Season 2007

Can anybody recall some great comebacks over the years. A couple that spring to mine straight for myself are 1. Port melb v Coburg 1980 grand final at junction oval 2. port v Box hill three or four years ago being down by around 50points at port.

Believe or not, The VFL tribunal heard the charges from the VFL Grand Final this past Tuesday night(October 23). Here are the results of both cases Tim Callan – Geelong Not Guilty Of Charging Robert Trajovski - Coburg Tigers (Reserves) Guilty Of Striking - 2 Match Suspension

[u][b]SENIORS(W-L-D)[/b][/u] Geelong 55-25-5 Sandringham 49-29-2 Williamstown 46-33-1 Coburg Tigers 47-34-7 Werribee 39-34-1 Bendigo Bombers 37-38-1 Frankston 35-37 Northern Bullants 33-37-2 Casey Scorpions 34-41-1 North Ballarat 37-43-2 Port Melbourne 35-44-1 Box Hill Hawks 28-44 Tasmania 19-52-1 [u][b]RESERVES(W-L-D)[/b][/u] Coburg Tigers 59-21 Werribee 49-31 Port Melbourne 52-34-2 North Ballarat 43-29 Williamstown 48-34-2 Box Hill Hawks 42-33-1 Frankston 34-37-1 Sandringham 28-42-2 Casey Scorpions 22-48-2 Northern Bullants 19-52-1 Bendigo Bombers 18-53-1

Probably the worst grand final in a while, big crowd and great weather, but a game that Coburg never really looked a winning chance in and with a burst in the third term the Cats ran right away with it scoring 7.6 to 0.1 for the term. The Tigers disposal was disgraceful, particularly given the number of AFL listed players out there. There must have been a record number of dribble kicks and half volleys as they continually made things very difficult for their forwards. The lack of a ruckman was a major problem for them - Ronaldson is a battler and has done a great job this year but to expect him to carry the load against King and West was always going to be an impossible task. Their back up ruckman - Nat Caruso (yes all 185cm of him!) - copping an injury didnt help their cause. At the end of the day the Coburg side was too short - and they werent able to run the Geelong blokes off their legs. There's no doubt the AFL stand alone side in Geelong copped a big advantage by being allowed to play so many AFL players, I think the governing body might need to look into that a little more. Thats not to take anything away from their win. The Tom Lonergan story is something special and despite the game being so ordinary, his performance is probably what I'll remember most about today. He's got some guts that bloke. And today he did his job at both ends - in defence he did so well in the first half, then switched forward and kick 5 goals in the third term which basically finished it off. And did anyone see the issue with the security guard after the game down in front of the Gardiner Stand? I didn't see what started it - does anyone know? All I saw was the crowd had started streaming onto the ground, next thing I hear this noise and I turn to see this clown from the security company tackling a bloke who was wearing a Cats jumper, pinning him to the ground. Fellow Cats fans were coming across in support, the whole Gardiner Stand was yelling to the security bloke to get off him, booing and heckling him. The coppers came across, the Cats fan was let up off the ground, the cops interviewed him for a bit as the security bloke was ushered into a room at the bottom of the grandstand, copping all sorts of abuse as he walked through the crowd. There were a lot of kids around and its really unfortunate to see stuff like that happening.

VFA Grand Final- looking back 1976 to 1980 1st Division 1976 Port Melbourne19.18.132 d Dandenong 10.15.75 Infamous Grand Final. Very fiery and tough with the borough prevailing. Will be remembered forever. 1977 Port Melbourne23.19.157 d Sandringham 7.15.57 Port made it back to back winning in the VFA's centenary year by 100 points. 1978 Prahran 21.15.141 d Preston 17.17.119 Sam Kekovich v Harold Martin. Another fiery encounter with the two blues emerging. A young Wayne Johnston goes on to play a few premierships with Carlton. 1979 Coburg 16.15.11 d Geelong West 14.19.103 Fisher of Coburg chases his own kick to kick a goal and seal the burgers first flag for 51 years. 1980 Port Melbourne11.15.81 d Coburg 10.10.70 Port Melbourne comes back from the dead to play all over Coburg and win the flag. 2nd Division 1976 Williamstown 19.13.127 d Mordialloc 9.16.70 Williamstown thrashed hot flag favourite Mordialloc in a tough match. The seagulls were captain coached by former Port player mal allen. 1977 Mordialloc 19.19.133 d Yarraville 14.11.95 Mordialloc upset Yarraville who were coached by former Footscray and Richmond player David Thorpe. Yarraville were wooden spooners the previous year and did well to reach the Grand Final after a massice recruiting drive. Victorious Mordialloc won their only flag in the VFA and wer coached by former Geelong player Geoff Rosenow. 1978 Frankston 15.13.103 d Camberwell 13.11.89 Frankston won their only flag in the VFA with a large crowd at Toorak Park. 1979 Camberwell 18.14.122 d Oakleigh 12.11.83 The cobras break through for their first ever flag and had to wait 51 years to do do. 1980 Brunswick 20.27.147 d Yarraville 14.14.98 Brunswick upset Yarraville who were coached by Denis Pagan.

[size=18][b]Reserve Grade Grand Final Coburg Tigers v Port Melbourne Sunday 23rd September MC Labour Park at 11.00am [/b][/size] [b]Coburg Tigers [/b] B Morelli Keogh Farrelly HB Riddle Robertson Rayson C Sewell Huy Carrick HF De Sousa Hughes Liddle F Mullins Dagher Currie R Foster Corr Vasilevski Int Anderson Clifton Hartigan McErlain Lynch Clingan Hopkins Trajkovski [b]Port Melbourne[/b] B Cain Henshaw McGlynn HB Sutcliffe Carroll Nayna C Debruin Pearce Johnstone HF Dwyer Thomas Monteath F Langford Gilham Peel R Bloomfield B. Nixon D. Kelly Int N. Nixon T. Kelly Waldron Sheldon Dalton Allan Tyrell Plymin

Reading in the Heraldsun page 79 Mailbag "The Pulse" Donna Monteath the wife of Richmonds 1980 premiership captain Bruce Monteath writes that this weekend she has two sons playing in Grand Finals but in different states.Rhys is playing for Port Melbourne Reserves against Coburg Reserves in the VFL and his brother Kym is playing for East Fremantle Reserves against Subiaco Reserves in the WAFL.She states that her husband and herself will have to toss a coin to see who flies over to watch Rhys and who stays to watch Kym.As she said a very tough decision.All I can say good luck with your decision,hopefully they both play in a premiership as it will be one happy family.Best of luck! Go Borough!

The Winner of the TRUenergy VFL Mark of the Year is Daniel Connors (Coburg Tigers) for a mark he took in Round 11 vs North Ballarat. Here is the link to the vision of that mark http://www.truenergy.com.au/About/inthecommunity/vfl.xhtml

[b]SUNDAY[/b] [i][b]Coburg Tigers vs Geelong at MC Labour Park,Carlton 2:15pm (ABC TV, Casey Radio, 3XX 1611AM, 774 ABC Melbourne, 3AW 693, 95.5FM K-ROCK)[/b][/i] This should be a great game!!!! These 2 sides met just a couple of weeks ago in the Qualifying Final and Coburg stuck with the Cats until 3 Quarter Time before Geelong ran away with a 31 point win. Can the Tigers sustain the pressure for the whole game or will the Cats experience win the game. I think Coburg can stay with the Cats for most of the game but I think the Cats can run away with it in the last quarter and win their 2nd VFL premiership. [b]Meetings in 2007:[/b] Round 17 Saturday 4th August at Skilled Stadium,Geelong Geelong 18-14(122) def Coburg Tigers 12-13(85) (Ryan Gamble (Geel) 4 goals, Brett Hartigan (Cob) 3 goals) Gamble and Hollmer best for the Cats, Pattison and Shelton best for the Tigers 2nd Qualifying Final Sunday 2nd September at TEAC Oval,Port Melbourne Geelong 22-16(148) def Coburg Tigers 17-15(117) (Davenport,Cheep(Geel) 4 goals each, Krakouer and Connors(Cob) 3 goals each) Hawkins and King best for the Cats, Hill and Carnell best for the Tigers. [b]My Tip:[/b] Geelong by 26 points [size=18][b]Teams[/b][/size] [b]Coburg Tigers [/b] B McGuane Silvester White HB N. Caruso Moore Casserly C Jackson Carnell Krakouer HF P. Bowden Riewoldt Oakley-Nicholls F Connors Schulz Hill R Ronaldson Neville Shelton Int Gazzo Simpson F. Caruso Huy Hughes Sewell Farrelly Horne [b]Geelong[/b] B Lonergan S. Hunt Callan HB Tenace Spencer D. Johnson C Davenport Byrne Varcoe HF Grima Playfair Gardiner F Gamble Hawkins Hogan R King Prismall Djerrkura Int Urie Hollmer Bedford West Firman Cheep Thompson Clarke

Strange game wasn't it...something like an 80 point turnaround from time on in the second term to the final siren. You can't take anything away from Coburg can you, they didn't even go the game with 12 AFL players today, it was an 11-11 mix. And they got so much out of their VFL players. At 3/4 time it seemed Williamstown had the scoring end in the final term, and after kicking the first of the quarter and getting it back to 18 points it looked like they'd make a game of it. But that last 20 minutes of footy from Coburg was probably as dominant as anybody has played all year, some junk time goals sure, but if they can take that sort of game into next week they'll be a big chance to win. A 15.8 to 2.7 second half in any game let alone a Prelim Final against a side who had a week off, with more AFL listed players and an aligned partner who are still in normal training mode was bloody impressive.