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[bullant10]

Another big round in D1!
At the therry v BT game yesterday and it was an absolute beauty. Both teams knew it was a must win and came out extremely hard early. One point deciding a hard fought game.
BT went into the game with a few out but after last week against a good side in OMs knew they had to deliver and did, well done boys!
St Leos were the upset of the round and well done to them.
Week off for everyone to get over their little niggles and come out firing.
Keep up the thread

 

[kingbrown]

That's great ox, lets move on and talk footy. I think i do smell the roses though Ox, i love D1 footy. Haven't seen BT but Therry if they get everything right can beat anyone. Oc was a great comeback, they are too good to stay down for long. We have a real tough 2 weeks ahead with OG and BT, the rest this week is very important to us.

 

[DG-Man]

Tipping Comp

MJS2 - 7

Henry - 6
Sideshowbob - 6
DG-Man - 6
Is It So - 6
Moss Rocket - 6
Ugly Dermie - 6

St.Kevs Cowboy - 5
Hansie - 5
Bullant - 5

OC37 - 4
Midas - 4
Kingbrown - 4
Bede Me Up - 4
Mystery Dog - 4

OM28 - 3
I Love Sandra Sully - 3

John Cena - 2

Please note: If you don't tip you get away teams. Week 1 = 1 winner, week 2 = 2 winners.

 

[I Love Sandra Sully]

Aloha from sunny Hawaii.... As all you Rupy blokes know me and half the team decided to take a short vacation and an extended break.... Can anyone tell me what the results were??

 

[DG-Man]

Rupo by 150 points (as they were playing Leos)

That's all i think!

 

[sideshowbob]

can anyone from rupertswood please confirm for me if the following players didn't play on the weekend after playing Old Carey the week before.

Brennan, Temming, Whitehead, Jeager, Bishop, Monzell,

Surley not all these blokes were injured, maybe an extended break considering you were playing a team that hadn't one a game ?

I think it shows just how even the comp is and you need to be on your game to win.

 

[I Love Sandra Sully]

Can confirm that the sun is shining and the Pina Colada's are flowing....

Oi Monz you curly haired potato look alike........ Grab us another one of those coconut drinks!!

Sandra out!

 

[uglydermie]

Can anyone confirm that there where a couple of big injuries at the Old Geelong V Old Carey game? My sources tell me that maybe A Parton has a pretty serious ankle injury circa 4-6 weeks... No shame about being beaten out at Burwood by the Animals - funny ground and a proud committed club. Biggest surprise of the round for me was the dismal showing by banyule. I know OM are on the improve but this was a fair old smacking. My boys had a great win at Therry - never headed all day - convincing 1 points winners.....


Ugly reckons the final 4 may be set but not convinced the order is right. Look for some big results over the next 4 weeks.

 

[hansie]

Can anyone confirm that there where a couple of big injuries at the Old Geelong V Old Carey game? My sources tell me that maybe A Parton has a pretty serious ankle injury circa 4-6 weeks... No shame about being beaten out at Burwood by the Animals - funny ground and a proud committed club. Biggest surprise of the round for me was the dismal showing by banyule. I know OM are on the improve but this was a fair old smacking. My boys had a great win at Therry - never headed all day - convincing 1 points winners.....


Ugly reckons the final 4 may be set but not convinced the order is right. Look for some big results over the next 4 weeks.

Dolly looked fine after the game, and in fine form at the 'lock-in' Sat nite @ the Bung, so not sure about your mail there Derm.

 

[DG-Man]

Not sure about your mail either Ugly. For one, S.Collo was out there, playing a great game. Not sure what this broken wrist story was?? Re Dolly, looked spot on. Definately no ankle injury. May have a sore groin (as you reported last week) but not noticeable from sidelines. When the Oggers were finishing hard, the big Carey captain threw himself in the guts and strong bodied his way to 2-3 key clearances. He then took a great mark down forward to close the gate.
At the Oggery, i can confidently say that no major injuries came from the 1's. The Big Hyphen looked a little sore, but i am sure will play in 2 weeks time.
I don't know the Carey boys well enough, and perhaps Uglydermie you do, however i get the feeling you are just lobbing out a couple of wild theories / gamesmanship about the Panthers from Bulleen.
I would say the wrist and groin injuries are incorrect. And it seems you are targetting the best 2 players for Carey. Not sure what you are up to............but i think i like it!!!!

 

[uglydermie]

Ease up on the conspiracy theories DG . Ugly just reports what he hears. Must have been a great game at the wetlands. I also have the mail that Dolly may be in line for the captaincy of the state team. Now I am also happy to put it on the record that he would be one of the more deserving skippers ever at C-D level. I for one love the loyalty of a gun player who is prepared to stick with his mates and play at a club for the love of it rather playing higher up the grade with teams/ players you dont know. By all means have a crack at the highest level you can but make sure when all is said and done that you return to your mates and enjoy it.

I will give you a wild theory thou if you want one. Ugly has heard from the very secure source that the Bullants may be about to welcome back a few of their cagey old veterans with the view of easing them back in the fold. In 2004, their premiership team had 4 players who had played no more than 6 games in total between them during the home and away rounds only to figure very prominently in the last 2 weeks of September (one of whom played 80 AFL games).
Now that is a tantilising prospect for the Bullant fans out there....no more to be said at this time....

may just be a wild rumour thou.......

Ugly-out (and obviously not very busy today)

 

[kingbrown]

Ugly, 40-50 supporters of the animals clapped there side off on Saturday, after a tremendous effort. They are proud and it makes the competition even better. Seen Dolly play against Rupo with a groin injury, and was still a strong factor up forward. Fully fit is a daunting prospect for any side!
Still interested in examples of D1 clubs with players at AFL level from there juniors or VFl, Vic Metro etc. Stanton from Banyule, Jackson from OC, Kelly from Rupo. Go even further back, many clubs have been around alot longer than us.

 

[St.Kev's Cowboy]

Am following the Rupertswood side around as of late. Definately had a lot of players missing from the Carey clash, couldn't tell you who they were though. The guy that played in the middle for them against Carey (wears some sort of flash eye-wear) wasn't playing I don't think.
I doubt it would have mattered, StLeos played some hard inspired footy, had nothing to lose and gained a great deal. I think the weekends results showed this comp (D1) is alive and kicking!
All sides will most definately enjoy the break (this cowboy's gonna try and round up some gossip from the lumberyard) with some more ripping games when they are back.
If i'm not mistaken KingBrown, your lads have the Oggery first up with Bt and Carey to renew hostilities. The Therry v Banyule game will be a hard at it beauty. Anyone know what happened to the Bears on the w/e? Surely OM aren't that much better than them?

 

[uglydermie]

Kingbrown. I can tell you a bit about the history of BT. Anyone not interested please skip past this post:

BT joined the VAFA in the then E grade in 1975 and became the quickest (still holds the record) to reach A grade. In its first year in A grade (1984) BT lost the prelim final to Ormond by less the 2 goals- A pretty fair effort! We stayed there (A grade) for only 4 years. BT then spent the best part of the next 8 years in B grade before suffering a bit of a slump that saw the club end up in D2 in 2004.

BTAFC, in conjunction with its junior club have been fortunate enough to have a few AFL players come through the ranks. Off the top of my head I will try to name as many as I can and the club the played for- some you will know but many just remain legend to us at the club....
Robert Dipierdomenico (Haw)
Stephen Silvani (Car)
Richard Osborne (Fitz, WB, SYD, etc)
Gary Pert (Fitz and Coll)
Grant Lawrie (Fitz)
Greg Madigan (Haw - 1989 premiership player)
Graeme Osborne (brother of Richard also Fitzroy)
Steven Easton (current BT coach - North and carl)
Steven Clark (recently deceased- Ess (played for Victoria in 1st season with the Bombers in 1985 (missd 85 flag as 21st man and Stkilda)
Steven "Bomber" James (Richmond)
Darren Collins (WB and Fitz)
Shane Gilmore (fitz)
Tony Keenan (Collingwood)
Peter Johnston (Fitz)
Dean Matthews (StKilda - still playing at BT)
Paul Dimattina (WB)
Andrew Dimattina (coll)
Simon Hawking (Fitz, Bris, Coll)

There are a few more that played senior football with Fitzroy in the late 1970's but I dont know their names/ details.

Many of the guys you wont have heard of but a pretty good list of players there. 30 years ago the area of Templestowe/Bulleen was a huge growth area and the club reaped the rewards of having heaps of kids coming through the ranks- probably a very similar position that Rupo now find themselves in- which can only be great for you. Hopefully I have not bored you with this.

I am sure most clubs have a list like this that they are proud of. I would also be interested to hear about some of the other clubs in D1.

Ugly- Out

 

[St.Kev's Cowboy]

Also from Oc Kingbrown was M.Laidlaw who got drafted to Sydney in last years draft. Don't know if he played seniors there but he did play a couple in their unders i believe. Can any OCers out there confirm?
Are there any players at Rupo that were unlucky not to go on to bigger and better things? From what the Cowboy has seen (against Carey/Leos) the midfielder that wears the spectacles would have been a chance? Your thoughts?

 

[St.Kev's Cowboy]

Fairly in depth report there Ugly!
Good to see clubs having players go on to crack the big time. Are any of the players you mentioned still involved with BT?
Always a bit of a buzz when these blokes come back down to watch/train.
Can't imagine Dipper squeezing into the jumper he once wore though.

 

[uglydermie]

our current senior coach (steven Easton) played with us as a kid before heading to North melbourne where he played about 60 games. Most of those guys will pop in and out during the course of the season- Great to see them there and all are happy to mix in, have a beer and tell some stories.

All good!

 

[Henry24]

Ugly what's the youth like at BT? How much does the team depend on older players like Matthews, Chivers, Williams and Hare?

DG love your work with the tipping!

This thread is on fire!

 

[linger_isgod]

I think Richmond rookie Cameron Howat might have played a game or two with the OCs.

 

[DG-Man]

Ugly what's the youth like at BT? How much does the team depend on older players like Matthews, Chivers, Williams and Hare?

DG love your work with the tipping!

This thread is on fire![/quote]

Correct. I just logged in to have a little read before bedtime and burnt myself on the keyboard. This stuff is hot!

If you visit some of the club websites, you can get an interesting read on most teams.

I was flicking through some recently and saw that Therry and Banyule played off in the F Grade GF in 81. Twenty five year anniversary in 2 weeks time. I think Therry may belatedly turn the tables.

These two teams must have a rich history. Both clubs moved from F Grade to B grade during the 81-91 seasons. Must have played each other regularly in finals as they moved through the grades.

Both clubs reached amazing heights. Losing finals series to powerhouses like the Old Xavs and De La Salle.

Clubs like OGS and OC must be desperate to get up into the higher grades where Old Boy schools like them all reside.

As Ugly said b4, BT stormed through the grades, Banyule and Therry have done it, hopefully clubs like Rupo, OC and OGS can do something similar in the coming decade.

From all reports BT are all fired up to get back in the higher grades again.

Will be a massive next 4 rounds. All the 3 Wins-4 Losses teams (Banyule, Therry, OM's, YV) have to win 3 games to have any chance of making top 4. I think you are going to need 12 wins to make finals.

Bullen Derby BT v OC will be huge. Both teams will be fresh, welcome back key players. A great recent rivalry between the clubs will make this one a must watch. OC would love to get some payback for GF 04, whilst the Bullants will see it as a massive opportunity to keep the winning run against the OC in important games. Both clubs look likely to play in finals. So this game will do a lot to the psyche of both teams.

Keep up the good posting!

 

[The Ox]

Interesting round just gone with some big upsets. What went on down at Rupo v St Leos, they have injuries or just beaten by a team that wanted it more!! I think anyone in the top 6 are a cance to win the flag, Therry have been unlucky the last 3 weeks and should have won all 3 but they are the games you need to win. Darren Goodwin and now Corey Bannister are out for 3-4 weeks, so there will be a lack of goal kicking. I saw O'Connor was playing 2's on the weekend maybe they will fast track him back or otherwise the 2's ff kicked 10. They need to beat Banyule in the next game........

 

[Phar Lap]

Morning All

Just thought I would post somethings to get the blood rising as I read in an earlier post. Seems like most of the people on here are from Rupo so maybe they can tell me how they lost on the weekend..........what were the ground conditions, was it a little smaller than home so they couldn't get there run going? They may do alright come finals time if they are there?! I watched Therry lose another close one one the weekend, early predictions from me will see OC and Therry go up to C Section next year. Thanks for making my weekend St Leos................

 

[DG-Man]

Giddy up Phar Lap! Nice work. I too think Therry are a good side. I tipped them at home to knock off the Bullants. However another narrow loss must be causing some concerns.
At 3-4, they are starting to lose touch with the higher placed teams. I think a top 2 spot may be beyond them now. If you finish 3rd or 4th, you need to win two finals in a row to get up to C-Grade. I would be thinking Therry qare an outside chance at best.
Massive game against the bears next up. They will be smarting after their dismal showing against OM's.
The Bear Lair is no easy hunting ground. Particulary when the Bear will be angry. Massive game. Loser will not make finals. 3-5 is just to far back in an 18 round comp.
For your sake Phar Lap, i hope you are on a winner in two weeks time!

 

[I Love Sandra Sully]

Phar Lap,
Rupo thought it would be good to get away to a warm location for some R & R before we begin again in 2 weeks, so we decided to take a weeks vacation to Hawaii (hence the loss to St Leos).... also we thought it would be a great opportunity to work on our tans... in order to impress some of those honeys that get around Como Park!! Us Sunbury lads are very thoughtful.......we thought the ladies can admire our brown glistening muscles while we smash there boyfreinds in 2 weeks time.
PharLap enough of the horsing round...........Therry are no hope of making the granny!

 

[Phar Lap]

DG Man, Yeah Therry will need to keep all the cattle on the field from now on, they have lost nearly there 2 best players in Bannister and Goodwin so I don't know who they will be bringing up. They do have a few players that have played 1's football running around in the 2's. Ithink they will still easily account for Banyule but saying that funnier things have happened in footy. Also the top 4 now all have to play each other............