With four rounds to go, what do you think...who has been good in 2005, who has been bad, and who has been dead set ugly? Go for your life - players, coaches, teams...pretty general thread.
GOOD
* Ian Callinan, could he win a JJ Liston?
* The Northern Bullants, what a shock they are top of the ladder.
* The return of footy to Newcomen Rd and the excitement in the air about the move to Casey.
BAD
* Williamstown...can anybody read anything into their form this season? Wins over Werribee and Bendigo(x2) but struggle to beat rubbish sides.
* Bendigo getting a home final...at the QEO on a Friday night!
UGLY
* The Northern Bullants disappearing act on the ABC coverage, and Ross Booth's whinge about it!
* The Coburg Tigers, call it quits fellas, pack up and move to Sunbury.
The Good
Tassie's revival- after winning 1 from 8 matches have won last 5 and is in top form.
Frankston good form until yesterday.
Newcomen Reserve Springvale- old fashion ground.
Preston on top- first time in years
VFL v SANFL- top game of footy
VFL Footy tipping- 96 tipsters in comp (hopefully over 120 in 2006)
SEN- great coverage (good to check progress score when at another game)
Frankston's ground (great atmosphere, especially under the scoreboard)
Inside Football- gives a good spread on VFL football (Phil Cleary and Paul Amy)
Ian Callinan- top chance for JJ Liston Trophy
This website- great for current news, opinions and the old VFA
The Bad
Tony Shaw on bagging Willimastown and wanting Collingwood players to play all game time every match.
The media- fools like Bruce Matthews who have no clue.
Too many aligned teams- need at least 2 more stand alone clubs (maybe Williamstown and Port Melbourne)
The Ugly
Curtain Raisers- should be banned forever as it only promotes VFL as a reserves comp.
Coburg Tigers- should revert back to Coburg Lions
Williamstown form (good wins against Bendigo (twice) and Werribee) + (pathetic against Coburg and Geelong)
Shane Woewoedon (Woewoeful), Jason Cloke, Leon Davis and Matthew Lokan - Williamstown should be stand alone
Brad Gotch - a Collingwood puppet who does anything for Mick Malthouse
Good:
- The Box Hill v Williamstown match - over 5000 people there, great promotion for VFL footy.
- North Ballarat making a real fist of it against the aligned clubs.
- The Under 22's curtain raiser to the VFL v SANFL match.
- SEN and 3SER's excellent coverage of state football.
- Marty Heppell (Box Hill reserves coach) and his speeches to the players at the breaks, sheer brilliance.
Bad:
- The poor crowd to the State game
- Losing to SA.
Ugly:
- The Ken Hall-Stevie Lawrence incident.
- Not allocating finals to the teams that deserve them.
- Umpire Mason.