JARROD MOLLOY STEVE KRETIUK AUSTINN JONES ROUND 2 APRIL 5-6, 2008 $ INC 3 GST JETS CHARGE UP In ’08 Western aim to shut down Oakleigh ??????? ?? ?? ??? 120 hours practice. Experience not excuses. TAC CUP RECORD 25 TAC 6778 Press_LPlate 228mmx170m1 1 6/3/08 9:32:51 AM EDITORIAL An under-17 squad has also been established as part of a TAC Cup development program that will feature two matches and act as a graduates shine bridge between the under-16s and under-18s. Young guns step onto AFL stage The AFL/AIS Academy squad also recently completed a life- changing tour of South Africa, With the AFL season already from St Kilda’s rookie list to reach where they played matches underway it’s extremely pleasing football’s elite level, underlining against local teams. to report the AFL debuts of more once again that players should Before heading to South Africa, TAC Cup graduates and another never give up on their dreams. the academy played against an graduate’s nomination for the Certainly, Essendon youngster East Perth senior squad, where 2008 NAB AFL Rising Star. Bachar Houli’s Rising Star Vic Country players Steele Former Geelong Falcon Lachie nomination is something the TAC Sidebottom, Nick Suban, Jack Henderson, pick No. 8 in last year’s Cup should be immensely proud of. Ziebell, Ayce Cordy and Nick NAB AFL Draft, made his AFL Houli, a huge role model for multi- Heyne, and Vic Metro players debut for Brisbane in round two cultural football, enjoyed a stellar Tom Scully and Michael Hurley against Collingwood at the Gabba. junior career with the Western Jets, all acquitted themselves well. His debut followed those of captaining the club and Vic Metro’s This weekend, they play another another five former TAC Cup under-16 team. match in Western Australia. players in the AFL’s opening round. Throughout the recent school Meanwhile, the TAC Cup’s first Three of those players – break, the under-15 and under-16 four rounds are structured to give Adelaide’s David Mackay (Oakleigh development match program Vic Country and Vic Metro selectors Chargers) St Kilda’s Jarryn continued, with the under-15s the chance to start preparing Geary (Bendigo Pioneers) and playing regional matches and the lists for the upcoming NAB AFL Collingwood’s Nathan Brown under-16s playing three of the five Under-18 Championships. (North Ballarat Rebels) – were from matches in their carnival. Already, initial squads – the TAC Cup class of 2006. This program now provides identified from last year’s TAC Cup The other two debutantes – greater opportunity to 16-year-olds – are in place, but players will be Carlton’s Jake Edwards (Western and assists the Vic Metro under-16 continually added and deleted. Jets) and Geelong’s Trent West team’s coach and selectors (Gippsland Power) – played in the when they choose their initial Anton Grbac TAC Cup in 2005. squad for the NAB AFL Under-16 High Performance Manager, Significantly, Geary progressed Championships. AFL Victoria JARROD MOLLOY STEVE KRETIUK AUSTINN JONES AFL Victoria Chief Executive Officer: ROUND 2 APRIL 5-6, 2008 $ ROUND 2 CONTENTS 3 Peter Schwab APRIL 5-6, 2008 Football Operations Manager: Jarrod Molloy 4 RECORD John Hook COVER: Nathan Schroder High Performance Managers: Steve Kretiuk 5 Anton Grbac, Leon Harris launches another Jets’ Statistics: Stacey Goad Austinn Jones 6 attack in their round-one Manager Director, Geoff Slattery Publishing: Geoff Slattery Round one statistics 7 JETS win against the Northern Editor: Nick Bowen Community Football Weekend 23 Knights last week. Designer: Karl Chandler CHARGE Photo Manager: Natalie Boccassini UP IN ’08 Address correspondence: WesternWestern aimaim toto Photography: Getty Images (02) 9004 2250 shutshut downdown OakleighOakleigh Advertising: Jennifer Pryor (03) 8663 3007 The Editor, GPO Box 4337, Melbourne, 3001. Printed by: Condor Printing Phone: (03) 8663 3005 TAC CUP RECORD 33 JARROD MOLLOY New Sandringham Dragons New Sandringham coach Jarrod Molloy has a Dragons coach Jarrod Molloy simple explanation of what led him to coach in the TAC Cup. “It’s just a love of the game of football,” said Molloy, who joins a swelling list of former TAC Cup players to return to the competition as coaches. Molloy joins new Gippsland Power coach Austinn Jones and Northern Knights coach Paul Satterley on this list, but, ironically, he had already played senior VFA football before he played for the Knights in 1993. As a 16-year-old, he played eight games, including two finals, for Box Hill, which was coached at the time by his father Shane. When he ventured to the Knights, Molloy proved a Dragons snare pivotal player in the club’s 1993 premiership. Not surprisingly, he was among a number of Knights ex-Knight players, including Adam Simpson, Chris Johnson, Angelo Lekkas, Molloy returns for love of the game and Shannon Gibson, from that side drafted by AFL clubs. Molloy was drafted under the “I was given a great opportunity commitments of many of father-son rule by Fitzroy, where he by ‘Welshy’ ... but I got the bug to its players. played 59 games before moving want to run it myself,” Molloy said. It can be a source of frustration, to Brisbane when the Lions folded “At this stage I’m intent on but Molloy puts a positive spin on at the end of the 1996 season. He preparing these kids for what lies it. “It’s a matter of managing it and played 61 games with the Brisbane ahead, whether it’s the AFL, the ensuring the intensity is there when Lions before ending his AFL career VFL, suburban or whatever league the kids come back from playing with Collingwood, where he played they end up in. school football,” he said. a further 49 games, including “I decided that there were a few “Many of our private school the 2002 Grand Final, ironically, things I wanted to look at with my players are the key players in their against Brisbane. coaching to see whether I was any school team … but in the TAC Cup Since then Molloy has forged good at the caper.” you are expected to play your role a budding media career, but in Like many metro-based within the team and you are not recent seasons he has been an clubs, Molloy takes on a team the big fish in the pond. You are a assistant to Oakleigh Chargers whose season will be disrupted little fish because you are playing coach Rohan Welsh. by the private-school football against the best players in Victoria.” 4 visit: www.taccup.com.au STEVE KRETIUK Steve Kretiuk’s football journey Western Jets coach could easily have led him to the Steve Kretiuk far north of the country, but his affinity for Melbourne’s western suburbs led him to accept the Western Jets’ coaching job. After four seasons in various coaching roles with the Werribee Tigers in the VFL, Kretiuk decided it was time to move on. He soon found himself in an enviable position, being offered the Jets’ position and a coaching job in the Northern Territory. In making his decision, Kretiuk, a close-checking defender over 12 seasons and 170 games at the Western Bulldogs, admits his heartstrings won out. “Being a western suburbs boy, the Jets’ job was my preferred position,” Kretiuk said. “I have a real affiliation with all Kretiuk stays west the clubs around the area. I’m just rapt to get the job, it’s such a super Jets’ new coach targets the finals competition to get involved with.” Excited on the eve of the new season, Kretiuk admitted he had spread the wings and take my made the finals for just the third coveted the Jets role for several coaching to a new level.” time in the past 11 seasons - the seasons. Kretiuk said exiting Jets coach club only had one player selected “Yes, it’s something that I’ve Mark Neeld, now on Collingwood’s in the NAB AFL Draft and one in had my eye on for the past three coaching staff, had set the the NAB AFL Rookie Draft. or four years,” Kretiuk said. platform for the club to continue to “We want to lift the profile “It’s just something that I really showcase talented young players of the Jets and try to get a few wanted to get involved with given my from the western suburbs. more (players) drafted this year,” background. I’m happy to get the While acknowledging that the Kretiuk said. chance to help out all the kids that Jets are coming off their best year “That’s our aim – to continue are coming through our program. since they contested back-to-back on from last year and play finals The young kids coming through TAC Cup Grand Finals in 1992 and again. Mark (Neeld) did a fantastic the under-16s into the TAC Cup are 1993, Kretiuk said his emphasis job with the boys and changed really good and the development was on lifting and increasing the the culture around the club process is second to none. profile of his players as much as it and we’re trying to continue that “I really enjoyed my time was on winning. same process, adding a bit of at Werribee. I learned a lot, but He noted for all the Jets’ on- my input and marrying the I thought it was time to move on, field success last season –the club two together.” TAC CUP RECORD 55 AUSTINN JONES Football’s wheel has turned full New Gippsland circle for new Gippsland Power Power coach Austinn Jones coach Austinn Jones.