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Round 14 july 26-27, 2008 $ inc 3 gst Record

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competition, where the emphasis Development is on providing players with opportunities to maximise their talent. the No. 1 priority Meanwhile, the NAB AFL Under-16 Championships are Longer season means more opportunities underway on the Gold Coast. The Championships provide a strong guide to the players With less than one-third of This policy was endorsed by who will be selected for AIS- the TAC Cup season all concerned. AFL Academy scholarships, a remaining, it’s timely to revisit As to how best to convert program that will fast-track their the philosophy behind the the final series from a four-week development as footballers and expanded home and away event to three weeks, it was young men. season and the condensed determined it will be conducted Also on offer for both Vic finals series. under a knockout format with Country and Vic Metro is a place Late last year, when AFL only the winners progressing in the Championships Grand met with all TAC Cup each week. Final, which will be played at the region managers, it was agreed In the opening round, the first- MCG as a curtain-raiser to the it would be beneficial to extend placed team at the end of the AFL Grand Final. the home and away season home and away season will play Congratulations also to Vic by one week given every club eighth-place, second will play Metro players Michael Hurley, has its best team available late seventh, third will play sixth and , Shaun McKernan, in the season when private fourth will play fifth. , Tyrone Vickery, Jack school football commitments If, for example, eighth defeats Watts and , have finished. first it will then play the highest- and Vic Country players Steele This will give clubs more time placed team in the second week Sidebottom, and to consolidate their best team of the finals. on their selection leading into the finals. A later We could have a scenario in in the All-Australian team start to the finals will also bring the second week of the finals from the NAB AFL Under-18 improved weather and ground where second plays eighth and Championships. conditions, while more players fifth plays sixth. will have an opportunity to Admittedly, the knockout Leon Harris showcase their talents in the lead system is ruthless, but the High Performance Manager, up to the NAB AFL Draft. TAC Cup is a development AFL Victoria

SAM O’SULLIVAN FARRAN PRIEST RAY BYRNE AFL Victoria Chief Executive Officer: ROUND 14 JULY 26-27, 2008 $ Round 14 3 Peter Schwab CONTENTS july 26-27, 2008 Football Operations Manager: RECORD John Hook Sam O’Sullivan 4 COVER: Johnny Rayner has High Performance Managers: Anton Grbac, Leon Harris Farran Priest 5 been a solid performer for the Statistics: Sophie Timms Western Jets in season 2008. Manager Director, Geoff Slattery Publishing: Ray Byrne 6 BUSH Geoff Slattery Round 13 statistics 7 BASH Editor: Nick Bowen JohnnyJohnny RRayner’sayner’s Designer: Karl Chandler JJetsets toto aambushmbush Team lists 10-21 MMurrayurray Photo Manager: Natalie Boccassini Photography: Getty Images (02) 9004 2250 Address correspondence: Advertising: Jennifer Pryor (03) 8663 3007 The Editor, GPO Box 4337, Melbourne, 3001. Printed by: Condor Printing Phone: (03) 8663 3005

TAC CUP RECORD 3 sam o’sullivan

With one of his 2008 goals shattered before the season Charging back had even begun, Sam O’Sullivan is now hell bent on achieving his second into 2008 target – an premiership. O’Sullivan returns after bad break O’Sullivan’s aspirations to represent Vic Metro in the NAB AFL Under-18 Championships Jets in round 12, earning the were crushed in a seemingly maximum five votes in the routine training drill, less than TAC Cup Coaches’ Award. two days before the start of the Chargers coach Rohan TAC Cup season. Welsh had earlier introduced The Xavier Year 12 student was O’Sullivan, predominantly involved in a training drill when a midfielder with Xavier, he went to a teammate. to a new role on the As O’Sullivan went to apply the half-back line. tackle, he copped an elbow to “Woosher (Welsh) is his right hand, which cracked its all about run and carry index metacarpal bone. and that’s why handball “It hit it perfectly and I was out receives are so important,” for eight weeks,” O’Sullivan said. O’Sullivan says. Not only did he miss a chunk At half-time O’Sullivan was of football with Xavier, where he is moved into the centre where team vice-captain, but his start to he proved the catalyst in the the TAC Cup season was delayed Chargers’ 27-point win. until round 10. That match will be The jump from school football O’Sullivan’s last match for the to the TAC Cup is huge, and Chargers until round 15, as O’Sullivan admits it took him he returns to be part of Xavier’s a couple of games to adjust. campaign to clinch the APS title. “The speed is so much But he can’t wait to get back quicker and you have to make to Oakleigh. decisions a lot quicker, everyone’s “We’re in pretty good shape standards are so much better,” at the moment. Hopefully, we O’Sullivan says. can keep going and pushing “I found in my first game that ourselves up the ladder,” he says. I turned the ball over 40-50 per “We need to get our cent of the time. I found in the last momentum up and win the next Sam O’Sullivan couple of games I’ve been able to couple and be in good form missed the Under-18 adjust and hit some targets.” coming into the finals. Championships after O’Sullivan was right at the “We’ve got a really tight-knit breaking his right hand but has returned top of his game when the group. We don’t want to hold to star for Oakleigh in Chargers defeated the Western anything back.” the TAC Cup.

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did, it seemed as though Bunn’s Farran Priest’s strategy had worked – Priest responded with a best-on-ground performance in the Bushrangers’ resurrection victory against NSW/ACT. Bushranger rises after Championships Priest said he “couldn’t wait” until he was selected by the Bushrangers, so when he was By his own admission Farran he was determined to make the Priest did not enjoy a good most of the opportunity. NAB AFL Under-16 “I was really keen to get to that Championships last year. level and when I did I wanted to Priest struggled with the stay there,” Priest said. increased tempo, intensity and Bunn said it was evident when required work-rate. As a result, Priest finally came into Murray’s he failed to make an impact for team that he was determined to Vic Country. become a premanent fixture It would prove a watershed with the Bushrangers. moment for Priest. In the But before the Bushrangers’ following pre-season, he round 12 match against the dedicated himself to improving , Bunn had his fitness to ensure he would a heart-to-heart talk with Priest be ready to make the step up to that would, again, help him take play for the his game to another level. in the TAC Cup. Ferocious tackling had been He also wanted to ensure a feature of Priest’s game he never tasted the from his first match with the disappointment of those Bushrangers – he was averaging Under-16 Championships again. Farran Priest’s hard work in the a club-high nine tackles a match. pre-season has stood him in good “The Championships took me stead in his first season with the Bunn told him the defensive by surprise. I couldn’t work my Murray Bushrangers. pressure he was putting on his way into it,” Priest said. opponents was outstanding “I really didn’t perform that “He worked really hard but urged him to step up his well. I found it really quick and and improved his fitness attacking play. couldn’t get into it.” considerably.” The result? Priest was best Bushrangers coach Phil Bunn Despite his profile, Priest on ground that match and was challenged Priest to make a had to wait until round four before awarded the maximum votes in statement when he graduated he broke into the Bushrangers’ the TAC Cup Coaches’ Award. to the Bushrangers’ TAC Cup team, a deliberate ploy by Bunn “I said to Farran I would love program this year. to make the youngster extremely him to have a breakout game, “I think that Championships hungry to succeed. where he got the ball 20-plus may have been the catalyst for Bunn said he made Priest, times and really had a significant him to drive him towards what who comes from Benalla, really impact on the game,” he said. was a very strong pre-season,” earn his promotion into the “Well, he certainly answered Bunn said. Bushrangers’ team. And when he that challenge didn’t he?”

TAC CUP RECORD 5 ray byrne

Ray Byrne remembers the days when he would troop Byrne’s bush from league to league around Gippsland like a door-to-door salesman selling the TAC footy passion Cup message. It was back in the days when, Stalwart takes TAC Cup to country Byrne says, the TAC was not exactly “flavour of the month”. The innovative TAC Cup and BYRNES’ BEST its vision for the future contrasted The TAC Cup Record put Byrne to the test to name his ‘best ever’ team from starkly with the traditional way the players he guided at Gippsland and from 1993-2007. regions and leagues had run junior football, so the reaction B: Troy Makepeace, Craig Biddlescombe, Troy Selwood HB: , , David Wojcinski Byrne received was sceptical at C: Andrew Walker, , Luke Ablett best, hostile at worst. HF: Robert Murphy, Mark Stevens, “There were some rowdy F: Djaran Whyman, Anthony Lubjic, Greg Tivendale meetings,” recalled Byrne, Foll: Hugh Foott, Nick Dal Santo, who spent seven years at Inter: Dylan McLaren, Adrian Cox, Steve Hazelman, Simon Rosa, Gippsland Power before moving Daniel Elstone to his current role as region manager. “This program educates the kids the bush playing League football.” “I didn’t think I had any skin and gives them an opportunity to While Byrne has seen players left on my back at times in the get the best out of themselves and like Nick Dal Santo, Troy, Adam, first two years, but they finally that really motivates me to make Joel and , David came around and now sure that the ones who want it get Wojcinski and Robert Murphy all Gippsland has a fantastic every opportunity. carve out outstanding careers in program,” Byrne said. “If the TAC Cup was around the AFL, Byrne says he receives While Bendigo hasn’t enjoyed in my day there would have just as “big a kick” seeing young as much on-field success, been a lot more blokes from players return and help their Byrne noted that the Pioneers local club. had four players selected at the Byrne recalls in Gippsland’s NAB AFL Draft last year, just first year Jason McFarlane went one less than came out of back to Morwell for the Grand South Australia. Final, kicking the first two goals Byrne says the football of the match to set up the club’s landscape is now completely premiership victory. different to 15 years ago and “And, last year, Rhys Healey bears little resemblance to what went back as a 17-year-old to he encountered when he moved Eaglehawk and he was awarded from Bendigo to Carlton as a best on ground. teenager in the early 1970s. “It was fantastic for him, “When I left Bendigo to go Ray Byrne has worked tirelessly to fantastic for Eaglehawk, fantastic promote the TAC Cup for the past 15 down to Carlton there was none year as the region manager of Gippsland for the Bendigo Pioneers and the of this,” he says. and, now, Bendigo. TAC Cup.”

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ROUND 13 Dandenong Stingrays 9.4 11.7 15.9 16.13 (109) 1.1 2.5 7.6 7.10 (52) TAC CUP LADDER P W L D F A % PTS GOALS: Dandenong Stingrays - Purves 3, Petropoulos 3, Ferraro 3, Roberton 3, Bastinac, Murray Bushrangers 13 11 2 0 1409 888 158.67 44 Hayes, Casboult, Savage. Geelong Falcons 13 9 4 0 1352 1020 132.55 36 Calder Cannons - Huntley 2, Buckley, Thompson, Joyce, B. White, Lucin. Western Jets 13 9 4 0 1125 1090 103.21 36 BEST: Dandenong Stingrays - Rogasch, Gillies, Mitchell, Bastinac, Purves, Petropoulos. Calder Cannons - Thompson, Joyce, Tydell, Duhau, Bisetto, Lucin. Gippsland Power 13 8 5 0 1227 899 136.48 32

Oakleigh Chargers 13 8 5 0 1206 1017 118.58 32 Bendigo Pioneers 1.3 4.7 7.9 10.13 (73) Dandenong Stingrays 13 8 5 0 1281 1127 113.66 32 North Rebels 5.2 7.5 7.9 9.9 (63)

North Ballarat Rebels 13 8 5 0 1101 1010 109.01 32 GOALS: Bendigo Pioneers - Coghlan 2, Irwin-Hill 2, Filo 2, Hall, K. Geary, Healey, Gilmore. North Ballarat Rebels - Hooper 4, Parish 2, Ruffles, Suban, Roughead. Eastern Ranges 13 8 5 0 1108 1114 99.46 32 BEST: Bendigo Pioneers - Healey, Byrne, Petrie, Florance, Irwin-Hill, Coghlan.

Sandringham Dragons 13 4 9 0 999 1341 74.50 16 North Ballarat Rebels - Suban, Ross-Smith, Roughead, Hooper, Weadon, Tate.

Northern Knights 13 3 10 0 1024 1162 88.12 12 Gippsland Power 5.2 7.4 10.10 16.16 (112) Bendigo Pioneers 13 3 10 0 1012 1290 78.45 12 Oakleigh Chargers 0.3 3.7 6.8 8.11 (59)

Calder Cannons 13 2 11 0 0915 1277 71.65 8 GOALS: Gippsland Power - Butcher 5, Woodhead 2, Francis 2, Heyne, Ryan, Hoghton, Stockdale, Donchi, Carr, Blair. GOALKICKERS (PROGRESSIVE) KICKS ROUND 13 Oakleigh Chargers - Scipione 3, Croft 2, Wall, Tunik, Muling. BEST: Gippsland Power - Stevens, Sing, Carr, Blair, Ryan, Stockdale. Tom Rockliff Murray 29 (8) Michael Hurley Northern 32 Oakleigh Chargers - Croft, Henderson, Gotch, O’Farrell, Hogan, McMahon. Jayden Hoegel Oakleigh 26 (-) Michael Barnes Eastern 23 Sam Wright Murray 25 (-) Bryn Weadon North Ballarat 23 Murray Bushrangers 4.5 7.8 15.9 18.10 (118) Michael Still Northern 25 (2) Torin Petrie Bendigo 21 Sandringham Dragons 0.3 1.4 2.8 5.9 (39) Grant Lofthouse Eastern 24 (-) Murray 21 GOALS: Murray Bushrangers - Rockliff 8, Mangan 2, Browne 2, Priest 2, Barolli 2, Geelong 24 (-) Tom Rockliff Murray 20 Sidebottom, Jacka. Sandringham Dragons - Scott, Muller, Suckling, Ambrose, Murphy. John Butcher Gippsland 23 (5) Paul Rogasch Dandenong 17 BEST: Murray Bushrangers - Rockliff, Barolli, Mangan, Wright, Priest, Sidebottom. Jack Fitzpatrick Western 23 (2) Gippsland 17 Sandringham Dragons - Hunt, Thomas, Suckling, Mitchem, McGarry, Ambrose. Aaron Purves Dandenong 22 (3) Michael Stockdale Gippsland 17

Bryce Carroll Western 21 (3) Xavier Gotch Oakleigh 17 Eastern Ranges 1.3 4.5 5.8 6.9 (45) Tim Ruffles North Ballarat 20 (1) Mitchell Banner Western 17 Western Jets 3.2 8.5 10.5 14.9 (93)

Josh Gaylor Bendigo 19 (-) Justin Morris Western 17 GOALS: Eastern Ranges - Renton 3, Dyson, Griffiths, Shiels. Ricky Ferraro Dandenong 19 (3) Lee Coghlan Bendigo 16 Western Jets - Carroll 3, Robbins 2, Sims 2, Fitzpatrick 2, Banner 2, Spinella, McKerracher, Serhat Temel Calder 18 (-) Kallen Geary Bendigo 16 Lunardi. Josh Scipione Oakleigh 18 (3) Jacob Thompson Calder 16 BEST: Eastern Ranges - Renton, Kitchin, Sloane, Barnes, Walker, Shiels. Western Jets - Morris, Notman, Fitzpatrick, Hartigan, Haby, Spinella. MARKS ROUND 13 HANDBALLS ROUND 13 Geelong Falcons 1.3 3.5 8.7 10.13 (73) Luke Thompson Geelong 10 Rhys Healey Bendigo 16 Northern Knights 0.1 4.3 8.5 9.7 (61)

Jordan Schroder Calder 10 Dandenong 15 GOALS: Geelong Falcons - Dobson 2, Gavin 2, Denton, McMillan-Pittard, Hughes, Hunt, Robert Figgis Oakleigh 10 Zachary Ledin Geelong 15 Thompson, Delaney. Northern Knights - Woods 2, Still 2, S. Calcedo 2, Hill, Power, Stavely. Paul Rogasch Dandenong 9 Sandringham 15 BEST: Geelong Falcons - Fisher, Denton, Dangerfield, McManus, Hunt, Ledin. Nick Sing Gippsland 9 Leigh Kitchin Eastern 14 Northern Knights - Hurley, Paynter, Woods, Stavely, Simcoe, Ricco. Josh Baird Bendigo 9 Farran Priest Murray 14 Chris Spinella Western 9 Eastern 13 Josh Stavely Northern 8 Coaches’ Award 2008 Dale Walker Eastern 13 Jake Nash Gippsland 8 Round 13 5-vote winners Liam Tobin Sandringham 13 Michael Hurley Northern 7 bendigo v north ballarat eastern v western Jordan Florance Bendigo 12 Anton Woods Northern 7 5 • Rhys Healy • Bendigo 5 • Justin Morris • Western geelong v northern gippsland v oakleigh Nathan Schroder Western 7 Patrick Dangerfield Geelong 12 5 • Mitch Fisher • Geelong 5 • Koby Stevens • Gippsland Will Martiniello Murray 12 Dean Tydell Calder 7 murray v sandringham dandenong v calder Josh Cowan North Ballarat 7 Chris Giampaolo North Ballarat 12 5 • Tom Rockliff • Murray 5 • Paul Rogasch • Dandenong Aaron Purves Dandenong 7 Jayden Hoegel Oakleigh 12 5-4-3-2-1 votes awarded per game, with full match voting and votes tally announced at the end of the season.

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Harper, Brad Harvey, Cameron TAC Cup club notes O’Shea, Joshua Woolard, Ryan Wilson and . Watch out for TAC Cup Talk each week on Ford’s theoval.com.au. Congratulations to , The show features all the latest TAC Cup news, with hosts Dwayne and Rory Sloane Russell and Nigel Carmody previewing the coming matches. who recently played for Vic Metro. Next week is the bye, the Western Jets solutions, phone 9339 0444. players will be involved in a If you’re looking for some Club merchandise is on sale as challenge weekend in the city fun and excitement on are the $1000 draw raffl e tickets, and stay overnight on Saturday. Sunday, August 10, head down see caldercannons.afl vic.com.au. and join Nova 100’s Dylan Lewis, North Ballarat Rebels Natalie Garonzi and the Nova Geelong Falcons This week we welcome Casanovas for Victoria University’s The Geelong Falcons wish the Eastern Ranges to (VU) Open Day at Footscray Park to congratulate our seven AUSTAR Arena in what will be campus from 10am-4pm. players and two emergencies a very important game for Explore your study options, who have made the fi nal squad both sides. check out the facilities and for the 2008 NAB AFL Under-16 The Rebels would like to demos or chill at the main stage Championships in Queensland. wish Jandre Slabbert, Jake with hip hop, funk and reggae We also wish our staff all the best Ward, Michael O’Callagan, performances. There will be food in their volunteer roles – Dr Steve Lucas Cook and Richard from around the world, games Baker, Tim Malberg (trainer) and Bamblett all the best for the NAB and tons of prizes to be won. So Ashley Connoley (selector). AFL Under-16 Championships head down to VU’s Footscray Park currently being held in campus on Ballarat Road and Eastern Ranges Queensland. All players have don’t miss out. The club extends its performed well during the trial best wishes to the games and we look forward Calder Cannons following under-16 players currently to watching these players Want to be a Cannons playing for Vic Metro in the NAB develop with the Rebels over sponsor or player AFL Championships: Kieran the next two years. sponsor? Phone Martin today for details on 9350 7112. Dates for your diary: under-18 team photo prior to last home game on Sunday, August 24; and presentation night on Friday, October 10. Sponsor of the week – PANALPINA World Transport. PANALPINA is one of the world’s leading providers of forwarding and logistics services, specialising in inter-continental air-freight and ocean-freight shipments and The Oakleigh Chargers went down to related supply-chain management Gippsland Power by 53 points last weekend.

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Don’t forget our Thursday night Good luck to Leon Harris (Grant Klemm), Transpirret dinners, which all supporters, (coach) and Stingrays under-16 (Cameron Pirret), Intouch parents and families are invited to players Mitch Gent, Mitch Shade, Sails and Sheds (Andrew attend to hear the latest Rebels Hallahan, Matthew Shaw, Daniel Reddie), Quality Drum Service news, including the team for the Harrison and , who (Nick Riddle) and Wood Be Wize upcoming game. Go Rebels! are representing Vic Country (Bradyn Taglieri). at the NAB AFL Under-16 We look forward to taking Dandenong Stingrays Championships this week. part in the AFL’s Respect and The Stingrays Responsibility pilot program that congratulate David Northern Knights will be delivered to the players on Dickson and the staff of the Vic The Knights appreciate Tuesday, August 12. Metro under-18 team on their the support of our We would also like to welcome recent success in the NAB AFL under-16 player sponsors: South Fluid Core Australia as player Under-18 Championships. Well Morang JFC (Jake Barclay), S.J sponsor of TAC Cup squad done also to the Stingrays players Electric (), Mtech member . who represented Vic Metro Environmental and Fuel Solutions Congratulations to 2008 across the Championships. (Glenn Grgic), Ray White Preston Vic Metro co-captains David They were Matt Clark, Aaron (Michael Hernandez), Victorian Zaharakis and Michael Hurley, Purves, Tom Scully, Ashley Aboriginal Sport and Recreation who were selected in the All- Smith and Steve Gaertner. (Jamie Kairouz), Café all Angolo Australian Under-18 team.

TAC CUP RECORD 9 fixture fixture 2008 Round 1 Round 7 Round 13 Saturday, MarCH 29 Saturday, May 24 Saturday, JulY 19 Eastern 9.14 (68) vs. Oakleigh 22.11 (143) Dandenong 12.15 (87) vs. Eastern 14.14 (98) Dandenong 16.13 (109) vs. Calder 7.10 (52) Bendigo 10.13 (73) vs. North Ballarat 9.9 (63) Gippsland 11.15 (81) vs. Dandenong 10.9 (69) Murray 14.8 (92) vs. Northern 10.17 (77) Gippsland 16.16 (112) vs. Oakleigh 8.11 (59) Oakleigh 10.9 (69) vs. Gippsland 14.18 (102) Sunday, MarCH 30 Murray 18.10 (118) vs. Sandringham 5.9 (39) Calder 9.13 (67) vs. Sandringham 12.18 (90) Sunday, May 25 Eastern 6.9 (45) vs. Western 14.9 (93) Bendigo 11.7 (73) vs. Murray 20.14 (134) North Ballarat 14.14 (98) vs. Calder 10.14 (74) Sunday, JulY 20 North Ballarat 13.10 (88) vs. Geelong 19.13 (127) Bendigo 15.7 (97) vs. Western 16.11 (107) Geelong 10.13 (73) vs. Northern 9.7 (61) Northern 9.11 (65) vs. Western 15.10 (100) Geelong 23.13 (151) vs. Sandringham 7.10 (52) Round 14 Round 2 Round 8 Saturday, JulY 26 Saturday, AprIL 5 Saturday, May 31 Oakleigh vs. Sandringham Warrawee Park 11am Geelong vs. Gippsland Skilled Stadium 11:30am Eastern 12.12 (84) vs. Sandringham 20.14 (134) Northern 23.20 (158) vs. Northern Territory 3.11 (29) Murray vs. Western Deakin Reserve, Shep. Noon Gippsland 18.24 (132) vs. Bendigo 6.14 (50) Northern 12.12 (84) vs. Calder 16.14 (110) Dandenong vs. Bendigo Shepley Oval 2pm Geelong 13.9 (87) vs. Queensland 14.10 (94) Gippsland 12.10 (82) vs. Murray 17.2 (104) Sunday, JulY 27 North Ballarat 17.6 (108) vs. Bendigo 13.13 (91) North Ballarat 11.10 (76) vs. Dandenong 12.12 (84) Calder vs. Northern ABD Group Stadium 11:15am Sunday, AprIL 6 Western 17.14 (116) vs. Murray 12.11 (83) North Ballarat vs. Eastern AUSTAR Arena Noon Sandringham 9.10 (64) vs. Oakleigh 16.12 (108) Western 9.6 (60) vs. Oakleigh 19.21 (135) Development Day Sunday, JunE 1 Dandenong 21.10 (136) vs. Geelong 15.17 (107) August 2/3 Eastern 13.11 (89) vs. Calder 9.13 (67) Round 3 Round 15 National Championships Saturday, AprIL 12 Saturday, AugUST 9 Gippsland 13.10 (88) vs. North Ballarat 14.11 (95) June 7/8 Western vs. Calder Burbank Oval 10:45am Northern 6.7 (43) vs. Eastern 14.12 (96) Round 9 Geelong vs. Bendigo Skilled Stadium 1pm Eastern vs. Gippsland Box Hill City Oval 2pm Murray 16.9 (105) vs. Geelong 6.16 (52) Saturday, JunE 14 Sunday, AugUST 10 Bendigo 13.23 (101) vs. Dandenong 14.11 (95) Calder 16.17 (113) vs. Northern Territory 4.13 (37) Oakleigh vs. Dandenong Warrawee Park 10:30am Sunday, AprIL 13 Oakleigh 16.17 (113) vs. Northern 8.10 (58) Sandringham vs. North Ballarat Trevor Barker Beach Oval Western 13.11 (89) vs. Sandringham 11.13 (79) Geelong 21.14 (140) vs. Western 8.9 (57) 11am Calder 15.9 (99) vs. Oakleigh 20.13 (133) Sunday, JunE 15 Northern vs. Murray NAB Oval 1:30pm Round 4 Gippsland 17.13 (115) vs. Queensland 11.11 (77) Round 16 Bendigo 14.11 (95) vs. Eastern 14.14 (98) Saturday, AprIL 19 Saturday, AugUST 16 Murray 16.13 (109) vs. North Ballarat 6.7 (43) Sandringham vs. Northern Trevor Barker Beach Oval 10:45am Western 18.11 (119) vs. Northern Territory 12.13 (85) Sandringham 14.10 (94) vs. Dandenong 20.17 (137) Bendigo vs. Oakleigh Golden Square Noon Tasmania 18.10 (118) vs. Bendigo 11.9 (75) Murray vs. Calder Princess Park, Shep. 1pm Murray 25.13 (163) vs. NSW/ACT 9.7 (61) Development Day Eastern vs. Geelong Box Hill City Oval 2pm Gippsland 14.10 (94) vs. Eastern 16.14 (110) June 21/22 Sunday, AugUST 17 Queensland 10.15 (75) vs. Oakleigh 16.13 (109) Round 10 North Ballarat vs. Western AUSTAR Arena Noon Sunday, AprIL 20 Gippsland vs. Dandenong 2pm Saturday, JunE 28 Northern 23.9 (147) vs. Dandenong 15.14 (104) Geelong 15.15 (105) vs. Oakleigh 11.3 (69) Round 17 North Ballarat 22.12 (144) vs. Sandringham 7.13 (55) Eastern 23.18 (156) vs. Northern Territory 7.6 (48) Saturday, AugUST 23 Geelong 21.9 (135) vs. Calder 10.11 (71) Murray vs. Dandenong Norn Minns Oval, Wang. 1pm Bendigo 12.12 (84) vs. Northern 17.12 (114) Gippsland vs. Sandringham Morwell 1pm Development Day Calder 9.7 (61) vs. Murray 19.16 (130) Western vs. Bendigo Burbank Oval 1pm April 26/27 Sandringham 12.18 (90) vs. Gippsland 12.14 (86) Sunday, AugUST 24 Sunday, JunE 29 Round 5 Geelong vs. North Ballarat Skilled Stadium* 10:40am North Ballarat 16.8 (104) vs. Queensland 7.9 (51) Calder vs. Eastern ABD Group Stadium 11am Saturday, May 3 Dandenong 8.12 (60) vs. Western 7.15 (57) Northern vs. Oakleigh NAB Oval 2pm Calder 8.10 (58) vs. Western 13.10 (88) Round 18 Geelong 14.9 (93) vs. Eastern 15.10 (100) Round 11 Saturday, AugUST 30 Gippsland 12.11 (83) vs. Northern 5.12 (42) Saturday, JulY 5 Western vs. Geelong Burbank Oval 11:10am Sandringham 15.9 (99) vs. Bendigo 14.9 (93) Gippsland 13.10 (88) vs. Calder 6.13 (49) Bendigo vs. Gippsland Golden Square 11:30am Murray 13.13 (91) vs. Bendigo 8.9 (57) Sunday, May 4 North Ballarat vs. Northern AUSTAR Arena 1pm Dandenong 19.10 (124) vs. Murray 15.12 (102) Sunday, JulY 6 Eastern vs. Murray Box Hill City Oval 2pm North Ballarat 14.12 (96) vs. Oakleigh 8.12 (60) Sandringham 12.13 (85) vs. Western 15.17 (107) Sunday, AugUST 31 Northern 9.7 (61) vs. North Ballarat 16.11 (107) Dandenong vs. Sandringham Shepley Oval 11am Development Day Oakleigh 8.7 (55) vs. Eastern 10.10 (70) Oakleigh vs. Calder Warrawee Park 2pm May 10/11 Geelong 14.14 (98) vs. Dandenong 14.9 (93) Round 19 Round 6 Round 12 Saturday, SepTEMBER 6 Saturday, May 17 Saturday, JulY 12 Eastern vs. Northern Box Hill City Oval 10:45am Calder 7.3 (45) vs. Dandenong 12.14 (86) Oakleigh 13.6 (84) vs. Western 8.9 (57) Murray vs. Oakleigh Lavington Sports Ground 1pm North Ballarat 10.9 (69) vs. Eastern 6.11 (47) North Ballarat 1.4 (10) vs. Gippsland 13.12 (90) Bendigo vs. Calder Golden Square 1pm Dandenong vs. North Ballarat Shepley Oval 2pm Gippsland 10.14 (74) vs. Western 11.9 (75) Murray 14.9 (93) vs. Eastern 6.11 (47) Sunday, SepTEMBER 7 Geelong 11.8 (74) vs. Northern 5.15 (45) Dandenong 13.9 (97) v Northern 10.9 (69) Sandringham vs. Geelong Trevor Barker Beach Oval Noon Sunday, May 18 Sunday, JulY 13 Gippsland vs. Western Morwell 1pm Murray 11.19 (85) vs. Sandringham 7.14 (56) Bendigo 10.12 (72) vs. Sandringham 8.14 (62) Bendigo 7.9 (51) vs. Oakleigh 8.21 (69) Calder 7.7 (49) vs. Geelong 16.14 (110) * AFL curtain-raiser

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Community football clubs are currently attending training Multicultural seminars on how they can have a greater awareness of cultural diversity and provide awareness an inclusive environment to engage multicultural Australia. Clubs engaging entire community AFL Victoria, through the AFL Multicultural Program is currently running a series of Diversity and Cross-cultural Awareness training sessions at selected leagues and clubs. As part of the program, local councils have also provided input and support, including links to existing council programs, support from recreational and leisure services staff and access to venues and amenities. The training is aimed at club presidents, coaches and committee members, with more than 250 club representatives from the Northern, Yarra Junior, Western and Essendon District football leagues having already attended a session. An additional session is also taking place at the Representatives from community clubs attend a recent Diversity and Cross-cultural Awareness training session. end of the month in Shepparton for clubs in the Goulburn Valley in Australia and how clubs can clubs to create a positive public Football League. better engage with multicultural image that helps with public Conducted by Myriad communities within their areas, relations and attracting Consultants’ Maria Dimopoulos tailoring their communication sponsorship. and Carmel Guerra from the to accommodate language and Most importantly, the training Centre for Multicultural Youth cultural differences. assists clubs in ensuring everyone Issues, the two-hour sessions Clubs that have attended the feels respected and valued, are aimed at not only increasing seminars have already reported regardless of their ability, cultural clubs’ multicultural awareness, a number of benefits. Chiefly, background or religion. It also but also better equipping them to they have been able to attract provides greater awareness of the tap into and provide a welcoming and retain participants and practices that can attract diverse environment to this growing sector volunteers from a whole new community groups to participate of our community. talent pool, whose abilities and in football, as community The two-hour training seminar skills have bolstered their teams. leagues continue to engage with covers the reality of diversity The sessions also assist multicultural Australia.

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