2nds 2018 Stand Alone VFL - Inaugural season over. Time for reviews.

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giantroo

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COBURG vs NORTH MELBOURNE – Sunday 1pm @ Piranha Park

[VFL website LIVE STREAM / VFL Live]



LAST ENCOUNTER

Never played.



FORM COMING IN

Coburg has faded out of each of its games, suffering big losses to the Casey Demons, Footscray and then the Box Hill Hawks. North Melbourne followed up its inaugural VFL win against the Northern Blues with a close loss to Frankston last week.



KEY QUESTIONS

Will Coburg take a leaf out of Frankston’s book? The Dolphins demonstrated what a young group can do when they apply themselves for a full four quarters in their 16-point triumph over the Kangaroos last week. While the Lions have proven competitive in their three losses, they’ve let opposition teams get too much of a run-on at times.

Will North Melbourne prove too tall? The Kangaroos will likely boast 206cm ruckman Braydon Preuss as well as Michael Close, Sam Durdin, Nick Larkey, Ben McKay and Tristan Xerri as tall attacking options. Preuss will take on Coburg captain Tom Goodwin in the middle, while Sean Gregory will have his hands full in defence.



HOME CLUB’S PERSPECTIVE

Coburg senior coach Leigh Adams on the lessons learnt from three big losses to start the season:

“It’s about our consistency and trying to do what we want to do for the full four quarters. We seem to stick to our structures or defend well in patches, but when we drop off it seems to be a fair drop off indeed. We don’t want to use (our generally young group) as an excuse, but a lot of our boys hadn’t played VFL footy before this year so we knew there were going to be some inconsistent efforts at times… We’ve had 11 debutants this year.”
 

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DaveyBoy123

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Am I missing someone? Going by the team sheet, I can only see 19 (the starting 18 + Preuss)... Maybe Jeffries comes in for a VFL player... Or they've already decided to draft Close in November!
 

Devington

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So happy this is being streamed. A real shame they don't stream all the games, if it's streamed online I can't see how it would be very cost prohibitive. Surely the AFL and VFL would get a big benefit from it? More exposure for unaffiliated teams to build support which will help with crowds/members and probably grassroots. Exposure to more commentators so we can improve on the shit we have.

At worst to make it affordable add an opt-in fee of $5 to the AFL membership to get year long access to your team? 15$ to view all team games, separate to memberships?

Considering their domination, I swear the AFL has become largely clueless as to how to cultivate fans and players. Lower leagues need exposure.
 
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