"It's much easier when the other team doesn't score!"

The thing about supercoach Geoff The Engineer Atkinson is his ability to make the deceptively simple thought a profound statement.

Without the Imposing Joey's keeping today the Taroona Pirates could not have played the free-flowing buildups that yielded a James The artist Cherry round one hat-trick and Ben The Bolter Wisby a welcome net on his return to the fold.

Supercoach Geoff was onto this early - he saw the team shake off the summer cobwebs and roll the Premiers in their first hit out for the year. Banished was the old Taroona - "here guys have a goal in the first thirty seconds" - game plan that led to the comeback scenarios that thrilled us in 2008.

Let's look forward to a great year.