Footy’s
back at Merrimac
The
smell of dimmies, pies, and Dozer’s snags and one veg wafted beautifully. The
sun was out, the goal posts slightly off centre, Andrea behind the jump in the
canteen and aaaaaaall the experts glued to pots and clubroom windows. Merrimac
was at its natural best. Later in the day we nearly had our first blue with Rad
and Les Sheers defending the honour of a worthy opponent? To cap it all off, the Dick gathered
the first possession, not as obvious as Natanui but a penetrating centre
clearance nonetheless.
The day commenced with the under 18s facing off with Mt Gravatt and ended with
a jumper presentation, or more correctly, TwentyTen senior player presentation. See Caught in the Act for some images of the day.
Magoos
We had more of the scoreboard over the day’s journey but eventually the Magoos
went down by 4 points following an after siren shot by the Vultures. We think
it was a free awarded by the adjudicator against one of our players who has
Tourette’s syndrome, but as Boc’s quote of the week suggests, it might have
been for anything: “I’m going to take up umpiring. It suits my pension – costs
me nothing but a whistle ‘cos for certain I wouldn’t have to buy a rule book!”
Both sides fielded 16 man sides to accommodate the Vultures fixture next
Thursday night. Broadie featured 10 new players for season 2010 including
another Rolfe who answers to the name of “Rat”. Of the 10, five had not
previously worn a Broadie jumper. Lachy Treacher (new and welcome face) won
every boundary throw in and it is definitely a coaching option to force
boundary stoppages to give us first use of the ball. At 2000mm and great ground
level mobility Lachy looks a real prospect. Swinger was back into his left foot
best, Webby spun out of a pack and snapped a sausage roll in a move designed to
shift him up forward, while Tom Clough had 2 goals 5 points and one out of
bounds to half time in a move to shift him up back. Tom Balcombe (Nth Hobart) showed good skills on both sides
of the body across the midfield and was dragged at half time to bolster the
ones line up. Also good to see GA’s lad TA, gathering plenty of the nut and
streaming off the back line in concert with Matty Boston. Matty was very happy that new player Styles has his boots personally stylised so Matty could remember his name. And for the first
time we heard coaches talking of “frontal pressure” – sounds like a headache or
a surgeon preparing for a lobotomy but we think it means forwards chasing their
opponents.
It
is a tough life being a coach of the Magoos having to work with around 50% face
changes on a weekly basis and we hope injuries treat us well so that Chants and
team will have opportunities to develop footballers and a team plan to suit. Good
luck for season 2010, our expectation is finals footy!
Broadbeach 8 15 63 def by Mt Gravatt 10 7 67
Goals: Goedheer 2, Clough T 2,
Webster, Reid, Robertson and Fitzgerald 1 each.
Best: Arthur, Webster, Boston, Balcombe, Treacher, Skrinis
Seniors
The Seniors, led by Stewie, had a good hit out with 6 new faces in the squad
and a couple who played the odd afternoon fixture in 2009 plus Fults
celebrating his 11th season at the Cattery and 12th in the QAFL. Nick
O’Hare played his first game now his life saving commitments are over, Glynn
Ryan, Pat Squires, Campbell, Smith, and Tom Balcombe made up the new boys with
each showing enough to be in contention at the selection table for the opening
round. Quickie lined up at full
back, and after his impressive showing last week, followed up and would appear
to have grabbed a spot in the line up. Must be pleasing for the coaching staff
to see players coming through and grab opportunities to take key spine
positions. In the same boat is Cookie, who whilst unavailable for this one, is
pencilled in as a key position player as well. Others pushing for spots but
missing were Rhino Dienjes, Stork, Jacko, Brewer, the Pantic brothers and
Hutchy.
David
Glossop and Adam Olehlman plus Princess Rolfe and Nathan Lyons were changing
off the bench while on field rotations involved Simmo, Angel Sqizzy Rolfe and
new face O’Hare in the midfield; Tinka, Ryan and Palmer occupied the real
estate around the forward line; and Fifey, Ryan Clough and JD were off the back
line/midfield.
Coaching instructions focussed on a mobile zone requiring set-up discipline and
covering loose players; frontal pressure and communication with the midfield
generals; up front accountability; and a license to take the game on and run
with the ball. The latter had to be supported by players being very very vocal.
The usual suspects contributed in their usual manners: Tinka was in everything,
JD turned the tide several times eventually slotting a prodigious goal coming
off the half back line; Stewie was impenetrable early across the half back line
and racked up his first leap of the season (unfortunately he didn’t come down
with the sherrin); Simmo was in and under; Fults kicked a couple from the
Funeral brothers fence signage; Princess Rolfe belying his physical stature,
showed great courage in hitting packs; Ash Palmer lurked for three big ones;
and Fifey patrolled the ground eyeing off possessions. Angel Squiz covered a
hell of a lot of ground and we think appreciated the game time (as against the
forced and extremely frequent rotations at GC17) and finished off with a couple
of clever goals.
We
went down in the end by seven points but again scoreboard intensity was with us
having 25 to 22 scoring shots.
Mt
Gravatt 16 6 102 def Broadie
14 11 95
Goals:
Palmer 3, Zorko 3, Rolfe T 2, Fulton 2, Russel, Clough R and Fife 1 each.
Best:
Rolfe T, Quick, Stewart, Rolfe A, Derrick, Fife
We
heard lots of comments about competiveness, but in the words of Mark Twain “Why
look like an envelope without an address?” Onward and upward to September footy. Best of luck to Smithy,
the coaching staff and the players for season 2010.
Last Modified on 19/11/2010 14:45