VFL Round 16: Northern Blues vs. North Ballarat at Ballarat

[crashlander]

On Sunday at Eureka Stadium, Ballarat. It is going to be COLD. And there is a 1:30 start for those lucky or brave enough to make it.

To be honest, Eureka Stadium is not a great place to watch football in: there is very little banking, so unless you are in the front row you don't see the game. That should not be an issue with the typical VFL crowd, but.....

After the bye we just had, we have some chance of regrouping: we need it after our recent efforts. There may also be a player or 2 returning from injury (or being banished from the seniors). The Preston side of the equation is not going to change much: Wilkinson has gone and Box Bransgrove (one of the few with some talent) is injured (again).

Last time we played the Ballarat boys, they gave us a drubbing at Etihad, with both Kreuzer and Warnock playing. Since then the Rooster have been mostly feather dusters, but they did record a good win against Frankston. With our list of injuries I cannot see us starting favourite. Nor can I see much coming from some of our serial underperformers: none of them has shown much in the wet, wind and mud.

However, as I wrote in the AFL pre game thread, hope springs eternal.

More details as they come to hand.

[crashlander]

North Ballarat vs. Northern Blues           
Sunday, Aug 02
Eureka Stadium at 1.30pm

North Ballarat
B: Lockyer Tippett Hoy
HB: Kiel Boseley Mullett
C: Warren Dumont Tsitas
HF: George Keeble Nahas
F: A Hooper Black Peters
R: Stephenson Sewell McKenzie
Int: Preuss Rippon Bacon S. Hooper* Schache Anderson Lanyon Marshall Staley

Northern Blues
B: Watson Fields J. Roberts
HB: Dick Foster Kilpatrick
C: Strachan Walsh Viojo
HF: Ellard Jaksch Johnson
F: Wilson Watson M. Jones
R: Aurrichio Walker Whiley
Int: Dirago Walton Armitage Bolger Ballard Cattapan Soncin McDonagh* Murray

[crashlander]

Box Hill Hawks vs. Northern Blues         

Saturday, Aug 01
Box Hill City Oval at 11am

Box Hill Hawks

B: Exon Summers L. Langford
HB: Crocker Fisher Walker
C: Evans S. Gibson Lock
HF: Lewis Lawlor Traynor
F: Switkowski Sheridan-Ferrie Jones
R: Z. Monkhorst Hardisty O'Donnell
Int: Pell Zema Sullivan Bond Carroll Donoghue Murphy Sandric Kidd Soccio Burt Vizzarri Dimasi
   
Northern Blues

B: Yelland Porter Zito
HB: McCabe M. Gleeson Declase
C: Haynes Soncin Armitage
HF: Toman Dirago Aujla
F: Walton Murray Cattapan
R: Bolger J. Gleeson Ballard
Int: Jenkins McDonald Bowkett Dawson Whillas Sidhom Gilbert Jordan Kur Wild

[crashlander]

2015 AFL Victoria Development League
Box Hill Hawks  4.1  9.4  16.8  21.11 (137)
Northern Blues  1.1  2.3  2.5  7.8 (50)

GOALS:
Box Hill Hawks: Jones 3 Traynor 3 Fisher 3 Vizzarri 2 Kidd 2 Sullivan 2 Dimasi  Sheridan-Ferrie  Hardisty  Murphy  Evans  Zema
Northern Blues: Murray 2 Haynes  Soncin  Aujla  Zito  Jenkins

BEST:
Box Hill Hawks: Fisher Crocker Hardisty Evans Monkhorst Lewis
Northern Blues: Haynes Murray Yelland McCabe Soncin Kur

[Lods]

https://twitter.com/nbluesfc

Three quarter time

NB-Roosters 19.11.125, Blues 1.7.13.

DISPOSALS: Walsh 22, Whiley 18, D. Watson 18, Cattapan 16, Walker 15

[crashlander]

The Blues are down by over 100 points midway through the final quarter.

[PassIt2Carrots]

Oh dear.

[Lods]

The Blues are down by over 100 points midway through the final quarter.

I think we have the wind this quarter though

[MosquitoFleet]

absolutely expected given that the board/club pays lip service to the reserves and does not put enough resources into them

we have poor development in the seniors so we can expect less development in the reserves...

[crashlander]

Oh dear.

That is an understatement if there ever was one.

2015 Peter Jackson VFL
North Ballarat  6.6  9.10  19.11  20.17.137
Northern Blues  0.2  1.4  1.7  2.13.25

Looks like we actually had a decent last term. But the damage was more than done.