It's just gone midnight, and i'm excited about the prospect of going to the footy tomorrow! Hope we can pull off a win, Coburg seems in a similar position to us, should be a tight battle.
Good weather is forcast, should be 20 degrees, should be a good turnout, usually is for this match.
I know they hadn't last year, but i wonder if they've done anything about the grandstand? Would hate to see it sitting there unusable still.
Always really enjoy going to Coburg, feels like a real trip to the footy, no.19 tram, (my wife needs the car), have a look around the shops on sydney road, get some grub, head to the ground. I'm carping on! Goodnight!!!
Benny Kane is my tip for the medal. Was Alex Gilmour last year from memory...
Coburg vs Box Hill today.
To all those supporters who wanted to meet and have an ale before the game it will be at the Summerworld Hotel around 1pm.
Also standing on the wing near the kiosk.
Evenly matched teams who should fight a very close tussle.
See you there.
Who else went today?
Listened to the first quarter before swtiching the TV on to watch Collingwood and Essendon.
Matty Little played another good game, wouldn't be surprised if he is promoted to the Hawthorn side soon.
Oh boy! Box Hill were very very ordinary. Lance Franklin was well beaten by Dean Polo much to the delight the large Coburg crowd that had turned up.
[b]Coburg Tigers 20.20-140 def Box Hill Hawks 12.14-86 [/b]
Coburg Tigers
Goal Kickers: P. Shelton 3, D. Limbach 3, J. Humm 3, D. Meyer 2, D. Polo 2, L. McGuane 2, C. Howat, J. Rimington, N. Carnell, J. Mullins, E. Kuret
Best Players: D. Polo, T. Ronaldson, P. Shelton, J. Humm, E. Kuret, J. King
Box Hill Hawks
Goal Kickers: B. Kane 3, M. Little 2, T. Murphy 2, C. Hunter, H. Miller, L. Franklin, B. McGlynn, N. Ries
Best Players: M. Ball, M. Little, C. Hunter, K. Height, N. Ries, T. Murphy
I went there expecting to see too cellar dwellar sides play today. Coburg had a red hot dip, winning a lot of free kicks. Box Hills tackling was poor as well as giving away about 5 50-Meter penalties. I think the frees were 34-15.
Pretty lean. We were going alright in the 3rd, but like against Williamstown, wasted opportunities, and Coburg played good "tempo football" ( flooded back and played keepings off) breaking our run, and eventually breaking free. The last quarter was a waste of time.
It's hard to see where the improvement's going to come from. Gee Franklin had a dog of a day, grubbing kicks, getting tackled, dropping sitters and missing goals. But he wasn't alone, he was just more obvious. McGlynn did some great stuff but his disposal let him down, and like the Willy game, we seem scared to take a shot at goal unless we take a mark 25 metres out or closer! I remember Wayne Carey taking marks at 50m, then going back and slotting goals! I know he was a freak, but i'm sure they could kick them from 40, 45 metres. We played as if the conditions were atrocious, but unless i'm an idiot, it was a perfect day for footy.
Impressed with Coburg's VFL list, looking stronger than in previous years. What about number 31, Jonothan Mullins, listed at 166 cm from the NT? Did anyone see that goal he kicked to the (ex)high school end? There's my new tip for a possible Fothergill-Round!
Our VFL list is very young, and the guys are playing as you'd expect young players ot be playing, showing promise but no consistency. Hunter is livley, Height is solid, Nick Kane needs time, does ok, Rudolph is just travelling. It must be hard for all your senior guys to leave, you really have to step up straight away, and guys like rudolph don't seem quite ready to be the club leaders, but who else is there? I like Wilson and Gibson, honest contributers who seem to work hard and are adapting to the level of football, Kelleher looks alright too, but they're not matchwinners.
I reckon we'll have a few wins this year, but our run of finals seems to have come to an end. Six years on the trot aint bad. Unless Luke Hodge plays up again and is sent to us for the rest of the year, can't see too many miracles happening.
As a side, very nice turn up, probably 3,000 - 3,500? Hard to tell.
Long day, just got home, i'm tired, i'm grumpy, and the weekend is only 3 working days away!!!!
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Damian Christiensen has the worst record by any coach in VFA/VFL history.
In 1995 he coached Williamstown and they went through the whole season winless. This season he has coached Box Hill to 3 losses.
His record to date is 23 losses from 23 matches.
Box Hill looked very disappointing today.
They were within 2 goals with a few minutes to go in the third quarter and were coming home with a breeze worth about 2 goals in the last term.
Coburg gave them a lesson as they booted a few goals just before three quarter time and then turned it on the last quarter.
Lance Franklin was slaughtered by Dean Polo who is very close to getting a game at Richmond.
As for Franklin he plays millionare football and does not work hard enough. I seen him play for Hawthorn v Richmond last year and he can play, but he either had a bad game or did not put in the hard yards.
Luke McGuane looked ok and chipped in with 2 goals. Travis Ronaldson ex Tassie played well for the Burgers.
Ben Kane and Matt Little tried hard for Box Hill.
Matt Little will be called into the Hawthorn side in a few weeks, his form so far this season has been great.
He's an ex Rupie, so that explains why he is such a great player. :D
Was talking about that with Onslaught after the game, it's quite a remarkable record. They have Casey and then Port the next two weeks, no excuses if they cant pick up a win there.
As for Franklin, standing in the middle with his hands on his hips while watching Polo run forward and kick a goal was unacceptable for an AFL listed player once but it happened twice.
And Stanga mentioned Coburg's VFL depth and I have to say that was the highlight of the day for me to see 15 VFL listed players in their side really go about the game of footy the way they did. Young blokes getting a go is what this competition should be about and most of them took it today and made the most of it.
We were spanked.
Gilham and Kane the only real winners on the day. Little and Murphy tried hard.
We just lack the VFL experience like a Nick Carter, Ben Beams or similar to help the other guys out. We have no weekly VFL performers such as Clint Alleway who we have relied on for the past few years.
Gonna be a very long, unsuccessful season.