Dream Team To Tag Vic Stars
Mark Williams can’t be serious can he? He is going to tag Victorian players in this game in order for them to win the game. It’s great that he is taking the game seriously but do we really need to see tagging? Who wants to see Chris Judd, Garry Ablett (if he plays) or Jimmy Bartel not get a kick because they are being harassed, scragged smashed by a tagger. I reckon tagging should be banned from this game and just let both teams go head to head.
“So there’s going to be some players playing run-with roles”
The passion the man brings to the table though in unquestionable! He hates Victoria and it shows, which is what you need to make these type of games great.
“The passion and strength of commitment the players have shown, the fact is they’re coming, and we’re coming to beat the Vics, without any doubt, and 80,000 people will be very disappointed to walk away and see they’re not as good as they think they are.”
Wounded Tiger, I must be unfashionable as well then because I am looking forward to this game as well, Chocko get rid of the taggers!!!!
If you want to take a look back at some old State of Origin vision and history then check out these articles I wrote a while ago.
AFL Football State of Origin – Part 1
AFL State of Origin Football Part 2 – EJ Whitten & Foss Williams Medalists
AFL State of Origin Football Part 3 – Graham Moss and Alex Jesaulenko Medal
AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match – My Final Line Up
OK here we go, as you may remember I jotted down my starting line up for the Victoria vs The Dream Team game a few weeks ago when the initial squads came out. There have been a lot of changes to that list because of injury and some with a few niggles that would rather have the week off, which is a shame.
So here is my final list and line up, all baring people pulling out later in the week, if that is the case then I will amend my side. Even though there have been a host of players pull out both teams look great on paper and it promises to be an entertaining game and one that you may never see again.
If you think you can do better then put in your team or just voice your opinion in the comments section below.
Victoria:
B: Darren Milburn, Matthew Scarlett , Campbell Brown
HB: Heath Shaw, T Croad , B Sewell
C: Adam Goodes, Jimmy Bartel, S Pendlebury
HF: Steve Johnson , Jonathan Brown(C), Ryan O’Keefe
F: Paul Chapman , Brendan Fevola, Daniel Bradshaw
FOLL: Josh Fraser, Chris Judd, Gary Ablett Jnr
I/C:
Brent Harvey (Nth Melb), Sam Mitchell (Haw) Nathan Foley (Rich), Luke Power (Bris), Jarryd Roughead, Joel Selwood, Brad Johnson (WB) Nick Dal Santo (St K), James Kelly (Geel), Robert Murphy (WB), T Simmonds, J. Waite
Dream Team
B: G Johncock, B Rutten, N Bassett,
HB: Peter Burgoyne, Craig Bolton, Joel Corey
C: Andrew McLeod, Kane Cornes, Adam Cooney
HF: Simon Goodwin, Matthew Pavlich, Matthew Richardson
F: Leon Davis, Lance Franklin, D Motlop
FOLL: Dean Cox, Shaun Burgoyne, Daniel Kerr
I/C:
Brett Kirk (Syd), Jamie Charman (Bris), Nathan Bock (Adel), , Brett Burton (Adelaide), Corey Enright (Geel), Darren Glass (WCE), Tadhg Kennelly (Syd), Cameron Mooney (Geel), Mathew Stokes (Geel), Luke McPharlin (Frem), Ryan Griffen (WB), D Cross,
GO VICS!!! – Stick it UP EM
AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match Squads Mark 2
Well the big Hall of Fame Tribute Match between Victoria and the Dream Team is on this weekend and here are the final squads for the game. I will be sitting down with my coaches hat on shortly to finallise what I reckon the line ups should be. Give it some thought and come up with your own starting line ups. You can view my initial line up here
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VICTORIA
J Brown (capt), G Ablett, J Bartel, D Bradshaw, C Brown, P Chapman, T Croad, N Dal Santo, B Fevola, N Foley, J Fraser, A Goodes, B Harvey, B Johnson, S Johnson, C Judd, J Kelly, D Milburn, S Mitchell, R Murphy, R O’Keefe, S Pendlebury, L Power, J Roughead, M Scarlett, J Selwood, B Sewell, H Shaw, T Simmonds, J Waite
DREAM TEAM
A McLeod (capt), N Bassett, N Bock, C Bolton, P Burgoyne, S Burgoyne, B Burton, J Charman, A Cooney, J Corey, K Cornes, D Cox, D Cross, L Davis, C Enright, L Franklin, D Glass, S Goodwin, R Griffen, G Johncock, T Kennelly, D Kerr, B Kirk, L McPharlin, C Mooney, D Motlop, M Pavlich, M Richardson, B Rutten, M Stokes
AFL Football Round 7 – That’s a Wrap! – Part 2
To a game that caused the most controversy of the round it was St Kilda who came away with the 4 points over a gallant Richmond Football Club who may have been robbed! The AFL has confirmed a time-keeping error cost Richmond 11 seconds of play during the dying sages of the game. Time-keepers failed to stop the clock late in the fourth quarter after a signal from umpire when Kelvin Moore hit the post in the dying minutes of the game. The Tigers losing the game by 4 points and it cam down to the last kick of the game when Jack Reiwoldt failed to make the distance.
The Tigers dominated play for most of the game and deserved to win the game and it was only their poor skills in the first half that kept The Saints in the game. Stephen Milne was back to his brilliant best, bagging seven goals in a match-winning performance and probably earning himself some Brownlow votes. Again the tall timber for the Saints failed to fire and Nick Reiwoldt left the ground with a medial ligament injury and may miss up to 2 months. It was a hard fought win for the Saints and their supporters and coaching staff would be taking a big sigh of relief after their less than impressive start to the season. Once again Matthew Richardson was the star for the Tigers kicking 5 goals and getting plenty of it and Nathan Brown also hit some form. Disappointing for the Tiger and their supporters but they must keep the faith as they are starting to show some very good signs don’t you think Wounded Tiger?
AFL Round 7 – That’s a Wrap!
Well what an amazing weekend of AFL Football! First of all to a game that I turned off at half time. The Demons were 8 goals down at half time and not a single person in the world would have thought they could have staged one pf the biggest comebacks in their history.
Melbourne were absolutely shocking in the first half and were subsequently booed by sections of the crowd, all 10 of them, at half time as they walked form the ground, they amazingly won 17.17 (119) to 15.23 (113). I think The Dockers may have just taken a bit of heat and media pressure off the West Coast Eagles after that second half performance. Brad Miller and small forwards Austin Wonaeamirri and Aaron Davey were the play makers that won Melbourne the game in the second half and played some inspiring football. Davey especially showed what he can do by kicking two freakish goals in the 3rd quarter. They then went on to kick an astounding 9 goals in the last quarter to run away winners and bring up their first win for the year.
Skipper Mathew Pavlich again lead from the front with 5 goals and Rhyse Palmer showed what a talent he is and will be a super player in this competition. Chris Tarrant also deserves a mention and I thought he was actually quite good in the first half but fell away with the rest of the team in the second half.
AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match
Well I guess this was bound to happen , but I was hoping that it wouldn’t. What am I on about? I am on about the growing list on injuries that will keep “star” players out and also the Clubs waiting to see what others are doing in regards to withdrawing players.
There are a host of players who are really injured and already Dustin Fletcher, Nigel Lappin, Luke Hodge are out of the Victorian line up while Hille, Brad Johnson, David Wirrpanda, Jonathon Brown, Garry Ablett in doubt. While for the Dream Team Chad Cornes, Alywn Davey, Simon Black, Chance Bateman and Adam Hunter are out and Shaun Burgoyne, Dean Cox, Tom Harley, Ben Rutten, Tadhg Kennelly and Darren Glass have got “niggles” that may keep them out. I just hope that the AFL have a consistant stance on players that are pulling out because they are better off having a rest.
The Clubs are hedging their bets at the moment to see how the others are handling these issues. There are already reports out of Adelaide that Port Adelaide players are putting the Club before the Hall of Fame Tribute Match, which is fair enough I guess, but if they are right to play and would be playing if their club was playing then in my opinion they SHOULD be playing in this game, full stop! There are a lot of people looking forward to this contest and is one that you may never see again and it is quickly becoming like other State of Origin games where players, if they have little niggles are going to pull out. You wouldn’t have seen players like Garry Hocking or Robert Harvey pulling out because they had the sniffles.
Don’t get me wrong most of these guys that are out have genuine injuries but it is the ones that have little niggles that would play if their club was playing but will not play in this game that give me the s**ts.
The final squads will be announced on Sunday Night after the Port Adelaide v Essendon game and I have already chosen my first team based on the initial squads and my final team will be coming during the week. Get involved and give me your thoughts on the team and even put in your own team.
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The Bogies
I was reading through the Herald Sun yesterday and came across “The Pulse” section written by Daryl Timms. This week the page was dedicated to “The Bogies” (instead of Logies). He cam up with a few award winners from the start of the AFL Football Season. I thought I would pop a few of the good ones up here for people to have a look (and laugh) at. If you have any of your own then post a comment.
GOLD BOGIE – Sydney Coach Paul Roos for sustained excellence. Who can forget the “don’t kick a goal” fiasco and also the recent 19th man situation.
SILVER BOGIE – Brian Lake His hamstring injury will be a feature in the next edition of the Medical Journal.
Best Acting Performance – The Winner is Brian Lake again for the same incident. I reckon a more deserving winner would have been Adam Hunter when he fell over when Barry Hall pushed him in the chest after smacking Brent Staker.
AFL Football Round 7 Preview – Part 2
Well no one can argue that the Saints are in a bit of a rut at the moment and this week they come up against a Richmond side that is full of confidence. There is not change for The Tigers and for the Saints they have included Gehrig, M.Gardiner and Schneider and left out Rix, L.Fisher and Blake. The inclusion of Gehrig surprises me as he has not done much in the VFL to warrant a call up but then again this game is at the Telstra Dome.
Matthew Richardson has lead from the font for the Tigers and is a rejuvenated footballer after Terry Wallace has given him a bit more freedom to play up the ground. He looms as the key to the game and whether or not the Saints can curb his influence will go along way to deciding the game. Foley, Johnson and Tuck are going to need to work hard at stoppages and will be pitted against Ball, Hayes and Montagna. I always say this but The Saints forward line, on paper, is great but they just are not delivering at the moment and all of them need to pull their fingers out. Lenny Hayes has been their most consistent performer this year and is racking up the touches and tackles but he needs a few mates this week if they are to get over the line.
AFL Football Round 7 Preview – Part 1
A big inclusion this week for the Bombers as the Daniher name get to run around the park again. This time Darcy Daniher will make his debut for the Bombers. The Bombers have lef tout Fletcher (groin), Winderlich (groin), Ramanauskas (gastro), Reimers (foot) and brought in Daniher, Myers, Atkinson, Bellchambers, Hislop, Jetta, Neagle, Johnson.
For The Power Chad Cornes is the only out at the moment as the game in on Sunday and have brought in Gray, Lonie, Lower, Stewart. After a promising start to the season the Bombers are finding the going tough at the moment and the injuries they have sustained to their key players and also with Matthew Lloyd badly out of form things will be tough this week. The Power on the other hand started poorly and are now gaining a bit of momentum and have been good over the past 2 weeks. Fletcher out is a MASSIVE blow for the Bombers. Kane Cornes is in great touch and Tredders is in some good form.
Judd To Return To Perth
Friday Night Football this week sees the Carlton Football Club make the dreaded trip over to Perth to take on the West Coast Eagles who along with Melbourne have given the season away. Well at least they should have anyway. It also sees the return of one of West Coast’s favorite sons Chris Judd.
I was reading an article the other day and West Coast Coach John Worsfold insinuated that Judd lacked the defensive side of his game and that maybe they can put someone on him that can kick goals and hurt him the other way. Yeah Good one, they can’t even kick goals when they are not tagging let alone tagging the best in the business. Carlton Coach Brett Ratten has made it clear that the Blues players will be behind Chris Judd 100% in what promises to be an interesting encounter.
“Players will probably get into him and give him a mouthful and a hit here [or there], but we’ll support Chris 100 per cent. We’ll make sure he has a good return back to Perth,”
Making things worse for the Eagles Daniel Kerr is out, thanks to that “accidental” head butt on Scott West, Dean Cox in doubt with his foot but rumors are that he will play, Shannon Hurn to miss a month, Adam Hunter has bone bruising to his left knee and will miss this week and maybe 5 more. So the Eagles are certainly struggling in the injury department.
