A Section VAFA Premier 2017

[Not Important]

hedgeburners at home to get their season back on track over the purples.

scholarly blacks over mentone.

scholarly blues over grammar.

skob/afl 2s in the game of the round over the best run club.

bellers in a canter over the sharks

 

[Captain chaos]

You may be the first person in history to link aristocrats and Skobs.

Very good SS. The cheapest APS school ( by some way) is accused of a "Rich club"? So what does that make Om's and Scotch?

 

[MELTY]

Take it to the vault; TOP 4 for 2017 will be (in order)

SKOBS
Old Xavs
Trinity
Collegians

First Four straight out. $20 gets me 2000%. Maplebet odds?

 

[Archangel17]

Nice preview Jimmy. Who are the Beaumaris inclusions? IMHO there has been more ‘poor’ than ‘very good’ from the Bellers so far. Good for about 25 minutes last week which just got them over the line. Will be looking for a 4 quarter effort Saturday. Winners this week.

Colls
St Bedes
SKOB
Blues
De La

Crumbles
Blacks
SKOB
OM
DeLa

 

[Canada]

Take it to the vault; TOP 4 for 2017 will be (in order)

SKOBS
Old Xavs
Trinity
Collegians

First Four straight out. $20 gets me 2000%. Maplebet odds?

Melty,
That 4 is a lock. And SKOBAFL in position 1 is also a lock.
Maplebet fancy the purples to finish in 2nd or 3rd...so happy to offer 10/1 for your straight out first 4.
We believe this to be very generous.

 

[Penski]

A little indulgence if you please. This link to an article on the VAFA site talking about the history of Collegians over the last 125 years, being the only founding member still around.

http://www.vafa.com.au/latest-news/toast-125-years-collegians-football-club/

Interesting to note that Collegians have 20 senior flags, 17 of which are for A section/Premier (the other 3 are all B grade), with 14 times being runner up. That's 31 GF appearances just in Premier over those 125 years. (footnote: next best in terms of Premier flags is OX with 14, then Blacks with 12)

 

[Canada]

A little indulgence if you please. This link to an article on the VAFA site talking about the history of Collegians over the last 125 years, being the only founding member still around.

http://www.vafa.com.au/latest-news/toast-125-years-collegians-football-club/

Interesting to note that Collegians have 20 senior flags, 17 of which are for A section/Premier (the other 3 are all B grade), with 14 times being runner up. That's 31 GF appearances just in Premier over those 125 years. (footnote: next best in terms of Premier flags is OX with 14, then Blacks with 12)

Great read.
As a side note..13 of Xavs 14 flags have been since 1995.

 

[Rooster 24]

A little indulgence if you please. This link to an article on the VAFA site talking about the history of Collegians over the last 125 years, being the only founding member still around.

http://www.vafa.com.au/latest-news/toast-125-years-collegians-football-club/

Interesting to note that Collegians have 20 senior flags, 17 of which are for A section/Premier (the other 3 are all B grade), with 14 times being runner up. That's 31 GF appearances just in Premier over those 125 years. (footnote: next best in terms of Premier flags is OX with 14, then Blacks with 12)

A truly great club. Despite being co-ed and not renowned as a school football powerhouse they have remained a strong VAFA club in the top grades for many years. More importantly they have generally been a club full of decent people and only one of the very few APS clubs in my time who have never felt the need to pull out the “class” card when playing clubs like mine.

Many clubs can claim to be successful but only a few are successful and respected. Collegians are certainly one of those.

 

[Penski]

Great read.
As a side note..13 of Xavs 14 flags have been since 1995.

Looking at the last 30 years in A (so from 1986 - 2016): -

- OX have played in 18 grand finals for 13 wins
- then Collegians who have played in 12 grand finals for 5 wins (who in that time also went down to C grade and back up again!)
- then it's St Bernards, 5 grand finals for 2 wins
- Ormond, 4 grand finals for 4 wins (the end of their unbelievable run in the late 80's)
- DLS, 4 grand finals for 1 win
- Uni Blues, 3 grand finals for 1 win
- SBMT, 3 grand finals for 1 win

Then it drops down to a whole bunch that have played in 2 or less.

Sorry Canada, but i had to expand it to 30 years because apart from it being a nice round number, we actually get to see some other clubs other than OX in the winners circle!

 

[TheArmy]

Any chance our overlords could get the umpire appointments for tomorrow up online .. wanting to see if my lots 19s need goal ajd boundary umps.. 25000 people at HQ and no one can get a simple thing like this online... ttttttt even that strange lot at Vafaua have not got it onlime yet...

I pray for the future of the VAFA

 

[Rooster 24]

Looking at the last 30 years in A (so from 1986 - 2016): -

- OX have played in 18 grand finals for 13 wins
- then Collegians who have played in 12 grand finals for 5 wins (who in that time also went down to C grade and back up again!)
- then it's St Bernards, 5 grand finals for 2 wins
- Ormond, 4 grand finals for 4 wins (the end of their unbelievable run in the late 80's)
- DLS, 4 grand finals for 1 win
- Uni Blues, 3 grand finals for 1 win
- SBMT, 3 grand finals for 1 win

Then it drops down to a whole bunch that have played in 2 or less.

Sorry Canada, but i had to expand it to 30 years because apart from it being a nice round number, we actually get to see some other clubs other than OX in the winners circle!

Nice work Penski. But can you go back 40 years? DLS 9 GF’s for 6 flags looks better than 1 from 4!

I guess you can't win A grade flags if you are not in A grade so at least we keep giving ourselves a shot at it.

 

[Rooster 24]

Any chance our overlords could get the umpire appointments for tomorrow up online .. wanting to see if my lots 19s need goal ajd boundary umps.. 25000 people at HQ and no one can get a simple thing like this online... ttttttt even that strange lot at Vafaua have not got it onlime yet...

I pray for the future of the VAFA

Got this from VAFA website. Humble pie anyone?

http://www.vafa.com.au/latest-news/umpire-appointments-round-5/

 

[TheArmy]

Got this from VAFA website. Humble pie anyone?

http://www.vafa.com.au/latest-news/umpire-appointments-round-5/

I checked just prior to my post . I apologies . Glad the overlords finally did something .. all be it at 5:30pm . But hey better late than never

Good luck to all teams tomorrow

 

[AM]

Got this from VAFA website. Humble pie anyone?

http://www.vafa.com.au/latest-news/umpire-appointments-round-5/

Not sure what the 'humble pie' reference is Rooster. The VAFA (eventually) get the appointments up every week.

Good to see they've got the formatting right this week.

 

[Rooster 24]

Not sure what the 'humble pie' reference is Rooster. The VAFA (eventually) get the appointments up every week.

Good to see they've got the formatting right this week.

Because the poster unloaded on VAFA HQ about the umpire appointments not being posted when in fact they had been and were available on the VAFA website.

No question that from time to time HQ deserve a clip but on this occasion it was unwarranted.

 

[MELTY]

Collegians are the real deal. Saw the last quarter and a bit. Wow.




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[Penski]

Collegians are the real deal. Saw the last quarter and a bit. Wow.




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Wasn't the best game from us today either. The game always felt closer than it actually was in the end. Just felt like OT could come right back into it at any stage.

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[Canada]

SKOB v Wesley GF shortening at Maplebet...

 

[BrianSpeaking]

World record crowd for a home and away game at the King today, excellent conditions for football.

 

[Cardio Carl]

World record crowd for a home and away game at the King today, excellent conditions for football.

Oh please!.
Get your hand off it BS

Did you go to the same accounting school as the guy counting the gate in Tasmania today?.

Cheers

Cardio "1 in so 1 for the club and 1 for the league = 3" Carl

 

[Captain chaos]

Oh please!.
Get your hand off it BS

Did you go to the same accounting school as the guy counting the gate in Tasmania today?.

Cheers

Cardio "1 in so 1 for the club and 1 for the league = 3" Carl

I'm with Brian .: what would cc know ?!!

At least 2k there today to see Xavier take the gas against an undermanned skob with two on the bench !

 

[bedford]

Brian, they are back

 

[HedgeFund]

I'm with Brian .: what would cc know ?!!

At least 2k there today to see Xavier take the gas against an undermanned skob with two on the bench !

What? You left the nail biter at Como Park between Marcellin and your beloved Old Geelong to count heads at the SKOB game?

 

[Cardio Carl]

What? You left the nail biter at Como Park between Marcellin and your beloved Old Geelong to count heads at the SKOB game?

I'm with Brian .: what would cc know ?!!

At least 2k there today to see Xavier take the gas against an undermanned skob with two on the bench !

Know more than you as I was there.

Cheers

Cardio "captain chaos counts coconuts" Carl

 

[Canada]

$$ would have made some great $$ on the bar post game if 2k were there. Handy.
Powerful win. Unfortunately I was unable to attend, but my friends at 96.5 kept me up to date during the day. Maplebet getting extremely nervous about a SKOBAFL vs Wesley GF with SKOBAFL winning.
It will mean we will close the doors.
Big game next week at the Uni Oval.
Blues in a hole. Xavs after that disastrous final term. Interesting.
Wesley vs SKOBAFL will be enormous.
Exciting Year we have here fellas!