The Vics Stuck It Right Up Em!
Update: I have included a highlights package at the end of this article.
The Victoria vs Dream Team Match certainly did not disappoint. A game that had star studded line ups, even with the host of players that withdrew was not only a great demonstration of Australian Rules Football but a thoroughly entertaining game. I wonder if Dave caught it on Setanta Sports?
Brendan Fevola, the Allan Aylet Medalist for best on ground, would have been rubbing his hands together with the standard of delivery into the forward line. Rarely did the Victorians miss a target going into the forward 50. Much was spoken about the big 4 forwards of the Dream Team and how the Victorians would struggle to match them up, but the Vics negated the clear possessions from the middle just enough to get over the line. You could tell that at no stage was the game over such was the quality of both sides at the speed at which both teams could score goals.
Classic match ups of Scarlett on Mooney, bragging rights go to Scarlett, Buddy Love on team mate Trent Croad, Buddy can gloat during the week at training there. It is quite scary to think how many goals Buddy could kick if someone could teach him how to kick straight. He is averaging 9 shots on goal a game at the moment!. Adam Goodes enjoyed the freedom of not being tagged heavily and Kane Cornes did a great job of not only negating Chris Judd but showed that he is not just a negative player by raking up the touches along the way. The Dream Team jumped out of the block kicking 5 of the first 6 goals and it looked up and about early, but the Vics then started to get some good footy out of the middle and the game started to turn in the favor of the Big V.
Andrew McLeoad lead from the front for the Dream Team and provided his customary dash from the back line, Matthew Pavlich and Matthew Richardson also were very good. Peter Burgoyne was the stand out though and just ran amok and collected touches at will, you could see that these type of players were relishing not being tagged as they normally would be in the home and away games. Nathan Foley was the surprise for me, he definitely did not look out of place and proved he can match it with the big boys on the big stage.
Now I need to make a comment on the TV Coverage on Channel 10. They tried a couple of new camera innovations, one of which was the camera on the field umpires. Besides them looking lie they were pregnant, I didn’t want to see the stubble on the cheek of the umpires, what about you?. And what about the pictures of when they were bouncing the ball! All you could see was the grass! There were a couple of new camera shots that could take off though, the one that was on the goal post was OK and the one that looked at the interchange area was good. What I was NOT IMPRESSED with was at the end of the game just after the players were swapping their jumpers, they went to an add break and never came back, instead the coverage of the Turkish Grand Prix started, meaning I along with all the other viewers missed all the Presentations! Shame on you Channel 10 Shame.
Now let’s get back to the real stuff this weekend and there are some great games coming up. SUBSCRIBE to the RSS Feed so you don’t miss any of the action.
Yawn!!
I am glad that is over..