D1 Division 1 2017

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New season, new dawn, new beginnings for all.

Friars hit 2017 with a new coach (Dean Thorn), Chairman of Selectors, captain (congrats Daniel Massarotti), new vice captains, and a club leadership group of 17 (!).

Unfortunately our President (Norm Elliott) has announced he is stepping away with immediate effect and our long standing Secretary Tony Mitchell is also departing. Timing not great but volunteer positions can conflict with family/work commitments for only so long.

On a more positive note, with our under 19s now in Division 4 (down from Div 2) it makes for up to 9 triple headers! Six and home and three on the road against Therry, PEGS and Preston where the entire club's playing list can run out at the same ground - thus strengthening the bond between the seniors and future senior players.

Not sure what the immediate future holds, but I'm still optimistic we will be competitive week in/week out.

Tips:

Friars
Monders
Hoers
SMS
PEGs

Good luck to all!
 
HedgeFund said:
New season, new dawn, new beginnings for all.

Friars hit 2017 with a new coach (Dean Thorn), Chairman of Selectors, captain (congrats Daniel Massarotti), new vice captains, and a club leadership group of 17 (!).

Unfortunately our President (Norm Elliott) has announced he is stepping away with immediate effect and our long standing Secretary Tony Mitchell is also departing. Timing not great but volunteer positions can conflict with family/work commitments for only so long.

On a more positive note, with our under 19s now in Division 4 (down from Div 2) it makes for up to 9 triple headers! Six and home and three on the road against Therry, PEGS and Preston where the entire club's playing list can run out at the same ground - thus strengthening the bond between the seniors and future senior players.

Not sure what the immediate future holds, but I'm still optimistic we will be competitive week in/week out.

Tips:

Friars
Monders
Hoers
SMS
PEGs

Good luck to all!
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Good luck Hedge, see you at the Gunn in May.
 
bedford said:
Only got a couple of mates on here and he ain't one, you and I have become quite close as I used to be with Monder Man who has disappeared .
On another note would you like to run the tipping with your Maplebet odds, seeing Pendlebet has also vanished.
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Pendles has taken the money and ran!

Round 1 has finally rolled around, time to sort the men from the boys.

NOBS
Ormond
PEGS
St Johns
Ivanhoe
 

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Smithy85 said:
My tips this week...

NOBS
ORMOND
PEGS
ST. MARYS
IVANHOE

Can't wait for the season to kick off!!
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NOBS at home should a too strong for the Friars you would imagine ....... I actually have no idea and just pulled that from my A$$ - NOBS by 17 points

Therry at home are very hard to beat (even in the post Bannister era) and have had ver good practice match form against some quality opposition. But alot of positive commentary about Ormond has me flipping the coin for this clash - Therry by 2 points

PEGS have had some very handy pick-ups in the off season and look to be stronger than last year. Oakleigh have had some off-season challenges and don't 'look to be' coming down a grade with quite the strength it had hoped for, but we will see. PEGS at home - 19 points.

Jocs v SMS - is an interesting one as the Jocs always a bit tougher out in Doveton to sneak a win over. How much will the replacement of a coach and the loss of a couple of players impact the Jocs in 2017 is yet to be seen. The same could be said for SMS with their off season changes, so it's a real unknown how things will shape up. I think SMS will have the talent to pick up a win away and kick of the year with the 'W'. SMS - 21 points.

Preston v Hoes - I think Preston will be there when the whips are cracking later in the year. Well coached and have kept the same team together relatively well over the years. The Hoes have lost a few, gained a few but have had good numbers on the track and are picking up the new game plan from new coach Leigh Cole very quickly. Will it be enough to overthrow the Bullants at home? I hope so :) Hoes by a point.

Good luck all on the weekend and for the 2017 season.

Chump
 
A bright enough start for the Friars with a cross breeze slightly favouring us the first stanza. Hewitt Murray was proving to be a handful as a mobile tall target in our forward line and first/second year senior players in Ben Lyall, Tom Gastin and Angus Hands were prominent as we skipped to a handy lead then defended well in the second term to hav our noses in front.

Unfortunately NOBSPC's experienced players (and coaching staff) made some subtle adjustments and by the time the ominous dark clouds arrived, they had produced a withering third term of 6 goals to 2 to snuff out the contest. We struggled to contain their seasoned forwards in Ford and Horsley and with Lachlan Ezard marshalling the onball brigade, as you'd expect a 200+ game campaigner (of which we have absolutely none) to do, we weren't able to reign in their clearance dominance in the second half.

Positive signs though, with club heart beat Tim Petts having a standard BOG outing, and we will continue to gel as a group and look forward to hosting Therry at Friar Park on the other side of Easter.
 
Hoes VERY disappointing yesterday against a very good Preston outfit on their home deck. We were out-worked, out-run and out-muscled by a team that played the windy conditions far, far better than us until the rain arrived in the last. Not much for us to take out of the day apart from a great 'kick in the ass' that suggests we need to work alot harder to be competitive in D1 for season 2017.

All is not lost, as things can turn around very quickly when people make a commitment to work harder across the whole club. One of our past players reminded us last night we lost round 1 by 24 goals a few years back and then played off in the GF the same year. Opportunity is there, but we need a much better effort than what we dished up yesterday - it was crap!

Congratulations to Preston who gave us a complete football lesson on the day and look to be very well organized and well placed to be competitive in 2017.

Chump
 
Chump or Champ said:
Hoes VERY disappointing yesterday against a very good Preston outfit on their home deck. We were out-worked, out-run and out-muscled by a team that played the windy conditions far, far better than us until the rain arrived in the last. Not much for us to take out of the day apart from a great 'kick in the ass' that suggests we need to work alot harder to be competitive in D1 for season 2017.

All is not lost, as things can turn around very quickly when people make a commitment to work harder across the whole club. One of our past players reminded us last night we lost round 1 by 24 goals a few years back and then played off in the GF the same year. Opportunity is there, but we need a much better effort than what we dished up yesterday - it was crap!

Congratulations to Preston who gave us a complete football lesson on the day and look to be very well organized and well placed to be competitive in 2017.

Chump
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shock of the round in my opinion chump, any injuries or outs, i couldn't see the difference between the two sides being that large
 
heslop said:
shock of the round in my opinion chump, any injuries or outs, i couldn't see the difference between the two sides being that large
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Three injuries early in the game that did not help, but all should come up with the bye this week I would think.

Yes, we had 'outs' yesterday and 7 players playing their first senior game, but so did Preston and they will get stronger also. Take nothing away from Preston, far too good across the board. Just very disappointing effort from those who had an opportunity yesterday and we need to be better than that.

Chump.
 

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Gun Island said:
I will when work allows . They might be the team to beat.


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i cannot work out what has happened to sms in a week.

i am told they were given a hiding by caulfield in the last practice match.

either caulfield are unbelievably good, sms did not put their best team in the field, or their is a huge difference in standard between d1 and c.

or all three.
 
Sui Ni said:
i cannot work out what has happened to sms in a week.

i am told they were given a hiding by caulfield in the last practice match.

either caulfield are unbelievably good, sms did not put their best team in the field, or their is a huge difference in standard between d1 and c.

or all three.
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Ormond beat Rovers the week before albeit narrowly and added 8 players to last Saturday's team.
 
Sui Ni said:
i cannot work out what has happened to sms in a week.

i am told they were given a hiding by caulfield in the last practice match.

either caulfield are unbelievably good, sms did not put their best team in the field, or their is a huge difference in standard between d1 and c.

or all three.
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They are that good and there is a big gap.

Caulfield should have been in B in 2017. Since then they have got stronger again.
 
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