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johnfromtheVAFA said:
Well buddy unless you can say you have worn the boots in any standard of ammos mate you cannot come up with comments like that, no player prances around. Yeah sitting in a great position hopefully you can stay there lets see how long it last when you play full strength riddel and romsey come finals. It is only june dont get ahead of yourself. Funny how players struggle to get close to a game in the ones at a d2 ammos side but then are walk up starters in RDFl....:eek: They were dud footballers who needed to go to a dud club to get a game. simple as that
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thanks john - ur obviously a rupo fan with a comeback like that - im not from sunbury you twit - if u read again im from kilmore and we played an ammos side back in march for a prac match and they are soft - like the rest of the ammo sides - u all rely on fitness to win you games of footy - but when u play a hard side (obviously not in the ammo league) you dont know what to do to win the footy!!! ahh good luck to sunbury - great to see them knocking off good sides - and romsey were full strength - so why dont u make some educated judgements before u next make urself look like a tool!!!
 
This thread is full on! Nothing wrong with a bit of banta boys, it's what makes footy so enjoyable...What i would do to throw on the leathers again (sighs).
Anyway just a bit of unbias input from me an ex ammo's players, father of a senior diggers player, and friend of many faces at rupo.

The fact that you are calling the ammo's soft is extreme to say the least, i played there for 10 years and soft is not a word i would describe it in my vocabulary.

First off lets start by defining:
-Tough football
-Soft football
(i would like to hear your opinions)

Tough is not hitting a bloke behind play, nor is it running through an easy target! Its taking a hit for your mates, standing there knowing whats coming but not moving an inch...THAT'S TOUGH BOYS!!!

Your requests for a pre season comp is great, and i would vote in favor of it, but lets be honest here guys, rupo is far better than any side in the rdfl (and it hurts me to back rupo over the borough). Their sources for players outweighs the rdfl and it would show on the scoreboard. Oh and i dont think for a minute rupo are soft, maybe monash are but all leagues have their softer and harder sides.

Back to the rdfl, keep this thread kicking!!! im gonna continue to back diggers for the flag, i think riddell is a big threat and there is a lot of hype ova the kangas, but nothing behind it.
 

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Thats_Special said:
Burlak played VFL if im correct, think he was either at Coburg or Werribee... Cant remember which though.
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In 2005 Steve Burlak played two matches for Lancefield and the rest for Werribee reserves.

At the start of 2006 he moved to Coburg, and was still on Lancefield's squad if Coburg had a bye.

Unfortunately, Kev Fitzgerald (Romsey coach), encouraged him to quit VFL and play for the Redbacks.
 
OldMelburnian28 said:
Back to the rdfl, keep this thread kicking!!! im gonna continue to back diggers for the flag, i think riddell is a big threat and there is a lot of hype ova the kangas, but nothing behind it.
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Coming up to the halfway mark what are ppl's thoughts on each side...?

Diggers are clear favorites at the moment, they are 7-1 and a game clear on top, could possibly be 2 after this week... Sims has been in great form and is a great leader, possibly the best captain in the competition. Arnel Davis and Chris Payne have created an avenue to goal which was always going to be the greatest concern to the Burra...
Should continue on thier winning ways in the 2nd half of the season, and should hold top spot, but will lose a total of 3-4 for the season.
Regular Season Finish - 1st
B&F Prediction - Steve Ruane

Riddell is the obvious threat, Diggers beat them by a couple of goals, with No Lee James and are a game behind after a loss to the Kangaroos last week. James has played only 3 games yet has kicked 23 goals in those 3 showing his importance to this side. Leigh Harrison has stepped up a little in his absence but Riddell need James to be more dangerous. Heath Wadden has been superb so far and possibly the Bombers best along with Bellville and Captain Jason Allen. Riddell have the players and should finish top 3 quite comfortably.
Regular Season Finish - 2
B&F Prediction - Heath Wadden

Romsey started the year slowly against Centrals after being a predicted improver this year. Recruit Matty McClellan has had a superb start to the year and would be a Bowen Medal favorite, add to that the recruiting of Steve Burlak, Burgess and the return of Brydon Morgan and playing Romsey would be a worry.. But the Redbacks have been disappointing. In the past 3 weeks they have lost to both the Kangaroos and Woodend and have put a top 3 finish in a bit of doubt.
Regular Season Finish - 3
B&F Prediction - Matt McClellan

Woodend/Hesket were the big recruiters over the off season, and expected to be the big improvers. The start of the season would have given them some hope after a narrow loss to Riddell, over the past 3 weeks the Hawks have had the coach quit, a loss to the Roos and a victory over Romsey, consistency is the problem at the moment but Woodend will continue to be a contender for the rest of the season. The loss of Brown could hurt.
Regular Season Finish - 5
B&F Prediction - Dale Cuinik

Melton Central had a huge start to the year, defeating one of the favorites in Romsey, since then Centrals have been up and down. A good win away against the Kangaroos was balanced by a loss away to Kilmore, Centrals will be in the fight for the last finals spot.
The loss of Corey Battye will hurt come the important games of the season though.
Regular Season Finish - 7
B&F Prediction - Tim Lyon

Kilmore have also been a little inconsistent this season, after pushing Diggers all the way at Diggers and a strong 15 point win over the Kangaroos the Blues were pummelled by Riddell before returning with a strong win over Lancefield. The midfield is the key to Kilmore, Robertson, since returning from injury has been the best every week, John Rowe, Trav Hede and Barton are important, as is the backline with Liam Clancy and Duffy being important to the Blues lineup. At home they have been very dangerous and again, will be fighting for the last couple of finals spots.
Regular Season Finish - 6
B&F Prediction - Matt Robertson

The Kangaroos started the season slowly after a win over Lancefield followed by losses to Diggers, Centrals and Kilmore.
In the past 3 weeks the Roos have showed that they will also be in the fight for the last 2 finals spots by defeating Romsey, Woodend and Riddell consecutively. The Roos will need to consolitdate over the coming weeks to put themselves into the top 5.
Regular Season Finish - 4
B&F Prediction - Mark McInerney

Lancefield, Macedon and Rockbank are out of the mix for the finals race now. The Tigers will need a massive 2nd half to the season to get close, but cant see it happening, both Macedon and Rockbank have improved on last year but so have most other sides in the competition which has made it hard for these sides, but Macedon will be a very good side in the next year or so with some very talented kids coming through...

Macedon to finish 8th, B&F Prediction - A.Christianssan
Lancefield to finish 9th, B&F Prediction - J.Tully
Rockbank to finish 10th, B&F Prediction - S.Woodroffe
 
a great round up of all clubs thanks for that mate im sure a lot of people will find it 2 be a very good analysis... cheers
 
goblues09 said:
thanks john - ur obviously a rupo fan with a comeback like that - im not from sunbury you twit - if u read again im from kilmore and we played an ammos side back in march for a prac match and they are soft - like the rest of the ammo sides - u all rely on fitness to win you games of footy - but when u play a hard side (obviously not in the ammo league) you dont know what to do to win the footy!!! ahh good luck to sunbury - great to see them knocking off good sides - and romsey were full strength - so why dont u make some educated judgements before u next make urself look like a tool!!!
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Couldnt care less where you come from buddy, my point was that you pleyed a side that wouldnt resemble the ammos and on there efforts you cant determine the standard of ammo from one practice match, and thats all it is mate a practice match. Try one against a section a side and then you will see that not all ammo sides prance around like monash pal. Educated judgements hey, romsey may of been full strength but i focussing on the Riddel "lee james" Bombers and that without their main man, the one man side is 8 goals down. The kangas are still to thump a side, shows with the percentage. So pull your head in and stop belittling a league with the assumption that everyone is soft because you played a c section side in a practice match. your a hick mate thats all it is running around for a kick side
 
johnfromtheVAFA said:
Well buddy unless you can say you have worn the boots in any standard of ammos mate you cannot come up with comments like that, no player prances around. Yeah sitting in a great position hopefully you can stay there lets see how long it last when you play full strength riddel and romsey come finals. It is only june dont get ahead of yourself. Funny how players struggle to get close to a game in the ones at a d2 ammos side but then are walk up starters in RDFl....:eek: They were dud footballers who needed to go to a dud club to get a game. simple as that
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Johnfromthevafa i think everyone is sick of all your blabbering. you talk nonesense and you dont even know all the full facts.
romsey did have a full side and Riddell had a nearly full side. yes they were without lee James but Riddell isn't a one man side. they still picked there best 22.
as for rupo who cant beat the bottom side who hasnt one a game. oh thats right you had injuries, big deal. just means you rely on a handfull of players. without them you would be hopeless is that right?

talking about full sides dont the kangas have about 25 on their injury list but still managed to beat Romsey woodend and riddell? grow up pal and go back to your own thread.

the kangas arnt getting ahead of themselves. far from it. for a start they havnt made finals before in their history of seniors.
there is still 7 sides fighting for that final 5 position.

talking about dud players your not talking about yourself are you pal.

ciao
 
Bit of a contradiction wouldn't you say johnfromthevafa? I read in the leader that the week before you suffered these injuries you thumped the only other undefeated side by 59 points. To come out the next week with only a handful of players out and get touched up BY A WINLESS SIDE ON THE BOTTOM is pitiful!!! How many players were out 22? If you didnt have more than half a side out these is no excuse for loosing to the bottom, and by such a margin. Goroos06 may be onto something here about rupo relying on individuals and lacking depth.
 

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thepurplepassion said:
Good spot Thats_Special

Is that the first time he has written for the RDFL?

I think what he says and what you say aren't too different anyway.

What do others think?
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Yeah, except he was a little vague on most sides apart from Kilmore and Lancefield, would have liked a little more in-depth on predictions and Key Players etc... But yeah.. Thats just me... :D
 
Thats_Special said:
Yeah, except he was a little vague on most sides apart from Kilmore and Lancefield, would have liked a little more in-depth on predictions and Key Players etc... But yeah.. Thats just me... :D
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Yeah I would have liked to have read about the reasons why Diggers are doing well and why Rockbank are so bad etc., but I think that because he writes for that area the readers wouldn't be too interested. Also if he went too in depth he would be taking up a full page on one article. But I'm biased also, he's a good mate of mine.
 
thepurplepassion said:
Yeah I would have liked to have read about the reasons why Diggers are doing well and why Rockbank are so bad etc., but I think that because he writes for that area the readers wouldn't be too interested. Also if he went too in depth he would be taking up a full page on one article. But I'm biased also, he's a good mate of mine.
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Agree, would be a full page article, but c'mon.. We deserve it...:thumbsu:

But you are right, I think he has stuck to his area's which is what he is probably supposed to do...

Still, wouldn't mind having a crack at it myself... Lol... Knocked mine up in ten mins... :D
 
thats special - great round up - very concise and pretty much spot on the money!! yes the RDFL one was very much kilmore and lancefield dominated - though from the free press im gathering he only gets to watch lancefield (as he plays 2s for them) n then us - unless there are sunday games - but what can ya do ay! we must check back later in the year to check how your predictions went - though im hoping kilmore can be one that is not on the money!!!
 
Thats_Special said:
Matt Nicholls mid season review on the RDFL website... Personally, I think mine is better :thumbsu: :cool:
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Have just browsed thru both and think Thats_Special could get a gig alongside Billy West at Kilmore easily. Much better break down of each RDFL club, but I suppose Pickles Nicholls is paid to focus on Kilmore and Lancefield within their circulation/market area.
 
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Diggers are clear favorites at the moment, they are 7-1 and a game clear on top, could possibly be 2 after this week... Sims has been in great form and is a great leader, possibly the best captain in the competition. Arnel Davis and Chris Payne have created an avenue to goal which was always going to be the greatest concern to the Burra...
Should continue on thier winning ways in the 2nd half of the season, and should hold top spot, but will lose a total of 3-4 for the season.
Regular Season Finish - 1st
B&F Prediction - Steve Ruane

Riddell is the obvious threat , Diggers beat them by a couple of goals without James
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Not under estimating the bombers but it was actually a 40 point win to Diggers with about 15 more scoring shots.Diggers had 90% of the ball that day.Vital for the bombers that James comes back fully fit as they seem to find another gear when he is playing.Heard alot about injuries etc on this board but people forget that the top 2 sides have some handy outs themselves.James is a massive loss for the bombers and Diggers currently have 16 out at the moment with 10 of them having played seniors this year.Some pretty handy outs amongst that list including Heriatge (arguably there best player).Point is that teams just have to learn to cope with injuries and not fall back on them.Pleasing thing for the roos with there current run of wins is that they have done at a time that they were struggling with injuries.Will make them stronger in the long run.
 

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Dasher_23 said:
Not under estimating the bombers but it was actually a 40 point win to Diggers with about 15 more scoring shots.Diggers had 90% of the ball that day.Vital for the bombers that James comes back fully fit as they seem to find another gear when he is playing.Heard alot about injuries etc on this board but people forget that the top 2 sides have some handy outs themselves.James is a massive loss for the bombers and Diggers currently have 16 out at the moment with 10 of them having played seniors this year.Some pretty handy outs amongst that list including Heriatge (arguably there best player).Point is that teams just have to learn to cope with injuries and not fall back on them.Pleasing thing for the roos with there current run of wins is that they have done at a time that they were struggling with injuries.Will make them stronger in the long run.
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Agree... Every club has their problems with injuries, no doubt, and the Diggers list over the past few weeks has been not good, Heritage, Laurie, Marchewka and others have been certainly big losses for the Burra, the key thing for all these sides is the capacity to cover these losses, the Burra have been able to, as have the Roos, there is no point saying that the reason you missed finals is you had too many injuries, nobody is going to care come September....
 
i've had enough of all the people on here complaining about the amount of injuries their club has suffered. To say a team has 16 injuried players who would affect the outcome of a game is ridiculous. Not all of those 16 players are 1's players, maybe a handful are and another couple may be fringe players but to include all 16 is a joke and belittles your teams performance.

Sunbury Kangaroos as if you have 20 injured players that would be deserving of a game in the ones. The 22 that you have got starting at the moment - bar a few exceptions - aren't deserving of a senior game let alone another 20. Pull your head in boys!
 
footy_nerd said:
i've had enough of all the people on here complaining about the amount of injuries their club has suffered. To say a team has 16 injuried players who would affect the outcome of a game is ridiculous. Not all of those 16 players are 1's players, maybe a handful are and another couple may be fringe players but to include all 16 is a joke and belittles your teams performance.

Sunbury Kangaroos as if you have 20 injured players that would be deserving of a game in the ones. The 22 that you have got starting at the moment - bar a few exceptions - aren't deserving of a senior game let alone another 20. Pull your head in boys!
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Well........ Thankyou Captain Obvious....

Gee, they breed em bright in Rupo land.... Hold on a second... Im sure I read alot of the posts on the Ammo thread that said Rupo lost because they had all these injuries... Amazing how the opinion changes from thread to thread...

Oh well, suppose we really couldn't expect anything intelligent to come from there... Good to see stupidity still outweighs intelligence..
 
footy_nerd said:
i've had enough of all the people on here complaining about the amount of injuries their club has suffered. To say a team has 16 injuried players who would affect the outcome of a game is ridiculous. Not all of those 16 players are 1's players, maybe a handful are and another couple may be fringe players but to include all 16 is a joke and belittles your teams performance.

Sunbury Kangaroos as if you have 20 injured players that would be deserving of a game in the ones. The 22 that you have got starting at the moment - bar a few exceptions - aren't deserving of a senior game let alone another 20. Pull your head in boys!
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ive had enough of gits like you bagging the crap out of people from the RDFL. especially the Kangas.
i agree with thatsspecial, you guys at rupo said that the reason you lost is because you had players out injured. once again conflicting stories by yourself isnt it. but worst of all you lost to the bottom side who hasnt won a game. bit of a crisis meeting now at rupo is there?????
first of all yes we have injuries but we still manage to win games. funny how that happens isnt it pal.
so why dont you pull your head in and go back to your own thread you worthless piece of s#@t.
 
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