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Very disappointing today from a spotty perspective. Thought we lacked pressure through the midfield and Julier gave colts first use of the ball all day. Delivery into the forward line was poor with the ball being bombed onto leading forwards heads. For a big time game it lacked a lot of atmosphere which was disappointing and there was a good crowd. I thought Molan worked well all day up foward but the forward line really missed regular smalls such as langlands and Isbisiter who create great forward line pressure. Over all i thought spotty lacked intensity and run. But i'm sure Choppa will take this game on board to rally the troops to get them up and going. Always hard coming up against quality opposition when their previous matches were won by a combine total of almost 400 points. I think these 2 teams will meet in the Grand Final!

In other games St Albans are starting to find some great form. Altona as i mentioned earlier in the week have got a long way to go being knocked off by Glenorden. They need to go out and recruit some establish quality players to assist with the young ones. They can't just wait for the young ones to blossom on their own for good football habbits are learnt from the quality established players.
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You make a good point. Altona have a few old heads that have been at the club along time and do play for the club. But do need some better established older players. At a place like Glenorden intimidation can make a big difference when you have a very young side. Of the older players Freeland is by far the superior with no other older heads that can really make a difference. Someone can correct me if i'm wrong. wolud like to know if there are any others.

In saying that take nothing away from Glenorden. They had set themselves for that game and achieved what the wanted to. From all reports it was a fantastic game, played in good spirit and enjoyable for all watch. Maybe the WRFL should take the positives out of ganes like that and try to promote these kind of games every now and then because they mean a hell of alot to the clubs that play in them.
glenorden v altona was given the radio game but it was switched because of last weeks incident so to a degree the wrfl is trying to promote the clubs down the bottom end of the ladder

just on altona obviously they have some quality younsters but they do need some bigger bodied more experienced players to help the kids, i really thought the vikings would of pushed a few sides this yr and been a lot more competitive against the top teams but so far i think they would be disappointed with their season so far
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spot on. altona should have progressed more this season, to lose to glenordan, shows they haven't seperated themselves from the bottom of the pack
Its very true we need some more older heads. not only will it help us youngens but itll free up players like freeza and sheedy to actually get to focus on their own game instead of always worrying about the young ones. freeza is definately partly disapointed with PARTS of the season as weve had top teams in winnning positions and thrown it away and the loss yesterday would be extremely disapointing. but dont forget only half of the young kids are actually playing attard n pace should still b playing u18s. kyrakiedes (played senior vfl games this year) magnabosco (wrfl rookie of the year ) lunardi post kenna robbins (leadership jets) and the about 5 other quality 18s are still to come into the team. Like it has been said a million times before these kids wil take years to develop into a competitve senior list but still theres more to come. bring in a few buy ins and thats when we will become seriuosly competitve
 

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Yep, go Pies and yep pretty spot on with your best players in the local game.

No excuses for Spotty as their losses were pretty much counteracted by yours. The game was won in the field kicking and contested ball departments. You blokes hit targets (although not as much as usual) and got first hands on the footy. Tackling pressure was pretty good too. D Jacobs just knows where it's going and as I said earlier he knows how you blokes like to play the game now, so he's even more bloody dangerous. Julier's strong body work is a real plus and he doesn't mind having a run through the guts as well.

An interesting performance from Spotty. I wouldn't expect a repeat of that one next time you play. Then again, I've only seen a couple of games this year. Any avid spotty watchers got anything to add?

It wasn't much of a game to watch and lacked a bit of atmosphere. The last game was much cleaner and a bit more of a pressure cooker atmosphere. However a win is a win for you lot, played some very good hard footy and Spotty at times, looked like a deer caught in headlights. A good dress rehearsal for both sides.

Why were you getting splinters on the arse for so much of the game?


Sometimes it's better for me to play from the bench started there, felling ok but just didn't have the impact i hoped to, so went back there when others were doing the job.
I think that's the best part of the team this year we don't rely on any player, especially up fwd where we have a number of options, although d. jacobs makes us a very, very good team.
 

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If the kangas loose either 1 ofthe next two games it's all over for them.
Not entirely true. We really need to though win one of the next two and also win the last three (altona, hoppers, st albans). Hoppers have to win three games of their last five to give themselves a chance to make finals. Pencil them in this week (v West) and the last round of the year (v orden) however they will also have to win one in the run between those two games (Albion, Colts, Kangaroos).

St Albans to their credit have probably secured their finals spot in 08. The two close wins at home v colts and the kangas have put them in a good position.
 
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All I was trying to say was they should try to use the radio game there as a positive. by switching the game mid week puts more of a negative impact than anything else. People outside would look at it as they have major problems if the leagues own radio show doesnt want to go to a specific game. There was trouble after a Port v Spotty game earlier this year may have only been minor but wouldn't stop them from broadcasting there.:thumbsu:
no comparison there.
 

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I just watched the pies smash the swans....again. Any chance they can beat a side in the 8.

Anyway back to the wrfl, colts had a great win today, the game was won early on with both sides evenly matched colts won the first quarter against the wind and it started from the middle the two jacobs boys were on fire along with julier in the ruck, the second quarter was fairly even and spotty did well to hold the colts up, spotty were running and linking up well. colts pressure around the footy all day and their clean hands ended up being the difference d.jacobs was unstoppable and had good support from his brother masis twomey and up fwd brannan was superb and mcgregor was always dangerous.
For spotty molan was good up fwd mcghie had a great duel with hoath, harris was ok, beazley was very good in the first half, i think spotty missed isbister and langlands and when those two are back in the side it will be alot closer.
In the end it was a great 4 quarter performance from the colts, and promising signs for the future with some young kids playing well also.
I think the top 3 is done now and with st.albans knocking off hoppers again, that fith spot might be out of hoppers and sunshine.
It's time to see what sunshine are made of also with a home game against albion, a chance to cement a finals birth, i doubt they can do it...the cats for me.
That was a fair essay.....well i got time out in the middle of bass strait on my way to tassie, enjoying two great victories
GO COLTS !!!!!! GO PIES!!!!!!

agree young Jase and Cain had good games

pity most of spotty young kids watching on sidelines
 

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Rock whats happened to adrian pardo is he injured?

Unfortunalty for Pardo he has multiple injuries over the last couple of months. Injured his crook ankle two weeks prior to the break, which gave him time to get over a dislocated finger he received in round two.

In his return game after the break he popped his shoulder which again has given him trouble over the years. He will recommnce training this week, fingers crossd the worst is behind him.
 

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Rock whats happened to adrian pardo is he injured?

Unfortunalty for Pardo he has multiple injuries over the last couple of months. Injured his crook ankle two weeks prior to the break, which gave him time to get over a dislocated finger he received in round two.

In his return game after the break he popped his shoulder which again has given him trouble over the years. He will recommnce training this week, fingers crossd the worst is behind him.

thanks for that obe hope all goes well for him
 

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my opinion only

wood and knight should have at least had a run in ones
m john,j shaw,m cassidy,phillips should be at least playing 2s

agree with this
considering they mostly top age 18s this year could be lots of players moving on.

considering some of the efforts by past coaches to keep these guys together this will be a shame
 

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wood,orchard 18s last year played 2s
murat,knight 18s 2006 played 2s
pope,noye played 1s
From what I have seen and more what I've heard, Wood should have had a run. They could have used his run on the wing on the weekend. Murat should be playing ones, just ask him...haha. Dunno about Knight, what's his form been like? Pope and Noye were ok on the weekend. Noye will get better as he gets more games under his belt.
 

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agree with this
considering they mostly top age 18s this year could be lots of players moving on.

considering some of the efforts by past coaches to keep these guys together this will be a shame
L. Simmons gave a number of young ones a shot. Blokes like Patak, Isbister, Fogerty (in limbo) Sablich did their apprenticeship under him and were excellent in last year's flag win.

Have a few older blokes come back and pushed the young players out?
 

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L. Simmons gave a number of young ones a shot. Blokes like Patak, Isbister, Fogerty (in limbo) Sablich did their apprenticeship under him and were excellent in last year's flag win.

Have a few older blokes come back and pushed the young players out?
How is Matty Shannon going down at Spotty was a good player 10 years ago at Werribee.
 

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Knight has been consistently good.
could be an interesting selection table thursday night if isbister and langlands ok then 2 to go back to 2nds
Playing against Altona this week. There were a few in the ones on Saturday who will be anxiously awaiting their fate on Thursday night, or will they?
Will most likely have to miss the game but will expect a full run down on which players from the 1990 premiership have come back to play reserves for one last tilt at a flag and which kids have missed out because of it..haha.
 

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Sorry won't even make top 5.
Stating to get a sense of Altona talking themselves up. I would really like Altona to just get their heads down bums up and when they start to produce some quality DIV 1 senior football and they start to challenge the top sides consistently then start to make a little noise. I'm not Anti Altona just started to notice a bit of hype being over talked of late and not referring to BF
Very disappointing today from a spotty perspective. Thought we lacked pressure through the midfield and Julier gave colts first use of the ball all day. Delivery into the forward line was poor with the ball being bombed onto leading forwards heads. For a big time game it lacked a lot of atmosphere which was disappointing and there was a good crowd. I thought Molan worked well all day up foward but the forward line really missed regular smalls such as langlands and Isbisiter who create great forward line pressure. Over all i thought spotty lacked intensity and run. But i'm sure Choppa will take this game on board to rally the troops to get them up and going. Always hard coming up against quality opposition when their previous matches were won by a combine total of almost 400 points. I think these 2 teams will meet in the Grand Final!

In other games St Albans are starting to find some great form. Altona as i mentioned earlier in the week have got a long way to go being knocked off by Glenorden. They need to go out and recruit some establish quality players to assist with the young ones. They can't just wait for the young ones to blossom on their own for good football habbits are learnt from the quality established players.
We know exactly where we are at. Make no mistake about it. I wouldn't read too much into what you read on here or hear anywhere else.

Losing to Glenorden is unforgivable and is a major setback in terms of where we should be and where we intend to go. But that's the nature of footy. Somethings just don't pan out how you want them to.

I completely agree with pretty much everything that has been said on here about Altona lately. We are a club in transition and as such are likely to have a few setbacks and false-starts. I do however have total confidence in saying that in the near future (2009/10) we will be a finals side.
 
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