City V Country Ii

[Captain Sensible]

Here is the best of the country boys. All have been either drafted from the country, recruited from our old country zone, or were recruited from the bush some other way. Stack it up against the local boys team and see what you think.

BACKS: Terry Wheeler, Herb Henderson, Rick Kennedy

HALF BACKS: Nathan Brown, Chris Grant, Matthew Croft

CENTRES: Steve Wallis, Leon Cameron, Neil Cordy

HALF FORWARDS: Geoff Jennings, Kelvin Templeton, Don Ross

FORWARDS: Jim Edmond, Bernie Quinlan, Norm Ware

RUCKS: Barry Round, Ian Dunstan, Brian Royal

INTERCHANGE: Barry Standfield, Ian Morrison, Brian Cordy, John Schultz.

[K9-54]

Both are great sides LY.

Too hard to pick between them. It's a bit of a one era vs another question because the city players on average are a bit further back in our history. There's more players in the city side that I just didn't see. Only 4 in the country side that were before my time.

[Waltzing Woof Biscuit]

Agree with k9-54. A tremendous amount of talent in both sides, but have seen far less of the city side actually play. Still, in some ways, so what?? Others have, and the annals of Footscray's folklore can't be sneezed at. Players like Hickey, Morrison and Hopkins were obviously great players.

At a pinch I'd say that the city side may have the edge in sheer toughness - but the country side oozes class. Heck, I don't know!!! Who can predict a clash of the titans?

By the way LY, Round ahead of Schultz (or Ware) in first ruck for Country? Barry is beside himself with this, I'll bet!

[Captain Sensible]

Actually Barry is there for a couple of reasons. The first reason-and the official party line-is that Barry couldn't be left out, and the other two were more athletic, rounded type players. That is Barry could only play in the ruck, and Ware was a recognised goalkicker(Did you know that he once kicked 4.14 in a final-hit the post three times in the first quarter.)

The real reason however is that I was originally only going to select players out of our zone. The problem was numbers though. I could only come up with a limited amount of players that I could in all concience pick(otherwise players like A. Ford and N. Tivendale start bobbing up) So I altered the criteria to just players from the bush.

Schultz just got under my guard till the moment I was putting the side up on the board, I was tired and wanted to go to bed, and I'd already rejigged the side many times to do blokes justice.

[Captain Sensible]

BTW-Maybe being a local I'm biased, but I reckon the local boys would beat the country boys. For one thing they've got Whitten. They also seem to have more players with that bit of 'mongrel' in them. The country boys have some spectacular, tall players but what about the on-ball division for the locals?
The big problem is height in defence(sound familiar) With only Sandilands a genuine tall defender in the starting line up. Still Merrington, McGhie, Welsh, Darcy and Kretiuk are on the bench and Jack Collins played for Victoria at CHB.

[Waltzing Woof Biscuit]

LOL. I can imagine the scenario:

LY's wife: Come to bed LY. It's 2.00am, you've got an early start, you've fallen asleep at the computer twice, and the bags under your eyes are starting to form their own bags.

LY: I...I...just can't dear....I just can't...bring myself to include Alistair Ford in this team....must...stay...awake...

LY then walks to kitchen to make coffee, but uses baby formula by mistake.


I'd personally stick Round on the bench for Schultz and use Barry as a pinch hitter - but your explanation is entirely honourable :)

[Captain Sensible]

Hmmmm...now that you mention it Waltzer, she did mention how much time I was wasting with my copy of 'Unleashed' working out the teams. :D