Chazz M Michaels
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I think you'll find that St Kevin's is the cheapest school in the APS by a long way. Which goes some lengths to explain why their students seem to end up in the news more often than others.
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Apparently pipe bombs at Scotch are less newsworthy…….
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Just set fire to some hedges if you want lasting notoriety.
Mike Olotripo
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Collegians should win tomorrow and I have SKOB knocking Old Scotch out of the finals race on Sunday. SKOB have a good record in elimination finals and I think they will be tough to be beat with their better players like Jok and Kerr in particular hitting their straps at the right time of year.
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Coll to beat UB. I think we are a very good team
Skobs to beat OS. Skobs to strong and experienced.
Skobs to beat UB. They will be pretty much stuffed.
Coll to beat Skobs. Go back to my first line. Premiership players from last Prem. team think this team is even better
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This year is Collegians chance IMO, although SKOB won last years flag, it was unexpected with such a young list.
The stat in the flag team was 10 players under the age of 21, this year has been more challenging for them as it’s hard to keep the fire burning and teams pay a lot more attention to individual players.
I would suggest that regardless of the outcome of this years finals series, both SKOB and Old Scotch will be very hard to beat over the next several years. The SKOB premier under 19 team finished the home and away season on top of the ladder whilst the reserves will play finals.
Ditto for the Old Scotch reserves team.
Hopefully Uni Blues are cooked, they are a team of pensioners, and only on the way down from the summit over the next few years.
I admire Collegians for overcoming the adversity of the last decade and still persisting, good luck to them, I’d like to see them win the flag, except if they play SKOB
The stat in the flag team was 10 players under the age of 21, this year has been more challenging for them as it’s hard to keep the fire burning and teams pay a lot more attention to individual players.
I would suggest that regardless of the outcome of this years finals series, both SKOB and Old Scotch will be very hard to beat over the next several years. The SKOB premier under 19 team finished the home and away season on top of the ladder whilst the reserves will play finals.
Ditto for the Old Scotch reserves team.
Hopefully Uni Blues are cooked, they are a team of pensioners, and only on the way down from the summit over the next few years.
I admire Collegians for overcoming the adversity of the last decade and still persisting, good luck to them, I’d like to see them win the flag, except if they play SKOB
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This year is Collegians chance IMO, although SKOB won last years flag, it was unexpected with such a young list.
The stat in the flag team was 10 players under the age of 21, this year has been more challenging for them as it’s hard to keep the fire burning and teams pay a lot more attention to individual players.
I would suggest that regardless of the outcome of this years finals series, both SKOB and Old Scotch will be very hard to beat over the next several years. The SKOB premier under 19 team finished the home and away season on top of the ladder whilst the reserves will play finals.
Ditto for the Old Scotch reserves team.
Hopefully Uni Blues are cooked, they are a team of pensioners, and only on the way down from the summit over the next few years.
I admire Collegians for overcoming the adversity of the last decade and still persisting, good luck to them, I’d like to see them win the flag, except if they play SKOB
Good sumation Plats....Lets just prey to the Footy God that the wind desists at Elst Park.I think the deck will be pretty firm at this stage. But please...no wind.
Mike Olotripo
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Wind at Elsternwick Park, death and taxes, they are certainties in life FF!
WesleyAFL won in a classic. Pity not many saw it live
FWIW vafa is the NRL of Vic metro footy, no one goes but a lot of people give a sht about it. Shame
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It was a remarkable finish to the game where Collegians were 4 goals down with about 23 minutes gone in the last quarter and then managed to kick the last 4 goals and won by 2 points.
My scribes tell me there other VAFA finals today that were far better supported at local grounds
Also old mate Mounzer clearly gives a sh@t about it but couldn’t even find out who won?
It should be here once they have loaded it up: -
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To watch the Coll v Blues game you have to subscribe through a site...no VAFA vision on line.
Credit where credit is due. The ground was in magnificent condition, no wind (can you believe it) and sun was shining.
An incredible game and result. Im thinking more like 300 - 400 attended.
But true to form, VAFA management in their wisdom, failed to run a bar upstairs. Im thinking it was their call...but no bar.
Can they just get up to speed and meet with the Public's expectation....its 2023, and no prohibition.....
Mike Olotripo
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I was there on Saturday afternoon and I can attest that is a genuinely pulsating game of footy with lots of ebs and flows in momentum, but it was hardly a great crowd in anyone's view. There would've been no more than 400 people at the game, which was significantly dwarfed the size of yesterday's crowd for SKOB v Old Scotch.
As Flat Footy said, it was an unusual and uncharacteristically calm day at HQ with almost zero wind, when was the last time that happened in a final down at Elsternwick Park!
Collegians started like a bottle of milk left out in the sun and with blues having all the clearances thanks to Cordy's ruck craft and lethargy across the Collegians midfield, Grimley kicked 2 of the first 4 of the game and blues looked on their way. Luckily, halfway through the quarter Jared Rivers threw gun midfielder Viv Michie into the middle after he started forward and Collegians got on top in the middle and ended up only a goal down at 1/4 time after three goals including a long bomb from Mirra.
We seemed to play better in the second quarter and it genuinely looked like we were one or two goals away from breaking the game apart, but credit to blues they stuck with us.
We squandered plenty of easy goal kicking opportunities in the third quarter, blues took their chances and it was anyone's game at 3/4 time.
We started the last quarter like the first quarter and blues who I had totally dismissed pre-game looked like they were on their way to a grand final after Tom Young kicked one at the 15 minute mark of the last quarter to put them 24 points up, but credit to our boys, it wasn't our greatest day, but we took the moment when it came late on in the game. We got the ascendancy out of the middle and our ruck Ben Woodfull who Cordy had beaten most of the day started just thumping the ball forward for Ong, Michie and Hibbins to run onto.
Mirra kicked one after getting a free kick (Mirra and Cam O'Shea had a genuinely great battle during the day), then Pinchbeck nailed one from 45 out and September specialist Lachie Ferguson who just loves playing at Elsternwick Park in finals got one and it was game on.
Three cheers to the boundary umpire who paid us mark with a few minutes deep inside our forward 50 on the boundary line that was a good metre and a half over the boundary line, the resulting kick was a behind, but when a stray uni blues kick landed into the arms of Ben Woodfull we all held our collective breaths. Woodfull kicked one from 45 out on a slight angle and it went about a metre over the goal line and missed the post by about 30 centimetres, but it was just magnificent to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat like that.
Full credit to Uni Blues, they played a great game of footy and seem to have found a good insertion of pace into their midfield to complement their experienced bodies.
If we play like that again in two weeks it will not be pretty for our lads, so I hope they learn their lesson and bring some intensity from the first minute of the game and not just in spurts as that is what will destroy you in finals. Also, a big shoutout to Ormond junior Sam Sofronidis, if it wasn't for Soffa and his ability to take the game on with dare and risk a big defeat, there is almost zero chance we would have won that game on Saturday.
As Flat Footy said, it was an unusual and uncharacteristically calm day at HQ with almost zero wind, when was the last time that happened in a final down at Elsternwick Park!
Collegians started like a bottle of milk left out in the sun and with blues having all the clearances thanks to Cordy's ruck craft and lethargy across the Collegians midfield, Grimley kicked 2 of the first 4 of the game and blues looked on their way. Luckily, halfway through the quarter Jared Rivers threw gun midfielder Viv Michie into the middle after he started forward and Collegians got on top in the middle and ended up only a goal down at 1/4 time after three goals including a long bomb from Mirra.
We seemed to play better in the second quarter and it genuinely looked like we were one or two goals away from breaking the game apart, but credit to blues they stuck with us.
We squandered plenty of easy goal kicking opportunities in the third quarter, blues took their chances and it was anyone's game at 3/4 time.
We started the last quarter like the first quarter and blues who I had totally dismissed pre-game looked like they were on their way to a grand final after Tom Young kicked one at the 15 minute mark of the last quarter to put them 24 points up, but credit to our boys, it wasn't our greatest day, but we took the moment when it came late on in the game. We got the ascendancy out of the middle and our ruck Ben Woodfull who Cordy had beaten most of the day started just thumping the ball forward for Ong, Michie and Hibbins to run onto.
Mirra kicked one after getting a free kick (Mirra and Cam O'Shea had a genuinely great battle during the day), then Pinchbeck nailed one from 45 out and September specialist Lachie Ferguson who just loves playing at Elsternwick Park in finals got one and it was game on.
Three cheers to the boundary umpire who paid us mark with a few minutes deep inside our forward 50 on the boundary line that was a good metre and a half over the boundary line, the resulting kick was a behind, but when a stray uni blues kick landed into the arms of Ben Woodfull we all held our collective breaths. Woodfull kicked one from 45 out on a slight angle and it went about a metre over the goal line and missed the post by about 30 centimetres, but it was just magnificent to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat like that.
Full credit to Uni Blues, they played a great game of footy and seem to have found a good insertion of pace into their midfield to complement their experienced bodies.
If we play like that again in two weeks it will not be pretty for our lads, so I hope they learn their lesson and bring some intensity from the first minute of the game and not just in spurts as that is what will destroy you in finals. Also, a big shoutout to Ormond junior Sam Sofronidis, if it wasn't for Soffa and his ability to take the game on with dare and risk a big defeat, there is almost zero chance we would have won that game on Saturday.
Great summary Mike and well done
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Congratulations to the Lions. They has little to no luck in the finals last year and have been the best team across the year. Hope they go all the way, however if the real SKOBS turn up then watch out.
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If fans are going to any final at Elst Park and wish to celebrate/commiserate after the game up stairs, you had better BYO.
VAFA dont have a liquor license but OM's do........and I doubt they will be there. Can you believe that??
VAFA dont have a liquor license but OM's do........and I doubt they will be there. Can you believe that??
