VFL Rd 13: Northern Blues vs Collingwood

[crashlander]

This week the Blues play the Meat Pies at the Holden Centre as sort of the Curtain Raiser at 1600 this Saturday. That way we may be able to see the game before the Blues - Pies game.
The Meat Pies have been winners lately, not as impressively as Sandringham, but winning all the same. As such the Blues are going to have play decently.

[crashlander]

Sheehan has done a hamstring and needs an operation. He will miss the rest of the season. It must put his place on the list in doubt.
Gorringe could be back for this game, but it looks like our list won't be improving for a while.

[jeza]

Shocking luck for Sheehan.

Is it just me or is Josh Fraser ultra-negative with the little player reviews he does on the carlton website?

Always a little positive for each player followed by a pretty decent backhander.

Might be a good thing, I don't know, but he seems pretty difficult to please.

[RiverRat]

Is it just me or is Josh Fraser ultra-negative with the little player reviews he does on the carlton website?

Mostly accurate and realistic IMO.

[DJC]

Mostly accurate and realistic IMO.

Seems that way to me.  Fraser is limited to a couple of sentences so he can't go into great detail but he does seem to summarise each player's performance very fairly as well as highlighting positives or areas requiring improvement.

[crashlander]

Collingwood vs Northern Blues
Saturday 2nd July, 2016
Holden Centre at 4.00pm

Collingwood

B: 41. T Golds 45. J Frost 55. R Pendlebury
HB: 71. A Rambaldi 43. A Oxley 34. A Toovey
C: 66. D Hinkley 33. R Wills 27. M Goodyear
HF: 47. D Wyatt 9. J White 3. B MacAffer
F: 63. G Borthwick 44. C Gault 62. L Ferguson
R: 15. J Witts 29. T Broomhead 58. B Moloney
Int: 56. J Taylor 67. M Smith 54. J Collopy 65. L Howe 74. J Viola 53. J Hellier 61. N Gray 60. J Kelly
 
23P: 77. C Lane
   

Northern Blues:

B: 38. B Gowers 31. J Foster 4. S Russell
HB: 7. D Buckley 34. J Glass-Mccasker 26. M Dick
C: 65. D Viojo 32. N Graham 76. J Tutt
HF: 51. B Boekhorst 48. K Jaksch 23. H Kerbatieh
F: 19. H McKay 14. L Jones 10. T Totevski
R: 36. C Wood 42. M Whiley 1. T Wilson
Int: 22. D Aujla 12. Z Ballard 50. B Jordan 29. B Casley 80. M Korcheck 37. T Jones 67. C Smith 24. T Roos

23P: 21. C Barrett

We looks a little better on paper this week with Boekhorst and McKay named. However, I am not expecting much from McKay, maybe half a game. Having Tutt and Whiley back in helps our midfield. However, Gorringe was not named, so Korchek will be the 2nd ruckman. he didn't have a big game last week. However, he wasn't alone. Most of our forwards got cold as the ball didn't get down to them while Wood had a shocker. he was really towelled up last week. If we are to win, he needs to really lift. I can't see it: he has been playing like he is past it all season.
Smith might miss out: he had only a handful of possessions last week, although all of them were particularly effective. We can't afford a Carlton listed player to get less than 8 possessions.

Collingwood do look strong on paper. Hopefully that is deceptive. However, they have been playing well. Pity about that. Time to change that.

[crashlander]

Box Hill Hawks vs Northern Blues
Sunday 3rd July, 2016
Box Hill City Oval at 11.00am

Box Hill Hawks

B: 8. A Bond 17. A Kennedy 22. M Burt
HB: 21. J Fisher 15. T Gordon 58. L Jeffs
C: 2. M Lock 29. S Gibson 16. L Williams
HF: 3. W Murphy . N Evans 33. D Hehir
F: 66. L Langford 38. L Surman 49. J Firns
R: 19. C O'Sullivan 52. B Mcintyre 39. A Woodward
Int: 25. R Monkhorst 27. S Smith 50. L Cavanagh 28. J Sandric 53. T Castledine 18. J Sullivan 44. J Nolan 47. B Kilpatrick 14. M Traynor 51. L Cox 43. S Horner 55. J Kidd


Northern Blues:

B: 54. C McCabe 50. B Jordan 22. D Aujla
HB: 6. G Strachan 41. J Cripps 35. K Declase
C: 25. A Brown 37. T Jones 24. T Roos
HF: 58. C Curnow 30. S Bolger 82. D Iermano
F: 28. J Collins 29. B Casley 67. C Smith
R: 70. S Peet 12. Z Ballard 45. D Stevens
Int: 53. H Payne 57. B Lamanna 55. W Krithararis 73. A Aurrichio 64. L Jacques 9. J Corboy 74. B Malual 84. M Vesnaver 5. J Cyster 69. B Hawkes 13. C Adams 66. M Dawson

It appears that our Development side plays Box Hill every 2nd week.

I do hope that Aurrichio is fit. He is the real ruckman in this side and it does need one. Nice to see Jayden Collins named.
Very nice to see Charlie Curnow named. Maybe he can get through training this week .

[crashlander]

I like this format.

[DJC]

Smith is in the development side?  Not a good sign.

[Amers]

Im here at the holden centre waiting for the game to start, if my phone battery holds up, I may be able to give updates!