Barossa / Light League

[skipper]

Agree with Blockie on the Ango coach, he has certainly put out some instructions which are not in the spirit of the game. Is it all falling apart at Willaston? Perhaps this massive recruiting drive midway has backfired, they have certainly put my top 4 predictions in turmoil.

Skipper

[james07]

Agree with Blockie on the Ango coach, he has certainly put out some instructions which are not in the spirit of the game. Is it all falling apart at Willaston? Perhaps this massive recruiting drive midway has backfired, they have certainly put my top 4 predictions in turmoil.

Skipper

you might be right the skip i reckon there were egos there prior to the mid season recruit and i bet another one has now been brought to the club, the donnybrooks should bite the bullet and piss off those players and work with their youth from the under 17 flags and wait until the these guys have developed to have another crack at the flag

[Texas Rattlesnake]

This weeks games...

South Gawler V Barossa District
Angaston V Nuriootpa
Freeling V Gawler Centrals
Tanunda V Kapunda

My tips... South to get home in a cracker against Barossa, Nuri to beat the Panthers in another close one, Gawler Centrals to keep Freeling at the bottom and Tanunda to easily account for the Bombers.

[blockie]

South Gawler V Barossa District
Angaston V Nuriootpa
Freeling V Gawler Centrals
Tanunda V Kapunda

Think there will be some pretty close games all around this weekend. Players missing from some clubs re the Zone championships could have a big bearing on results, we shouldn't but it wouldn't surprise if we see an upset or two this week. A couple clubs might have their depth tested. Come through unscathed and smiles all around. Willaston would be pleased they have the weekend off!!

[skipper]

Interesting week with the zone game. The Bombers may well have staged an upset this week but it sounds as though the two Brads are playing in the zone and they couldn't even fill a B grade side last week, so I think the Blockies will slaughtler them. A Kapunda connection gave me the insight on the Willaston spat after the game. Sounds very angry between coach and captain, the Bombers players instead of listening to their coach listened intently through the wall to the argument. Not sure whether the captain has left the club since the June 30 deadline is up, can't see it happening. Barossa over South, should be a cracker of a game. Nuri over Ango, once again an absolute belter and perhaps some good hard footy. GC over Freeling, the hapless redlegs to remain bottom for the rest of the season, some big internal problems there.

Skipper

[brod]

South Gawler V Barossa District
Angaston V Nuriootpa
Freeling V Gawler Centrals
Tanunda V Kapunda

Think there will be some pretty close games all around this weekend. Players missing from some clubs re the Zone championships could have a big bearing on results, we shouldn't but it wouldn't surprise if we see an upset or two this week. A couple clubs might have their depth tested. Come through unscathed and smiles all around. Willaston would be pleased they have the weekend off!!

Aint that the truth

[holden06]

South Gawler V Barossa District
Angaston V Nuriootpa
Freeling V Gawler Centrals
Tanunda V Kapunda

I don't think Barossa will go down to south this time but will be a good game. It would be good to see Nuri over Ango just to see the Ango head coach loose his head. kapunda would have to put in a good one to keep their foot in the door for a top 4 spot.

[Sponge Bob]

RE, angaston coach. i watched only 1 qtr & listened to his 1/4 time address, & as i said he was "enthusiastic". since then i did some homework on him. coached GX b's to premiership, winning assoc B&F on the way. did well at TTG juniors. did well at Birdswood [2 GF's from memory,[sorry i should've written all this down]].not a success at golden grove [but ex-coach hovering in background]. seems to be improving the Ang. team from last year. got this from some-one who played under SJ as a senior player [ who never received instructions to do anything against the spirit of the game, as against being hard at the player with the ball ]. and as a very good footy story ask him what his "secret" weapon was against Hectorville was in the last 1/2 of the last game of the season in his 1st year of coaching.[again from memory].still a good story no matter when it happened. good luck to him ,as he seems to be the sort of person football needs to be involved in the game

I appointed him to his first coaching position, has always been enthusiastic, sometimes to the point of exhaustion. Gets the very red face and bursting veins under pressure, but with Johnno at least you get 100% 7 days of the week.

[sunbowler]

Blockie forgets that several senior Magpie players had big hits on some of Angaston's junior players in that game - eg Kennedy on Roesler.(free kick awarded). Was this the coach's instructions or did it just happen. I doubt Steve Lubke would issue any such order to his players, however that interpretation could be surmised from those clashes if one wanted to look at it that way. Johnno does coach with his heart on his sleeve however what he says is probably no different to what his opposition coach is either thinking or saying under his breath.
Its the old tree in the forest syndrome. Blocckie should be more worried about arriving at the GF in an undefeated canter, though at this stage a decent challenger doesn't appear to be around.

[blockie]

Blockie forgets that several senior Magpie players had big hits on some of Angaston's junior players in that game - eg Kennedy on Roesler.(free kick awarded). Was this the coach's instructions or did it just happen. I doubt Steve Lubke would issue any such order to his players, however that interpretation could be surmised from those clashes if one wanted to look at it that way. Johnno does coach with his heart on his sleeve however what he says is probably no different to what his opposition coach is either thinking or saying under his breath.
Its the old tree in the forest syndrome. Blocckie should be more worried about arriving at the GF in an undefeated canter, though at this stage a decent challenger doesn't appear to be around.

Ahh Sunbowler good to see you jump into another media forum, radio, paper and now the net...good work! Nice attempt to stir the pot too. Love seeing coaches, supporters and players being involved with their heart, but think you are drawing a very long bow between, the Kennedy hit and what you KNOW was said at the quarter time break, if my mail from poeple at the game is correct, both from Angaston and Tanunda. There is also a MASSIVE difference between what a coach might be thinking or saying under his breathe to what actually comes out of their mouths, perhaps you are not the sunbowler I think you are, because the one I know is far more sensible than to be making a comment like that, sounds more like the prophecy of media mike! In actual fact with the dig about going undefeated you probably are media mike. I am sure the ole metty eaters at Tanunda would not be fussed how many games are won or lost to get to the GF, first step is getting there and then let the game begin. Have fun on the Radio bloke!!

[brod]

Murray Mallee Barrier Barossa Zone:

RFL: Ryan Bennett, Matt Camplin, Michael Arnold, Ryan Proud, Peter Safralidis, Leigh Kruger, Josh Keller, Damien Stevens.
MFL: Wade Nickolls, Josh Richardson, Lachlan Richardson, Shaun Walker.
BHFL: Jarred Ruddock.
BLGFA: Matt Stelzer, Brad Taylor, Brad Valentine, Shaun Gibson, Ben Newberry, A Prior, L Wells, Chris McLean, G Bain, A Pech, D Leske.

[skipper]

Thanks for the side Brod, 11 from the BLG not at all and they still couldn't find a spot for the Brad Taylor from GC (big wrap for him). Can't believe 5 in the squad are from 2 clubs though (Bombers & Blockies), the Bombers may well struggle without those two. I'm with you blockie on the Ango coach and it would certainly appear that there was some bias going on there. Kennedy is one of the fairest players in comp and we all know that Lubke would never send any player out to belt another. This league is now one of the fairest around with very little dirty stuff going on. I consider Ango as the dirtiest side in the comp and still can't believe Bascombe is deputy captain, sums them up.

Skipper

[holden06]

Skippy. You said that you find Ango the dirty team. I would have to throw South Gawler into that.
I saw that Coombs was listed in the South team. What are they thinking? I hear things are not good out there and the coach is fed up with the team bagging each other on the field. To help him out I would say get rid of Coombs. Hang up the boots Coombs and that will give you more time to eat the pie's.

[skipper]

No arguments from me Holden06, this comp doesn't need players like coombs that stir the pot and are only here for themselves, I thought he was gone anyway. I did see South play once this year without coombs and it was a very fair game with no dirty stuff. Results are about what you wold expect this week, with the redlegs now confirming they will probably hold the bottom spot but don't be surprised if Ango slip down and they both battle it out for that wooden spoon. Anyone see GC new recruit this weekend, and if so how did he go?

Skip

[John Doe]

Skipper, "Ango the dirtiest side in the comp?. That's an interesting call when you look at their list & its nearly all kids!. What are you basing this on?, or do you simply have an axe to grind? So much of what I read in here seems to be based on 2nd & 3rd hand information and ludicrous theories that you have to try and dissect the agenda's to see what's really being said. Take Blockie for example, he seems to be the minister for propaganda from Tanunda. That's my opening rant over with, there were some big results on the weekend, kap and ango crashing back down to earth and gawler cents smashing a terrible freeling team to show they are building towards being legitimate contenders come sept.

[blockie]

Dear John

Lovely to have you join the forum. Interesting that you now jump onboard when questions are being asked about Angaston, when you complain about 2nd and 3rd hand information so no doubt you will be able to give us the exact information from Panther land? Or at the least state the club you follow up front! As for me being the Minister of Propoganda for Tanunda, if you can show me where I have been doing as you suggested in this forum please enlighten me!! (apart from dig at the ole metty eaters in my last post), but if you think that is Propoganda well... I'll leave that to Sven, he is the man when it come to left field thinking and creating an atmosphere of enthusiasm around the games, even if some of it really stretches the imagination!!!

Sincerely Blockie

[John Doe]

Dear John

Lovely to have you join the forum. Interesting that you now jump onboard when questions are being asked about Angaston, when you complain about 2nd and 3rd hand information so no doubt you will be able to give us the exact information from Panther land? Or at the least state the club you follow up front! As for me being the Minister of Propoganda for Tanunda, if you can show me where I have been doing as you suggested in this forum please enlighten me!! (apart from dig at the ole metty eaters in my last post), but if you think that is Propoganda well... I'll leave that to Sven, he is the man when it come to left field thinking and creating an atmosphere of enthusiasm around the games, even if some of it really stretches the imagination!!!

Sincerely Blockie

Yep, I'm an Angaston supporter, I won't try and hide that. In an interesting development Barossa Dist, trailed by 2 pts at three quarter time, their super coach might've been a bit nervous about hafey having a crack if they lost.

[skipper]

John Doe all first hand info as I have been playing in this league since I was junior and have only stopped this year due to old age. I have no axe to grind with ango, one of my best mates plays for you guys and I just want to see this club get back to playing finals footy. Sorry if the truth hurts but if we all just play footy we will not have to talk about this anymore. When I was junior the Barossa & Light clubs complained about the Gawler sides but look at them now they have all turned over a new leaf and play very good fair footy (except for coombs, Holden06 thats for you). I watch Blockies biased rants but who isn't biased but I'm not too sure about the propaganda bit. Good forum and despite what you think I'm not an ango hater, there is just a lot of talk about the coach and the players and thats just not on this forum.

Skip

[blockie]

Steady on Skippper and John Doe, biased rants maybe I should start if you two reckon I am already ranting and raving in a biased manner. Could you think of a more opportune time to rant than when you haven't lost a game yet. Not saying that Tan will go through the whole season without a loss that would just be too much of a wet dream!!

I'll chat to Sven and get the ranting and raving really started!! After all isn't that what makes Footy such a great game, you can get just involved off the field as on it!!! Enjoy when you are winning and cop it when ya ain't !! LOL!!

[John Doe]

Lets have some early tips for coach of the year. For mine Mark Brant is the standout, he's done a great job with his young Tigers, gotta give Rian Nelson an honourable mention just to give hafey the s#*ts