Beach Road Bazza

Definitely Daniel Hughes who was originally a Sandy player.

He's now played three games with the Sandy reserves and perhaps one more should do it as I'm not really sure that he will develop much further in the Sandy reserves. He's a player of obvious quality and with all due respects to the Sandy reserves (which are severely depleted at the moment) he needs to have players of a higher standard around him for his own development and for the benefit of the team. How much more would he have learned yesterday playing with the likes of White, Davey and Yze? He played in all the quarters but went off probably around the 20 minute mark of each (please don't quote me on exact times) so he's building up to a full game. He ran well and looked quite fit. I'd say yes for Petterd but think next year for Maric who still has some more to learn at this level but will be good.

The Zebras now have a battle to make the finals after their fifth defeat on the trot, four of them to teams in the top four. Sandringham 2.3.15 7.8.50 10.10.70 15.15.105 Williamstown 9.3.57 12.4.76 14.8.92 18.11.119 Goals Sandringham Sautner 5 Yze 3 Liddell 2 Carroll Davey Gallagher Maric White Williamstown Rose 4 Little 3 Cook 2 Cloke Galea Johnson O'Keefe Picken Reid Stack Street Stretton Best Sandringham Yze Petterd Biddlecombe Gallagher Sautner Carroll Williamstown Picken Street Rose Johnson Stretton Little Reserves Sandringham 2.2.14 2.2.14 4.7.31 4.10.34 Williamstown 4.2.26 11.7,73 14.11,95 19.15.129 Goals Sandringham Cleeve Fleming Hardiman Weetra Williamstown Mulligan Wood 3 Boumann Miller Smith Urch Young 2 Cartelli Georgiadis Langlands Best Sandringham Fleming M Johnston Lockwood Gilchrist Monaghan Calder Williamstown Boumann Young Tanner Boyd Wood Chiu Ricky Petterd's game in the seniors was sublime. More to come after I thaw out from the cold.

Not when you consider the players who have been broght back into the side this week Vanlo. Someone has to make way for the likes of MFC listed players, Jeff White, Aaron Davey, Ben Holland and Jace Bode and Sandy's Nick Sautner and David Gallagher who are all inclusions from last week's team. It won't hurt younger players McNamara and Specencer to go back to the reserves because, as you can read from Andy Lovell's game summaries on melbournefc.com, the club does have certain guidelines regarding how they develop players and that process continues even if they are playing in the Sandy reserves. Incidentally, it will be well worth it for supporters to turn up to TBO to watch the game today to see players like Jeff, The Flash and Benny in action on a suburban footy ground.

This is the Sandringham squad for the reserves game tomorrow:- Calder, Anthony Cannon, Jack Cleeve, Stuart Curcio, Michael Donaldson, Jayden Fleming, Andrew Gilchrist, Rennie Gilder, Brad Grimes, Jack Hardiman, Maddison Hine, Matthew Johnston, Marc Johnston, Tomi Kondarovskis, James Lockwood, Scott Lyall, Nicholas McNamara, Tom Monaghan, Sam Plymin, Jarrod Sargent, Daniel Shakaib, Hiwad Spencer, Jake Summons, Justin Teasdale, David Torcasio, Christopher Vickers, Jack Weetra, Isaac Zomer, Trent

Sandringham plays ladder leader Williamstown in an important game for the Zebras on Saturday at Trevor Barker Beach Oval. The Seagulls are affiliated this year with Melbourne's opponent on Sunday - the Western Bulldogs. SANDRINGHAM v WILLIAMSTOWN Saturday 12th July Trevor Barker Beach Oval at 2:00pm Radio: Casey Radio SANDRINGHAM Backs Meesen Frawley M Johnston Half backs Petterd Lamb Biddlecombe Centreline Gallagher Summers Davey Half forwards Williams Crowe McConnell Forwards Dean Sautner Yze Followers Holland Tregear C Liddell Interchange (from) Bode Carroll Gribbin Maric Martyn Monaghan Spencer White WILLIAMSTOWN Backs Picken Meyer Wight Half backs O'Keefe Cloke Greene Centreline Eagleton Bre Johnson Stretton Half forwards Hill Tiller Ward Forwards Cook Little Rose Followers Street Jolley Harbrow Interchange (from) Beaumont Galea Higgins Langland Lockwood Lyons McDougall McKenzie O'Shea Reid Stack White Welcome back David Gallagher after almost a whole year out with knee surgery and Benny Holland (shoulder) and welcome Aaron Davey! Edit: No appearance from Benny Holland.

Andy Lovell's player review from this round is now up on melbournefc.com.au - VFL Rd 13: Player Review Promising signs from a few players notably James Frawley - "James played a really good game as a key defender. He played on North Melbourne's Corey Jones, and beat him. He defended really well, but also attacked the game. He gave us some really good run and drive off half back, and also used the ball well. He improved from last week, and this is the second week in a row that he has been good for us." Also Jack Grimes getting 21 posessions in half afootball. Last week he had 18 touches in a half. Can't wait till he's 100% fit!

Despite the loss, the Zebras could have turned the corner today as they held their own with North Ballarat after a poor first quarter at a difficult venue for away teams to negotiate and against the team that knocked off competition leaders Williamstown last week. Nick Sautner and Adem Yze were both sorely missed. Sandringham 0.1.1 3.3.21 7.6.48 10.10.70 North Ballarat 4.4.28 6.9.45 10.12.72 12.14.86 Goals Sandringham Newton 4 Maric 3 Martyn 2 Carroll North Ballarat Driscoll 4 Wundke 2 Chester Goodes Greig Grima Lower Searl Best Sandringham Crowe Biddlecombe Williams C Liddell Frawley McConnell North Ballarat Sansbury Sharkey Grima Sewell Driscoll Greig Reserves That's almost as bad as it can get although they did score a meagre 1.1.7 in the corresponding game in 2006. Sandringham 0.2.2 0.4.4 0.7.7 0.9.9 North Ballarat 2.3.15 4.7.31 8.7.55 11.9.75 Goals North Ballarat Dignan Horbury McHugh 2 Bell Dickinson Micallef Peace Seddon Best Sandringham T Johnston Hardiman Curcio Grimes Calder Hine North Ballarat Murnane McHugh Tickner Garlett Seddon Owen

No mention of jake pencer. I'm sure he played for Sandy reserves.

NORTH BALLARAT v SANDRINGHAM Sunday 6th July - Seniors at 2:00 pm AUSTAR Arena NORTH BALLARAT Backs Sharkey Moloney Greig Half backs Feery Searl Goodes Centreline Roach Clifton Sansbury Half forwards McMahon Spolding Wundke Forwards Driscoll Jo Smith McConnell Followers Stephenson Grima Swallow Interchange (from) Chester Garlett Hall Lower Owen Sewell Je Smith Taylor SANDRINGHAM Backs McNamara Frawley Bell Half backs Biddlecombe Lamb Petterd Centreline Yze Summers Carroll Half forwards Williams Crowe McConnell Forwards Dean Sautner Newton Followers Meesen Tregear C Liddell Interchange (from) Gallagher Gilchrist Gribbin M Johnston T Johnston Maric Martyn Spencer Some interesting placements with Carroll and Yze named on the wings. I'd like to see that! Out of the side are Cale Morton and Jeff White (both rested?) and Ezra Poyas (hamstring) - these are huge losses. I would like to have seen Kyle Cheney in the side and where's Benny? BALLARAT DEMONS LUNCHEON Come along to the Austar Arena in Ballarat this Sunday for lunch with fellow Demon lovers. The Ballarat Demons are currently negotiating with Chris Connolly to see who will be attending from the Club. Then watch the Zebras take on the Roosters. See Newton, Petterd, Maric & McNamara in action. Time 12 noon Cost $25 For more information and bookings, contact Ralph on Phone 54612980

I wasn't there for the Ressies because the Kingswood was particularly uncooperative yesterday morning. However, the reports are that Jack Grimes looked very good. He came on and off the ground due to his lack of match fitness but from all reports from some very harsh judges is that he looked a class above the other guys out there.

I wasn't there for the Ressies because the Kingswood was particularly uncooperative yesterday morning. However, the reports are that Jack Grimes looked very good. He came on and off the ground due to his lack of match fitness but from all reports from some very harsh judges is that he looked a class above the other guys out there. I will also post this on a thread specifically relating to Jack Grimes.

Thanks for the report Minka. There are some very interesting observations there and I get your drift about the possibility of what you say could be "an increasingly messy divorce". I doubt however, that any of the messiness can be attached to the inclusion of Melbourne players. This has been part and parcel of the process between the clubs throughout nine mostly successful seasons. Below this post I have put the team lists for the seniors and the reserves and highlighted the MFC players in each of them. My point is that the Melbourne inclusions were all natural selections being Bell (out injured last week), Carroll (out suspended last week), Frawley (dropped from MFC), Newton and Petterd (up from the reserves after at least 2 games there) and Jeff White (dropped from MFC). I doubt anyone could say their inclusions were detrimental to the team. Out of the side from a MFC POV were Martin (to MFC), Cheney & Maric who went to the reserves. I would maintain that the latter two players (who both played poorly against Port the week before) could have been kept in the side and would have been better than some of the Sandy listed players who came up from the twos. When the combination was successful, there were usually 8 to 10 good quality Sandy players and they were augmented by 12 - 14 MFC players (12 in finals and against stand alones). This year, Sandy is trying out a lot of good young players with promise but they are not firing as well as the Sandy listed players of the past. Chad Liddell and Ezra Poyas haven't shown their form of the past and David Gallagher has been injured all year. As you can see from the list below, he made his comeback in the reserves yesterday. Sandringham Seniors 29/6/2008 Daniel Bell Andrew Biddlecombe Nathan Carroll Roderick Crowe Thomas Dean James Frawley Rennie Gilchrist Chris Lamb Chad Liddell Andrew McConnell Tom McNamara John Meesen Cale Morton Michael Newton Ricky Petterd Ezra Poyas Nicholas Sautner Peter Summers Shane Tregear Jeff White Jake Williams Adem Yze Sandringham Reserves 29/6/2008 Kyle Cheney Stuart Cleeve Michael Curcio Andrew Fleming David Gallagher Daniel Gribbin Jack Grimes Maddison Hardiman Marc Johnston Tomi Johnston James Kondarovskis Scott Lockwood Nicholas Lyall Guy Martyn Addam Maric Sam Monaghan Jarrod Plymin Daniel Sargent Hiwad Shakaib Jake Spencer Isaac Weetra

Sandy seniors were uninspiring today and lost their third game in a row - this time by a goal after giving up a 5 goal start. With two tough games in the next two rounds, they face a battle to remain in the top eight. Seniors Sandringham 0.2 6.3 9.5 13.9.87 Werribee Tigers 5.4.34. 7.7.49 9.13.67 13.15.93 Goals Sandringham Sautner 4 Lamb Newton 2 Bell Morton Poyas Summers Yze Werribee Tigers Brown 3 Henderson Podsiadly McMahon 2 Chisholm Davies Sheringham Young Best Sandringham Yze Newton Liddell Crowe Frawley White Werribee Tigers Goldstein Thompson Davies Greenwood Howard Ross Reserves Sandringham 5.2.32 9.11.65 12.14.86 19.18.132 Werribee Tigers 3.1.19 3.2.20 7.5.47 8.10.58 Goals Sandringham Martyn 6 Hardiman Kondarovskis 3 Weetra 2 Cheney Cleeve Fleming Johnston Monaghan Werribee Tigers Jackel 2 Bloomfield Mahoney O'Brien Sharp Thompson Wormald Best Sandringham Martyn Cheney Johnston Gribbin Hardiman Monaghan Werribee Tigers Sharp Hudson Palmer Magnabosco Zerafa Mahoney Reported Werribee Tigers J. Palmer for tripping Sandringham Nil

The adjusted squad after allowing for the four players on the interchange for the Melbourne v Brisbane game. Should we assume Jeff White goes into the ruck ahead of Meesen? SANDRINGHAM Backs McNamara Frawley Bell Half Backs Biddlecombe Lamb Petterd Centreline T Johnston Summers Waller Half Forwards McConnell Crowe Poyas Forwards Monaghan Sautner C Liddell Followers Meesen Tregear M Johnston Interchange (from) Cheney Carroll Dean Maric Morton Newton White Yze

Selection highlight - the return of Ricky Petterd. WERRIBEE TIGERS v SANDRINGHAM Sunday 29th June Bartercard Oval at 2:00pm WERRIBEE TIGERS Backs Howard S Thompson Saker Half Backs Collins Henderson McMahon Centreline Greenwood Young Davies Half Forwards Warren Brown Barlow Forwards Chisholm Podsiadly Ross Followers Goldstein Castello Gleeson Interchange (from) Banjanin Eddy Hudson Quigley Rockefeller Sharp Sheringham Wormald SANDRINGHAM Backs McNamara Frawley Bell Half Backs Biddlecombe Lamb Petterd Centreline T Johnston Summers Waller Half Forwards McConnell Crowe Poyas Forwards Monaghan Sautner C Liddell Followers Meesen Tregear M Johnston Interchange (from) Bode Buckley Cheney Carroll Dean Jamar Maric Morton Newton Valenti White Yze

Just as bad at Sandringham.

Bad day at the office for the Zebras. I tend to agree with Alpha about Morton. Can't understand why he didn't get named in Sandy's best. Got plenty of the ball and delivered it well. Sandringham 2.2.14 3.3.21 6.6.42 11.9.75 Port Melbourne 5.2.32 11.10.76 15.13.103 21.16.142 Goals Sandringham Sautner 4 Morton 2 Buckley Crowe Lamb Poyas Yze Port Melbourne Nahas 6 Dwyer 3 Bonaddio Pinwill Sutcliffe 2 Baird Brewer Dillon Pitt Thomas Smith Best Sandringham Biddlecombe Summers Liddell Buckley Crowe Poyas Port Melbourne Nahas Cotchett Pleming Sutcliffe McMahon Livingston Reserves Sandringham 1.1.7 4.6.30 8.10.58 10.10.70 Port Melbourne 2.4.16 5.7.37 7.8.50 10.11.71 Goals Sandringham Martyn Zomer 2 Gilchrist Lockwood Lyall Monaghan Petterd Williams Port Melbourne Schultz 3 Bonnici Hassett 2 Francis Mullins Siciliano Best Sandringham Gribbin Curcio Williams Fleming Petterd Monaghan Port Melbourne deBruin Wall Schultz Siciliano Sheldon Pearce

Tom McNamara makes his debut for the Zebra seniors but where the hell are Juice and Ricky P? SANDRINGHAM v PORT MELBOURNE Sunday 22nd June Trevor Barker Beach Oval at 2:00 PM Radio: Casey Radio 97.7 FM or on-line at: www.3ser.org.au SANDRINGHAM Backs Cheney Martin McNamara Half backs Bell Lamb Biddlecombe Centreline T Johnston Summers Waller Half forwards McConnell Crowe Poyas Forwards Maric Sautner C Liddell Followers Meesen Buckley M Johnston Interchange (from) Dean Gilchrist Morton Plymin Spencer Valenti Yze Zomer PORT MELBOURNE B Thomas Livingston S Brewer HB McGrath Baird Pleming C Spriggs Cain Dwyer HF B Nixon Pitt Nahas F Cotchett Bonaddio Smith Followers McLaren Pinwill McMahon Interchange (from) Dalton Dillon Martin Mullins Pearce Robbins Schultz Sutcliffe Edit: Deletion of MFC players in the final team v Sydney

Sandy loses another player for its cut throat game v Port Melbourne - "Nathan Carroll - Sandringham Guilty of Charging - 1 Match Suspension* *Denotes player opted for the prescribed automatic penalty" The Zebras are limited to 12 players against Port who are a stand alone club but might struggle to get that number of fit Demons into the side. Michael Newton and Ricky Petterd are due for a recall from the Sandy reserves who had 5 Demons in their line up at Casey. The other three were Isaac Weetra, Jake Spencer and Tom McNamara.

I think they have the best players right this time Jaded but it should be noted that the team played well below its usual standards so getting in the best players today doesn't mean a great deal. I'll have more to say in my report which I'll try to get written up tomorrow.

A very much undermanned Sandringham side started well but was outgunned by the Casey Scorpions out at Casey Fields to lose by 32 points in what ended as a disappointing afternoon for the club. Daniel Bell and Shane Valenti were the best performers from the Demon pojnt of view and Kyle Cheney put in a very encouraging effort. As stated elsewhere, Nathan Carroll was booked for charging his opponent in the third quarter. Sandringham 3.2.20 4.4.28 6.11.47 8.11.59 Casey Scorpions 2.2.14 5.3.33 8.5.53 14.7.91 Goals Sandringham Biddlecombe Valenti 2 Buckley Crowe Dean Zomer Casey Scorpions Allen 4 Armitage Rix 2 Fisher Howard Matthews Panozza Parker Waite Best Sandringham Biddlecombe Bell Valenti Summers Cheney Crowe Casey Scorpions Armitage Silvagni Rix Matthews Panozza Allen The Reserves had a comfortable victory after a 10 goal final quarter in a game that saw Michael Newton come back from a string of injuries that have hampered his season to date. He booted four goals. Ricky Petterd, also on the comeback trail, was best on the ground in his second game at this level - both against the Scorpions in consecutive weeks. Sandringham 1.2.8 7.8.50 9.10.64 19.14.128 Casey Scorpions 3.2.20 4.4.28 8.8.56 9.10.64 Goals Sandringham Lockwood 5 Newton 4 Cleeve Monaghan 2 Kondarovskis B Liddell Petterd Sargent Summons Weetra Casey Scorpions Mercoulia 3 Galvin 2 Fridman Leung Mohr Williams Best Sandringham Petterd Monaghan McNamara Newton Lockwood Hardiman Casey Scorpions Galvin Mercoulia Youle Terry Fridman Crespin

CASEY SCORPIONS v SANDRINGHAM Saturday 14th June Casey Fields at 1:10pm (ABC TV) CASEY SCORPIONS Backs Taylor Silvagni Miles Half backs Steven Wall Garrubba Centreline L Fisher Birss Matthews Half forwards Howard Rix Dunne Forwards McDonald Allen C Gardiner Followers McEvoy Eddy Armitage Interchange (from) Fiora Glavin Mercoulia O'Bryan Panozza Parker Vernon Waite SANDRINGHAM Backs Biddlecombe Lamb Gilchrist Half backs Buckley Martin C Liddell Centreline T Johnston Summers Cheney Half forwards Carroll Crowe Whelan Forwards Zomer Jamar Waller Followers Meesen Valenti M Johnston Interchange (from) Bell Cleeve Dean Gribbin B Liddell Lockwood McConnell McNamara Martyn Monaghan Plymin Weetra Sandy missing Addam Maric and no Ezra Poyas. Also Michael Newton still not over his injury?

Video Highlights of last Sunday's Sandringham v Collingwood game can be seen here on VFL FOOTY with early goals from Mark Jamar, Addam Maric and Trent Zomer but not before the police helicopter arrives with the match ball as part of a fundraiser for cancer patients. To assist with your viewing, here are the Sandringham player numbers for that game: 1. Rennie Gilchrist 3. Guy Martyn 7. Shane Valenti 8. Rod Crowe 10. Peter Summers 12. Ezra Poyas 13. Stefan Martin 14. Marc Johnston 16. Andy Biddlecombe 20. Chris Lamb 23. Jarrod Plymin 33. Chad Liddell 34. Isaac Weetra 38. Addam Maric 40. Mark Jamar 41. Nathan Carrroll 44. Trent Zomer 48. Kyle Cheney 49. John Meesen 65. Chris Johnson 66. Simon Buckley 79. Matthew Whelan

Wheels certainly did kick one when he drifted out of defence but he's definitely a backman and probably a bit stiff to miss out on the 150 Heroes at that! He played well today and should be back in the AFL next week. Sandringham 5.2.32 7.5.47 9.11.65 11.13.79 Collingwood 2.1.13 4.7.31 5.8.38 6.13.49 Goals Sandringham Zomer 3 Liddell Maric 2 Jamar C Johnson Poyas Whelan Collingwood Iles 2 Anthony Carmody McCarthy Yaman Best Sandringham C Johnson Whelan Martin Jamar Biddlecombe Valenti Collingwood Iles Pendlebury Crow Stanley Carmody Anthony Reported Sandringham S Valenti (San) for wrestling D Nicholls (Coll) in the 1st quarter Collingwood D Nicholls (Coll) for wrestling S Valenti (San) in the 1st quarter