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Carlton, Melbourne, Richmond and Essendon took part in a scratch match this afternoon … at the same time.

The game saw a squad of 16 Carlton players taking on various amalgamations of the other three Victorian teams.

The Demons and Tigers are undermanned given they have players either in quarantine, injured or back in Victoria, while the Bombers have a lengthy injury list themselves. 

Richmond, Melbourne and Essendon rotated their available players through the scrimmage, with some swapping teams to play for Carlton at times in the last quarter to accommodate for players on limited minutes.

The Demonic Bombing Tigers got the win over the Blues, but scratch matches are to be taken with many grains of salt - especially this one.

Tom McDonald (Melbourne), Mitch Brown (Melbourne), Tom Cutler (Essendon), Sydney Stack (Richmond), Oleg Markov (Richmond) and Charlie Spargo (Melbourne) were among the players on the opposition team.

 
2 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Carlton, Melbourne, Richmond and Essendon took part in a scratch match this afternoon … at the same time.

The game saw a squad of 16 Carlton players taking on various amalgamations of the other three Victorian teams.

The Demons and Tigers are undermanned given they have players either in quarantine, injured or back in Victoria, while the Bombers have a lengthy injury list themselves. 

Richmond, Melbourne and Essendon rotated their available players through the scrimmage, with some swapping teams to play for Carlton at times in the last quarter to accommodate for players on limited minutes.

The Demonic Bombing Tigers got the win over the Blues, but scratch matches are to be taken with many grains of salt - especially this one.

Tom McDonald (Melbourne), Mitch Brown (Melbourne), Tom Cutler (Essendon), Sydney Stack (Richmond), Oleg Markov (Richmond) and Charlie Spargo (Melbourne) were among the players on the opposition team.

 

This season just got even weirder.

2 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Carlton, Melbourne, Richmond and Essendon took part in a scratch match this afternoon … at the same time.

The game saw a squad of 16 Carlton players taking on various amalgamations of the other three Victorian teams.

The Demons and Tigers are undermanned given they have players either in quarantine, injured or back in Victoria, while the Bombers have a lengthy injury list themselves. 

Richmond, Melbourne and Essendon rotated their available players through the scrimmage, with some swapping teams to play for Carlton at times in the last quarter to accommodate for players on limited minutes.

The Demonic Bombing Tigers got the win over the Blues, but scratch matches are to be taken with many grains of salt - especially this one.

Tom McDonald (Melbourne), Mitch Brown (Melbourne), Tom Cutler (Essendon), Sydney Stack (Richmond), Oleg Markov (Richmond) and Charlie Spargo (Melbourne) were among the players on the opposition team.

Interesting. Bit of a dog's breakfast to me. At least they get a run

 

I feel sick, Melb and Ess players?! I hope Spargo was able to lead all of the Dons players away to an unsanctioned, quarantine breaking party. Best he’ll do for us this year.


11 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

I feel sick, Melb and Ess players?! I hope Spargo was able to lead all of the Dons players away to an unsanctioned, quarantine breaking party. Best he’ll do for us this year.

Good old spargo. Favourite player

 

Proper weird.
 

Hope they didn’t share water bottles with that Essendon mob - I don’t want to risk any of our players testing positive for <insert disease/prohibited drug>!

Just bizarre how footy has come to this..

Quite sad actually.


Good idea really.

Except for the Essendon players. Hope our guys had a long shower afterwards.

9 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Just bizarre how footy has come to this..

Quite sad actually.

I don’t think it’s said at all.  This is absolutely brilliant that teams are coming together for the greater good. 

8 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

I don’t think it’s said at all.  This is absolutely brilliant that teams are coming together for the greater good. 

Of course its good that teams are coming together. We all expected that.

But we're long way off until we seen the rich tradition of having Saturday or Sunday Casey reserves playing. I miss tuning in to see how our VFL side was going during game day.


Going by the report and solitary pic on the Blues’ website we provided the jumpers and Richmond the socks. 

Like the improvising but not the fact they labelled the team Rich-bourne Bombers.

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Further to that the Carlton Website articles list that Carlton's reserves kicked 6 goals so TMac could have kicked 7.

https://www.carltonfc.com.au/news/781811/reserves-wrap-practice-match-v-essendon-melbourne-and-richmond

Highlights and a player-by-player review will be available on carltonfc.com.au early in the week.

GOALS: De Koning 2, Fisher, O’Dwyer, Owies, Philp

 

3 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Like the improvising but not the fact they labelled the team Rich-bourne Bombers.

Agreed Dee

They should have been called the Essenmond Demons

I hope Owies has a long and successful career, but also with lots of one-week injuries just so we can see the team sheet "Out:  Owies (injured)".  I'm sure one day he will make a great forward line alongside Booboo, Ouchi and Prang.


10 hours ago, Demonland said:

Only Carlton provided details and they didn't include a score just that the amalgamated team won.

from the article: "The other three teams (Melbourne, Richmond & Essendon) are yet to provide details on their side of the outing."

I think the Tigdeeboms got up at the end! 

23 hours ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Going by the report and solitary pic on the Blues’ website we provided the jumpers and Richmond the socks. 

Like the improvising but not the fact they labelled the team Rich-bourne Bombers.

I prefer Melmond Bombers

Good idea and I did wounder how long it would take for this to be come an eventuality.

Takes me back to junior and my reserves footy days.  Was pretty common place to for someone to loan the opposition some players if they were way too short, so at least everyone got a game.

 
On 7/24/2020 at 1:45 PM, Elegt said:

Good old spargo. Favourite player

Poor Spargs! ?


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