FOOTY RECORD ISSUE 11 27 June 2015 $2.00 jamesboagsdraughtfooty.com EJ’S LEGACY LIVES ON... By Kirstie Fitzgerald It is a moment in our great The annual round will not only raise awareness game’s history most football into the disease which kills 3,300 men in Australia fans will never forget. each year, but will also see an EJ Whitten Medal presented to one player from all senior teams in It didn’t matter what team Round 11 who their coach deemed showed all you supported, what state the guts, skill and determination the great EJ was you were from or how old famous for. For more information on this dedicated you were, EJ Whitten’s round, please flick to page 5. farewell lap around the MCG with his son Ted and While the WRFL celebrates Mr. Football three grandchildren, is one this weekend, it is fitting to see the return of which is engrained in our sport’s rich memory. community football to Whitten Oval this Saturday for the inaugural Maribyrnong Cup. With the Chalking up 321 games for Footscray, EJ’s last WRFL game played at the iconic ground in accolades over his 19 year career would still be 2006, the match will feature Division Two’s West the envy of many of today’s great AFL players and Footscray and Yarraville Seddon who will both something that aspiring young footballers dream be battling it out to take home the silverware. For to earn a slice of. Among his career highlights, more details on the event, please turn to page 3. he was a three-time All-Australian, inducted into Of course for all the latest news, videos and photo the AFL and Western Bulldogs Hall of Fame, a galleries, make sure you visit our website www. premiership player, Footscray captain and coach, wrfl.org.au or keep up to date with our social a five-time club best and fairest winner and pulled media pages using the handle @westernregionfl. on the Big V on 29 occasions. With the launch of our Live Scores feature last There was not a dry eye in the house as Mr. Football weekend, there is no better time to download the said farewell to the football community in his last new WRFL App onto your smartphone and have public appearance before his death on 17/8/1995. access to all the latest news in the palm of your Two decades since EJ lost his battle with prostate hand. Simply visit the Team App website www. cancer at age 62, his son Ted Whitten Junior teamapp.com.au for download details. continues his dad’s legacy through the EJ Whitten Don’t forget to tune your radios into 88.9WYN FM Foundation. Since its inception in 1995, the EJ or 90.1 WYN FM if you are at the game and listen Whitten Foundation has raised in excess of $8.5 to the WRFL Match of the Day broadcast between million for prostate cancer research and awareness. West Footscray vs Yarraville Seddon from 1:30pm this Saturday. Today, the WRFL celebrates the memory of EJ and supports our long-time partner, the EJ Whitten Until then, play hard, kick straight and as the great Foundation, in our dedicated EJ Whitten Round. EJ Whitten famously said, Stick it up em! CONTENTS ISSUE 11 JUNE 27th - 28th, 2015 Maribyrnong Cup .........................................3 Division Three Senior/Reserves............ 30-38 EJ Whitten Round ........................................5 Celebrity Footy Tips .................................. 39 DivisionWESTERN One Senior/Reserves REGION ................ 6-15 Division One Under 18s ........................ 40-45 LeadingFOOTBALL Goal Kickers LEAGUE ................................ 17 Division Two Under 18s ....................... 47-54 Division Two Senior/Reserves .............. 19-27 Junior Results ........................................ 55-63 Umpires Corner .......................................... 29 Junior Heartland Award ............................. 64 WRFL FOOTY RECORD WESTERNWestern RegionREGION Football League President: Bruce Mildenhall FOOTBALLLevel One, LEAGUE Whitten Oval, Footscray CEO: Bob Tregear OFFICE: (03) 9315-5400 Editor: Kirstie Fitzgerald Front Cover: The great EJ Whitten graces our cover this week for the WRFL’s dedicated EJ Whitten Round. Mr. Football is captured with his son Ted during his farewell lap around the MCG in 1995. Photo courtesy of EJ Whitten Foundation. 1 WRFL FOOTY RECORD APPLICATIONS FOR SEDA’S 2016 PROGRAMS ARE NOW OPEN TO FIND OUT MORE VISIT SEDAGROUP.COM.AU - Programs in sport and building and trade - For Years 11 and 12 - Hands-on learning - Direct links with industry - Pathways to university and the workforce WWW.WRFL.ORG.AU 2 MARIBYRNONG CUP By Kirstie Fitzgerald Community football makes its return to Whitten forward to participating in for many years to come. Oval this Saturday after nearly 10 years, when “Maribyrnong Council is proud to be supporting West Footscray and Yarraville Seddon battle it out the return of community football to Whitten Oval. in the inaugural Maribyrnong Cup. “The Maribyrnong Cup will be a hotly contested With the last WRFL game played at Whitten Oval trophy for years to come and we look forward to in the 2006 Grand Final between Hoppers Crossing seeing the best football teams in the west battle it and Port Melbourne Colts, the Maribyrnong Cup out.” will mark the homecoming of grassroots football to the west’s iconic venue. The inaugural cup will also coincide with the WRFL’s dedicated EJ Whitten Round which is The inaugural Cup has been made possible held a week prior to the EJ Whitten Legend Game, following the recent Whitten Oval redevelopment raising awareness for prostate cancer and men’s which upgraded the facility to allow for VFL health. fixtured games through a joint funding project by the AFL, Western Bulldogs and Maribyrnong The dedicated EJ Whitten Round will once again Council. see an EJ Whitten Medal presented to one senior player from each club during Round 11 which WRFL chief executive Bob Tregear said that the their coach deems embraced the guts, skills, and league was delighted to be involved in the event. determination EJ was renowned for. “It’s fantastic to have local football return to EJ Whitten Foundation CEO Ted Whitten will be Whitten Oval, the sacred home of football in the in attendance to present the two EJ Whitten medals west. “The league is thrilled to be involved in this at the inaugural event. inaugural event which provides a great opportunity for our clubs to experience the new facilities.” “The Maribyrnong Cup will raise money for the E.J Whitten Foundation and celebrates the career The Maribyrnong Cup will feature West Footscray of footballing legend Ted Whitten,” Councillor and Yarraville Seddon who will be keen to take Quach said. home the silverware as they both try to cement their place in the top four in the hotly contested The Maribyrnong Cup is a free event and will kick Division Two competition. off from 2:15pm at Whitten Oval on Saturday June 27. City of Maribyrnong Mayor, Councillor Nam Quach, said the event was one local clubs can look West Footscray Captain Tobi Bray and Yarraville Seddon’s Captain Gareth Newton stand on the hallowed turf of Whitten Oval with City of Maribyrnong Mayor, Cr Nam Quach ahead of the inaugural Maribyrnong Cup. Photo: Kirstie Fitzgerald. 3 WRFL FOOTY RECORD EJ GAME POSTER? HITTEN L W EG J E By Alex Karavas E N D S G A One thing is for certain and that is that football Players involved M E doesn’t discriminate. The game that we watch, in FIDA enjoy an play, or volunteer at has no requirements for environment that not participation. Whether you are supporting your only promotes fitness, local team, playing at club level, or cheering on friendships and sense your favourite players, acceptance and inclusion of belonging, but more are some of the reasons which makes our game so importantly, enhances great. the players’ life skills and develops self-esteem. Football brings communities and people from While a number of other WRFL clubs also P H R T all walks of lifeO together, which is whereL the have FIDA teams competing in the fortnightly U A D E St. Albans Football Club’s new FIDAH (Football competition, St.Albans is the first club in the LY S ’S Integration DevelopmentU Association)EN team is Brimbank municipality to provide a FIDA team for PPO M helping lead the way. RTING people in its community. For St. Albans FIDA coach, Ian MacKenzie, a Despite the Saints only having five players chance meeting with SCOPE was the inspiration registered with the team thus far, it doesn’t stop behind the idea to get a St Albans FIDA team up the smile on the faces of the guys donning their and running this season. football gear and having a kick. “A couple of years ago I was president of the “While we are down on numbers, we just mix cricket club and through our sports club manager the teams up and have a bit of fun,” MacKenzie Keith Barnard, a disability support group called said. “We play St Francis next week and when we SCOPE approached us to do a cricket abled body played them a couple of weeks back before one clinic and run a bit of a training session in the nets of our senior games on the Saturday, they had a which we did with all our cricketers. couple of abled bodied guys just join in and help us “We then had a presentation night a couple of years out…which we had an absolute ball doing.” ago at Princess Park for a program called Balloon While the rules of the game are slightly modified, FootballTUESDAY which allows people 30th in wheelchairs JUNE to 2015don’t beVICS mistaken, vs the St.AlbansALL STARSboys go in hard at play football and that’s when I met Logan who the footy, from handballing, to shepherding and even runs the FIDA competition.GATES OPEN AT 6PMkicking / 7.45 goals PM as BOUNCE they emulate their AFL heroes.