VFL Round 17 TAC Cup Round 15 30 - 31 July 2016 $3.00 SPECIAL EDITION CAMRY RZ IT DOESN’T PLAY BY THE RULES Leap above the pack with the special edition Camry RZ. With its 18" black alloys, sports front grille, and dual exhaust, you’ll always be at the centre of the action. Sports inspired styling, fuel HƬFLHQWOLWUHHQJLQHDQGWKHPD[LPXP6WDU$1&$3VDIHW\UDWLQJFRPELQHWRJLYH\RXWKH FRQƪGHQFHWRWDFNOHZKDWHYHUOLIHWKURZVDW\RXTest drive the special edition Camry RZ today. SEARCH ‘CAMRY RZ’ Photo: Shane Goss (@licoricegallery) New road safety recruit Have you met ‘Graham’? He is the Transport Accident Commission’s (TAC) newest recruit in road safety. The TAC plays a vital role in campaigns relating to staying safe on our roads, which is important to all of us. In a shift from its traditional road safety campaigns, the TAC has collaborated with a leading trauma surgeon, a crash investigation expert and a world-renowned Melbourne artist to produce Graham, an interactive lifelike sculpture showing what we might look like if we could survive a crash. While seeing Graham for the first time can be confronting, it highlights how susceptible the human body is to the forces involved in transport accidents. Studies have shown that the human body can only cope with impacts at speeds people can reach on their own, unassisted by vehicles, so Graham has been designed with bodily features that might be present in humans if they had evolved to withstand the forces involved in crashes. Graham will be on show at the State Library of Victoria until August 8, before going on a roadshow across Victoria. I encourage everyone to support the work of the TAC by finding out more about Graham at meetgraham.com.au and you can share your experience meeting Graham using #meetgraham on social media. This new campaign is part of the TAC’s Towards Zero approach, with its aim for zero deaths and serious injuries on our roads. Along with investments in road infrastructure and increased vehicle safety, understanding our own vulnerability will help us be safer road users. The change comes as we celebrate 25 years of AFL Victoria’s TAC Cup competition, and over the next few weeks we will start to release details of a special top 25 AFL players from the TAC Cup competition. We look forward to celebrating a who’s who of elite AFL players, as it will be a fascinating walk down memory lane, recapping the depth of talent our U18 program has developed. Steven Reaper AFL Victoria CEO Contents Who’s playing who 3 5 Sam Darley 34 35 Richmond vs Frankston 6 2016 Draft Combine invitees 36 37 Collingwood vs Geelong 7 Jarrod Brander 38 39 Footscray vs Box Hill Hawks 8 9 VFL weekly content 40 41 Coburg vs Casey Scorpions 11 VFL Women’s 42 43 Port Melbourne vs North Ballarat 12 13 TAC Cup weekly content 44 45 Werribee vs Northern Blues 14 TAC Cup Local Legends 46 47 Sandringham vs Williamstown 15 Stats Central 52 53 Dandenong vs Western 19 The Big League 54 55 Sandringham vs Murray 21 AFL Vic News 56 57 Calder vs Gippsland 64 Quiz 58 59 Northern vs Oakleigh 60 61 Bendigo vs North Ballarat 62 63 Eastern vs Geelong Editor: Ben Pollard [email protected] Contributors: Anthony Stanguts, Kirstie Fitzgerald, Callum O’Connor Design & Print: Rainbow Graphics Photos: AFL Photos (unless otherwise credited) Ikon Park, Gate 3, Royal Parade, Carlton Nth, VIC 3054 Advertising: Rosanna Butler (03) 8341 6021 GPO Box 4337, Melbourne, VIC 3001 Phone: (03) 8341 6000 | Fax: (03) 9380 1076 Cover: Tom Goodwin in action for Coburg this year www.aflvic.com.au www.taccup.com.au 1 Television Online VFL Online Website: www.vfl.com.au Twitter: @VFL #PJVFL Facebook: www.facebook.com/vflfooty Sunday July 31 - 11.30am Werribee v Northern Blues TAC Cup Online Download the PLUS7 Live app to stream games live Website: www.taccup.com.au Watch a replay at: au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/vfl Twitter: @TACCup Returns Round 21 (Sunday August 28) Facebook: www.facebook.com/taccupfooty *There will be no VFL broadcasts from Instagram: @aflvictoria Rounds 18-20 due to the Olympics Radio L VFL Live I Saturday July 30: Coburg v Casey Scorpions from 1.45pm Live on Aussie digital, the Red Time Sport iPhone and Android apps, V plus online via vfl.com.au E Next week: Williamstown v Footscray 3WBC Saturday July 30: Footscray v Box Hill Hawks from 11am Listen to 94.1FM, online at www.3wbc.org.au or on the Tune In Radio app on your smart phone. Next week: Box Hill Hawks v Werribee Casey Radio Sunday July 31: Sandringham v Williamstown from 1pm Listen to 97.7FM in Melbourne, online at www.caseyradio.com.au or on the Tune In Radio app on your smart phone. Next week: Casey Scorpions v Essendon R A TAC Cup Radio D Sunday July 31: Eastern Ranges v Geelong Falcons from 1.45pm I Listen live on the Red Time Sport iPhone app or via taccup.com.au O Next game (August 13): Calder Cannons v Geelong Falcons Girls Play Footy Radio Sunday July 31: St Kilda v Diamond Creek from 1.30pm VFL Women’s Game of the Week streamed live via GirlsPlayFooty.com - accessible on your mobile or tablet by downloading the ‘Tune in’ App and searching for ‘Girls Play Footy’. Tune in from 1.30pm. Live at the ground on 89.1 FM. Video Streaming Visit vfl.com.au to watch a full list of VFL and VFL Women’s replays from season 2016. The streaming game this weekend is: VFL – Saturday July 30: Coburg v Casey Scorpions from 2pm Watch the action and listen to the call from the VFL Live team. Replays online at vfl.com.au under the MEDIA tab. Next week: Williamstown v Footscray 2 www.vfl.com.au The unlikely captain Even Sam Darley was surprised to be named captain of a Peter Jackson VFL team at the age of 23. The former GWS and Western Bulldogs defender joined Richmond’s VFL team this year to continue playing football at the highest level he possibly could, but had no intention of leading the club or even thought he’d be capable of doing so. But it turns out captaincy suits the Tasmanian native well – so well in fact, Darley believes he’s playing the best football of his life. www.taccup.com.au 3 Aft er 13 AFL games for GWS from 2012-13 and seven He said first-year coach McRae has a mantra about senior matches for the Bulldogs from 2014-15, Darley only wanting players at the club who are hungry has excelled in 12 appearances for the VFL Tigers in to improve themselves and their teammates, and 2016. He averages 24 disposals per game and leads Darley’s attitude fits the bill. the competition for total rebound-50s, his form also “Craig and back line coach Ryan Ferguson have been earning him selection for the VFL in May’s state game impressed with the way I’ve captained the group,” against South Australia. Darley said. “The AFL-listed guys make comments From unlikely beginnings, Darley has clearly grown about this being the most united they’ve had a VFL into his leadership position. and AFL groups together, and that’s something I really “It was actually quite daunting at first,” Darley said. wanted to drive. “It’s my first year at Richmond and I certainly didn’t “Having been part of a VFL premiership at Footscray earmark myself as a captain, or feel like that was a role in 2014, I know that’s at the core of why we were I was going to be given or even be capable of doing. successful – there was no discrepancy between the “But at the end of pre-season, we had a peer-voted ways we treated VFL-listed players and AFL players. We decision on a leadership group and the captain. were all just teammates and we enjoyed each other’s (Tigers coach) Craig McRae came to me and said I’d company outside footy as well. won the players’ vote quite considerably and asked “For my teammates to say that in the three or four how I’d feel about taking on the captaincy. Even then years they’ve been here the unity is the best it’s ever I was a bit hesitant, but I feel like I’ve really warmed been is something I’m really proud of.” to it. Darley also prides himself passing his knowledge of “Sometimes you have tough days and you think: the game on to the younger generation and would like ‘Geez, am I up to captaining a side at 23?’ But I’ve to move into development coaching in future. Indeed, played a lot of footy now and was draft ed into an AFL this eager student is known to go further than most in system at 17, so in terms of footballing age, I guess I his quest for wisdom. feel a lot older.” “I’m the only one who does this and it’s a bit Darley has a “burning desire” to return to the elite level embarrassing, but I take a notepad to all meetings and thinks his professional approach to pre-season because I constantly want to learn and be almost as training made an impact on his teammates. well-equipped as the coaches,” Darley said. Sam Darley (front) is chased while representing Victoria against SA in May 4 www.vfl.com.au Sam Darley playing for Footscray in 2014 “Craig McRae actually said he’d never seen anyone “It’s actually translated to me playing better footy.” take a notepad – even the AFL boys – to a meeting, so Darley’s ability to turn defence into attack has been the boys call you the coach’s pet and all that sort of one of the constants in an up-and-down year for the stuff .