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TAC Cup Round 2 TAC Cup Girls Round 3 1 - 2 April 2017 $3.00 Photo: Cameron Grimes Perkins a lesson in persistence Not much knocks the AFL men’s competition off the front page of the paper, especially during the opening round of the season. But the NAB AFL Women’s Grand Final did just that on the weekend, with premier Adelaide – featuring Eastern Devils Swisse VFL Women’s draft ee Sarah Perkins – recognised on the front page of The Age with the headline ‘Making HerStory’. With close to 100 VFL Women’s players draft ed into the AFL this season, just one now has the title of premiership player, with Perkins to be congratulated on being part of the successful Crows outfit. Perkins is a great example to up-and-coming female and male players, having been overlooked at the women’s draft but making the most of the late lifeline thrown to her by Adelaide to live out her AFL dream. The TAC Cup regularly provides over 50 per cent of the talent to the AFL at draft time, but it is only a small percentage of players from the competition that are draft ed. Each weekend almost 300 players take to the field representing their region, with double that amount on TAC Cup lists. While it is the elite talent that is oft en focused on in the competition, we should also recognise the role our clubs play in developing future Peter Jackson VFL and local players. The skills learnt at this level are taken back into the community, as the players become leaders from the education and training provided in the TAC Cup. Talking about leaders, it is pleasing to see 15 AFL captains this season having been draft ed out of the TAC Cup. Gippsland is best represented with four former players leading their AFL team and having met in Round 1 – Leongatha duo Dyson Heppell (Essendon) and Jarryd Roughead (Hawthorn), and Robert Murphy (Western Bulldogs) and Scott Pendlebury (Collingwood). Today we look at the TAC Cup captains that have been named for 2017 in the Record, with those names to possibly join the long list of former TAC Cup players who go on to become AFL captains in the future. Steven Reaper AFL Victoria CEO Contents Who’s playing who 3 5 New TAC Cup coaches 24 25 Calder vs Western 6 7 Noah Balta 26 27 Geelong vs Dandenong 8 TAC Cup Review 28 29 Murray vs Gippsland 9 TAC Cup News 30 31 Oakleigh vs Eastern 10 TAC Cup Girls 32 33 Sandringham vs Northern 11 Stats Central 34 35 GWV vs Bendigo 13 The Big League 16 AFL Vic News 37 39 TAC Cup U16 country teams 48 Quiz 43 47 TAC Cup Girls teams Editor: Ben Pollard [email protected] Contributors: Anthony Stanguts, Kirstie Fitzgerald Design & Print: Mystique Photos: AFL Photos (unless otherwise credited) Advertising: Rosanna Butler (03) 8341 6021 Ikon Park, Gate 3, Royal Parade, Carlton Nth, VIC 3054 GPO Box 4337, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Cover: Alex Federico of the Northern Knights celebrates Phone: (03) 8341 6000 | Fax: (03) 9380 1076 a goal in TAC Cup Round 1 www.aflvic.com.au www.taccup.com.au 1 Television Online VFL Online Website: www.vfl.com.au Twitter: @VFL #PJVFL #VFLWomens Facebook: www.facebook.com/vflfooty Saturday April 15 – 2.30pm TAC Cup Online Coburg vs Collingwood Website: www.taccup.com.au Download the PLUS7 Live app to stream games live Twitter: @TACCup #TACCup #TACCupGirls or watch a replay at au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/vfl Facebook: www.facebook.com/taccupfooty Radio R TAC Cup Radio A Saturday April 1: Murray Bushrangers vs Gippsland Power from 2.15pm D I Listen live on the Red Time Sport iPhone app or via taccup.com.au O Next game (April 8): Western Jets vs Sandringham Dragons Calder Cannons Radio Listen to ‘Pathway to the Top’ with Tim Michell on North West FM each Wednesday from 5-6pm. Tune to 98.9FM or stream the program online at www.northwestfm.org L VFL Live I Saturday April 8: Port Melbourne vs Northern Blues from 1.45pm V Live on Aussie digital, the Red Time Sport iPhone and Android apps, E plus online via vfl.com.au 3WBC Friday April 14: Footscray vs Box Hill Hawks from 11am Tune to 94.1FM, online at www.3wbc.org.au or on the Tune In Radio app on your smart phone. Casey Radio Monday April 17: Williamstown vs Casey Demons from 1pm Tune to 97.7FM in Melbourne, online at www.caseyradio.com.au or on the Tune In Radio app on your smart phone. VFL Rewind Listen to VFL Rewind each Monday night from 7-8pm, covering the Peter Jackson VFL and Swisse VFL Women’s. Tune to 94.1FM 3WBC, online at www.3wbc.org.au or on the Tune In Radio app on your smart phone. Previous shows are available at www.soundcloud.com/afl-victoria or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes by searching for ‘AFL Victoria’. 2 www.vfl.com.au TAC Cup welcomes coaching quartet The AFL Victoria Record this week looks at how incoming head coaches Rick Coburn (Bendigo Pioneers), Daniel O’Keefe (Geelong Falcons), Justin Wenke (Northern Knights) and Leigh Clarke (Oakleigh Chargers – pictured) have found their way to some of the TAC Cup’s top jobs. Leigh Clarke’s strong sense of connectedness to the “There’s some pride in saying they’re still involved, I Oakleigh Chargers is something he hopes to instil in think.” his players as the club’s new head coach. Clarke said Oakleigh’s issue of having to deal with Clarke is the first former player to take the reins at the football commitments of private-school boys Oakleigh, having been part of the club’s inaugural was another constant from the days of the club’s TAC Cup season in 1995 as a 15-year-old. He replaces inception, but that sports science and an increasing Michael Stinear, who coached Melbourne in the focus on development had changed the way TAC Cup inaugural AFL Women’s season aft er guiding the players were coached. Chargers to TAC Cup premierships in 2014-15 and being named the 2016 TAC Cup Coach of the Year. He said his own coaching style would borrow from Clarke left Oakleigh’s program as a 16-year-old the successful approach of Stinear. with the onset of serious foot injuries but returned “Mick and I were very close,” Clarke said. “I was as a strength and conditioning coach in 2010 aft er appointed his senior assistant on a Thursday (before a playing career at local level. He progressed to the 2016 season) and on the Monday I got the job at become a line coach at the Chargers and was set to Richmond. become Stinear’s senior assistant coach for the 2016 season before being appointed as the Richmond VFL “Mick’s a very mindful coach. He’s got a real kindness team’s forwards coach. and a care in the way he prepares people and treats people on-field and off -field, and that’s what I took “I can see the charm in being back where I started,” Clarke said of his new role. away from him. “What I love is the connection around here, and that’s “My coaching philosophy is built around connecting what I’m trying to preach to the boys now. It’s not with the players and engaging them. They’ve been in just my connection to the club, but there are team their own tribe and they’re coming to join our tribe managers, property guys and helpers who were here now, and I want them to bring all their skills and on my first day and are still here now. characteristics to make our tribe better.” www.taccup.com.au 3 The new head coach of the Northern Knights “Jackson was a boy who didn’t make the list as a certainly isn’t new to the TAC Cup – in fact, Justin bottom-age player at the Chargers,” Wenke said. Wenke knows exactly what it takes to reach the “I’d had a long association with him through the competition’s pinnacle. Yarra Junior Football League interleague teams I’d The 42-year-old takes over from three-year Northern coached, so I knew what he was capable of. He had to coach Andrew Shakespeare aft er ending his work on his kicking a bit, but we put him on the list as premiership-winning stint as mentor of the Oakleigh a top-ager and he became a really high draft pick. Chargers early in the 2014 season. “The other one was (Macrae’s fellow 2016 Bulldogs Wenke guided the Chargers to the 2012 TAC Cup flag premiership player) Toby McLean, who was cut at from sixth position aft er the home-and-away season the Dandenong Stingrays and then we brought him in his first year as head coach. The Chargers then in. He was a diff erent sort of character – most of the missed the finals in 2013 before Wenke left the club Chargers boys were private-school boys but Toby had during the following season due to personal reasons. left school. Aft er three consecutive years without making the “Integrating him into the system was a real feather finals, the Knights have appointed a coach with a in the cap of the Chargers, to take in a boy that had pedigree of TAC Cup success – even if that success talent and develop him a little bit, and then he was was achieved in rather unorthodox circumstances.