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VFL & TAC Cup Finals Week 2 Semi Finals 12 - 13 September 2015 $3.00 Photo:Photo: Shane Shane Goss Goss / / @licoricegallery @licoricegallery ANY TWO SUITS FOR $795* PREMIER PARTNER VICTORIAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE Features 4 5 Liston Trophy night award winners 6 7 Club-by-club Liston Trophy votes 9 A. Todd Medallist 10 11 VFL & TAC Cup fi nals previews 14 Morrish Medal preview Every week Editorial 3 VFL News 13 TAC Cup News 15 AFL Vic News 16 Club Whiteboard 19 20 Events 23 Get Social 24 25 Draft Watch 48 2014 Morrish Medallist Alex Carr from the Gippsland Power Who’s playing who Semi Final 1 60 61 Semi Final 2 34 35 Footscray vs Essendon 44 45 Murray vs Oakleigh Semi Final 2 Semi Final 1 36 37 Sandringham vs Collingwood 46 47 Geelong vs Eastern Dev League Preliminary Final 38 39 Williamstown vs Coburg Editor: Ben Pollard ben.pollard@afl vic.com.au Contributors: Anthony Stanguts Design & Print: Cyan Press Ikon Park, Gate 3, Royal Parade, Carlton Nth, VIC 3054 Photos: AFL Photos (unless otherwise credited) GPO Box 4337, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Advertising: Ryan Webb (03) 8341 6062 Phone: (03) 8341 6000 | Fax: (03) 9380 1076 AFL Victoria CEO: Steven Reaper www.afl vic.com.au State League & Talent Manager: John Hook Cover: 2015 J. J. Liston Trophy winner Nick Rippon of the High Performance Managers: Anton Grbac, Leon Harris North Ballarat Roosters Talent Operations Coordinator: Rhy Gieschen www.taccup.com.au 01 Television Online VFL Online Website: www.vfl .com.au Twitter: @VFL #PJVFL Facebook: www.facebook.com/vfl footy Saturday September 12 – 11.30am Footscray vs Essendon TAC Cup Online Sunday September 13 – 11.30am Website: www.taccup.com.au Sandringham vs Collingwood Twitter: @TACCup Facebook: www.facebook.com/taccupfooty Next week: Saturday & Sunday prelim fi nals Radio VFL Live L Sunday September 13, Sandringham vs Williamstown I From 11.15am 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: All VFL preliminary fi nals TAC Cup Radio R Sunday September 13 A 11:15am: Murray Bushrangers vs Oakleigh Chargers D I 2pm: Geelong Falcons vs Eastern Ranges O Listen live on the Red Time Sport iPhone App or www.taccup.com.au Next week: All TAC Cup preliminary fi nals 3WBC Next week: Saturday September 19 From 11am Development League Grand Final: Box Hill Hawks vs Williamstown/Coburg Senior preliminary fi nal: Box Hill Hawks vs Sandringham/Collingwood Listen to 94.1FM, online at www.3wbc.org.au or the Tune In Radio app Collingwood VFL Radio Sunday September 13, Sandringham vs Collingwood From 11.30am Commentary will be streamed through the Collingwood app and on collingwoodfc.com.au Video Streaming Visit vfl .com.au for a replay of all games that were live video streamed during 2015. Follow the Media tab in the drop down box. Also watch a replay of the J. J. Liston Trophy night with North Ballarat’s Nick Rippon the 2015 winner. Next: Live stream of Morrish Medal night from 7.15pm on Sunday September 13. 02 www.vfl .com.au Award winners honoured What an exciting time of year it is with fi nals football in full swing and the start of our awards season. The fi rst of our major award nights – the J.J. Liston Trophy - was held on Monday at Crown Palladium, where we celebrated the achievements of a host of players and off icials from within our competition. It was an emotional moment for winner Nick Rippon from North Ballarat, with the realisation that he had won the competition’s highest individual honour. Rippon is a prime example of the journey taken along the talent pathway by a growing number of players from the TAC Cup to the Peter Jackson VFL. A runner up in the U18 competition’s best and fairest, the Morrish Medal, TAC Cup Team of the Year representative and North Ballarat Rebels best and fairest winner, he was overlooked by AFL clubs but continues to harbour dreams of playing AFL football as he demonstrates his abilities at the highest level possible in the VFL. In just his third season in the state league competition, Rippon has added back-to-back VFL Team of the Year selections to his growing list of accolades, showing his development under coach Gerard FitzGerald. A great story from the night was that Rippon’s mum, Terri, was one of 6,723 viewers watching the live video stream of the night on the VFL website at home in Ballarat and then made her way to Crown to congratulate and celebrate with her son – a great family moment to cherish. The night itself has come a long way over the years, as we made our Crown Palladium debut. It was an honour to have over 20 former J.J. Liston Trophy winners in the room to celebrate the night, with the rich history of the award recognised as six former winners opened the evening with their refl ections on what their triumph meant to them. Port Melbourne’s 1952 winner Frank Johnson recollected how he was informed of his win – a photographer turned up on his doorstep to tell him he’d won and was needed for a photo – while 1989 best and fairest Saade Ghazi of Williamstown never knew “a Lebanese 20-year-old was going to become a role model” in his local community aft er his win. It was a great opportunity to hear the diff erent ways the award has had a profound eff ect on its winners and we look forward to watching how the award infl uences Nick Rippon’s career in the future. Attention now turns to the Morrish Medal this Sunday night, live video streamed via the TAC Cup website. Let’s hope for just as thrilling a count in the TAC Cup best and fairest aft er Rippon leapfrogged four runners-up to win the VFL title in the fi nal round with three votes. Finally, best of luck to the four VWFL Grand Final teams this weekend at Piranha Park in Coburg in the fi nale to the Division 1 and Premier Division seasons. It has been another highly successful year for the competition and we look forward to celebrating the fi nal two premiership sides of 2015 in the VWFL, with Darebin aiming for a three-peat of victories. Good luck to all teams and individuals across our competitions this weekend. Steven Reaper AFL Victoria CEO www.taccup.com.au 03 A ripping year North Ballarat young gun Nick Rippon was named the 2015 J. J. Liston Trophy winner following a thrilling vote count on Monday night. The 21-year-old came from two votes behind leader Matt Thomas (Richmond) with a best-on- ground performance in the fi nal round of the season to fi nish one vote ahead of four runners- up. Thomas had held the outright lead from Round 13, but aft er polling his fi nal votes in Round 16, the Tigers had the bye in Round 17 before the rugged midfi elder was called up to play two matches at AFL level. He was left stranded on 14 votes before the fi nal round, ahead of Williamstown’s Ben Jolley and Box Hill’s Jonathan Simpkin (13 votes apiece) and Roosters pair Rippon and Myles Sewell (12 votes apiece). While Jolley and Simpkin failed to poll in Round 20, Rippon and Sewell dominated in North Ballarat’s 42-point victory over Coburg at Eureka Stadium. Both had 28 disposals, but Rippon’s four goals secured him the three votes required to overtake Thomas while Sewell had to settle for two. A previous winner of the award in North Ballarat’s 2009 premiership year, Sewell fi nished as one of Nick Rippon in action for North Ballarat four runners-up with Thomas, Sandringham’s Clint Jones and Williamstown’s Sam Dunell (the Development League level in his fi rst season in latter two both polling three votes in the fi nal 2013, before blossoming as a midfi elder capable round to shoot up the leaderboard). of playing inside and outside the contest in 2014. Rippon joins former teammate Steve Clift on (a Rippon averaged 26 disposals per game in 18 joint-winner in 2013) as the only Liston Trophy matches and was rewarded with selection in the winners to have come from a team that missed the fi nals since 2000, when AFL clubs became VFL Team of the Year last season, before averaging involved in the VFL. 24 disposals in 18 matches this year and another Team of the Year berth on a wing. The East Point product has enjoyed a rapid rise during his three seasons and 49 senior games As well as polling three votes in Round 20, under legendary coach Gerard FitzGerald at the the umpires also named him best-on-ground Roosters. for a 32-disposal performance in a 103-point Aft er a stellar 2012 season with the North Ballarat win against Frankston in Round 15 and for a Rebels, in which he won the club’s best-and- 34-disposal eff ort in a 47-point defeat of Geelong fairest award, fi nished second in the Morrish in Round 17. Medal and was named in the back pocket in the Rippon becomes the fourth Liston Trophy winner TAC Cup Team of the Year, Rippon followed the from North Ballarat in the last 12 years (Julian pathway into the region’s VFL team.