Round 1

[blueboys1]

2007 TRUenergy VFL Reserves
Sandringham 3.3 8.9 10.11 12.15 (87)
Box Hill Hawks 9.4 13.6 16.12 20.14 (134)

BEST:
Sandringham: Gilchrist Zarra Monaghan McGettigan Gibb Martin
Box Hill Hawks: Osborne Roughead Marcius Allan McEntee Quinn

GOALS:
Sandringham: Zarra 4 Hughes 3 Gribbin Monaghan Hall Martin Tregear
Box Hill Hawks: Roughead 8 Bradshaw 3 Osborne 2 Johnson Thurgood Pollett Allan Marguccio Daniher McEntee

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Sandringham: S. Monaghan (Sandringham) for striking P. Hassett (box Hill Hawks) in the 3rd quarter.
Box Hill Hawks: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Reserves
Casey Scorpions 3.4 6.8 11.10 14.17 (101)
North Ballarat 3.9 7.12 14.16 17.20 (122)

BEST:
Casey Scorpions: Parker Frost Youle Rosier O'Bryan Raymond
North Ballarat: Peace Head Taylor Lower Hughes Schultz

GOALS:
Casey Scorpions: O'Bryan 2 Florance 2 Wood 2 Jones Attenborough Taylor Lees Frost Carmody Raymond Geary
North Ballarat: Chester 3 Hughes 3 Hartigan 2 McHugh 2 Doyle 2 Burchell Horbury George Peace Anderson

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Casey Scorpions: Nil
North Ballarat: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Reserves
Williamstown 5.1 7.4 11.10 14.12 (96)
Werribee 2.1 5.5 8.8 14.12 (96)

BEST:
Williamstown: Crawford Beaumont Stanley Grossman Boyd Lyons
Werribee: Harbrow Thompson West Rockefeller Tiller Thompson

GOALS:
Williamstown: Beaumont 3 Crawford 3 Darvell 2 Boyd 2 MacAffer Keddell Lockwood Clark
Werribee: Tiller 5 West 5 Harbrow 2 Penny Twomey

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Williamstown: Nil
Werribee: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Reserves
Frankston 3.2 4.3 8.4 12.7 (79)
Port Melbourne 3.2 4.5 11.10 14.12 (96)

BEST:
Frankston: Murray Manson Bosward Carpenter Dickson Dunne
Port Melbourne: Carroll Thomas Cain deBruin Nayna Plymin

GOALS:
Frankston: Murray 7 Dickson 2 George Reddaway Manson
Port Melbourne: Gilham 6 Kelly 2 Cain 2 Plymin Francis Bloomfield Bekker

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Frankston: Nil
Port Melbourne: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Reserves
Coburg Tigers 2.5 6.12 16.16 22.17 (149)
Northern Bullants 2.1 6.2 7.3 10.5 (65)

BEST:
Coburg Tigers: Sewell Corr Anderson Caruso Dagher Hopkins
Northern Bullants: Micevski Perry Colbert Morgan Siciliano Bannister

GOALS:
Coburg Tigers: Dagher 8 Caruso 3 Mullins 2 Farrelly Anderson Gill Liddle Currie Corr Carrick Vasilevski Robertson
Northern Bullants: Colbert 5 Morgan 3 Austin Bannister

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Coburg Tigers: Nil
Northern Bullants: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Seniors
Sandringham 8.5 16.8 19.10 23.11 (149)
Geelong 5.5 5.10 16.12 20.19 (139)

BEST:
Sandringham: Summers Ferguson Sylvia Valenti Sautner Yze
Geelong: Johnson Barnes Byrne Playfair West Davenport

GOALS:
Sandringham: Sautner 7 Sylvia 3 Garland 2 Yze 2 Valenti 2 Summers Johnson Holland Pickett Newton Ferguson Crowe
Geelong: Johnson 5 Urie 3 Davenport 2 Barnes 2 Spencer 2 Hogan 2 Hunt Byrne Djerrkura Grima

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Sandringham: Nil
Geelong: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Seniors
Bendigo Bombers 1.2 4.7 7.11 11.14 (80)
Tasmania 6.3 9.6 14.11 16.14 (110)

BEST:
Bendigo Bombers: Gumbleton Chartres Flaherty Dyson Jolley Lee
Tasmania: Ross Stephens Geappen McMahon Careless Hall

GOALS:
Bendigo Bombers: Johns 3 Bolton 3 Gumbleton 2 Camporeale Lonergan Rosa
Tasmania: Moran 2 Adams 2 Hall 2 Derbyshire 2 Thurley 2 Ross 2 Warren Goldstein McMahon Westfield

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Bendigo Bombers: Nil
Tasmania: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Seniors
Casey Scorpions 2.6 5.9 5.10 12.18 (90)
North Ballarat 5.4 11.8 18.14 20.15 (135)

BEST:
Casey Scorpions: Garrubba Silvagni Matthews Jones Sweeney Voss
North Ballarat: Stephenson Urch Whyman Grima Green Searl

GOALS:
Casey Scorpions: Fraser 3 Sweeney 3 Voss 2 Jones Van Rheenan Carmody Garrubba
North Ballarat: Urch 5 Campbell 4 Dinnell 2 Cartledge 2 Gregg 2 Roach Stephenson Whyman Searl McConnell

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Casey Scorpions: Nil
North Ballarat: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Seniors
Williamstown 5.4 8.9 11.11 17.15 (117)
Werribee 1.1 3.5 8.7 9.10 (64)

BEST:
Williamstown: Greene Bryan Cox Williams Limbach ****
Werribee: Howard Everitt Henderson Castello Williams Baird

GOALS:
Williamstown: Williams 5 Limbach 5 Rose 2 **** Wellingham Clarke Reid Cook
Werribee: Pask 3 Street Lynch Batchelor Castello Furfaro Baird

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Williamstown: C. Bryan (Williamstown) for bumping or making forceful contact to an opponent from front on that player has his head down over the ball during 4th quarter.
Werribee: Nil

2007 TRUenergy VFL Seniors
Frankston 2.4 11.9 16.12 18.14 (122)
Port Melbourne 1.3 3.3 6.9 13.15 (93)

BEST:
Frankston: Berry Roberts Burns Conroy Collins Winterton
Port Melbourne: Brewer Baird Pleming Livingston Hazell Bonaddio

GOALS:
Frankston: Berry 6 Burns 4 Marigliani 2 Morris 2 Whelan Clarke O'Carroll Oliver
Port Melbourne: Dukes 3 Pitt 3 Hazell 2 Pearce 2 Bonaddio Dwyer Spriggs

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Frankston: J. Magner (Frankston) reported for striking D. Spriggs (Port Melbourne) in 4th quarter.
Port Melbourne: D. Robbins (Port Melbourne) reported for charging L. Collins (Frankston) in 2nd quarter.

2007 TRUenergy VFL Seniors
Coburg Tigers 3.1 6.5 8.7 12.10 (82)
Northern Bullants 5.2 10.6 15.11 21.17 (143)

BEST:
Coburg Tigers: King Jackson Silvester Neville Edwards Rayson
Northern Bullants: Hartlett Young Bower Hampson Teague Jackson

GOALS:
Coburg Tigers: Neville 2 Hartigan 2 Edwards Carnell Rayson King Casserly White Hughes Oakley-Nicholls
Northern Bullants: Young 4 Hartlett 4 Jackson 3 Houlihan 2 Morrell 2 Teague 2 Blackwell McLaren Hampson Edwards

REPORTED PLAYERS:
Coburg Tigers: Nil
Northern Bullants: Nil

 

[Blue Dawn]

Cheers

 

[blueboys1]

The VFL is a great day out this was in the the AGE
A FEW weeks ago, I received a phone call from someone called Trevor Monti. I had never met him before. He was ringing me in his capacity as president of the Williamstown Football Club. He kindly invited me to the lunch before the Seagulls' opening game of the season against Werribee. He was very friendly.
I am always attracted to a bloke who is free-spirited enough to drop the Kennedy crow call into the opening minutes of his first conversation with you, and by the time I put the phone down, I had made a mental note that he was one of the more creative users of the word in its various forms. So I accepted. The arrangements were made.
On Saturday morning, there was a sprinkling of Tigers and Swans colours at Flinders Street Station. They were going to the MCG. On my platform, Pies fans waited. Old ladies in Collingwood cheer squad tracksuits greeted warmly (like they hadn't seen each other since run-through making on Wednesday night). Some had added a bit of blue and gold to their outfits. Willy is also theirs.
Through Spotswood (site of one of my favourite Australian movies). Change at Newport. And then a couple of stops down to Willy. Very old. Colonial. And somehow separate and different from Melbourne. No wonder it was called the Village, and its footballers the Villagers. Formed in 1864, this is one of the oldest footy clubs in the world.
As I walked the short distance to the ground, I could hear the umpy's whistle. Not a breath of wind in the Easter sunshine. Club stalwarts manned the gate.
I sat down to lunch with Trevor Monti and the invited guests and sponsors. The raffle was very Spotswood: dinner for two at the local Chinese restaurant, vouchers for a massage, assorted other goodies.
Trevor is a great one for a chat and by the time soup was served, I had discovered he was a barrister — more likely to represent the wharfies than Patrick Stevedores — a farmer, an owner of slow racehorses and a Ned Kelly historian.
And a ratbag. He told me it was a little-known fact that Ned Kelly played 11 games for Williamstown. "Really," I said. "Yes, Ned was imprisoned for nine months in 1873. On a hulk moored off Williamstown," he explained. "What else would he have done on Saturday afternoons?"
By the time the ball was bounced, about 3000 people had gathered around the ground. I stood with the lunch crew next to the sausage sizzle. The crowd was big enough to make a decent noise but still small enough that individual comments reverberated. Especially those from the president, who didn't hold back. I noted that his phone vocabulary was equally suited for the description of umpires.
I had the radio in one ear, and was surprised that I was one of only a few to do so. The ABC's Gerard Whateley was describing the tight opening minutes from the MCG. Occasionally, someone would ask for a score. But when the Swans looked to kick clear, I turned it off and headed out to the quarter-time huddle.
It all felt very local. Plenty of people had come for a look on such a nice day. Some you could recognise. Darren Flanigan, the Collingwood ruck coach, wandered by. There was Billy Picken watching his son Liam. Joffa was there. His hair is as peroxide-white as Leisel Jones', who was also in the crowd to watch her boyfriend, Marty Pask, for Werribee.
As the Swans consolidated, Williamstown got on top. Some players stood out. Shannon Cox played magnificently. And Dean Limbach kept kicking goals. Brad **** ran with Cathy Freeman's stride.
You could hear it all: the footsteps, the thumping of boot on ball, the body clashes, the talk. When Pask lined up for goal, Stephen Greene stood the mark. "What's it like not wearing the pants, Marty?" he taunted.
**** copped a bit as well. Having beaten the paddock with rare artistry, he failed in the simplest skill. He ran into the unguarded goal — and missed, from spitting distance. It was so bizarre, all he could do was laugh. It was all anyone could do, except Cox, who sought out his indigenous brother and put an arm of encouragement around his shoulder.
Richmond kicked a couple of goals. Someone asked for the score. "Tiges are coming back," I said, and when Richo took a mark on three-quarter-time, I didn't need to be asked. "Goal to Richo," I blurted. "Swans. Just. By four."
Shannon Cox continued to impress. Surely he must play for Collingwood soon. During the last quarter, people were also interested in the MCG. So I translated the key moments. "Another one to the Swans." Willy kicked away. The Swans hung on. I said goodbye and headed for the Telstra Dome.
These VFL teams are an intriguing combination of the national and the local. But as I walked back towards the station, I couldn't help thinking the local was more significant.
It certainly has captured the heart of Trevor Monti.