View Full Version : VFL: Geelong Vs Tasmania - Tom Lonergan return
catattack
15 Jun 2007, 00:25
Squads for this weekend's VFL clash...
Geelong vs. Tasmania
Sunday 17th June
Skilled Stadium (AFL C/R) at 9:50 AM
Geelong
B S. Hunt Lonergan Callan
HB J. Hunt Spencer D. Johnson
C Tenace Byrne Prismall
HF Gardiner Playfair Selwood
F Djerrkura Hawkins Grima
R Blake Kelly Byrnes
Int Hollmer Foss Thompson
Hogan Mumford Owen
Cheep West Gamble
Bedford Firman Davenport
Tasmania
B Whish-Wilson Carins McMahon
HB Geappen Hansen Street
C Ross Hall Collier
HF Thurley Warren Sharman
F O'Donohue Derbyshire Ryan
R Goldstein Koulouriotis Stephens
Int McDonald Careless Fielding
Moran Joseph Gilmour
C. Brown
Match preview on GFC site - Lonergan back to face Devils (http://www.gfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/3933/Default.aspx?newsId=45032)
Good luck Tommy :thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu::thumbsu:
CatmanForever
15 Jun 2007, 00:49
tenace and kelly named ....ah the games
catattack
15 Jun 2007, 14:50
The question has been asked why Phil Read is not back after his two match suspension...
Preview on GFC site for the Northern Bullants match two weeks ago... link (http://www.gfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/3933/Default.aspx?newsId=44327)
Geelong will be without Phil Read until round 17, after he accepted a two-match ban for rough conduct on Josh Thurgood in the Cats’ loss to Box Hill a fortnight ago.
Read was expected to play in the next two rounds before missing seven matches between rounds 10 and 16 due to work commitments.
sarah.13
15 Jun 2007, 15:30
The question has been asked why Phil Read is not back after his two match suspension...
Preview on GFC site for the Northern Bullants match two weeks ago... link (http://www.gfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/3933/Default.aspx?newsId=44327)
Geelong will be without Phil Read until round 17, after he accepted a two-match ban for rough conduct on Josh Thurgood in the Cats’ loss to Box Hill a fortnight ago.
Read was expected to play in the next two rounds before missing seven matches between rounds 10 and 16 due to work commitments.
Wow what a great pick up.Better off getting game time into the rookies.
The question has been asked why Phil Read is not back after his two match suspension...
I asked that question elsewhere ;)
Thanks for the answer
Wow what a great pick up.Better off getting game time into the rookies.
Sarah,it was always known he'd miss a large amount of the season due to work commitments.
Does anybody know what his job is ?
I asked that question elsewhere ;)
Thanks for the answer
Sarah,it was always known he'd miss a large amount of the season due to work commitments.
Does anybody know what his job is ?
Maybe he took that fluffer job that sam read out on the footy show last night :D
Ricketts
15 Jun 2007, 17:59
Curtain raiser, everyone get there to see Tom. :thumbsu:
Team Extreme
15 Jun 2007, 18:17
Good luck to lonners and why is Blake named?
grantyc77
15 Jun 2007, 18:22
Good luck to lonners and why is Blake named?
Doesn't mean much, tenace and Kelly are also named, just playing mind games with the lions, Thats what im assuming anyway.
catattack
15 Jun 2007, 18:38
Come on people.. this happens every week - how can you not see the correlation?
All players named on the AFL side's extended interchange bench are named in the VFL.
Why?
Because it is from those seven where four are selected for the AFL side on Friday, while the three others play VFL. When the AFL side is released on Thursday, the final decision on which of those seven will play AFL is not made, therefore any of the seven could be playing in the VFL.
If those seven are not named in the VFL side when it is released on Thursday - and subsequently are not named in the AFL squad on Friday - they cannot play in the VFL.
Tonycam*
16 Jun 2007, 00:45
Going to be worth going to the game very early to watch Tom , hope he really does well. I am sure he will.
Will also be good to see two of our old boys in action in Koula and Thurley for Tasmania.
moondog21
17 Jun 2007, 11:17
can anybody give me an update on progress scores from todays game goalkickers and also how lonergan and hawkins are going:thumbsu:
1/4 time
Geelong 3.3 . . .
Tasmania 1.1
Copernicus
17 Jun 2007, 13:13
Cats Claw has the score at 90-24 our way.
Can never find the bloody progress score website...
CatmanForever
17 Jun 2007, 13:30
2007 TRUenergy VFL Seniors
3/4 time
Geelong 3.3 5.5 11.9 . 75
Tasmania 1.1 2.2 3.4 . 22
moondog21
17 Jun 2007, 13:51
Cats Claw has the score at 90-24 our way.
Can never find the bloody progress score website...cheers thats a good win hope its not raining down there how did hawkins and lonergan go
9 Lives
17 Jun 2007, 14:10
Geelong 3.3 5.5 11.9 14.14 (98)
Tasmania 1.1 2.2 3.4 3.8 (26)
GOALS:
Geelong: Davenport 5 Hogan 2 Grima 2 Gardiner Playfair Hawkins Callan Gamble
Tasmania: Derbyshire Ryan Joseph
BEST:
Geelong: Davenport West Callan Hawkins Hunt Byrnes
Tasmania: Warren Moran Whish-Wilson Gilmour Stephens McDonald
REPORTED PLAYERS:
Geelong: Nil.
Tasmania: Nil.
Hood007
17 Jun 2007, 14:14
How did Lonergan go?
betchsta
17 Jun 2007, 15:29
Lonergan had seven kicks, three handballs and took five marks in the Cats' easy win as he played about 10 minutes a quarter.
How did Lonergan go?
Came on half way thru 2nd quarter, had a couple of marks and 3 or 4 kicks and looked pretty good. I'd had enough by half time, left my son at SS and went home to watch live on Cable.
Tough but great decision on my behalf.
haywood jablome
17 Jun 2007, 17:05
left my son at SS and went home to watch live on Cable.
:D Very funny mate.
crosby123
17 Jun 2007, 17:06
Hawkins listed in the best. How'd he go?
cats2rise
17 Jun 2007, 17:49
Well I'll take a stab and say he was good. :)
Anyone notice on the entry page to the Geelong forum that one website adopted the VFL score as the AFL score? According to them, our seniors won by 12 goals. :D
keen cats fella
17 Jun 2007, 18:13
I cant believe no one has made thread about this??
How did he play? does he look the part?
thanks
keen cats fella
17 Jun 2007, 18:14
How did he play? should be be in line for a recall soon?
also, how were others like J. Hunt, and for some of you out there, Matt Spencer lol!!
cats2rise
17 Jun 2007, 18:14
I can't believe you didnt notice that there are in fact about 4 threads on the VFL and Tom Lonergon.
cats2rise
17 Jun 2007, 18:15
Bloody hell look FOUR THREADS DOWN. There is one on the VFL.
keen cats fella
17 Jun 2007, 18:20
Bloody hell look FOUR THREADS DOWN. There is one on the VFL.
pipe down
SUPASTARR
17 Jun 2007, 18:24
Interesting to see Hawkins in the best, yet only kicked the one goal as a key forward.:confused:
keen cats fella
17 Jun 2007, 18:27
looks Cats2Rise.....
This is a friendly website, so settle a little.
Does it really matter to you that much that a thread is re-posted, if so, you need 2 spend a little less time on big footy, nothing against the site, but you cant get angry over things like this!!
i think that goes 4 everyone aswell!!
Cheshire Cat
17 Jun 2007, 18:28
Wow. Davenport really dominates at this level, when was he drafted?
cats2rise
17 Jun 2007, 18:29
No, i get annoyed when it is clear that there is a thread on the VFL which was 4 threads below this one.
Also, there is a sub-forum which has player talk in it.
Why start a thread for one question when there is 2 easy ways of finding the info you want without clogging up the forum? Its common sense.
Ricardo
17 Jun 2007, 18:30
Interesting to see Hawkins in the best, yet only kicked the one goal as a key forward.:confused:
He did very well for a big guy in the wet, terrible conditions.....he played quite well, his best VFL game for the year, picked the ball up well, handballed well, a solid performance.
cats2rise
17 Jun 2007, 18:34
How many games has he played in the VFL. He missed two weeks didn't he?
SUPASTARR
17 Jun 2007, 18:37
He did very well for a big guy in the wet, terrible conditions.....he played quite well, his best VFL game for the year, picked the ball up well, handballed well, a solid performance.
Cheers Ricardo. Thanks for the report:thumbsu:
Interesting to see Hawkins in the best, yet only kicked the one goal as a key forward.:confused:
I watched the 2nd half and in the last qtr he was across half forward.He set up a couple of goals [Charlie,Davenport] and Davenport should've kicked a 3rd set up by Hawkins.
How many games has he played in the VFL. He missed two weeks didn't he?
I think today was his 3rd VFL game
catattack
17 Jun 2007, 21:15
I think today was his 3rd VFL gameCorrect
Wow. Davenport really dominates at this level, when was he drafted?
Davenport was just one of our VFL players last year and he had a great season so he was rookied to the geelong list at the end of last season.
I think from memory he was late to afl and played more basketball in his teenage years??
Tommy the Cat
18 Jun 2007, 10:53
Lonergan returns to footy
8:41 PM Sun 17 June, 2007 | Back (javascript:history.go(-1);)
By Sam Lienert
AAP
GEELONG'S Tom Lonergan is a relieved man, as much for making it through the wave of public attention and well wishes that accompanied his football comeback as for making it through the game itself.
The 23-year-old Cats' big man played for Geelong's VFL side on Sunday, his first game since suffering a horrific injury while playing for the senior side in round 21 last season.
The injury, sustained in just his seventh senior game, required him to have a kidney removed and also be placed in an induced coma, making it a remarkable effort to return to the game.
But Lonergan himself downplayed the achievement, saying he was just relieved to have the milestone over.
"It's a big relief, just the build-up towards it has just been massive, everyone's just been ringing, I had to switch the phone off last night," he said.
"It's good to get it over and now I can just concentrate on getting some form."
His parents were part of the crowd cheering him on, along with Geelong's senior players, who turned up early enough to watch him in the curtain-raiser ahead of their match against Brisbane.
Geelong president Frank Costa was among those to laud Lonergan's bravery in returning to the football field.
"The courage that he has shown to play again and to do the work to get back on the field is an inspiration to everyone," Costa said.
"I was watching him running out before, taking marks, passing the ball, it's just a fantastic effort to get from where he was less than a year ago, when he was on death's door to where he was able to run out here at this level and perform."
But Lonergan himself said he did not consider it such an achievement.
"I think other people think it's a bigger achievement than I do," he said.
"I was just doing what I do, I didn't really think too much about it, although it was a pretty big deal."
He played the last half of each quarter, playing as a key forward and ended the game with five marks, 10 disposals and one behind, with some other shots failing to register a score.
Geelong won the match 14.14 (98) to 3.8 (26).
Lonergan said he had not felt any fear and there had been no nervous moments once he settled into the game.
"I was a bit nervous for a start before the game, but once I got out there I was sweet," he said.
"The first quarter I was a little bit nervous still, but during the game it just started to get easier and easier and I worked my way back into it."
He said once he got his hands on the ball for the first time it started to feel like any other game.
"Once you get out there your instincts take over and you just play the game and everything else goes out the window," he said.
Having been placed on the Cats' rookie list, he said he had no timeline on a possible senior return, with his main goal for this season simply to find some form in the VFL.
"The aim is for the first couple of weeks to just find my way around the footy ground and then hopefully build some form up like I was playing in the VFL last year and put my name up there," he said.
http://www.gfc.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=3933&newsId=45144
Hood007
18 Jun 2007, 12:12
Came on half way thru 2nd quarter, had a couple of marks and 3 or 4 kicks and looked pretty good. I'd had enough by half time, left my son at SS and went home to watch live on Cable.
Tough but great decision on my behalf.
No raincoat?
grenwolf2684
18 Jun 2007, 12:58
Tom kicked 1 goal and four points.
Five scoring shots in the conditions in Geelong sunday, pretty good. It was raining in the morning down our way.
Good result for Tom.
catattack
18 Jun 2007, 16:34
Another win for Cats (http://www.gfc.com.au/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/3933/Default.aspx?newsId=45170) - match report on GFC site.
catattack
19 Jun 2007, 14:03
The Cats' VFL side has the week off this week (schedualed bye).
The next match is against Williamstown at Skilled Stadium (curtain raiser) Saturday week.
Could very well be 1st Vs 2nd.. but most likely will be 2nd Vs 3rd.