Ricky Petterd
The sponsors lunch was addressed this week by Ricky Petterd, ex Surfers junior
and ex Broadie senior player who now has 35 games up at Melbourne. That’s 10 up
on Bob Walters. But as Bob rightly points out, Ricky has yet to bag 9 big ones
on the ‘G’ on the same afternoon, but from what we’ve seen it may not be that
far away, or have we seen the last of the great full forwards in Bobby?
Suffering from a devastating injury to his shoulder, Ricky showed his face on
the coast to catch up with friends and family and attend the Catters only to
have Bob Walters and The Age question his loyalty to the Demons. Rick was
adamant in response that football is what he does and Melbourne is where it’s
at, besides he enjoys living there (must be those younger bones) and is keen to
continue personal and club development at the Dees. No coffee sessions with
Bluey.
Questioned on rotations, Rick predicted a change in pre season training
focusing on shorter power distances if the pace of the game is to be sustained
by way of rotations.
The inevitable coach comparison revealed a soft spot for Daniher because Rick
got his first gig under the ‘Preacher’ but is very impressed with the
approachable teacher in Dean Bailey. Further the club has not been surprised at
the apparent overnight improvement in on-field performance. The Red legs were
set, (as was Rick and The Rock!) in racing parlance, to turn the corner in 2010 following the
perseverance with kids. And in an aside, Rick revealed that confidence in
selection on a week-to-week basis does amazing things for confidence in
performance especially in a reasonably stable side.
Raffle for a ticket in the car
raffle was won by John Stone, the first ever captain of Broadbeach seniors.
Thanks again are due to the Cats
Kitchen and bar staff who do such a great job in food preparation and service.
Indeed the bar crowd developed over the afternoon to be possibly the biggest
for the season – must be those ladies days!
Seniors
The footy record had us as outsiders but the sub text was there for an each way
bet. Amongst other things they reckoned we had ‘found’ a player in Nathan
Quick. Quickie might have been found by Dad Geoff, but the club has had him on
the junior retention scheme since his debut in 2008 and have invested time and
resources into his development. All of which have built on his talent and
determination to succeed. ‘Found’? Nup.
Joel Wilkinson was a pre match
withdrawal. We are not certain why as he looked a treat at training Thursday
night, and Liam Frawley stepped up.
We approached this game with some
excitement. This was an opportunity to consolidate our place in the top half of
the competition. And we are certain the players recovered and coaches prepared
with that in mind. None of our blokes shirk issues or can be accused of not
trying, but inside every good footballer is a bad footballer that occasionally
surfaces. And let’s face it, those of us with the gifts of sight and hearing
could see and hear that we were flat - didn’t come to play - as they say. We
even thought the box was quiet but then again we didn’t catch the second half. At
half time we thought rule 303 was to be invoked, with Smithy handing out the
ordinance, but given the lads appearance after the break we can assume a pretty
honest spray was the order of the day. Took a stanza for that to bite though as
we salvaged some pride in the last, out scoring Notting & Co. 28 to 7 points (8 versus 2 scoring shots).
The good footballers are back for Redlands next week.
We should however recognise
Labrador’s effort. They were not bad as the Aussie vernacular goes. And given
they apparently sponsored us for admission to the GCFL in 1971 we will let ‘em
take the bikies this week.
The early signs were there. Notting
had 2 goals 2 on the board within minutes and when we did get our hands on the
nut our disposal reverted to hit and miss stuff. The best example being Quickie taking a big, big grab and
immediately finding an opponent. The wind or some purposeful strategy had all
players in the one half and it wasn’t ours – at the 16 minute mark we still
didn’t have an inside 50 – and we had no patience when trying to move back
toward our goal at the school end.
Doesn’t help either when your big
guns are well covered. From the bounce Allen wore Tinka who found the ball
often enough but was hassled into ineffective disposals as well. And Sharrock was a rock down back. Quickie
was deployed to the forward line to spark up the action, (maybe too quick to
shift Quick?) and Stalk and Stewie took on the Tigers with some assistance from
Fifey.
There were some good passages of
play and fine catches by our blokes (Nicholls, Rusty, Squiz) but either we
couldn’t play the style that has been successful coming into this game or the
opposition wouldn’t let us. We were chasing kicks and what disposals were
effected were just off. Maybe the boys were thinking of Rio Tinto share prices.
Fifey effected a wonderful knock on
which was unfortunately gathered by a tiger only to be tackled by the best at
the caper Cloughy, who set up Cookey to Stewie to Jacko who missed the
opportunity to finish off. Eventually Cloughy found Bower whose handball landed
in the long arms of Tom Nicholls who in turn set up Tinka by hand and from
around 50 he slippered our only goal for the quarter. For the first three
quarters! The tigers meanwhile had 4 8 on the
board and many a chance to bury us.
After the break Jacko was at FF, Cooke back to CHF, Stewie
at FB and Stalk at CHB with Quickie on the pine. He was to come on at about the
8 min mark and go to Notting. Early on we looked OK. A good looking ball
transfer involving Rhino, Fifey, Stewie, Macca, Balcombe, Stewie again, and
Macca again resulted in a point to Cookie.
Stewie was by far our best. Took a
hanger from Fifey (but not the real big one that is threatening) and Pym
Verbeek should have a look at him after one off-the-deck pass to Rusty. JD, Rhino and Searly also made
contributions and along with Quickie and Macca provided Fults with a couple of
gos at the big ones. Clooghy, Frawls and ranga O’Hare flashed in and out and
Cookie never threw it in. But we were beaten out wide, as is their preference, plus
straight down the guts.
We missed the third and fourth
stanzas: some flavour is provided by the QAFL website report.
QAFL
Labrador showed great resolve to rebound from their final quarter capitulation
to Morningside last week and completely overwhelm Broadbeach at Merrimac Oval
today.
The Tigers blasted 3.8 in
the opening 15 minutes of the game and should have sealed the issue there,
although they simply refused to let the Cats into the contest.
They held the home side
goalless in the second and third terms, making them wait 65 minutes between
their first and second goals.
Labrador led 10.16 to 1.11
at the final change before easing down to win 11.17 (83) to 5.15 (45).
The black-and-golds’
tackling pressure lasted for three quarters and the Cats suffocated under
it.
It was their first win at
Merrimac in five years and only their fifth success against the Cats in 21
attempts, although the Tigers now have won both derbies against their local
rivals this season.
“Our pressure was very
good and we won in the midfield,” said satisfied Labrador coach Jarrod Field.
“We generated enough opportunities to kick enough goals to win.”
Field added that his side
had an extra incentive to win at what has been a hoodoo ground – captain Aaron
Shattock’s 50th game for the club.
“We had to make sure we
won for him - he has been a really good influence on our club in the time that
he has been here,” Field said.
In his first game back
from a hamstring injury in five weeks, Shattock controlled the skies in
defence, constantly spoiling the Cats forwards.
While he was rock solid,
10 of his teammates deserved to poll votes in best player awards.
Tim Notting booted 2.2 and
had two other assists in a barnstorming opening quarter opposed to young Nathan
Quick.
Quick went back onto
Notting after halftime and did some good things, but the former Lion booted two
goals in three minutes late in the third term to put the game out of reach of
the home side.
Notting had 5.5 to the
final change and worked tirelessly up and down the ground, not just near the
goal square.
Jason Howard positioned
himself perfectly around the packs all day, Todd Grayson was prolific on the
outer wing, Shane Paterson won numerous hard-ball gets, and specialist tagger
Curtis Allen claimed his fourth big victim in a month by blanketing Dayne
Zorko.
Nick Stockdale was at
Korey Fulton’s shoulder all day and held him goalless while providing enormous
dash from defence, even scoring a behind himself.
Michael Doyle and Mark
Vigus were outstanding with their defensive work and willingness to run through
the midfield to half-forward, Dustin Mills constantly chopped off attacking
forays, and rover Todd Featherstone’s tackling and smothering was exemplary.
Throw in Peter ‘Spida’
Everitt palming the ball superbly to his small men and contributing 2.3 while
resting up forward, and Labrador’s dominance was far greater than reflected on
the scoreboard.
Notting, however, was the
gamebreaker.
“He has been terrific for
us with his output, his direction and experience,” Field said. “He makes the
blokes around him walk taller.
“He certainly can get out
of the blocks (having kicked 2.2 and 3.2 in his past two opening quarters)
although he needs to improve his conversion.”
Broadbeach coach Adrian
Smith made numerous positional moves to try and lift his side, but they weren’t
allowed to find any system until late in the game.
While they missed some
gettable opportunities themselves, they were never in the hunt.
“Everyone knows they are a
lot stronger than us physically,” Smith said. “What they brought today was an
intent to set the game up.
“They smashed us around
the stoppages and that was through their pressure.”
Smith agreed that his
young side appeared flat at the start, for the first time this season.
“If anything our intensity
improved as the game went on, but when you have got the score on the board at
halftime, most good teams – and Labrador are a good side – hang on to that
lead,” he said.
“Our run-and-carry, and
decision-making wasn’t there.”
Midfielder Jesse Derrick
and key position utility Darin Stewart, who took more than a dozen strong marks
at either end of the ground, were the only effective Cats.
Matt Fife collected
numerous possessions but most were deep in defence.
Final Scores: Broadbeach 5 15 45 def by Labrador 11 17 83
Goals: Haley 2, Ryan, Zorko and Stewart 1 each
Best: Stewart, Dienjes, Emblem, Russell, Quick, Derrick
Magoos
Quite possibly the best performers of the day were Clough the Eldest (Dozer)
and Spida (see photos). We jest, maybe not, but it is a testament to their
wives that both ran out the day. Thanks also due to U/18 players David
Bullmore, Mitchell Kavic, James Christie, Keegan Clough, Luke Dempsey-Ceh,
Daniel Pearson and Jackson Rolfe (who has played in all Magoos games this
season).
The Magoos were comprehensively
knocked over by Chants’ favourite mob. With a seniors like score of 5 11 41 we were no match for the Tigers’
18 13 121.
Goals: Green, Clough T, Clough K, Pearson, Robertson
Best: Palmer, Treacher, Squire, Oelhman, Rolfe J, Scale.
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