I wasnt expecting Drysdale to beat my team Queenscliff. I was hoping Otis was going to weave his magic, but we will have to wait another week.
Very disappointing. Almost, but not quite, as disappointing as Round 2 last season. Seems like the problem of a key forward to straighten them up hasn't been solved, all too reminiscent of early 2014 & 2015 when there was the mass exodus of quality forwards ( Mason, Grout, De Gois et al ) and last season after the debacle at Jurassic Park. Time to get on the blower to Canberra and get ' Big Mike ' to make a comeback....
Cheers. Trying to keep up with any info over here in South Australia is practically hopeless and most of my old sources from playing days have moved on, and I usually have to wait till my traditional mid year trip home to catch up with all the info. I noticed the #6 Guernsey has been reallocated so that would suggest Frenchy is n longer on the list. Big loss. Although having said that, looks like Cam Habgood put in a ripper on Saturday, as did the rest of the boys. Great win! Maybe Otis' magic has started already? Reminds me so much of how Johnny Farrell used to be able to get us up for games against the big teams back in the days when we had a mortgage on 9th spot. Looking forward to a big win this week, although it is a bit sad if it does happen with Port on the receiving end. I'd rather someone else cop it than our northern neighbour.
I know when they won last year they had to restock the bar 3 times and there was about 5 at training on tuesday
Hmm...as long as it doesn't get to the point where it resembles the Artificial Football League where there are more ' upsets ' than predictable results on a weekly basis, which leads one to form the opinion that the competition's integrity is severely compromised - or to be more blunt, non existent - and to pick apart everything that looks even remotely ' suss ' ( umpiring decisions, individual efforts, etc et al ) to back up that hypothesis as well as wondering if Gillon McLaughlin is actually Hansie Cronje in disguise. ( Apologies to all those yarpies out there.. )
I don't think we have anything to worry about, we'll win enough games to stay up, just like the 25 year bleak period from about 1980 thru 2005, we won enough games to stay off the bottom but never enough to get above 8th or 9th. So no kittens here just yet.
Bellarine is the second tier. At the end of this year if it all goes ahead, the bottom two GFL clubs will join the BFL and the bottom two BFL clubs will join the GDFL. After that it is promotion relegation where the top club goes up and the bottom drops down.
Cheers. Similar to the old VFA ( now the VFL ) then although as I recalled it restructured to admit 4 new clubs to make it 12 in each division just before I started playing at Werribee in 1984. By the way I meant no offence to your club - Sadly memories linger and you guys used to use us as percentage boost fodder back in my day and unfortunately too many of our games were marred by brawls. For some reason I just don't think we liked each other's aftershave.
No offence taken. Over the last 10 years I’ve developed a pretty thick skin when it comes to Newcomb. I’ve heard much worse than that.
Yes, I hear you, the 1980s and 1990s were like that for us. Only Winchelsea and St Leonards saved us from having the best stocked kitchen on the Peninsula.
