TAC Cup Round 3 3-4 April 2015 $3.00 Photo: Arj Giese Photo: Arj Giese ANY TWO SUITS FOR $795* PREMIER PARTNER VICTORIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE Features 8 9 Developing the next generation of leaders 10 From player to umpire 11 AFL Academy Every week Editorial 3 VFL News 4 TAC Cup News 5 AFL Vic News 7 Round Highlights 13 Club Whiteboard 14 15 Draft Watch 40 Who’s playing who 20 21 Northern v Sandringham UNDER 16’s 22 23 Gippsland v Murray 36 Gippsland v Murray 24 25 Bendigo v Nth Ballarat 37 Bendigo v Nth Ballarat 26 27 Eastern v Calder 38 Dandenong v Geelong 28 29 Western v Oakleigh 30 31 Dandenong v Geelong Round 1 starts on Friday 17th April Editor: Kate Mitchell kate.mitchell@afl vic.com.au Contributors: Dave O’Neill, Anthony Stanguts Design & Print: Cyan Press Photos: AFL Photo’s (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 Front cover photo: Corey Rich, Sandringham Dragons Talent Operations Coordinator: Rhy Gieschen Talent Operations Coordinator: Lauren Bunting www.taccup.com.au 01 Television Online VFL Online Website: www.vfl .com.au Twitter: @VFLnews #PJVFL Facebook: www.facebook.com/vfl footy Broadcasting the Peter Jackson VFL in 2015 TAC Cup Online First game: Saturday April 18 - 12pm Website: www.taccup.com.au Footscray Bulldogs vs Box Hill Hawks Twitter: @TACCup Facebook: www.facebook.com/taccupfooty Radio TAC Cup Radio Friday April 3, Eastern Ranges v Calder Cannons From 6.15pm Listen live on the Red Time Sport iPhone App or www.taccup.com.au VFL Radio Broadcasting VFL matches each Sunday Live on Digital Radio via Aussie, Red Time Sport and SEN iPhone Apps, online via vfl .com.au or sen.com.au 3WBC Saturday April 18: Footscray vs Box Hill From 11am Listen to 94.1FM, online at www.3wbc.org.au or the Tune In Radio app Casey Radio Sunday April 19: Casey Scorpions vs Frankston, 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. 02 www.vfl .com.au Leading the way With the gathering of the AFL captains at the captains media day recently, and the naming of leadership groups across the TAC Cup, today’s feature article focuses on leadership. Just like their club culture and values infl uences these captains, as the leader of AFL Victoria the organisational values help form my leadership style. These values include: Play to Win Rising to every challenge and doing what we say we will do – we own the outcome. We thrive on pushing the boundaries beyond what we have done before to achieve the extraordinary. Play Fair Respect, integrity, honesty, empathy and a great work ethic earns us the right to play. Play with Passion We love what we do. Passion, energy, fun and perseverance is at the heart of our sport and is what drives how we work. Play as One Team Working as one team because together we achieve better outcomes. We bring out the best in each other by embracing our diverse range of ideas, skills and backgrounds to achieve individual and shared success. We celebrate our wins and always have each other’s back. They are values that translate to football teams and leadership groups from community football right through to the elite level. Honesty and integrity are pivotal for good leadership, as is doing the right thing even when it’s the hard thing to do. Former Australian cricket captain Steve Waugh epitomised good leadership for me. He wasn’t blessed with natural talent, but he was an extremely hard worker that understood how to get the best out of himself and Which captain in the AFL do you others around him. Waugh was a big believer in having realistic leadership expectations admire most? a nd setting achievable goals for his team. He wasn’t afraid to make mistakes along the way either, learning from these experiences and In the AFL, there are many quality always moving forward. captains and leaders, but I really We congratulate the young men that have been named as team admire Luke Hodge’s leadership. captains or part of the leadership groups for their respective TAC Cup teams. Hodge, who played for Geelong Leadership isn’t easy, but if I can off er some advice I’d say trust your Falcons in the TAC Cup before being instincts, stay true to yourselves and keep persevering when things draft ed by Hawthorn in 2001, leads by do get tough. example both on and off the fi eld. He Remember that a leader is nothing without the team and to look to your coaches and mentors for guidance. doesn’t expect othersrs to do somethingomething This week we create history in the TAC Cup with four matches being that he wouldn’t be ppreparedrepared to dodo played on Good Friday. Northern take on Sandringham at Preston, himself. Murray make the long trek to Morwell to play Gippsland, Bendigo host neighbours Nth Ballarat and Eastern play Calder under lights A courageous player,, HodgeHodggee is alsoals at Bayswater. uncompromising in thethe standardstandards that These matches will provide local communities the opportunity to experience elite junior football, some for the fi rst time, with limited he sets his team to meet.t. HeHe ininstilsstils football being played elsewhere on Good Friday. belief and confi dence inn each of his Enjoy another great round of TAC Cup football. team mates that help them reach Steven Reaper those standards. AFL Victoria CEO www.taccup.com.au A03 VFL News Practice match season Father/sons VFL style Last week we featured a number of father/sons to look out for at TAC Cup level in season 2015. In the Peter Jackson VFL this season there will Photo: Simon O’Neil also be a number of sons of AFL fathers taking to the fi eld. Preseason practice matches are now in full swing with the Peter Jackson While the Monkhurst name has always been 2015 season just two weeks away. synonymous with the Collingwood Football Club Last weekend Collingwood bounced back from its fi rst practice match at AFL level with Damian Monkhurst playing 205 defeat against Geelong to deconstruct Richmond by 118 points. The games for the Magpies, at VFL level over recent Magpies benefi tted from a number of AFL players that were permitted to years the name has been associated with Box play in the VFL side, with former Oakleigh Charger Jordan DeGoey again Hill Hawks. Damian’s sons Ben, Zac and Riley impressing with two goals as he pushes his name in front of the selectors have all pulled on the Hawks jumper aft er time for a Round 1 debut. with the Eastern Ranges in the TAC Cup and Out at Casey Fields former Sandringham Dragon Angus Brayshaw was Woori Yallock FC in the Yarra Valley MDFL. again a shining light in the middle for Casey Scorpions, but he was In 2015 the Monkhurst allegiances will be unable to help his side to a second preseason win from three matches, split, with Zac and Riley playing for Box Hill as they succumbed to Williamstown by 25 points. Hawks, and older brother Ben heading to his Former Dandenong Stingray players Aaron Wilson and Kyle Gray were dad’s former home of Victoria Park to play with part of Frankston’s win against fellow standalone side Port Melbourne Collingwood’s VFL team. by 18 points. At Essendon the name Neagle will return to the 2012 North Ballarat Rebels best and fairest winner Nick Rippon fi eld for the VFL Bombers with former Murray continued his strong preseason with North Ballarat in his clubs six point Bushranger player Jydon Neagle set to take to win over reigning premiers Footscray. Rippon had 24 disposals, and was the fi eld. Son of the late Merv Neagle, Jydon is busy through the middle of the ground with new Roosters co-captain no stranger to Windy Hill having played as the Myles Sewell (also a Rebels best and fairest winner in 2006) who had 28 23rd player for Essendon in 2013 during his time disposals. with Murray. VFL on show at Metro Championships There was a VFL fl avour to the AFL Victoria Metro In the middle game new Port Melbourne recruit Kwame Championships last Saturday at IKON Park. Those in McHarg teamed up with former Port ruckman Wayde the crowd could have been mistaken for thinking the Skipper and former Williamstown player Jack Purton Essendon District Football League forward line had been Smith in the middle for the Western Region FL. taken straight from the 2011 Port Melbourne premiership The forward 50 for Eastern boasted former Box Hill Hawk side with Dean Galea and Patrick Rose prowling the Luke Barker (four goals) and former Frankston player forward 50. Galea fi nished with fi ve goals and Rose two as Ziggie Alwan (two goals) while the familiar headgear the EDFL defeated Southern FL by 91 points. of former Casey Scorpions captain Kyle Matthews was The former VFL players did not stop there, with Port patrolling the wing in the EFL’s 34-point win. premiership teammate Stephen Brewer also in the Collingwood VFL supporters would love to have winning side, along with Werribee’s Dan Schibeci, former Nick Riddle back on the list aft er his best on ground Northern Blues pairing of Ash Arrowsmith and Adam performance in the fi nal game of the day, along with Iacobucci plus former Williamstown player Matt Cravino former Coburg and ‘The Recruit’ star Matthew Dennis who just to name a few.