QAFL vs WAFL

[brent]

Its not SANFL, but i am still very excited, as today I will go to my first real game of footy in over 3 years... the QAFL take on the WAFL this afternoon at the brand new Tony Ireland Stadium in Townsville.

Now, I should add that I would list Townsville as being one of the least interested towns in Australia for Aussie Rules, but there are more ex-Victorians here than cane toads so there should be plenty of support. Apparently Qld knocked off Tasmania last year which is a real breakthrough, but on paper WA should smash them so long as they can adjust to the 27 degree temperatures. Hopefully some Daryl White magic for the Maroons.

Queensland

Backs: N Kinch, T Tarrant, S Clouston
Half Backs: A Spackman, S Morrison, D White
Centres: D Hawkins, A Evans, S Carins
Half Forwards: A Shattock, J Gough, R Bail
Forwards: D Zorko, K Abey, J Maddern
Followers: M Andrews, D Lillico
Rover: M Payne
Interchange: J Burge, W Dickson, D O’Brien, S Tapp, D Wise

Western Australia

CLAREMONT: Ian Richardson
EAST FREMANTLE: Andrew McCarrey
EAST PERTH: Andrew Merrington
PEEL THUNDER: Hayden Ballantyne, Simon Rosa, Zac Beeck
PERTH: Ross Young, Scott Siekierka, Jarrod Kayler-Thompson
SOUTH FREMANTLE: Toby McGrath
SUBIACO: Blake Broadhurst, Aidan Parker, Darren Rumble, Kyal Horsley, Ben Keevers, Greg Broughton, Shaun Hildebrandt, Adam Cockie, Phil Read, Luke Newick
SWAN DISTRICTS: Brett Robinson
WEST PERTH: Jason Salecic, Brent LeCras

[Rik E Boy]

The WAFL got creamed by the VFL last year so a good measuring stick for the QAFL. Townsville provides an evil home ground advantage though so really the locals shouldn't get smashed, but yeah - it's hard to see them getting up against the West.

regards,

REB

[magpie in the 80's]

QUEENSLAND not going with youth will hurt them

doug hawkins on the wing and justin maddern up forward

[godoubleblues]

a couple of names there for QLD, I assume that is Aaron Shattock, the ex Lion and Tom Tarrant who played for South Adelaide for a year or 2

I would love to be up there for it, I used to live in Townsville and I loved the place, apparently the new ground that has been redeveloped from the old West Townsville Bulldogs ground looks good, what are your thoughts on the new stadium Brent?

[brent]

new ground looks great. apparently ground dimensions are the same size as the gabba.

a good pic at this link:

http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/resources/251.pdf

[brent]

and they sell farmers union iced coffee just around the corner so i might have to grab one of those for the game too

[Wedgie]

a couple of names there for QLD, I assume that is Aaron Shattock, the ex Lion and Tom Tarrant who played for South Adelaide for a year or 2

And Danny Wise who played for North, I still have his shirt that he was supposed to have for the Darwin trip but I tell people my name's not Wise its just my state of mind.

[mighty_tiger_79]

the WAFL should keep the tradition of flogging QLD by 20+ goals

[godoubleblues]

new ground looks great. apparently ground dimensions are the same size as the gabba.

a good pic at this link:

http://www.townsville.qld.gov.au/resources/251.pdf

cheers for the link, it looks good, hope it is a good day with a good crowd

[brent]

WAFL won by about 10 goals

WA were a class above Queensland although they still looked ordinary and would have been flogged by SANFL or VFL today.

Local security guards were telling off a bunch of sandgropers for making too much noise and banging on the fence. Everyone there was telling the security guard that its "the done thing" at the footy and to f**k off. Classic...

Crowd was a disappointing 1000 or so by my estimation (not too bad in the context)

[Big Phil]

a couple of names there for QLD, I assume that is Aaron Shattock, the ex Lion and Tom Tarrant who played for South Adelaide for a year or 2

I would love to be up there for it, I used to live in Townsville and I loved the place, apparently the new ground that has been redeveloped from the old West Townsville Bulldogs ground looks good, what are your thoughts on the new stadium Brent?

Also D Wise... ??

Is that Daniel Wise who played for for both Woodville West Torrens and North Adelaide ???

I know David Lillico for Queensland played a couple of years out at Centrals, back in late 90's, early 2000's I think...

Big Phil...

[Mickyj]

a couple of names there for QLD, I assume that is Aaron Shattock, the ex Lion and Tom Tarrant who played for South Adelaide for a year or 2

I would love to be up there for it, I used to live in Townsville and I loved the place, apparently the new ground that has been redeveloped from the old West Townsville Bulldogs ground looks good, what are your thoughts on the new stadium Brent?

Also D Wise... ??

Is that Daniel Wise who played for for both Woodville West Torrens and North Adelaide ???

I know David Lillico for Queensland played a couple of years out at Centrals, back in late 90's, early 2000's I think...

Big Phil...

and Shattock was a former Eagle as well .

[Sojourner]

Still would like to see Subiaco play Westies or South at Subiaco in a match to see who really would win it!

[godoubleblues]

a couple of names there for QLD, I assume that is Aaron Shattock, the ex Lion and Tom Tarrant who played for South Adelaide for a year or 2

I would love to be up there for it, I used to live in Townsville and I loved the place, apparently the new ground that has been redeveloped from the old West Townsville Bulldogs ground looks good, what are your thoughts on the new stadium Brent?

Also D Wise... ??

Is that Daniel Wise who played for for both Woodville West Torrens and North Adelaide ???

I know David Lillico for Queensland played a couple of years out at Centrals, back in late 90's, early 2000's I think...

Big Phil...

check out the post from Wedgie above, Danny Wise did play for North Adelaide

[Rik E Boy]

Still would like to see Subiaco play Westies or South at Subiaco in a match to see who really would win it!

A fair home ground advantage there. Subiaco might even be able to beat Centrals at Subi.

regards,

REB

[HeartBeatsTrue]

Ben McEntee injured?

I thought the QAFL teams were mainly in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast? If so, why was it played in Townsville? 1000 was a pretty good crowd if thats the case.

[Navy2005]

Ben McEntee injured?

I thought the QAFL teams were mainly in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast? If so, why was it played in Townsville? 1000 was a pretty good crowd if thats the case.

Yes the QAFL is mainly based in Brisbane and th Gold Coast however they are trying to promote Aussie Rules (and the new stadium) up in Townsville and to see whether it worth staging an AFL pre season game up there. For the record crowd attendance was closer to 2000 (about 1800) says so on bigfooty.com