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The first round of the National Under 18 Championships took place at the weekend with SA and WA coming out on top of the Allies and Vic Country. Graham leads SA to a commanding win South Australia 2.3.15 7.7.49 10.11.71 15.11 (101) Allies 2.5.17 4.8.32 5.9.39 8.9 (57) Goals South Australia Fogarty 4, Stengle 3, Bedford 2, Hayward 2, Pitman, Lee, Lebois, Coleman-Jones Allies Bowes 2, Perryman, Fisher, Ballenden, Davis, Sproule, Marshall Best South Australia Graham, Fogarty, Stengle, Pitman, Lee, Ladhams Allies Perryman, Mutch, Rolls, Fisher, Williams Powell-Pepper's power on show for WA Western Australia 4.1.25 8.4.52 12.8.80 19.11 (125) Vic Country 4.0.24 7.1.43 9.4.58 10.4 (64) Goals Western Australia Strnadica 4, Powell-Pepper 3, Wright 2, Baker 2, Bolton 2, Zurhaar 2, Guelfi, Waterman, Fisher, Clarke Vic Country Battle 4, Poholke 2, Jok, Brodie, Fowler, Blair Best Western Australia Powell-Pepper, Guelfi, Wright, Fisher, Waterman, Baker Vic Country McCluggage, Atley, Jok, Brodie, Battle, Poholke

Twitter was the source. FWIW, the tweet had an AFL Logo.

Stats and stories about yesterday's game:- Lynden Dunn 6 disposals 3 kicks 3 handballs 2 tackles 20 dream team points [injured] Jack Grimes 25 disposals 13 kicks 12 handballs 4 marks 15 tackles 137 dream team points Liam Hulett 2 goals 13 disposals 8 kicks 5 handballs 6 marks 2 tackles 69 dream team points Max King 1 behind 10 disposals 7 kicks 3 handballs 3 marks 5 tackles 11 hit outs 68 dream team points Matt Jones 11 disposals 7 kicks 4 handballs 3 marks 6 tackles 59 dream team points Ben Kennedy 3 goals 2 behinds 30 disposals 19 kicks 11 handballs 9 tackles 139 dream team points Jay Kennedy-Harris 1 behind 11 disposals 5 kicks 6 handballs 8 tackles 60 dream team points Viv Michie 1 goal 21 disposals 14 kicks 7 handballs 5 marks 4 tackles 90 dream team points Alex Neale-Bullen 22 disposals 9 kicks 13 handballs 2 marks 6 tackles 77 dream team points Ben Newton 30 disposals 9 kicks 21 handballs 13 tackles 110 dream team points Cam Pedersen 1 behind 12 disposals 6 kicks 6 handballs 4 marks 8 tackles 6 hit outs 82 dream team points Jake Spencer 2 goals 1 behind 11 disposals 7 kicks 4 handballs 3 marks 6 tackles 47 hit outs 121 dream team points Dean Terlich 2 goals 1 behind disposals 13 kicks 6 handballs 3 marks 6 tackles 94 dream team points Sam Weideman 1 goal 2 behinds 12 disposals 5 kicks 7 handballs 3 marks 1 tackles 49 dream team points Mitch White 1 behind 25 disposals 13 kicks 12 handballs 6 marks 2 tackles 90 dream team points Casey remains on top of the ladder The Casey Scorpions kick a game clear at the top of the ladder after defeating Port Melbourne ... and from the Port Melbourne website Last Quarter Fadeout Costs Borough Against Casey

AFL Ratings Team of the Week Team of the Week - Round 11 Debuts: O.McDonald, A.McD-Tip, L.Whitfield 4th appearance of '16: H.Shaw, M.Gawn, M.Bont

Doubt that Garlett would get dropped for a big occasion game like QB.

Would you be concerned if that cost us a possible place in the finals this year but made our prospects of becoming a regular finalist in years to come immeasurably better?

Doubtful. Cyril Kalippa was the grandfather of Daniel Rioli and he played for Richmond last night. Sounds like he did some wonderful work for his people on Tiwi Island but I wonder why he changed his surname.

This would have been a good day to have had Jack Viney in the side.

The Division 1 National Under 18 Championships start tomorrow with five squads including Vic Metro, Vic Country, SA and WA as well as the Allies representing the best of the rest of Australia. Here are some of the players to watch:- U18s: Callum Twomey picks 20 young guns to watch this year AFL Under 18s Championships 2016: Ones to watch, fixtures, best draft prospects — Ultimate Guide

The annual Devil's Advocates Dinner took place last night hosted by Dr Turf and with headline guest speakers Rod Grinter (fresh from appearing the night before on Open Mike) and Jade Rawlings followed by an entertaining auction conducted by Phil Kingston of Gary Peer Estate. The Doc was in fine form and good humour and both guest speakers were entertaining in the question and answer format. Balls was far more open among friends and the legal fraternity (especially since the statute of limitations rules out any possible repercussions from the events he discussed) than he was with Mike Sheahan and the Foxtel viewing audience and threw an informative light on some of the happenings during his illustrious career of 134 games including the time when Terry Wallace embedded some of his teeth which infected his forearm and put him in hospital (Wallace played the next week but his voice is now at a higher pitch) during the time he somehow found himself out suspended for 6 weeks over the incident, the 1987 Preliminary Final (which we shoulda won), a pre season trip that landed him in hot water and the coaches who he played under including RDB, John Northey and Neil Balme. He spoke of his great friendships with teammates of the era including Garry Lyon, Jimmy Stynes, Brett Lovett during a period in which the club was relatively successful without pulling off a premiership flag. Rod is the President of the MFC Past Players and officials and he spoke of the initiatives this group has undertaken such as the Ron Barassi Club (which recently honoured the great RDB on his 80th birthday and is setting up a fund to look after former players who might be in need). In the near future the club will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 1956 premiership - details available on this site. (I hope to be able to put together and post a tribute to 1956 before the event). Jade Rawlings had a superb career at Hawthorn before being hawked around to the Bulldogs and finally spent his last playing season with his brother Brady at North Melbourne. He has had a brief stint as a stand in coach at Richmond after his friend Terry Wallace was boned (it was really Wallace's night after the Grinter interview but readers here should know that Plough was once a Demon fan). In fact, Jade has worked with a number of sacked coaches at various clubs including Melbourne where he worked with Mark Neeld who he said was afflicted by a number of unfortunate setbacks during his brief time at the club. Rawlings is very positive about the club now under Paul Roos and soon to come under the coaching mantle of Simon Goodwin and strongly defended the club's defensive set up and personnel - they all have a purpose and we will be a strong club in the end as a result of what is being done with our inexperienced team of today. He went through most of the players in the team and their futures at the club and ended on a note that we can expect Chris Dawes, Jack Grimes and Jack Trengove at least in the 25 named (including emergencies) for Saturday's game. My only disappointment was that Max Gawn's name wasn't mentioned in discussion which I suppose reflects the fact that we've already become accustomed to the fact that he's one of the dominant ruckmen in the game today. Phil Kingston was in great form and raised a good few grand auctioning off some club goodies. He was so good in his role that he proved that even members of the legal fraternity can be dummies. Kudos to family lawyer Ralph Glezer who organised the night.

The annual dinner's on tonight so you have missed out. You should ring the club to get onto the invitation list.

The selectors blinked after Roos announced there would be 3 or 4 changes. I don't think it will happen next week.

Interesting snippet: The last time that the VFL defeated a SANFL team in Adelaide was in 2002 when the captain of the team was Josh Mahoney who runs just about everything at the MFC these days.

Chris25 from bigfooty has updated and expanded his original list ~ The Big Board1. Sam Petrevski-Seton - 180cm, 73kg midfielder from Claremont Tigers2. Harrison Macreadie - 196cm, 89kg defender from Henty (GWS)3. Jack Bowes - 187cm, 78kg midfielder from Surfers Paradise (Gold Coast)4. Hugh McCluggage - 184cm, 70kg midfielder from North Ballarat Rebels5. Will Brodie - 187cm, 80kg midfielder from Murray Bushrangers6. Jarrod Berry - 190cm, 80kg defender from North Ballarat7. Daniel Venables - 185cm, 76kg midfielder from Western Jets8. Josh Rotham - 192cm, 76kg defender from West Perth9. Ben Ainsworth - 177cm, 73kg midfielder/forward from Gippsland Power10. Kobe Mutch - 184cm, 79kg midfielder from Bendigo Pioneers (GWS)11. Jacob Allison - 194cm, 79kg midfielder from Aspley (Brisbane)12. Andrew McGrath - 180cm, 73kg midfielder/defender from Sandringham Dragons13. Brad Scheer - 184cm, 83kg midfielder from Palm Beach Currumbin (Gold Coast)14. Jonty Scharenberg - 185cm, 78kg midfielder from Glenelg15. Will Setterfield - 190cm, 80kg midfielder from Sandringham Dragons (GWS)16. Brandon Parfitt - 172cm, 68kg midfielder from North Adelaide/NT17. Alex Witherden - 184cm, 76kg defender from Geelong Falcons18. Jy Simpkin - 181cm, 71kg midfielder from Murray Bushrangers19. Todd Marshall - 197cm, 87kg forward from Murray Bushrangers20. Harrison Perryman - 184cm, 75kg midfielder/forward from Collingullie (GWS)21. Jack Scrimshaw - 193cm, 77kg defender from Sandringham Dragons22. Sam Powell-Pepper - 188cm, 83kg midfielder from East Perth 23. Josh Battle - 194cm, 89kg forward from Dandenong Stingrays24. Jordan Gallucci - 182cm, 73kg midfielder from Eastern Ranges25. Kym LeBois - 174cm, 65kg forward/midfielder from North Adelaide26. Jamie Hampton - 186cm, 76kg midfielder from West Adelaide/NT27. Connor Byrne - 182cm, 76kg midfielder from Wagga Tigers (GWS)28. Jack Graham - 182cm, 86kg midfielder from North Adelaide29. Jack Rolls - 183cm, 74kg midfielder from Redlands (Brisbane)30. Peter Ladhams - 202cm, 90kg ruckman from Norwood31. Zac Sproule - 197cm, 84kg forward from Murray Bushrangers (GWS)32. Tim English - 203cm, 86kg ruckman from South Fremantle33. Luke Strnadica - 199cm, 88kg forward from East Fremantle34. Noah Hura - 186cm, 72kg midfielder from Peel Thunder35. Shai Bolton - 177cm, 67kg forward from South Fremantle36. Jarrod Korewha - 192cm, 81kg defender from North Ballarat37. Lachlan Cameron - 191cm, 87kg defender from West Adelaide38. Joseph Atley - 184cm, 80kg midfielder from Bendigo Pioneers39. Jeremy Goddard - 202cm, 97kg ruckman from Claremont Tigers40. Ezekiel Frank - 192cm, 79kg forward from Palmerston41. Myles Poholke - 184cm, 84kg midfielder from Dandenong Stingrays42. Jordon Sweet - 203cm, 105kg ruckman from North Adelaide43. Benjamin Davis - 187cm, 84kg forward from UNSW44. Harry Morrison - 182cm, 73kg defender from Murray Bushrangers45. Steven Slimming - 182cm, 72kg midfielder from Sturt46. Mitchell Carter - 196cm, 83kg forward from Norwood47. Alex Villis - 180cm, 70kg midfielder from Norwood48. Tim Taranto - 187cm, 84kg forward from Sandringham Dragons49. Thomas Highmore - 187cm, 80kg midfielder from Eastlake (GWS)50. Brett Blair - 189cm, 80kg forward from Geelong Falcons

Unless we happen to trade a player who wants to leave or lose a free agent which could result in us getting back into the first round.

Our politicians? Have you been following US politics lately? The Brits? Europeans? North Korea?

In the event that another club trades for Hurley this year, a new contract would be put in place and this would end the possibility of him becoming a free agent under the current rules for seven years.

I'm not sure that we would have taken Swallow anyway because the knock on him at the time was that his kicking was poor. Ironically, I think it was the first time that he played against us, he kicked the goal that sealed a close game against us from 50m out.

Hard to believe that we're already at Round 10 and it's even harder to believe that the Demons are putting such a young team onto the field each week and yet still remain in finals contention. The table below from what I believe was last week's round shows how young the team. With Nev Jetta and Dom Tyson coming into the team today, the average age might be slightly higher but it's good knowing that we have plenty of youth to come in and supplement the team - Angus Brayshaw, Clayton Oliver and Christian Salem for starters. That's all good but our opponents have on average about three years in age and far more than double the numbers played over us. Can youth triumph over experience today?

In that case, this one's for you -

There's been a lot said over time about the apparent lack of coordination between the Demons and their alignment partner at Casey but I'm sensing that's now a thing of the past. This article from the VFL site talks about how the Scorpions were effective in reducing the Hawks' supply of uncontested possessions last week - Wynstan Stats Central Rd 7: Casey dismantles the Box It goes on to say - "Casey has made its living this season on being in the competition’s top two for contested possessions, hard-ball gets and clearances per game. However, it’s also attacking the opposition on the rare occasions it hasn’t won the ball in close, ranking no.1 for tackles per game. On Saturday night, that manic pressure took away the time and space Box Hill loves to carve through defences with precision passing by foot, and duly rewarded the Scorpions with a win as well as plenty of respect." This sounds very much like what the Demons are trying to do as well and it suggests that when players such as Chris Dawes, Jack Trengove etc and some of the younger brigade eventually do manage to break into the side, they should be able to fit in seamlessly.

I think I've heard this story before. Wasn't our day supposed to be coming about five years ago after we snapped up all those early draft picks around 2008/9?

And on the subject of our rising star ~ DEES MAKE IT THREE WITH MAN-CHILD PETRACCA

The Allies squad has been chosen and it's dominated by NSW which augurs well for the two Sydney clubs when it comes down to drafting academy talent - Rams dominate Allies squad for U18 titles

The third round of Div 2 was completed at the weekend. U18s: Top draft prospect Jack Bowes shines again QUEENSLAND 4.2 9.6 13.10 18.11 (119) TASMANIA 2.1 3.1 3.5 4.7 (31) GOALS Queensland: Ballenden 5, Bowes 5, Williams 2, Allison 2, Charlesworth, Gordon, Dennis, Crossley Tasmania: C Smith, Buechner, Wylie, Dixon BEST Queensland: Bowes, D Watson, Ballenden, Scheer, Williams, Foster Tasmania: Hinds, Atkin, Farrow, Hanslow, Norton, Thomas U18s: Setterfield, Sproule star as NSW/ACT down NT to seal title NSW/ACT 6.5 13.10 18.15 23.20 (158) Northern Territory 1.3 1.4 4.6 5.9 (39) GOALS NSW/ACT: Sproule 4, Davis 4, Mutch 3, Lynch 3, Maguire 2, Powell 2, Marshall, Carroll, Byrne, Brown, Fisher NT: Frank 2, Taban, Olango, Mummery BEST NSW/ACT: Setterfield, Carroll, Perryman, Davis, Maguire, Byrne NT: Long, Armstrong, Jeffrey, Abbott, Lockyer, Lawrence