rotation going through there," he said.

"Paddy Mahony is one of the older lads directing us in there because me, Brad (Gedye) and Loui (Kew) are pretty young so he and 'Wombat' (Sam Mahony) have been helping us out."

The Warrnambool resident said he had a good work-football balance.

Sinnott said the coronavirus pandemic and last season's cancellation didn't impact his football too much.

"We played a few games then it got called off but I kept running, kept going for kicks and kept in touch with teammates but I didn't miss it too much," he said.

The Bulldogs enter the clash against the Creekers as favourites.

Chris Bant's side will be looking to bounce back after a disappointing narrow defeat to arch rivals Kolora-Noorat last weekend.

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