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VFL Round 12 TAC Cup Round 12 4 - 5 July 2015 $3.00 Photo: Jenny Owens Photo: Morgan Hancock ANY TWO SUITS FOR $795* PREMIER PARTNER VICTORIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE Features 4 5 Anthony Scott 7 Nick Coughlan 9 Jordan Gallucci Every week Editorial 3 TAC Cup Highlights 10 TAC Cup News 11 VFL Highlights 12 VFL News 13 AFL Vic News 15 Club Whiteboard 16 19 Events 21 Get Social 23 25 Draft Watch 64 Who’s playing who 34 35 Williamstown vs Essendon 52 53 Calder vs Dandenong 36 37 Collingwood vs Sandringham 54 55 Murray vs Northern 38 39 Box Hill Hawks vs Frankston 56 57 North Ballarat vs Western 40 41 Casey Scorpions vs Geelong 58 59 Bendigo vs Oakleigh 42 43 Footscray vs Northern Blues 60 61 Geelong vs Sandringham 44 45 North Ballarat vs Richmond 62 63 Gippsland vs Eastern 46 47 Werribee vs Coburg Editor: Ben Pollard ben.pollard@afl vic.com.au Contributors: Dave O’Neill, Anthony Stanguts, Design & Print: Cyan Press Photos: AFL Photos (unless otherwise credited) Ikon Park, Gate 3, Royal Parade, Carlton Nth, VIC 3054 Advertising: Ryan Webb (03) 8341 6062 GPO Box 4337, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Phone: (03) 8341 6000 | Fax: (03) 9380 1076 AFL Victoria CEO: Steven Reaper www.afl vic.com.au State League & Talent Manager: John Hook High Performance Managers: Anton Grbac, Leon Harris Cover: Geelong Falcon Darcy Parish (left ) and Murray Bushranger Josh Schache celebrate during Vic Country’s Talent Operations Coordinator: Rhy Gieschen Round 5 NAB AFL U18 Championships win over SA Talent Operations Coordinator: Lauren Bunting www.taccup.com.au 01 Television Online VFL Online Website: www.vfl .com.au Twitter: @VFL #PJVFL Facebook: www.facebook.com/vfl footy Broadcasting the Peter Jackson VFL in 2015 TAC Cup Online Saturday July 4 – 12pm Website: www.taccup.com.au Williamstown v Essendon Twitter: @TACCup Next week: Northern Blues v Richmond Facebook: www.facebook.com/taccupfooty Radio VFL Live L Sunday July 5, Werribee v Coburg I From 1.45pm V Live on Digital Radio via Aussie, Red Time Sport and SEN iPhone Apps, E online via vfl .com.au or sen.com.au Next week: Sandringham v Coburg R TAC Cup Radio A Saturday July 4, Murray Bushrangers v Northern Knights D From 12.45pm I Listen live on the Red Time Sport iPhone App or www.taccup.com.au O Next week: Northern Knights v Eastern Ranges 3WBC Saturday July 4, Box Hill Hawks v Frankston From 1pm Listen to 94.1FM, online at www.3wbc.org.au or the Tune In Radio app Next game: Box Hill Hawks v North Ballarat Casey Radio Sunday July 5, North Ballarat v Richmond From 12:30pm Tune to 97.7fm in Melbourne, via the web at www.caseyradio.com.au, or on the Tune In Radio app on your smart phone. Next game: Casey Scorpions v Port Melbourne Video Streaming Visit www.vfl .com.au for a link Sunday at 2pm for a live video stream of: Werribee v Coburg Watch the action and listen to the call from the VFL Live team. Next week: Sandringham v Coburg 02 www.vfl .com.au Vic talent shines at U18 Championships The strength of AFL Victoria’s talent pathway has been on show for everyone to see over the past six weeks at the NAB AFL U18 Championships. Our talent pathway is widely considered the benchmark across Australia and continues to produce approximately half of the AFL draft ees each year. While our focus at AFL Victoria remains on developing players and preparing them for the next stage of the football careers, we were delighted to see Vic Country secure the national title. Bringing together a group of young men from every corner of Victoria and moulding them into a cohesive unit is an enormous challenge, and the players, coaching team, high performance manager and support staff are to be congratulated. We are equally proud of all involved in the Vic Metro Academy and thrilled to see a number of metropolitan- based youngsters also make their mark on the big stage. It is always exciting to see the emergence of players throughout the Championships, particularly given the time they spend in our U16, U17 and U18 academies, honing their skills and learning about what it takes to reach the highest level. The support of Dairy Australia and their Legendairy campaign also plays a huge role in the success of our academy programs and we thank them for their contribution to football. This weekend also sees the start of the NAB AFL U16 Championships on the Gold Coast, where a whole new batch of Victorian youngsters will get their fi rst real taste of the big stage. Not only is our state represented by Vic Metro and Vic Country at the U16 Championships, but there are also several Victorians in both the Flying Boomerangs (indigenous) and World Team (multicultural). The two representative sides play a crucial role in helping indigenous and multicultural youngsters transition into the mainstream talent pathway, illustrated perfectly by Vic Metro’s Jade Gresham. Gresham is a former member of the Victoria Kickstart side and captain of the Flying Boomerangs, and aft er becoming one Vic Metro’s key players at the recent U18 Championships, is now a step closer to achieving his AFL dream. While our high performance academies and TAC Cup regions do an extraordinary amount of work to prepare players for the elite level, community football continues to be the backbone of our game. These young athletes are where they are today because of the opportunities provided by junior football clubs and NAB Auskick clinics, and the commitment of coaches, coordinators, volunteers and of course their parents. We wish all players the best of luck as they enter the second half of the TAC Cup season and for whatever the future holds. Steven Reaper AFL Victoria CEO www.taccup.com.au 03 Scott’s shock to the system Anthony Scott found the jump from local football to the Peter Jackson VFL to be a pretty big change at fi rst. 04 www.vfl .com.au Last year, the 20-year-old Richmond wingman put A fresh-faced Anthony Scott together a season for Old Trinity in the VAFA that made in action for the Oakleigh many in the football world sit up and take notice. Chargers in 2013 Aft er leaving the Oakleigh Chargers’ TAC Cup program at the end of 2013 without achieving his goal of being draft ed into the AFL, Scott won the VAFA’s Rising Star award, represented the VAFA in its U19 squad and featured in the AFL Victoria Young Guns Game. The Tigers snapped up the classy 178cm left -footer, but Scott initially wasn’t fully prepared for the shift to a more professional football environment. “When I’d just fi nished Year 12 and went and played for Old Trinity, I think my pre-season probably started in February, whereas when I went down to Richmond last year, it all kicked off in November and it was very strict from day one,” Scott said. “It ended up being a shock to my body as well, because I sustained a bit of a groin injury in the second week of pre-season. “I think it’s just that a step up in the workload was a bit too much for my body to handle and I ended up missing close to four months due to this niggling injury that I couldn’t quite get over. “But then he explained to me how, due to the set “It wasn’t anything I sustained at training in an incident up of the list with the AFL players (needing to be – it was just that build-up from the extra running that I accommodated), playing forward would give me a good hadn’t really done before, and I couldn’t really handle it.” opportunity to actually play games in the side.” Other strict adjustments Scott has had to make at Scott came around to the idea, and started gaining Richmond include following individually tailored gym confi dence once he learnt the team’s structures and had programs, half-hour recovery sessions aft er training and played some practice matches. shorter, more intense training sessions during the season proper. The VFL Academy member has gone on to play all bar “That’s just totally diff erent to anything in the VAFA,” Scott one match in 2015, booting three goals from nine games said. and featuring in Richmond’s best players twice. What he does on-fi eld has changed too. From his signifi cant time spent playing on a wing, Scott said his natural strengths of good ball use, run-and-carry The need to replicate what Richmond is doing at the elite level in order to aid the development of the younger AFL- with the ball and “just being able to do things that some listed Tigers means the VFL club’s style of play has also other players can’t” have translated well to his new role. come as a shock to Scott. However, certain areas have required extra attention. “In terms of the size of your opponents, I was kind of “Playing on a wing, you’re not really that inclined to do seasoned to that in the VAFA last year,” he said. the defensive acts and I kind of got away with not doing “But the big diff erence for me was just the pace of the that much,” Scott said. game and the need to make decisions a lot quicker.