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CCANNONSannons remainREMAIN inIN topTOP fourFOUR AFL VICTORIA VFL ROUND 8, TAC CUP ROUND 7 MAY 12-13, 2012 $3 SandrinGHAM rise to THird EDITORIAL More AFL debuts Another Peter Jackson VFL draftee debuted in the AFL on the weekend, continuing to highlight the great pathway to the highest competition. AHMED Saad, last year’s Peter Jackson VFL and 42 of it offers players the opportunity winner of the Fothergill those players have played at each and every week to play Round Medal for the most least one AFL match against AFL listed players. promising young player in From the 16 VFL players Interestingly, a total of 28 the Peter Jackson VFL, made selected at last year’s NAB former VFL players last week his AFL debut for St Kilda AFL Drafts, six – Saad, Jarrod played for an AFL Club and last weekend. Boumann (Box Hill Hawks/ that included some of the Saad, a youngster of Egyptian Hawthorn), Tim Mohr (Casey game’s biggest names – Sam heritage, is a great football Scorpions/Greater Western Mitchell, Nick Maxwell and story. He virtually ‘invited’ Sydney), Orren Stephenson Matthew Boyd – the latter two himself to training for the (North Ballarat/Geelong), Tory current AFL Club captains then Northern Bullants and Dickson (Bendigo/Western and the former a premiership on occasions could not Bulldogs) and James Magner captain. get a game in the club’s (Sandringham/Melbourne) – Just like Saad, at some point Development League team. have already made their AFL early in their careers they all Throughout those testing times, debut in 2012. played in the Development Saad’s commitment never That number is another League, which, again, wavered as he strove to get personal best for the Peter underlines the importance of the best out of himself; working Jackson VFL, which in the late this competition’s role in the his way from the Development 1990s sometimes struggled talent pathway. League team to the Club’s VFL to gain a handful of players on Maxwell, Mitchell and Dale senior team and then played an AFL list with few making a Morris (Werribee) all have consistently well enough to telling contribution. All Australian honours while warrant selection at AFL level. How things have changed. Mitchell, Boyd and Aaron Saad is one of 55 players this More and more AFL Clubs are Davey (Port Melbourne) are season on an AFL Club list who looking to the Peter Jackson all AFL club best and fairest have either used the VFL as VFL - widely regarded as the winners. a launching pad after coming premier competition outside the It’s abundantly clear that the out of the TAC Cup, suburban AFL - for players. Peter Jackson VFL competition or country football leagues or And, more and more Peter provides players with an a second chance to an AFL Jackson VFL players are additional opportunity to career after being delisted by showing they are more than up present their case for selection an AFL Club. to the challenge as one of the at AFL level. It’s worth noting that number unique advantages of the Peter - Grant Williams of 55 is an all-time high for the Jackson VFL competition is that General Manager VFL ROUND 8, TAC CUP ROUND 7 HEADQUARTERS. CONTENTS. MAY 12-13, 2012 Media Coverage 4 Around the Grounds - VFL 21 Visy Park Tim Totevski 5 Last Time They Met 27 Gate 3 Royal Parade Ex-VFL Players now in AFL 6 VFL Team Lists 31 Carlton Nth VIC 3054 Kris Pendlebury 9 AFL Victoria Development 39 GPO Box 4337 Simon Goosey 10 Around the Grounds - TAC Cup 40 MELBOURNE VIC 3001 Brent Bransgrove 13 Oakleigh Chargers 41 Phone: (03) 8341 6000 VFL State Squad/Game 14 TAC Cup Future Stars 42 Fax: (03) 9380 1076 ABC TV Match of the Round 17 Jake Stringer 43 Website: www.aflvic.com.au Ford Coaches Award 18 TAC Cup Team Lists 48 www.vfl.com.au | 3 MEDIA COVERAGE Media Coverage VFL Radio Sunday 13th May Northern Blues vs Sandringham From 1:30pm AEDT Live on the Red Time Sport iPhone App, vfl.com.au, sen.com.au Aussie Digital Radio and the SEN iPhone app. Next Week: Williamstown vs Coburg Tigers 3WBC Saturday 12th May Box Hill Hawks vs Casey Scorpions From 1pm Listen to 94.1 FM or online at www.3wbc.org.au Next Week: Box Hill Hawks vs North Ballarat ABC TV Saturday 12th May Box Hill Hawks vs Casey Scorpions From 1pm Replay: 2:30am Wednesdays ABC TV Next Week: Werribee Tigers vs Northern Blues SEN Sunday 13th May Peter Jackson VFL Review – 9:05pm Thursday May 16th May The Peter Jackson VFL Show 8:30pm – 9pm 3AW Saturday 19th May Peter Jackson VFL Review – 6:50pm Footy Online Keep up with the latest VFL news online via: website: www.vfl.com.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/vflfooty twitter: @VFLnews #PJVFL COVER CONTRIBUTORS VFL: Sandringham’s Tom Curren Editor: Anthony Stanguts [email protected] TAC Cup: Calder Cannons Contributors: Adrian Dunn, Kate Gurney, Matt Lee, Jason Cooke Brendan Lucas, Kane Hunkin. Design & Print: Red Onion Creative (03) 5221 4408 Photos: AFL Photos (unless otherwise credited) 4 | www.aflvic.com.au TIM TOTEVSKI Totevski to set new goals VFL Radio LIKE a bunch of aspiring During his time with the “It’s a big step up from Sunday 13th May teenagers, Tim Totevski is Knights, Totevski trained at the TAC Cup because you Northern Blues vs Sandringham all about improving himself. Cramer Street, enjoyed the are coming up against the From 1:30pm AEDT When he graduated from TAC people at the club and saw it older, more experienced and Live on the Red Time Sport iPhone App, vfl.com.au, sen.com.au Cup club Northern Knights - as a natural progression. mature-age guys.” Aussie Digital Radio and the SEN iPhone app. where he played nearly every Initially, Totevski set himself For Totevski, who stands 173 Next Week: Williamstown vs Coburg Tigers game the past two seasons the target of playing three cm and tips the scales at - Totevski was never in any VFL senior games in his first 68kg, the physicality of the 3WBC doubt that the VFL was his season. He thought it may contest is something he’s had Saturday 12th May next port of call. have been ambitious, but that to become accustomed. Box Hill Hawks vs Casey Scorpions From 1pm While several clubs courted was his goal. Totevski said he was the rover, Totevski never really Totevski now has to re- determined to display his Listen to 94.1 FM or online at www.3wbc.org.au seriously considered any other evaluate his ambitions after talents to prove to his peers Next Week: Box Hill Hawks vs North Ballarat club than the Northern Blues. playing three games heading that he belonged and would into Northern’s bye in Round 7. be a valuable teammate. ABC TV Saturday 12th May Admittedly, Totevski played He added VFL Blues’ coach Box Hill Hawks vs Casey Scorpions the games as the club’s 23rd Rob Hyde provided clarity in From 1pm player, a rule that allows any no uncertain terms what he Replay: 2:30am Wednesdays ABC TV club to play an additional needed to do – keep working player who has just exited hard, maintain pressure and Next Week: Werribee Tigers vs Northern Blues the TAC Cup or is in his first play his role. SEN season in the Peter Jackson “My main focus was just to get Sunday 13th May VFL. my body right, get on the track Peter Jackson VFL Review – 9:05pm But, Totevski has certainly and train well. My aim was for Thursday May 16th May displayed enough to suggest three senior games, but now I The Peter Jackson VFL Show 8:30pm – 9pm that he warrants a game on his have to set myself some new merits. goals,” he said. 3AW Saturday 19th May What makes Totevski’s “I’d like to cement a spot in Peter Jackson VFL Review – 6:50pm introduction even more the 22. Obviously, it’s going encouraging is that a huge to depend on how well I play chunk of his pre-season was and how many players Carlton erased as he overcame ankle have coming back. surgery. “It’s just up to me and how well “I missed out on about 80 I’m performing.” percent of the pre-season and came in just before the FAST FACTS practice games,” Totevski said. TIM TOTEVSKI “I wasn’t as fit as I would Age: 18 have liked to have been and Club: Northern Blues my skills weren’t up to the Games: 3 standard either so I had to Goals: 2 work extra hard on the training Highlights: 2012 VFL track and fight my way back Academy member into it. www.vfl.com.au | 5 EX-VFL PLAYERS NOW IN AFL EX-VFL Players now in AFL PREMIERSHIP ruckman with North Melbourne, gained Consider that two are current Darren Jolly or Sydney star any traction. AFL captains – Nick Maxwell Shane Mumford; Hawthorn How times have changed. and Matthew Boyd – while Sam premiership captain Sam Mitchell is a premiership captain, Mitchell or Western Bulldogs’ Last weekend 28 ex-VFL players as, too, is Maxwell - progressed leader Matthew Boyd; played in the AFL and there’s from the VFL. another 27 on AFL lists, so in Carlton’s Michael Jamison or There’s a Coleman Medallist – Hawthorn’s Josh Gibson? effect enough for two ‘dream teams’ with an ample interchange Jack Riewoldt, who although It’s not your weekly Super Coach on each.