Whispering_Jack

Accusing players of being scared on a forum like this is out of order. Thread closed.

Any official news on Max's knee?

McDonald did well in the first half but like every teammate at the Rebels, he was swamped in the second half. Late pick/rookie at best.

Cannons do it easy to win by 99 points after an early scare. 2014 TAC Cup 2014 Calder Cannons 2.3.15 8.7.55 15.10.100 25.10.160 North Ballarat Rebels 6.0.36 8.2.50 8.3.57 9.7.61 Goals Calder Cannons Foster 6 Cavka 5 Cauchi 4 Ahern 3 Kerbatieh Kovacevic 2 Moore Ryan Wunhym North Ballarat Rebels Palmer 6 Cowan Guthrie Wheelahan Best Calder Cannons Cavka James Kovacevic Carboni Foster Goodyear North Ballarat Rebels Palmer McDonald Marshall Bennett Johnston Ludeman The full forwards for both teams were outstanding. Foster is a potential Bulldogs f/s selection who was terrific in the second half when his team was dominant. Palmer kicked four in the first quarter and had five by half time but was starved of opportunities after that. The Cannons midfield took over from quarter time onwards and ran the Rebels off their legs. It was an even performance from the Cannons and that's been their strength in this competition over the years.

The first half of the Cannons v Rebels match has been a game of two quarters with Calder making a slow start but now on top.

radar, the scarves might not be popular at Tel Aviv airport but I wouldn't suggest that Vanessa tries visiting Mecca in that outfit either

Anyone see Carlton's first quarter coming? If this goes on they are most likely to force the Bombers to play interstate in the first week of the finals.

Exciting finish with the Oakleigh Chargers coming over the top of the Geelong Falcons with a last minute goal. One of the heroes for the Chargers was Toby McLean and exciting small forward with good evasive skills.McCartin managed only the two goals and they came within a minute or two in the third quarter but was off the ground (likely injured) soon after. Oakleigh's Marc Pittonet was the pick of the big men but Darcy Moore (Collingwood f/s) was unsighted and Geelong's Hugh Goddard also had little influence. Geelong's Aaron Christensen looked a likely prospect as a crumbing forward. 2014 TAC Cup 2014 Oakleigh Chargers 0.1.1 3.4.22 6.7.43 9.10.64 Geelong Falcons 2.3.15 5.4.34 7.6.48 9.9.63 Goals Oakleigh Chargers McLean 2 Answerth Crocker Kinsella Mahon Phillips Urban Waddell Geelong Falcons Christensen 4 McCartin 2 Dixon Maishman Remmos Best Oakleigh Chargers Answerth McKenzie Pittonet Beasley Phillips Kinsella Geelong Falcons Miles Curnow Maishman Dixon Christensen Melican

Falcons lead by 2 goals halfway through the third quarter on a perfect day for football at Visy Park. Pat McCartin has shown why he's no 1 in the draft rankings having just kicked two goals in a minute for the Falcons.

The TAC Cup finals have started today. The programme:- TAC CUP QUALIFYING FINALS SATURDAY AUGUST 30 Visy Park 11:30am: Oakleigh Chargers v Geelong Falcons 2:15pm: Calder Cannons v North Ballarat Rebels ELIMINATION FINALS SUNDAY AUGUST 31 Visy Park 11:30am: Western Jets v Dandenong Stingrays 2:15pm: Sandringham Dragons v Murray Bushrangers Mad Monday Preview

My grandsons' junior footy team plays and trains next door to where the Dragons train and I've had the opportunity to see Brayshaw train on a couple of occasions. I also saw him train with Melbourne earlier this season as part of the work experience training week for AIS players and I agree without hesitation, that he could step into an AFL side without much trouble in the early part of 2015. If Petracca's supposed to be even better we could have an interesting dilemma at draft time.

North Melbourne has indicated its contempt for our team by resting five players for the finals. This is the first time in many years that I won't be going to a final round game in my home state. Won't even be watching it on television. I have something else on but my message to the AFL is that if you don't treat equalisation more seriously and do nothing other than support the stronger clubs then you will end up with fixtures that attract neither crowds nor viewers.

Sounds very much like Goodbye Mr. Chip ~ Geelong set to offer five-year contract to James Frawley, clubs circling GWS defender Jono O’Rourke

From memory, Ball went to Collingwood in the national draft, not PSD and we could have taken him earlier with pick 18 which we used on Luke ... Tapscott. Of course, we could have used the pick to draft Nathan Fyfe who was taken a couple of picks later by Freo. The history of drafting is littered with stories like this.

Hawthorn doing a number on Collingwood to put the Pies out of contention. Gee, their handpassing is so much more effective than ours.

Forget Luke Ball, Ryan O'Keefe and Andrew Raines. Port Adelaide has reportedly made Goldsack an offer he can't refuse. We need a bloke with his attributes. Surely, we could look at trumping their offer?

Perhaps they should go back to the Federal Court and make that clear to Middleton J because I got a different impression from the evidence during the hearing.

I mentioned on FaceBook that he was still on our list and therefore we had first call on him as long as that remained the case. I was howled down by a couple of people who claimed that because he had retired, Mitch would have to go into the draft. Does anyone know what the rule actually is?

The club is advertising tomorrow's training, the last of the season, is an open session and supporters are invited to attend. Next session after that will mark the start of the 2015 pre season in either late October or early November.

The saga is due to conclude this weekend and ironically, our injury list is not as long and as deep as it has been in the past at this time of year. Melbourne injury list: round 23 Colin Garland (knee) – test Jayden Hunt (back) – season Jay Kennedy-Harris (ankle) – test Jake Spencer (ankle) – season Luke Tapscott (back) – test Jack Trengove (foot) – season Of course, we should add to the unavailable list, Shannon Byrnes and Mitch Clark who retired during the season.

The AFL won't be tampering with the f/s rule this year ~ No change to father-son bidding system this year I expect Billy to cost us our second round pick although some optimists think he will cost a third rounder. That latter possibility is highly unlikely.

I actually do agree with what you say jnrmac. There shouldn't be such a system but, based on the Cronulla dealings, there is every possibility that ASADA will end up cutting a deal with the players along far more favourable lines than most others in the sporting world. Our country's sporting integrity is already in question but giving Essendon a virtual free pass would be nothing short of shameful.

It looks like September is going to be an interesting time for the AFL and not only for what's going to be happening on the field. My prediction is that if Middleton J's Federal Court decision goes against the Bombers, there will be a backroom deal of some sort done and, on the basis of what was offered to Cronulla players, it will involve a significant number of wet lettuces being handed out. Bombers would have missed finals under ASADA deal So the players were "duped" or, as Caro puts it ... "ASADA is understood to have told the Essendon players' legal team that it had compiled evidence they had taken the banned Thyamosin Beta 4 but that it accepted they had done so unknowingly." September may well be the month in the game's history in which a club will be taking part thanks to legal manoevring rather than sporting prowess alone and what shame that would bring upon this sport? Poor old Wade Lees, the former Casey Scorpions who served an almost 2 year suspension for ordering a banned weight loss supplement which he never received was also "duped" and so were hundreds of athletes worldwide who have received bans of up to two years for unknowingly taking banned substances given them by their coaches and/or crooked sports scientists. But what is to be done with those who had a hand in the "duping" of the players, the ones who provided the waiver letters, the doctors, sports scientists, the coaches involved and the club itself? And what of the hundreds of thousands of supporters who thought we had a clean sport run by people with integrity? That day in February 2013 will certainly go down in my mind as the blackest day in Australian sport and especially, for its two major football codes.

Zimbabwe's cricket team seems to be travelling no better than its economy. If the Aussies keep this up (ie big hitting in the first ODI) it won't do their confidence any harm.

Back in 1964 we were biding our time before the finals. School holidays were coming up and the Demons were lucky. They had the double chance and a week off.