Local Footy 2015

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Saw a great game at Clifton Park. Abers down by 22 at 3/4 time v Greenvale, enter Kyle Reimers with 4 goals in the last term and 5 for the game to get Abers over the line by 9 points. The full bag of tricks on show, a freaky running banana shot, taking hanger about 30m out, then outbodying his opponent in the goalsquare and converting from point blank range. Brock McLean did suit up and was effective, as was Blackwell from Claremont.

Kyle Hardingham played his first game for Pascoe Vale among several high profile recruits and thrashed Avondale Heights…


Looks like Ben and Michael Ross might be playing at Pascoe Vale.
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Forgot the Hardy Boy. Interesting he didn’t get selected for us in the VFL today, was extremely regularly in our bests last year.

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Peninsula went home 77 point winners 16.14 to 5.3

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Of course who could forget Brendan Fevola’s day at Donvale…hope the mid-match Jimmy was cold!

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Was at Old Ivanhoe v PEGS Saturday.

The home side have come down from B and played well day.

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Looks like Round 18 will be a cracker in Premier.

De La’s incredible form continued, knocking of St. Bernards at home and with them facing Beaumaris at Shark park next Saturday, seem to have locked a finals berth.

Old Scotch are back in 9th after dropping to 3rd placed Uni Blues away, They host Xavs who got belted by Trinity yesterday.

Carey have fallen off the perch and were soundly beaten by Collegians yesterday. For their part, the Wesley boys look set to stay up after that win.

Uni Blacks came home with a wet sail yesterday to beat Beaumaris after the latter played well for most of the day.

The permutations look like this:

De La (34) - a win over Beaumaris guarantees 4th. Lose and could be replaced by Uni Blacks or Old Carey.

Uni Blacks (32) - must beat Collegians and hope De La lose.

Old Carey (32) - must beat St. Bernards and hope both De La and Uni Blacks lose to make 4th.

Old Xaverians (28 - 94.3%) - must beat Scotch to stay out of relegation zone. A loss makes things interesting.

Collegians (28 - 88.89%) - to ensure survival either a win over Uni Blacks or Old Scotch losing to Xavs will be critical.

Old Scotch (24 - 90.8%) - will make things interesting with a win over Xavs. Should Collegians also win, they could still drop. Collegians lose and they win, will see them remain in Premier, where they have been since 1978.

Top spot is still in theory up for grabs.

Old Trinity have a percentage of 139.01 and St. Bernards have a percentage of 131.76. Trinity host University Blues in the match of the day, whilst St. Bernards host Old Carey.

The Premier B top 4 is basically locked in now, however, Old Brighton in 4th wouldn’t want to be smashed by SKOBS and have Ajax record a decent victory over Mazenod, or the 2 teams could swap. However, should the Tonners cause the boilover of the season, and Old Melburnians lose to Fitzroy (at Ross Gregory Oval and not Elsternwick Park), the Tonners could still finish 3rd, as their percentage of 131.05 is miles better than Old Melburnians 116.59!

A Mazenod loss could still see them relegated, with their percentage of 65.92. Parkdale, who host Hampton Rovers next Saturday, have a percentage of 65.41.

Premier C has a couple of intriguing battles.

Old Ivanhoe still have a chance of 2nd, but, would need to smash Williamstown CYs at the beach and have Monash Blues lose to Oakleigh at home in a similar fashion. Peninsula could still make finals despite being a game behind Old Haileybury. Their percentage of 134.36 compares very favouably to the Bloods’ 93.8! Haileybury need to beat Old Camberwell away to stay in the finals, whilst Peninsula host ladder leaders Marcellin.

Could Therry still survive? Only a game behind Old Camberwell, a win in the local derby over the battling PEGS and an Old Camberwell loss would be interesting. Camberwell’s percentage is 72.05 - Therry’s percentage is 56.71.

D1 Finals are on Saturday at a venue to be announced: Ormond v Kew and Old Geelong v St. Mary’s Salesian.
D2 Finals are Ivanhoe v St. Johns and Northern Blues v Eltham
D3 Finals are Emmaus St. Leos v West Brunswick and Aquinas v Hawthorn
D4 Finals are Canterbury v Westbourne and Point Cook v Box Hill North

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Anzac Day local footy highlights:

VAFA Premier: University Blacks v University Blues at Melbourne Uni - the 2014 premier sides from A and B against each other (2.30pm)
EFL: Vermont v Balwyn at Vermont (2.10pm)
EDFL: Keilor v Pascoe Vale at Keilor (Sunday)
NFL: Heidelberg v Macleod at Heidelberg (2.10pm)
SFL: Mordialloc v Dingley at Mordialloc (2.15pm) and Clayton v East Malvern at Clayton (2.15pm)
WRFL: Hoppers Crossing v Albion at Hoppers Crossing (2.15pm)

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Some really interesting results in the EDFL on the weekend.

As mentioned, Pascoe Vale look the real deal smashing Avondale Heights. Pascoe Vale has the two Ross brothers, Vezpremi, Ben Warren, Hardingham and Daniel Harris on their list. Thats a decent collection of ex AFL players.

Other big result was promoted West Coburg beating derby rival Northern Saints by 110 points. And this is with a basically no name squad.

I’ll be moving to the area so have taken an interest in the comp. Must say I was impressed with the standard, the EFL (Eastern Footy League) for many years claimed they were the best Metropolitan footy league in Melbourne, and I’d say EDFL has to be the equal of that, or perhaps ever better than it now. Better thing is you don’t get charged to watch, at most EFL games it’s $5 or so to get in, I just rocked up on Saturday and had a look.

Charged for local games? Geesh. Mate EDFL is the best. Rock up with a slab, have a kick etc. Unfortunately Essendon have a few Sat games this year so won’t be able to make it to as many EDFL games, but the standard is pretty decent. I’d say Strathmore and Avondale Heights probably have the worst food any of the divisions though.

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Some really interesting results in the EDFL on the weekend.

As mentioned, Pascoe Vale look the real deal smashing Avondale Heights. Pascoe Vale has the two Ross brothers, Vezpremi, Ben Warren, Hardingham and Daniel Harris on their list. Thats a decent collection of ex AFL players.

Other big result was promoted West Coburg beating derby rival Northern Saints by 110 points. And this is with a basically no name squad.

I’ll be moving to the area so have taken an interest in the comp. Must say I was impressed with the standard, the EFL (Eastern Footy League) for many years claimed they were the best Metropolitan footy league in Melbourne, and I’d say EDFL has to be the equal of that, or perhaps ever better than it now. Better thing is you don’t get charged to watch, at most EFL games it’s $5 or so to get in, I just rocked up on Saturday and had a look.

Charged for local games? Geesh. Mate EDFL is the best. Rock up with a slab, have a kick etc. Unfortunately Essendon have a few Sat games this year so won’t be able to make it to as many EDFL games, but the standard is pretty decent. I’d say Strathmore and Avondale Heights probably have the worst food any of the divisions though.

Which side do you follow?

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Strange happenings.

Under 18 match at Burnside got called off after a wild brawl with police called.

Boundary umpire in my match may have a fractured ankle after being stood on late in the final term and then the ankle rolled. You can hear the scream on the video.

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Tristan Cartledge managed a goal for St. Bernads on the weekend in VAFA premier too by the way.

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And rumours abound that over at Ormond, Mal Michael will play for the Monders this week.

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My match this week is Williamstown CYMS v Monash Blues at Point Gellibrand oval tomorrow.

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A good trivia question - who are the 3 players to have played 256 games of VFL and AFL football, and what else do they have in common?

We’ve had this one. Can’t remember them all (J Brown was one) but they’re all from Warnammbool or some other club in the Western district.

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Aberfeldie smashed west coburg today 50 years after they played in the 1965 grand final where Don Palmers west coburg were victorious.
Reimers kicked a bag today Pascoe Vale and Greenvale will be strong contenders this year.

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Pascoe Vale have recruited North’s castoffs…Ben Warren, Ben Ross, Daniel Harris, Gavin Urquhart (via Airport West), plus Michael Ross and Patrick Vezpremi.

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Pascoe Vale have recruited North's castoffs...Ben Warren, Ben Ross, Daniel Harris, Gavin Urquhart (via Airport West), plus Michael Ross and Patrick Vezpremi.

Kyle Hardingham will play there as well when Essendon VFL has the bye. They will try and qualify him for finals, would be a handy addition!

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EDFL is horribly uneven. Last year there were 4 teams that could have gone down and 6 could have made the finals on the last weekend…and Doutta lost by a point or two to cop it. Think PV was one of the 4 too.

Avondale Heights have slipped this year despite still having Rose and Galea.

PV and Abers are unbeaten with percentages all but 250. Greenvale have a percentage in the 220s.

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Pretty hard to read Premier at the moment.

St. Bernards, who many would describe as competitive, somehow managed to knock off the flying University Blues at the Uni. This made it easier for the boys from Trinity to go top and remain the only team undefeated after knocking off the Cardinals at Bulleen.

University Blacks, the reigning premiers, are in freefall at the moment, losing to fellow grand finalists Collegians at Harry Trott. It is indeed quite conceivable that both will get relegated 1 season after the big one - wtf?

Xavs did what they needed to do over the Sharks of Beauy at Beauy. Whilst Carey won at Dairy Bell over De La.

Premier B has seen everyone notch-up a win by the end of Round 4, making it as competitive as ever.

The team to watch is St. Kevins. This has to be their year…as long as they don’t have to play in the Preliminary Final again, which they have somehow managed to lose in recent years. The other team seemingly heading up…or should I say back…is Old Brighton. Resurfacing at their home at the corner of Beach and South Roads is now complete and they are looking good. St. Bedes Mentone will also fancy it’s chances of the climb back up.

Premier C is tight too, with 5 teams on 3-1, but 2 teams in PEGS and Old Camberwell doing the propping up. The 5 at the top are Peninsula, Monash, Marcellin and last year’s relegated teams from Premier B, Old Ivanhoe and Old Haileybury.

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Interesting player for Prahran in the VAFA Club 18.

Victorian cricketer David Hussey!

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-east/he-plays-cricket-for-prahran-and-now-champion-batsman-david-hussey-is-playing-football-for-it-too/story-fngnvmox-1227337264329