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EPWORTH RICHMOND EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT Open 24/7 | Ph 03 9506 3000 62 Erin Street, Richmond VIC 3121 See current wait time: epworth.org.au IN AN EMERGENCY ALWAYS CALL 000 FIRST epworth.org.au EDITORIAL Club Development & Brett Connell - VAFA CEO Sustainability focus – strengthening our future The recent appointment of Sean Walker to the VAFA Part of the support and assistance Club Development role has seen plenty of activity in to be provided will come from external this space since he began. expertise, but there will also be a reliance on seeking VAFA Club “peer” support and assistance to Not only have numerous VAFA Clubs taken up the help one another by sharing best practice across key Tackle Your Feelings workshop opportunity, but there areas of the club business. have been numerous club visits and also planning meetings with AFL Victoria in relation to how the The Health Check covers topics such as Governance, VAFA CDM and AFL Vic Development roles will Inclusion, Facilities, Coach Development, complement each other. Recruitment, Marketing, Sponsorship and Finances, all key pillars for club success. The major body of work has been the creation of the Club Our goal The VAFA have asked each club to Development Health Check, the submit a single collective response Health Check is designed to identify is to have and believe the best environment to areas of success and challenge 70 “healthy” complete such questions would be across our VAFA network of clubs in a setting that allows input from within their “off-fi eld” practices. VAFA clubs by a variety of committee members such as a committee meeting. The data and responses collected the end from the Health Check will then of 2022 Clubs have been requested to act as a key evidence base to complete the survey by Friday implement a variety of support July 16 which will then allow us to opportunities for all VAFA clubs as well as tailor collate the data and begin planning in relation to how support to individual clubs and its stakeholders. we support clubs with gaps in their operations. Our key focus is to identify gaps across clubs and Our goal is to have 70 “healthy” VAFA clubs by the where the VAFA can support and assist, which may end of 2022, your input, support and buy-in will go a take the form of clubs with similar challenges coming long way in helping us to achieve this goal. together to hear from experts, workshop strategies, Together we achieve more. share their experiences and tailor solutions which enable clubs to plan for future sustainability. See you at the Footy. The Amateur Footballer The Journal of the Victorian Amateur Football Association July 3, 2021 I Vol 20 No. 12 1 WILLIAM BUCK PREMIER MEN’S Nick Armistead Mini finals before the mini byes “Apart from Old Xaverians in 2016, no side from outside the win for the season. It had been a tough couple of months top four after Round 11 has won the William Buck Premier for the green and gold as they parted ways with their senior Grand Final over the past decade,” – J. Pignataro (2021). coach and blooded young players with an eye to the future. Saturday was but a glimpse of what T’s fans have in store Despite hosting the VAFA FTLOTG Podcast and the RSN as they outlasted – and out-kicked- Old Scotch en route to a Carnival Match of the Day Broadcast, it’s rare that one listens 10-point victory. Harry Thompson, who is joining this week’s to any statistical analysis from Giuseppe Jr. Granted, it’s often diffi cult to hear him over Brian Waldron’s groans of FTLTG Podcast and is always worth a listen, was best afi eld for disapproval and occasional ranting, but I must admit, the the second week in a row while fellow ‘vets’ Ed Weatherson former Big V NZ mascot has a point here. An exceptionally and Christos Manoussakis led from the front. There’s not a good point. whole heap of in-between for the T’s defensively with four games of 118+ points against coupled with three of 62 or When the fi nal siren sounded at the Uni Oval on Saturday, the less. What the win does do is keep the T’s and Lions within odds of the reigning premiers going back-to-back plummeted touching distance of Scotch and Bernard’s at the bottom end as they dropped to fi fth spot and one game outside the of the ladder. four. Of course, there is the decennial oddity of 2016 when fi fth (Old Trinity) played sixth (Old Xaverians) and it was, The Caulfi eld vs Brighton match is a genuine blockbuster amazingly, sixth who ended up winning it all. That year, and can be heard across the RSN Carnival airwaves this however, only two games separated fi rst from seventh on the weekend. The Fields will be looking for a seventh consecutive ladder after R11 – whereas St Bernard’s (7th) are currently win and, just as impressively, their sixth score of 100+ fi ve games behind SKOB (1st). See, oddity. points from their past seven. They’re a machine up forward, we know that, but it was their midfi eld that lifted against If we are to look at it from a more current perspective, the Blues last weekend as Will Edwards and Dane Crognale over the past three seasons, the top four after R12 has not dominated the clearance and possession battle. They were changed. So, if you thought the two games involving Uni everywhere, kick-starting everything. Add the class of Blues and Caulfi eld this weekend couldn’t get any bigger, Jack Wallace and Nick Baltas coming up against Harry Hill, recent history suggests the side who is sitting in fourth spot at Tom Fisher, and Nick Pavlou – my, oh my. Lastly, before I 5pm on Saturday evening is fi nals bound. perpetually salivate over the Tonners, the idea of Jared Risol The two games in question: Old Trinity vs Uni Blues and and Will Lewis going head-to-head is enough to get give any Caulfi eld Grammarians vs Old Brighton. We’ll call them VAFA a reason to tune into Tommy Flanagan’s commentary. mini fi nals. Yes, I’m dubbing two R12 games as mini fi nals. The Tonners came from 10 points down against a gallant Audacious. But you know, stats. OMs on Saturday and ran out 25-point winners on the back The Blues will enter their R12 clash with the T’s as favourites of a 10-goal-to-four second half. Referring to Will Lewis as after defeating them by 63 points in R7. It was their only win ‘Lennox’ in R7 was seemingly one game too early but he has from the past four games, with losses to the Fields, Brighton, since been putting opposition defences on the canvas with and Old Scotch on either side. That R7 victory, whereby they hauls of nine and fi ve over the past two games. He’s stood posted their only score over 100, was against a T’s side that up in the absence of Jack Watts and become the dominant had not yet tasted victory in 2021 and the Blues have since forward in William Buck Premier. Of course, it helps with the lost by 46 and 47, respectively. Speaking to Ayce Cordy on Brighton midfi eld streaming towards him. And that midfi eld the Saturday Warm-Up, he will be doing his utmost to return all starts with Lachlan Filipovic who is having an outstanding from a hamstring injury that has sidelined him for the past two season in the ruck. As if Hill, Fisher and Pavlou needed games, while they’ll be without Jay Kennedy-Harris after the anymore assistance, Filipovic too has taken his game to former Dee tore his peck in the fi rst half. On a more positive another level. note, Tom Young ran important mileage into his legs through There are still seven rounds remaining in William Buck the Reserves while Rhys Hultgren put his hand up for a Premier, but the importance of this weekend’s games can’t be Seniors recall with a standout performance. understated. To hear the live call of the Caulfi eld vs Brighton While Saturday did not go to plan for the Blues, the same clash + all the Around the Ground scores throughout the day, can’t be said for Old Trinity after they registered their fi rst tune into RSN Carnival from 1pm Saturday. THE AMATEUR FOOTBALLER 2021 2 ROUND 11 RESULTS PLAYER PROFILE 2021 WILLIAM BUCK PREMIER MEN’S JACKSON PAINE St Kevins 3.1 6.6 11.8 15.12 (102) Collegians 2.2 4.2 6.4 7.6 (48) Old Melburnians GOALS: St Kevins: S.