SAAFL Division 7 & D7R (2012)

[finn]

I was at the game and I am a Henley supporter.
There was an incident in the 2nd quarter in the fwd pocket for Henley that went like this:
- Henley player copped a high tackle from a bloke a foot taller than him. it was an unsporting high tackle intended to either hurt or intimidate him. probably not a send off if the umpire had seen it.
- Henley player remonstrated with the offending player (gave him a few pushes to his chest), ... basically inviting the bloke to punch him
- Henley player gets punched in the mouth

As for the guy that belted him - he looked pretty rough and prone to that sort response.

so if the Henley player is complaining about getting belted, perhaps he could consider a more appropriate course of action next time he gets an unsporting high tackle. ie COP IT AND GET ON WITH THE BLOODY GAME!

Players, coaches and spectators respect that a lot more, and he's much less likely to give you a rude high tackle next time.

But, he bit off more than he could chew and was lucky not to have his jaw broken.

I'm not sure what the Henley player thought he was going to achieve by carrying on with it, all he did was rizz up the Smithies crowd, and a few of the Smithies players, so for the next few minutes there were a few reckless tackles that followed - putting his team-mates at risk.

Just play footy FFS.

Interesting assessment, don't poke the bear because sometimes the bear bites back. Back in the CDFA days you just learnt to get on with it or there's a fair chance you will cop one.
You mentioned that a high deliberate tackle initiated the tempers, I wasn't there at the time but I must say watching 6 or 7 games a weekend tackling has become very sloppy nowadays, it used to feature all of the time at trainings as I remember playing British Bulldog at least once a week at training as a kid, teams are too worried about injuries caused by friendly fire today and therefore hardly anyone lays a good clean tackle any more.

Let me get this right - the henley guy bears the brunt of causation for reacting to an unsporting high tackle intended to either hurt or intimidate him by pushing somebody in the chest who then hit him?

Sounds like the Smithfield guy needs some discipline more than the Henley guy - who, granted sometimes its better to just ignore the physical crap dealt out.

[Yank Man]

More than a couple of big games saturday. Nth Pines v Henley. Result could go either way. Flinders Pk v TTG. Both with good forward ins. Demant from parks back from the 2's, and Mann from Gullies back from the 2's. Mitchell Park v Modbury. The Lions struggled against gullies last week and Modbury beat a new look Pines, and Angle Vale v the old foe in Smithfield. Div 7 is alive and well and is a credit to all the clubs striving to improve. Good luck to all.

[BPwizard]

Spot on Yank Man.

I might think match of the round Flinders V TTG
Thats where i might head to.

[supersonicgun]

I've seen some of the names at the pines this year and if they were able to get them on the park all on the same day it would be a pretty awesome team look out for them in the second half of the year

[morell]

*crickets*

[Yank Man]

*crickets*

[old fullback]

TTG's G.Mount still dominating i see.

[Yank Man]

TTG's G.Mount still dominating i see.

A class player. With P Uncle changing with him forward they are a very experienced duo. Josh Mann gives them a real target up forward and with Mount, Uncle and Mann playing on the same day,they havn't dropped a game in two years. Bring on injuries.

[dee man]

even though i dont have anything to do with MP any more the best news i have about them this year has nothing to do with wins,success or new recruits
the most important thing for me is that mark harro harrison is back doing what he loves
yes he is having a great year but more importantly this young man has come back from a low point in his life has grown and is doing well in life and footy
to me that is better than premierships or wins
great work harro

[Yank Man]

even though i dont have anything to do with MP any more the best news i have about them this year has nothing to do with wins,success or new recruits
the most important thing for me is that mark harro harrison is back doing what he loves
yes he is having a great year but more importantly this young man has come back from a low point in his life has grown and is doing well in life and footy
to me that is better than premierships or wins
great work harro

Just one member of 30 trying to get an A grade game. His journey is better kept in house.

[dee man]

even though i dont have anything to do with MP any more the best news i have about them this year has nothing to do with wins,success or new recruits
the most important thing for me is that mark harro harrison is back doing what he loves
yes he is having a great year but more importantly this young man has come back from a low point in his life has grown and is doing well in life and footy
to me that is better than premierships or wins
great work harro

Just one member of 30 trying to get an A grade game. His journey is better kept in house.

thats where we differ
its not about the footy
and stories like that have the ability to help so many more people who have a choice to make the right one
2 points are 2 [points ina day and a year but a life is for so much more

[morell]

Would have thought Harro would be the one to either communicate his experience or keep in house. Up to him.

All I know is he has been great this year and as I said earlier would be leading the best and fairest if it were up to me. He has been very effective with his ability to balance creativity out of the backlines with tight and accountable defensive play. He has both saved goals with his desperation AND created goals with his run. Not an easy thing to do.

[Modnog]

Away with work and just caught up on the weekend scores, more detailed write ups on all games would be appreciated! Obviously from the scores I've seen, MP are a force to be reckoned with!

[morell]

Mitchell Park kicked away to a 8 goals to 1 lead in the first 10 minutes and I thought it was going to be an absolute shellacking. Modbury sorted a few things out and mixed up the matchups and stemmed the tide to go into the quarter time break with the margin staying the same. A few home truths were spoken to the Hawk lads and they responded really well I thought. Put some players behind the ball to clog up the space and managed to go into half time about 10 or so goals down. The second half was a bit of a dour affair with neither side really playing great footy. Mitchell Park's class up front, work rate in the middle and strength in the back-lines ultimately proved too much for the much improved, and very young, Modbury team.

For Mitchell Park Michael "Shy" Mazey was dashing off a wing and had a great day - runs like Andrew McLeod. Jarrad "Dreamboat - stay away from my missus" Daish was again excellent, the girls are looking forward to the calendar. Nat McDonell was strong all day kicking 7 and Troy Potuszynski in a new role up forward to fill in for Luke was also good. Harro in the back-lines as previously mentioned brilliant once again.

As a side note and with the current culture of bagging umpires on here, I thought the Modbury B Grade Umpire was excellent.

[story of my life]

Good call morrell, Modbury b grade umpire was great. Like the Smithfield bloke as soon as he blew the whistle you knew what the decision would be, didn't matter where on the ground the free kick occured. These two have been better than a quite a few a grade umpires we have had this year

[Sass!]

Mitchell Park kicked away to a 8 goals to 1 lead in the first 10 minutes and I thought it was going to be an absolute shellacking. Modbury sorted a few things out and mixed up the matchups and stemmed the tide to go into the quarter time break with the margin staying the same. A few home truths were spoken to the Hawk lads and they responded really well I thought. Put some players behind the ball to clog up the space and managed to go into half time about 10 or so goals down. The second half was a bit of a dour affair with neither side really playing great footy. Mitchell Park's class up front, work rate in the middle and strength in the back-lines ultimately proved too much for the much improved, and very young, Modbury team.

For Mitchell Park Michael "Shy" Mazey was dashing off a wing and had a great day - runs like Andrew McLeod. Jarrad "Dreamboat - stay away from my missus" Daish was again excellent, the girls are looking forward to the calendar. Nat McDonell was strong all day kicking 7 and Troy Potuszynski in a new role up forward to fill in for Luke was also good. Harro in the back-lines as previously mentioned brilliant once again.

As a side note and with the current culture of bagging umpires on here, I thought the Modbury B Grade Umpire was excellent.

Thanks for that Morrell, it was always going to be a huge task for our C grade with about 30 blokes unavailable from the week before, i know the B grade pinched a couple of there best and then they lost about 5 (quality players) of there starting 21 to injury or work from the week before, never going to make the job easy against a side travelling as well as yours that is for sure! Impressed with our D grade however, too only lose by 4 or 5 goals (i think?) when we had to call on our club president and C grade coach to play is a decent effort.. No doubt the boys can bounce back strongly against another quality side in Flinders Park.

Good news about our umpire, assuming it was Dave Rawson?? been umpring for many many years over various grades. Does alot around the club.

[Footy Smart]

Mitchell Park kicked away to a 8 goals to 1 lead in the first 10 minutes and I thought it was going to be an absolute shellacking. Modbury sorted a few things out and mixed up the matchups and stemmed the tide to go into the quarter time break with the margin staying the same. A few home truths were spoken to the Hawk lads and they responded really well I thought. Put some players behind the ball to clog up the space and managed to go into half time about 10 or so goals down. The second half was a bit of a dour affair with neither side really playing great footy. Mitchell Park's class up front, work rate in the middle and strength in the back-lines ultimately proved too much for the much improved, and very young, Modbury team.

For Mitchell Park Michael "Shy" Mazey was dashing off a wing and had a great day - runs like Andrew McLeod. Jarrad "Dreamboat - stay away from my missus" Daish was again excellent, the girls are looking forward to the calendar. Nat McDonell was strong all day kicking 7 and Troy Potuszynski in a new role up forward to fill in for Luke was also good. Harro in the back-lines as previously mentioned brilliant once again.

As a side note and with the current culture of bagging umpires on here, I thought the Modbury B Grade Umpire was excellent.

Thanks for that Morrell, it was always going to be a huge task for our C grade with about 30 blokes unavailable from the week before, i know the B grade pinched a couple of there best and then they lost about 5 (quality players) of there starting 21 to injury or work from the week before, never going to make the job easy against a side travelling as well as yours that is for sure! Impressed with our D grade however, too only lose by 4 or 5 goals (i think?) when we had to call on our club president and C grade coach to play is a decent effort.. No doubt the boys can bounce back strongly against another quality side in Flinders Park.

Good news about our umpire, assuming it was Dave Rawson?? been umpring for many many years over various grades. Does alot around the club.

Yeah couldnt believe it when I got told we had 31 unavailable for last week, should get a stack back this week hopefully. Raws has officiated well over 300 games and although he retires every year when we tap him on the shoulder he gets the whistle out again and again. Some times we think he favours the oposition just so he doesnt get seen as favouring MFC

[Modnog]

Thanks Morell, the write up's much appreciated. Being away with work and out of the side makes it difficult to glean the finer details of the game from just seeing the scores on the website. I managed to get in contact with someone at Modbury and they reiterated and clarified the points raised by SASS.

32 players N/A from the previous week however still filled 4 sides (Div 2 and Div 7), good sign's to come.
8 changes from the C's from the previous week Blokes up or out, pulling guys up from the D's
MP well drilled hard great run off the backline which set up play in there forward line
No Modbury bench from half time & finished the last 10 mins of the game with 17 men but hey things happen like that in footy
After the game a comment was made from a MP spectator to the C grade coach that no matter the score line your blokes got in a huddle after the game and had a positive outlook Good young team! The C's are a team in the making with a bright future ahead!!

Like I've said before, aside from MP, who are obviously the pace setters in this division, the next seven teams on the ladder are all in the mix provided they can field their best 21 on the park that day. I see 3 potentially tough games ahead for MP in NP, Henley and FP. Having played against two of the three teams, they are physical and equally as well drilled. Both having running midfields/half backlines that provide ample opportunity for their potent forward lines to score and score quickly. Only time will tell? Thanks again for the write up.

Mitchell Park kicked away to a 8 goals to 1 lead in the first 10 minutes and I thought it was going to be an absolute shellacking. Modbury sorted a few things out and mixed up the matchups and stemmed the tide to go into the quarter time break with the margin staying the same. A few home truths were spoken to the Hawk lads and they responded really well I thought. Put some players behind the ball to clog up the space and managed to go into half time about 10 or so goals down. The second half was a bit of a dour affair with neither side really playing great footy. Mitchell Park's class up front, work rate in the middle and strength in the back-lines ultimately proved too much for the much improved, and very young, Modbury team.

For Mitchell Park Michael "Shy" Mazey was dashing off a wing and had a great day - runs like Andrew McLeod. Jarrad "Dreamboat - stay away from my missus" Daish was again excellent, the girls are looking forward to the calendar. Nat McDonell was strong all day kicking 7 and Troy Potuszynski in a new role up forward to fill in for Luke was also good. Harro in the back-lines as previously mentioned brilliant once again.

As a side note and with the current culture of bagging umpires on here, I thought the Modbury B Grade Umpire was excellent.

Thanks for that Morrell, it was always going to be a huge task for our C grade with about 30 blokes unavailable from the week before, i know the B grade pinched a couple of there best and then they lost about 5 (quality players) of there starting 21 to injury or work from the week before, never going to make the job easy against a side travelling as well as yours that is for sure! Impressed with our D grade however, too only lose by 4 or 5 goals (i think?) when we had to call on our club president and C grade coach to play is a decent effort.. No doubt the boys can bounce back strongly against another quality side in Flinders Park.

Good news about our umpire, assuming it was Dave Rawson?? been umpring for many many years over various grades. Does alot around the club.

[HAWKBOY]

Mitchell Park kicked away to a 8 goals to 1 lead in the first 10 minutes and I thought it was going to be an absolute shellacking. Modbury sorted a few things out and mixed up the matchups and stemmed the tide to go into the quarter time break with the margin staying the same. A few home truths were spoken to the Hawk lads and they responded really well I thought. Put some players behind the ball to clog up the space and managed to go into half time about 10 or so goals down. The second half was a bit of a dour affair with neither side really playing great footy. Mitchell Park's class up front, work rate in the middle and strength in the back-lines ultimately proved too much for the much improved, and very young, Modbury team.

For Mitchell Park Michael "Shy" Mazey was dashing off a wing and had a great day - runs like Andrew McLeod. Jarrad "Dreamboat - stay away from my missus" Daish was again excellent, the girls are looking forward to the calendar. Nat McDonell was strong all day kicking 7 and Troy Potuszynski in a new role up forward to fill in for Luke was also good. Harro in the back-lines as previously mentioned brilliant once again.

As a side note and with the current culture of bagging umpires on here, I thought the Modbury B Grade Umpire was excellent.

Morell, Really great wrap up. MP were dominant and the run they had off halfback was superb.
Can I also say that MP played hard, physical football but I don't think there was one single incident all day. The supporters were vocal, but I didnt hear any really poor comments at all. Good ribbing, which you expect, but a really great crowd and a club to be proud of. Hopefully next time we can return the favour both on and off the field.

[carey]

I must atke my hat off to C and D grade coaches. We just have 2 sides but in round 3 we had 15 unavailable of the A grade sqaud of 28 so if you add to this a few B graders out then a few C and D graders gee it must be hard to find some balance as to what line up your going to have on a saturday.

Must ask also how many changes would you guys have from say Thursday nights selected side till Saturday when you actually run out?

The week just gone was the first this year weve played as selected.