VFL Round 10 TAC Cup Round 11 20 - 21 June 2015 $3.00 Photo: Shane Goss Photo: Morgan Hancock Features 4 5 Phil Dunk 7 James Magner 9 Darcy Tucker 12 Brent Wallace Every week Editorial 3 VFL Highlights 10 VFL News 11 AFL Vic News 13 TAC Cup Highlights 14 TAC Cup News 15 Club Whiteboard 16 19 Events 21 Connect with your club 22 23 Draft Watch 64 Who’s playing who 34 35 Richmond vs Footscray 52 53 Eastern vs Oakleigh 36 37 North Ballarat vs Casey Scorpions 54 55 Murray vs Geelong 38 39 Coburg vs Geelong 56 57 Dandenong vs North Ballarat 40 41 Northern Blues vs Werribee 58 59 Bendigo vs Gippsland 42 43 Frankston vs Port Melbourne 60 61 Northern vs Western 44 45 Williamstown vs Box Hill Hawks 62 63 Sandringham vs Calder 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: Trent Dennis-Lane has eyes only for the ball in Sandringham’s Round 9 win over Port Melbourne. Talent Operations Coordinator: Rhy Gieschen Photo: Dave Savell 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 June 20 – 12pm Website: www.taccup.com.au Richmond v Footscray Twitter: @TACCup Next week: Collingwood v Box Hill Hawks Facebook: www.facebook.com/taccupfooty Radio VFL Live L Sunday June 21, Frankston v Port Melbourne I From 1.30pm 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 Footscray R TAC Cup Radio A Sunday June 21, Northern Knights v Western Jets D From 10.45am I Listen live on the Red Time Sport iPhone App or www.taccup.com.au O Next game: Murray Bushrangers v Northern Knights 3WBC Sunday June 21, Williamstown v Box Hill Hawks From 1pm Listen to 94.1FM, online at www.3wbc.org.au or the Tune In Radio app Next game: Collingwood v Box Hill Hawks Casey Radio Sunday June 21, Frankston v Port Melbourne From 1pm 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: Sandringham v Footscray Video Streaming Visit www.vfl .com.au for a link Sunday at 2pm for a live video stream of: Frankston v Port Melbourne Watch the action and listen to the call from the VFL Live team. Next week: Sandringham v Footscray 02 www.vfl .com.au Time to recognise unsung heroes They are without doubt the backbone of Australian football. Each and every week at grounds across Victoria, dedicated volunteers roll up their sleeves to ensure clubs continue to off er their local communities a place to come together and unite behind a common cause. While this tireless work oft en goes unrecognised, it is vitally important that we highlight the commitment and sacrifi ce of those behind the scenes. Just like those in community football, every TAC Cup region and Peter Jackson VFL club relies on the dedication of volunteers to ensure young men have the opportunity to reach their potential. We are also blessed to have many long-serving volunteers support our Vic Metro and Vic Country talent academies and give up their time to help AFL Victoria provide the best environment for our most promising underage footballers. With the contribution of these individuals in mind, AFL Victoria is now calling for nominations for the 2015 AFL State Volunteer of the Year. This Awards Program commenced as part of the Australian Football 150 Years celebration and each year rewards seven outstanding volunteers around Australia with the experience of a lifetime. Each club, league or association is invited to nominate an outstanding volunteer as an AFL State Volunteer of the Year and put them in the running for an amazing prize. The Victorian winner will win the ultimate grand fi nal experience, which includes three nights’ accommodation in Melbourne, the opportunity to walk in the Grand Final Parade and of course two tickets to the 2015 Toyota AFL Grand Final. The volunteer may have contributed to the completion of a major or signifi cant project throughout the year or they may be someone who has contributed in a number of roles over a long period of time. Each state and territory will be responsible for evaluating the nominations and ultimately will determine their State Volunteer of the Year. Clubs can complete an online nomination for a volunteer from their club via the AFL Community website and must do so before 5.00pm on Friday August 28, 2015. AFL Victoria will also be submitting two nominations for the AFL Merit Award which is a long-standing initiative to recognise outstanding service to Australian football. Steven Reaper AFL Victoria CEO www.taccup.com.au 03 Jackson Barling, Phil Dunk and Eddie Betts aft er Calder’s 2004 TAC Cup Grand Final victory A man loved by all Long-time Calder Cannons trainer and Hall of Fame member Phil Dunk made an impact on the lives of everyone who has passed through the club in his 21 years of service there. Dunk was 69 years of age when he passed away “He built up a pretty intimate knowledge of nearly on May the 2nd this year, shortly aft er the Cannons everybody at the club.” faced the Murray Bushrangers in Round 6 of the TAC Kyte said Dunk did most of his talking from his Cup. chair in the Calder trainers’ room, which has since Calder Talent Manager Ian Kyte paid tribute to become a memorial with a photo of Dunk displayed the man who was a part of the TAC Cup since its above it. inaugural season of 1992, spending three years at In fact, hours before he passed away, Kyte tells of the Western Jets before joining the Cannons when how Dunk was sitting on that very chair watching they entered the competition in 1995. another squad of young Cannons run past him onto the playing fi eld. “Phil had the ability to talk to everybody and know something about them to talk to them about, and “It was really interesting – he was sitting in his chair near the door as the boys were going out and our that made you think you were the only person he conditioning guy said to them, ‘Don’t forget to give spoke to like that,” Kyte said. Phil a pat on the head as you go past’, and every boy “He never missed saying hello to anybody or talking who ran out to play that day gave Phil a tap on the to them about something personal, not just about back or rubbed his head as they were heading out,” footy. Kyte said. 04 www.vfl .com.au “It was a fairly fi tting farewell.” couple of years, and he was still there – nothing had Kyte said it was testament to Dunk’s impact on 24 really changed. He was always asking everyone how years’ worth of TAC Cup players that so many of they were going, making sure they were alright.” them who went on to become AFL stars attended A more recent Cannon to have been impacted by his funeral. Dunk is Gold Coast half-back Adam Saad, who said his enduring memories of the man who so oft en Among them was Richmond ruckman Ivan Maric, taped him up was simply having a laugh together. who said the humbling experience made him think about whether he truly appreciated the impact “As soon as I’d walk in (to the club), he’d always say: Dunk’s qualities had on the club while he was alive. ‘Adam, you’ve gotta shave the beard’,” Saad recalled. But Maric knows he’ll be seeing evidence of them for “He was always the one at the club who you could years to come. just go to and speak about things other than footy. “Maybe those qualities have passed on through a lot “He was actually one of a kind.” of players,” he said. Ian Kyte said Dunk would be sorely missed by “That’s what happens in families – those behaviours everyone he came into contact with, including the get passed on, and they’ll defi nitely stay within the Calder medical staff who would revel in dragging Calder Cannons Football Club and all the Calder Dunk onto the ground at training to walk laps of the oval with them. Cannons families.” “It was interesting recently – one of our physios got Maric said Dunk was someone who made him feel a little bit upset when he walked into the trainer’s truly welcome in a new world of elite underage room,” Kyte recalled. football. “His parting gesture would be to yell at Phil and say, “(At fi rst,) I didn’t really know anyone in the football ‘Have you walked your laps yet, you lazy so-and-so?’ world, but he knew my name and knew how to say it and Phil would have a go back at him, but our physio properly,” Maric recalled.