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OFFICIAL SUPPLIER OF TAPES, BANDAGES & WOUNDCARE PRODUCTS TO THE 2012 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TEAM Supporting your Passion EDITORIAL Football community rallies for Tutungi ASK anyone at the Geelong Football Club or for that matter the wider Geelong football community about Casey Tutungi and the response will be overwhelmingly positive. Casey is a fi ne young man, with an effervescent, engaging young guys who came into the Geelong system. personality and a natural leader who brings out the best in “’Case’ was such a competitor and the boys just loved those around him. playing with him because you just knew what you were While those qualities remain, Casey was unfortunately going to get out of ‘Case’ every single week.” rendered a quadriplegic when he was playing for South At this extremely challenging time, it is fantastic to see the Barwon, the Geelong Football League club he co-coaches, last month. football community – stretching from the AFL to VFL to all the Leagues in and around Geelong as well as across the It is a tragic reminder that some accidents on a football State - rallying behind the fund raising cause for Casey. fi eld can have a devastating impact. All teams across the Geelong Football League, Bellarine Regrettably, it is especially so for Casey and his pregnant Football League, Geelong and District Football League and wife Bridget. Colac District Football League will fundraise through club Football clubs and football fans generally will get a chance functions, player/member donations, events and gate to support Casey and his family through this weekend’s takings to contribute directly to the Tutungi Future Fund. “Coming together for Casey” Round that has been The Geelong Football Club will use its Saturday night AFL organised by the Geelong FC and others within the Geelong clash with St Kilda to fundraise both at the gate and within football community. the ground. Inside this edition of the Record, Geelong’s VFL captain Troy Selwood speaks eloquently and passionately about how The ten clubs across the State that raise the most money Casey was the quintessential teammate, a player who this weekend for the Casey Tutungi Future Fund will go into made all those around him walk taller. the draw to win the ultimate local club football experience. More details are contained inside this edition. Selwood noted that Casey, who played 41 games for Geelong’s VFL team, was the fi rst to engage and embrace Last weekend, the VAFA community which has in excess of new players, welcome them and make them feel home at 70 clubs asked that every player, umpire, offi cial, volunteer the club. and supporter donate as a minimum, a gold coin to assist in Casey’s recovery. And, Selwood said he was a player whose discipline, dedication, determination and work ethic made him such an Above everything else Casey Tutungi was a team player. invaluable player whatever role he played. Let’s show him and his family how the Victorian football “He was a wonderful guy to have as part of our VFL team,” community supports a teammate. Selwood said. Grant Williams “He was a fi erce competitor and a great mentor for all AFL Victoria General Manager Editor: Anthony Stanguts anthony.stanguts@afl vic.com.au Contributors: Adrian Dunn, David O’Neill, Shaun Curnow Design & Print: Cyan Press Photos: AFL Photo’s (unless otherwise credited) Visy Park, Gate 3, Royal Parade, Carlton Nth, VIC 3054 Advertising: Ryan Webb (03) 8341 6062 GPO Box 4337, Melbourne, VIC 3001 AFL Victoria General Manager: Grant Williams Phone: (03) 8341 6000 | Fax: (03) 9380 1076 www.afl vic.com.au State League & Talent Manager: John Hook High Performance Managers: Anton Grbac, Leon Harris Talent Operations Coordinator: Sophie Timms Cover photo: Port Melbourne’s Julian Rowe Talent Operations Offi cer: Lauren Bunting www.vfl .com.au 1 MEDIA COVERAGE ABC TV Saturday July 27: North Ballarat vs Werribee Tigers – 1pm Next Week: Sandringham vs Essendon Peter Jackson VFL Radio Sunday July 28: Sandringham vs Geelong – From 1:30pm Live on Digital Radio via Aussie, Red Time Sport and SEN I-Phone Apps, online via vfl .com.au or sen.com.au and on Vision Australia Radio on 1179AM Next game: Collingwood vs Williamstown 3WBC Saturday July 27: Port Melbourne vs Box Hill Hawks – 1pm Listen to 94.1 FM or online at www.3wbc.org.au Next game: Box Hill Hawks vs Bendigo Gold SEN Sunday July 28 – Peter Jackson VFL review 9:05pm Thursday August 1 – The Peter Jackson VFL Show 8:30pm – 9pm Peter Jackson VFL Online Keep up to date with the Peter Jackson VFL via the following methods: Website: www.vfl .com.au @VFLnews #PJVFL www.facebook.com/vfl footy 2 www.afl vic.com.au WILLIAMSTOWN Williamstown Asian Community Football Day GRANT Dooley’s roots in Williamstown are as entrenched as Point Gellibrand is as the home of the Seagulls. Dooley’s mother Janet has been working in the club’s kiosk Rules football and links with Asia. for more than 60 years, his father was secretary of the club Dooley noted that one in 10 people living in Australia in the 1970s and Bill Dooley, a leviathan bookmaker, club are of Asian origins and a large number of them are not president and one-time benefactor of the club, is a great engaged in Australian Rules. uncle. “And, in the western region where Williamstown is, the One of the fi rst things he did on returning home from more percentage of Asians is even higher so we should be than 20 years overseas was to accept an invitation to exploring ways of greater integration in the game,” Dooley become a director of the Williamstown Football Club. said. Although he spent such a long time away, much of it in “We want this to become part of the Williamstown China, where one of his positions was as the Consular Football Club calendar each year.” General for Australia of Guangzhou, he never lost his love Also on hand to promote the match will be a host of of Australian Rules. Geelong and Western Bulldogs players. Wherever he travelled in foreign affairs, Dooley pretty Gate receipts from the match will go to the Casey Tutungi much played footy and started up clubs, initially with fund. ex-pats, but over time drew the interest and participation of the Chinese. Western Bulldogs listed With the help of ex-Hawthorn player Tony Woods, Williamstown player along with the AFL, Dooley helped establish the Lin Jong in action South China Australian Football League. last weekend It proved the genesis for his idea for the WFC to sponsor the South China Australian Football League and football development in southern China. Another initiate was for the Williamstown Football Club Asian Community Football Day at Point Gellibrand on August 11. And, one of the players to play for the Williamstown Asian All Stars to take on the South Dragons, an all Asian team, is Chinese star player Chen Xiao Liang. Dooley said Xiaoliang is an exciting player who has embraced and loves Aussie Rules. Williamstown president Trevor Monti described next month’s Asian Community Day as a benchmark day for the club. Monti noted that Williamstown, one of the code’s oldest clubs, considers itself a leader in Melbourne’s ethnically-diverse western suburbs, and hopes the initiative can play its part in promoting greater integration, respect and cultural understanding among an ever increasing diverse population. He said the Asian Community Football Day is just a part of the club’s broader efforts to promote Aussie www.vfl .com.au 3 DOMINIC GLEESON Gleeson earns VFL life membership DOMINIC Gleeson doesn’t expect or want any fuss or fanfare to be made about his match this weekend against Sandringham. It’s his 175th VFL match and therefore brings with it Life “But, I didn’t get any grief from them. All I got was support Membership to the VFL and adds yet another layer to what and that made fairly easy to move on.” has been a distinguished career. Gleeson can see little value in second-guessing himself It’s a career that started back in 2002 when Carlton about what might have been had he stayed at Werribee. fi elded its own VFL club and progressed through the Blues Under the Geelong coaching staff of Matthew Knights, alignment with Northern Bullants to his time at Chirnside Max Rooke and Paul Hood, Gleeson achieved a long- Park with Werribee. cherished personal goal – to play in a premiership. During his time with the VFL Tigers, Gleeson won two best “I’ve also got to play with some amazing young kids who and fairests, captained the club for three seasons and in 10 years time, I have no doubt will be super stars of the played more than 100 games for the club – at one stage competition,” he said.