VFL Practice Match Colac 11th March 2018

tippa · March 14, 2018, 6:02am

I thought we did…I remember there was a log in feature which was a paid subscription…lol

Catherine_Lio · March 14, 2018, 6:36am

We were the last to hand over our website to Telstra as part of the digital rights purchase, yes.

Ants · March 16, 2018, 2:21am

Thanks for the report! You’re our hero!

theDJR:

14 hours after I left home… a little report on a very satisfying VFL performance. The wind was strong all day to the northern end of the grounds, but it wasn’t till the third quarter of the AFL game that the attacking team used it well. Our seniors also adapted to the conditions to win their game in the last, and then the reserves pretty much won all four quarters despite the challenges it posed half the time.

The game was pretty clearly won by our midfield, which included a broad rotation of smalls and 3 rucks. The last quarter was an excellent showing for our defenders. My bests were Langford, Hind (maybe more for quality than quantity), Smack/Draper/Strachan never letting up the pressure, Clarke, Hartley, and encouragement award for Mynott.

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4 The Langford — 100% midfield time bar one rest down forward early? Watching stoppages he absolutely plays a defensive role with body contact, but he still got a stack of clearances. Not that he was alone, Draper made it very easy for midfielders a lot of times.
10 Hocking — very good forward early. Also spent time in the midfield, but faded from view.
34 Jake “the hero” Long — forward early, wing the rest. Not remarkable, but hey, winning one game for the day is normally enough.
37 Clarke — not sure I saw him have more than one kick (it was OK, with the wind) but was really good inside. His handballs out of packs were influential.
39 Mynott — reasonably impressed with him during his stints on ball. Went in hard and got it out.

So the guys above were the only ones who had some reference to the midfield. It sounds like Landford and Clarke dominated inside, was there anyone else (small) contributing significantly in the middle to our midfield dominance?

theDJR · March 16, 2018, 3:14am

Hind (centre square) and Guelfi (wing) were other full-time midfielders.