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MYSTERY surrounds exactly who will line up for Collingwood against North Ballarat in a do-or-die Victorian Football League preliminary final at Port Melbourne today.
Speculation was rife yesterday that the Magpies' number-one ruckman Josh Fraser might be a late call-up for Collingwood to face Geelong in the AFL preliminary final tonight.

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NORTH Ballarat's Myles Sewell is the Victorian Football League best and fairest.
Sewell last night polled 18 votes to capture the time honoured JJ Liston Trophy.

The Roosters premiership player finished with 18 votes - two clear of Werribee Tigers youngster Michael Barlow.

From the Ballarat Courier
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BILLY Driscoll is racing against time to be fit for North Ballarat's next assignment - a Victorian Football League preliminary final next Saturday.
Driscoll is doing everything asked of him to recover from a cracked heel.

However, he will face his biggest test at training on Wednesday.

From the Ballarat Courier
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NORTH Ballarat has made a multitude of changes two weeks out from the Victorian Football League finals.
Injuries and a transitional period at North Melbourne might result in up to nine different players lining up for the Selkirk Roosters against Bendigo Bombers at Windy Hill on Sunday.

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DEFENDER Matt Sharkey failed a fitness test last night and will miss North Ballarat's encounter with Collingwood in the Victorian Football League at Eureka Stadium in Ballarat tomorrow.

Sharkey is out with an injured right wrist.

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NORTH Ballarat is a new joint Victorian Football League premiership favourite.

The Roosters made the biggest statement to date in their premiership defence with a two-point victory over the previously unbeaten Williamstown at Williamstown yesterday.

Williamstown had been unchallenged in its opening six assignments for the season, but met its match in a disciplined North Ballarat, 14.16 (100) to 15.8 (98).

North Ballarat coach Gerard FitzGerald said the win indicated how far the Roosters had come since the start of the season _ when thrashed by Williamstown in a practice match and then brushed aside by Port Melbourne in the opening round.

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NORTH BALLARAT will have to wait another three weeks before playing its first match of the Victorian Football League season at its home ground.
Roosters officials yesterday declared the refurbished playing surface at Eureka Stadium would not be ready for use on May 24 as scheduled.

From the Stawell News-Times
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North Ballarat will bring the Victorian Football League to Stawell this weekend when it hosts Bendigo Bombers at Central Park on Sunday.
The Roosters and Bombers met for the first time at Central Park in 2007, and following the success of that venture, the fixture will return in 2009.

North Ballarat CEO Mark Patterson said he was proud to be bringing the VFL back to Stawell.