VAFA ROUND 2.indd - Victorian Amateur Football Association
VAFA ROUND 2.indd - Victorian Amateur Football Association
VAFA ROUND 2.indd - Victorian Amateur Football Association
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CLUB XVIII<br />
Norm Nugent<br />
SAME<br />
AGAIN?<br />
The season opened with many one sided match<br />
results, which may prove telling or may just prove<br />
to have been an opening Round aberration. Let us<br />
hope the latter is the true interpretation.<br />
Right from the start, Old Xaverians and Old<br />
Melburnians stamped their class on Section<br />
One and a second successive Grand Final clash<br />
seemingly awaits them. The Xaverians were eighty<br />
one point winners over University Blacks, who<br />
finished third last year. Old Melburnians gave Old<br />
Ivanhoe a torrid time as the “Hoes” returned to the<br />
competition. With victory by 25 goals, the Old<br />
Melburnians certainly built percentage.<br />
The closest game of the round was that where<br />
Prahran/ Assumption, despite inaccurate kicking,<br />
defeated Monash Blues by nineteen points. De La<br />
Salle went to ladder leadership with a one hundred<br />
point win over St Bernard’s, whose Season started<br />
miserably.<br />
Up North, early matches were no assistance to<br />
either Old Paradians or Therry Penola as each<br />
suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of a 2010<br />
Finalist. Banyule, with David Witchell kicking 6<br />
goals, won at Bundoora by forty three points<br />
while at Oak Park, Fitzroy finished fifty eight points<br />
ahead.<br />
A powerful, Old Carey overcame all Richmond<br />
Central opposition to win by eighty nine points.<br />
For Carey, Callum O’Brien starred with 6 goals.<br />
Ivanhoe started well with the wind to lead<br />
Williamstown CYMS by ten points at quarter time.<br />
Unfortunately for the newcomers, they managed<br />
only four more scores as Williamstown took<br />
control and won in a canter by eighty six points.<br />
In the afternoon match, North Old Boys/ St<br />
Patrick’s had a convincing sixty three point win<br />
over the inaccurate University High School/ V.U.T.<br />
Down South, inaccuracy cost AJAX dearly as their<br />
game against Mazenod was lost by twenty two<br />
points after a very even contest.<br />
Old Geelong made Club XVIII history through<br />
their sixty eight point defeat of Richmond Central<br />
because for the first time ever they head a ladder.<br />
Ormond accounted for the inaccurate newcomers,<br />
Hawthorn by fifty points.<br />
Ormond forward, Metz, with seven majors actually<br />
outscored Hawthorn by himself!!<br />
TODAY<br />
Old Ivanhoe can expect another torrid encounter<br />
against Old Xaverians, who should take the four<br />
points despite the strangeness of Chelsworth Park<br />
to most of its players.<br />
In another afternoon game, Old Melburnians<br />
should continue on their winning way by<br />
accounting for Prahran/ Assumption.<br />
Monash Blues make their “Great Trek” to play St<br />
Bernard’s who surely will offer more resistance at<br />
home than they did away in Round 1. Nevertheless<br />
Monash should take the points.<br />
Although I expect University Blacks to show<br />
improved form today when they meet leaders, De<br />
La Salle, I believe the visitors will win comfortably.<br />
Two of last week’s big winners, Banyule and Old<br />
Carey meet at Banyule in a morning match. My<br />
“mail” tells me that Banyule will field a stronger<br />
side than that which won last week. Conversely I<br />
am told Carey will lose several of last week’s stars<br />
to Premier Reserves. Therefore I select Banyule to<br />
win again.<br />
North Old Boys/ St Patrick’s should make it two<br />
wins in a row by defeating Ivanhoe on the Gillon<br />
Oval, where I suspect the lack of running fitness of<br />
48 THE AMATEUR FOOTBALLER 2011<br />
SPORTS INJURY CASUALTY - OPEN 1-7 SATURDAY