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Visit the Toyota website to witness our legendary recreation of Michael Long’s famous UXQLQWKH*UDQG)LQDODQGVHHMXVWKRZ6WHYHDQG'DYHPDGH/RQJ\ƫ\DJDLQ WR\RWDFRPDXDɭ Photo: Morgan Hancock Features 4 5 Vic Country U18 team 7 Mitch Brown 9 Shannessy Adams Every week Editorial 3 VFL Highlights 10 VFL News 11 TAC Cup Highlights 12 TAC Cup News 13 AFL Vic News 15 Club Whiteboard 16 19 Events 21 Connect with your club 22 23 Get Social 25 Draft Watch 64 Who’s playing who 34 35 Werribee vs Geelong 52 53 Sandringham vs Bendigo 36 37 Northern Blues vs Richmond 54 55 Dandenong vs Murray 38 39 Box Hill Hawks vs North Ballarat 56 57 Oakleigh vs Gippsland 40 41 Footscray vs Collingwood 58 59 Northern vs Eastern 42 43 Williamstown vs Frankston 60 61 North Ballarat vs Geelong 44 45 Casey Scorpions vs Port Melbourne 62 63 Western vs Calder 46 47 Sandringham 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: Casey Scorpions players line up arm-in-arm to acknowledge the passing of Adelaide coach Phil Walsh before Talent Operations Coordinator: Rhy Gieschen their Round 12 match against Geelong at Casey Fields 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 11 – 12pm Website: www.taccup.com.au Northern Blues v Richmond Twitter: @TACCup Next week: Geelong vs Footscray (Sunday) Facebook: www.facebook.com/taccupfooty Radio VFL Live L Sunday July 12, Sandringham 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: Essendon v North Ballarat R TAC Cup Radio A Sunday July 12, Northern Knights v Eastern Ranges D I From 10.45am O Listen live on the Red Time Sport iPhone App or www.taccup.com.au 3WBC Saturday July 11, Box Hill Hawks v North Ballarat From 1pm Listen to 94.1FM, online at www.3wbc.org.au or the Tune In Radio app Next game: Coburg v Box Hill Hawks Casey Radio Sunday July 12, Casey Scorpions 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: Frankston v Collingwood Video Streaming Visit www.vfl .com.au for a link Sunday at 2pm for a live video stream of: Sandringham v Coburg Watch the action and listen to the call from the VFL Live team. Next week: Essendon v North Ballarat 02 www.vfl .com.au Football’s endless reach With another football season fl ying by and the demands of weekly matches consuming so much time, it’s oft en diff icult to take a step back and look at the big picture. AFL Victoria’s premier competitions of course remain a constant focus, with the Peter Jackson VFL, TAC Cup and Victorian Women’s Football League all at interesting stages of the season. It is during the icy cold weekends of July that premiership tilts begin and anticipation builds for what is to come at the start of spring. Our Vic Country and Vic Metro Academy staff members had almost no time to dwell on the completion of the NAB AFL U18 Championships with the U16 Championships kicking off last weekend. Not only is Victoria represented by Vic Country and Vic Metro but also a host of indigenous and multicultural youngsters participating in the Flying Boomerangs and the World Team. Last week also saw the season fi nale of our TAC Youth Girls Academies with the girls from all six academies gathering at Ikon Park to play a series of matches. It’s exciting to see the level of improvement in the girls from November last year to now, aft er they have enjoyed expert coaching and extra training, and completed a personal development program similar to what players in the TAC Cup undertake. Our community department has also been signifi cantly busy, preparing for this Saturday’s representative matches between AFL Victoria Country and the Victorian Amateur Football Association. The two rivals will go head-to-head in three separate clashes at Bendigo’s Queen Elizabeth Oval as another chapter in the battle between the bush and the burbs is written. This weekend also marks the end of the school holidays and the end of our July School Holiday Programs. The one-day super clinics have proven very successful across Victoria and provided another option to introduce young boys and girls to football. The size of football community might be incredibly large but last week we saw its ability to unite aft er the tragic death of Adelaide Crows coach Phil Walsh. From grass roots clubs wearing black armbands and VFL and TAC Cup games pausing for a minute’s silence to the scenes witnessed following the completion of AFL matches, the football community was able to show its support for the Walsh family and the Adelaide Football Club at this tragic and diff icult time. Steven Reaper AFL Victoria CEO www.taccup.com.au 03 While the talent of diff erent teams in diff erent years plays a part in such results, there is nevertheless a hurdle for A special Country teams to overcome. However, the coach of the Country side that recently marched undefeated through six matches at the 2015 bond Championships seems to have cracked the code. “You have to be really eff icient with your time,” Paul When a team is the sum of many Henriksen said. talented parts spread across Victoria “When we come together, we need to use our time as and separated for much of the football eff iciently as possible and that’s just the nature of the locations that we live in. year, how do you bring them all “Just coming in together for a few days in camps together, build relationships and form helps us... (It’s) that camaraderie you get from just those parts into a juggernaut? being around one another; the players start to feel comfortable.” Handling players hailing from Gippsland to Geelong, A large core of this year’s Division 1 title-winning team Dandenong up to the Murray and over to Ballarat and has been gradually, sporadically building camaraderie Bendigo, the challenge for coaches of Vic Country with each other for several years now, dating back to representative teams has always been the same. when Vic Country took out the AFL U16 Championships It’s perhaps best illustrated by the fact that in the 20 in 2013. editions of the NAB AFL U18 Championships before Henriksen also coached that U16 team and has seen this year, Country claimed three titles compared to Vic the core group of boys develop through two successful Metro’s 11. national carnivals. 04 www.vfl .com.au “They walked in the front door as 15 and 16-year-olds Larke Medallist and and, for me personally, I’m (now) seeing them walk Vic Country MVP out the door and whatever comes our way, those Josh Schache relationships we’ve forged over the last three years have been really important,” he said. “It’s something I’m really appreciative of – to have those relationships.” Forging strong relationships in very short spaces of time is clearly a key to success for any Vic Country squad. But, as Henriksen also acknowledges, sharing success together keeps the ball rolling – and the 2013 U16 Championships was where it all started for this group. U18 Country representatives Tom Cole, Kieran Collins, Josh Dunkley, Nash Holmes, Aidyn Johnson (injured for the 2015 Championships), Jake Lovett (also injured), Rhys Mathieson, Kurt Mutimer, Gach Nyuon, Darcy Parish, Josh Schache, Sam Skinner, Darcy Tucker, Jacob Weitering and Brandon White were all part of the U16 team that won the title two years ago. Henriksen said their previous shared success bonded them together, but the measure of this core group of players was the way they welcomed diff erent teammates into the fold at the U18 level. “That’s really important within the group,” Henriksen said. “They bring others in and say: ‘This is the way we’d like to play; please get involved. If you’ve got any more questions, you’re all part of us’.” Josh Schache, Vic Country’s MVP and Larke Medallist as the best player in Division 1 of the 2015 Championships, also looks back to the U16 carnival as the root of this year’s success. “We’ve been together a fair while,” the 199cm key forward doesn’t do much wrong,” Schache said. said. “I defi nitely look towards him if I need to do anything.” “‘Henri’ was our coach in U16s, so this year we already sort of had a feeling for being pretty successful because Eff iciently using the precious little time they have we had the same group of people together back then.