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Ricky Petterd kicked a goal in his comeback game from injury with the Zebra 2's : Sandringham 4.3.27 8.7.55 14.10.94 16.12.108 Casey Scorpions 3.1.19 6.6.42 8.10.58 13.15.93 Goals Sandringham Cleeve Lockwood Williams 3 Lyall 2 Cannon Hardiman Monaghan Petterd Shakaib Casey Scorpions Vernon Williams 3 Leung 2 Arezzolo Fridman Griffiths Haretuku Mercoulia Best Sandringham Hardiman Monaghan Shakaib Williams McConnell Fleming Casey Scorpions Galvin Williams Griffiths Mercoulia Vernon Waite

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Ricky Petterd makes his return through the Zebra reserves this week & good luck to him - he deserves a break! Sandringham v Casey Scorpions Trevor Barker Oval Sunday 8 June Reserves 10.20am Backs Eaton Curcio B Liddell Half backs Cheney Gribbin McConnell Centreline Williams Dean Monaghan Half forwards Petterd Zomer Hardiman Forwards Hine Cleeve Cannon Followers Shakaib Martyn Weetra Interchange (from) Fleming Kondarovskis Lyall McNamara Sargent Torcasio Please note that this week's reserve game will start early at 10.20 against Casey. The Seniors are up against Collingwood at the normal start time of 2pm.

Hopefully available tomorrow afternoon!

Sandringham vs. Collingwood Sunday 8th June Trevor Barker Beach Oval at 2:00 PM Sandringham Backs Biddlecombe Carroll Whelan Half backs Lamb Martin Valenti Centreline Yze Summers T Johnston Half forwards Tregear Crowe C Johnson Forwards Meesen Holland Maric Followers Jamar Poyas Buckley Interchange (from) Bartram Bell Cheney Gilchrist M Johnston C Liddell McConnell Martyn Plymin Rivers Waller Zomer Collingwood Backs Thoolen Anthony Dyas Half backs Egan Cox Maxwell Centreline Wellingham Johnson Iles Half forwards MacAffer Reid Barham Forwards Wood Dawes Cook Followers Bryan McCarthy Stanley Interchange (from) Carmody Casey-Leigh Colbert Crow G Dick Oldmeadow Sundburg Walsh Yaman

Sad for those with dual loyalties. The St. Kilda side of things has been confirmed - AFL Victoria Chief Executive Officer Peter Schwab today confirmed that AFL Victoria has sanctioned an alignment agreement from 2009 between the Sandringham Football Club and the St Kilda Football Club for the next five years. This agreement has been made taking into consideration a number of elements including Melbourne’s proposed move to Casey Fields. Schwab said the alignment change was a strategic move for the future growth and success of the VFL and the game generally. “The VFL has been evolving since its major restructure at the end of 1999,” Schwab said. “The VFL’s strong foundation has made it possible for changes in alignment to take place. “These are not spur of the moment decisions. They are well-thought through strategies for the betterment of both the VFL and AFL clubs and Victorian football generally.” As a result of this move by Sandringham, Melbourne will now need to determine where their position in the VFL lies, be it stand alone or a new alignment with one of the now four stand-alone VFL clubs; Tasmania, Casey Scorpions, Port Melbourne and Frankston.

Sandringham started slowly today against the Carlton aligned Bullants but with Nick Sautner in the goals again, they drew away in the second quarter and ran out easy winners by 45 points. Sandringham 3.6.24 7.10.52 12.12.84 15.15.105 Northern Bullants 4.2.26 5.6.36 7.9.51 8.12.60 Goals Sandringham Sautner 7 Summers Sylvia 2 Bode Dunn Meesen Tregear Northern Bullants Benjamin Colbert 2 Armfield Boundy Mercuri Teague Best Sandringham Yze C Johnson Lamb Waller Tregear Sautner Northern Bullants Saddington Anderson Vansittart Colbert Iacobucci Lappin Reported Players C Ackland (Northern Bullants) for allegedly striking A Biddlecombe (Sandringham) in the 1st quarter. M Austin (Northern Bullants) for striking N Sautner (Sandringham) in the 3rd quarter. Reserves Sandringham 2.1.13 9.2.56 19.6.120 22.10.142 Northern Bullants 1.3.9 2.4.16 2.7.19 3.11.29 Goals Sandringham Hardiman Williams 4 McConnell Martyn Summons Weetra Zomer 2 Dean Eaton Gribbin Lyall Northern Bullants O'hAilpin Lawless Macula Best Sandringham Martyn Williams Monaghan Liddell Hardiman Weetra Northern Bullants Davies Blackwell Dennis Taylor Lawless Williams

SANDRINGHAM v NORTHERN BULLANTS Sunday 25th May Trevor Barker Beach Oval at 2:00pm (Seniors) SANDRINGHAM SENIORS Backs C Johnson Lamb Biddlecombe Half backs Buckley Martin Whelan Centreline T Johnston Summers Waller Half forwards Dunn Crowe Yze Forwards Sylvia Sautner Tregear Followers Jamar C Liddell Poyas Interchange (from) Bode Cheney Frawley Gilchrist Holland M Johnston Meesen Monaghan Plymin Spencer Valenti Zomer NORTHERN BULLANTS Backs Saddington Austin J Vansittart Half backs Anderson Spiteri Armfield Centreline Joseph Pfeiffer Lappin Half forwards Benjamin Colbert Hartlett Forwards Bransgrove Boundy Teague Followers Ackland Iacobucci Ellard Interchange (from) D Davies Hill Jacobs Mercuri Morgan A. O'hAilpin Shields Totino No Maric? Trevor Barker Beach Oval at 11:10pm (Reserves) SANDRINGHAM RESERVES Backs Cheney Curcio McNamara Half backs B Liddell Gribbin Monaghan Centreline McConnell Dean Williams Half forwards Eaton Zomer Hardiman Forwards Weetra Summons Lyall Followers Spencer Lockwood Martyn Interchange (from) Cannon Cleeve Gravina Kondarovskis Sargent Shakaib Teasdale

Sandringham's performance against the Tassie Devils on their own patch was fantastic. I couldn't make it down myself but it's obvious that a 25 goal victory is something to behold. The Zebras had only 9 MFC listed players with the club taking all three emergencies over to Adelaide for the game against the Crows. The Demons in the side were - Lynden Dunn Ben Holland Chris Johnson Addam Maric Stefan Martin John Meesen Jake Spencer Matthew Whelan Adem Yze As far as the animosity in some quarters towards Nick Sautner, it defies logic. Sandringham is a club in its own right and anyone who can finish up with 10.6 from 18 shots and 12 marks deserves his spot at full forward (even if there were a few academy award performances thrown in during the game).

Nobody. They have a bye.

TASMANIA v SANDRINGHAM Saturday 17th May Aurora Stadium (AFL C/R) at 10:15am TASMANIA Backs Creese Savage S Plummer Half backs Vearing Richter Thurley Centreline Long Setchell George Half forwards Gilmour Hardy Geappen Forwards Shackleton Cornelius Bongetti Followers T Plummer Street Charlesworth Interchange (from) A Bielski Bowden Burgess Cassidy Cox Hazell Langford Smith SANDRINGHAM Backs Gilchrist Lamb Biddlecombe Half backs Yze Martin C Johnson Centreline Poyas Dunn T Johnston Half forwards Tregear Crowe Monaghan Forwards Maric Sautner Holland Followers Meesen Summers M Johnston Interchange (from) Plymin Spencer Waller Whelan NOTE: As Tasmania is a stand alone side the 12:10 rule applies and Sandringham is restricted to a maximum of 12 Melbourne listed players. Five Sandringham players have made the VFL state squad although I'm not sure that Shane Valenti now qualifies as he is on Melbourne's senior list:- Rod Crowe Ezra Poyas Nicholas Sautner Peter Summers Shane Valenti

I agree with those sentiments - a disappointing day for the club and a very lacklustre performance from the seniors who were outclassed by the home side. The Zebras lost it in the first quarter when they couldn't handle the breeze and were outscored even though they were kicking to what should have been the scoring end. After conceding three early goals in the second term Sandy fought back but a goal from a free on the siren was costly. In the third quarter the Zebs came at Willi again and got to within a goal before a rally of three late goals put them back in control. The Seagulls were great in the last quarter and ended up winning by 64 points after kicking 10 of the last 11 goals of the game. PJ was very good and Simon Buckley flashed in out of the game with some nice passages of play. Matty Whelan was off early (also not sure of the injury) and Adem Yze did not play. Williamstown 3.1 19 8.6.54 12.10.82 19.16.130 Sandringham 1.4.10 3.6.24 8.10.58 9.12.66 Goals Wlliamstown Little Skipper Rose 3 Ward 2 Galea Harbrow Johnson McDougall O'Keefe Ray Stretton Urch Sandringham Maric Sautner Summers 2 Buckley Crowe Johnson Best Williamstown Jolley Ward Street Skipper Harbrow Meyer Sandringham Biddlecombe Summers Crowe Buckley Valenti Holland The reserves were in the hunt until the main break of their top of the table clash but were unsighted after half time. Williamstown 7.1.49 13.4.82 20.10.130 29.13.187 Sandringham 7.1.49 12.5 77 12.8 .80 12.10.82 Goals Williamstown Cook 8 Chiu O'Shea 3 Keddell 2 Mulligan Reid 2 Cravino Dullard Jenkins Lynch Lyons McKenzie White Wood Young Sandringham Cleeve Zomer 3 Gilchrist 2 Eaton Lyall McConnell Vickers Best Williamstown Cook Langlands Cravino Reid Grossman White Sandringham Monaghan Johnston Gilchrist Plymin Cleeve B Liddell

It's actually Chris Waller, he isn't fat and to the best of my knowledge doesn't perform jazz. Waller is a utility from Beaumaris who trained pre season with Richmond. He made his senior debut for Sandy in the televised game v Bendigo Bombers and impressed with two goals. McNamara and Zomer are developing well in the reserves but are still a fair way off senior selection with the Zebras and probably will not get many senior games unless injuries intervene. Likewise Weetra who seem to be a fixture in the reserves now after a promising pre season and a couple of early games with Melbourne. The reserves team is now available:- WILLIAMSTOWN v SANDRINGHAM RESERVES Sunday 11th May Burbank Oval at 11:10 AM FREE Admission to all spectators. Sandringham Backs B Liddell Curcio Martyn Half backs Plymin Gribbin McNamara Centreline Monaghan Dean McConnell Half forwards Lyall Zomer Gilchrist Forwards Weetra Cleeve Lockwood Followers Shakaib M Johnston Cheney Interchange from Eaton Gravina Hardiman Kondarovskis Sargent Spencer Vickers Williams BTW - neither Chris Johnson nor Juice Newton are shown on the latest injury list at the melbournefc site - David Neitz - Neck - Long-term injury list Jack Grimes - Back - Long-term injury list Paul Johnson - Hand - Test Colin Sylvia - Hamstring - 2-3 weeks Ricky Petterd - Groin - 3-4 weeks

WILLIAMSTOWN v SANDRINGHAM Sunday 11th May Burbank Oval at 2:00 PM FREE Admission to all spectators. Williamstown Backs Rose Williams Meyer Half backs Ward McDougall Ray Centreline Cloke Bre Johnson Everitt Half forwards Urch Skipper Grant Forwards Jolley Galea O'Keefe Followers Street Picken Harbrow Interchange (from) Beaumont Cook Greene Little Lockwood McKenzie Stack Stretton Sandringham Backs Biddlecombe Lamb Whelan Half backs Buckley Martin Bode Centreline Yze Poyas T Johnston Half forwards Waller Holland Crowe Forwards Maric Sautner Tregear Followers P Johnson Summers Valenti Interchange (from) Cheney Dunn M Johnston Martyn C Liddell Meesen Monaghan Spencer Missing from the side is Michael "Juice" Newton - apparently injured at training. Chris Johnson who played well in the Zebras' last game is also out.

It's Williamstown's home ground and one of the first parts of Melbourne that was setttled in the 1830's.

In case anybody's wondering, there is no Sandringham game this week as the Zebras have a bye in the split round. Next week they take on Williamstown (Sunday, 11 May) at Point Gellibrand in a big clash and there will be free admission for all spectators.

Sandringham 10.4.64 12.5.77 22.12.154 24.15.159 Bendigo Bombers 2.2.14 5.4.34 8.7.55 13.11.89 Goals Sandringham Holland Sautner 4 Tregear 3 Bate T Johnston Liddell Waller Yze 2 Bode Maric Poyas Bendigo Bombers Daniher 4 Williams 2 Coghlam Crameri Dick Hartigan Holmes Johnson Skipworth Best Sandringham Summers Valenti Crowe C Johnson Bode Liddell Bendigo Bombers Daniher Chartres Skipworth Hislop Atkinson Holmes Reserves Sandringham 3.4.22 11.6.78 15.13.103 21.15.141 Bendigo Bombers 1.1.7 3.2.20 5.5.35 8.9.57 Goals Sandringham Eaton Zomer 4 Monaghan Weetra 2 cleeve Hardiman Lockwood Lyall McConnell McNamara Plymin Shakaib Vickers Bendigo Bombers Ford Stroobants 2 Davies Granger Mathieson Thomson Best Sandringham Dean M Johnston Monaghan McConnell Plymin Lockwood Bendigo Bombers Weeks Wanganeen Granger Ayton Ford Stroobants

Suspended for a week.

Sandringham v Bendigo Bombers Saturday 26th April Trevor Barker Beach Oval (ABC TV) at 1:10 PM Sandringham * Backs Bode Martin Cheney Half Backs C Johnson Lamb Buckley Centreline Yze Summers T Johnston Half Forwards Poyas Crowe Tregear Forwards Holland Sautner Maric Followers Spencer Bate Valenti Interchange C Liddell Martyn Meesen Waller * updated Bendigo Bombers Backs Chartres Flaherty Atkinson Half Backs Dempsey Daniher Hislop Centreline Crameri Skipworth Peverill Half Forwards Hartigan Neagle Lovett-Murray Forwards Holmes Hooker Dick Followers Bellchambers Johnson Myers Interchange (from) Bowe Bristow Coghlan Davies Fahour Geary Magin Williams Reserves Cleeve Curcio Dean Eaton Gilchrist Gribbin Hardiman Johnston Kondarovskis B Liddell Lockwood Lyall McConnell McNamara Monaghan Plymin Sargent Shakaib Vickers Weetra Williams Zomer

Two very good wins today for the Zebras with Sautner and Poyas starring Box Hill Hawks 1.3.9 3.4.22 5.8.38 11.10.76 Sandringham 8.3.51 17.9.111 21.10.136 25.14.164 Goals Box Hill Hawks Morton 3 McGlynn 2 Dowler Gibson Morrell Neville Renouf Stokes Sandringham Sautner 9 Poyas 5 Holland Newton Tregear Summers 2 Crowe Liddell Yze Best Box Hill Hawks McGlynn Renouf Kennedy McQueen-Miscamble Kenna Morton Sandringham Garland Sautner Poyas Lamb Yze Warnock Reported Sandringham M Newton for striking B McGlynn in the fourth quarter Reserves Box Hill Hawks 4.3.27 7.7.49 11.10.76 16.13.109 Sandringham 5.1.31 9.3.57 17.7.109 20.13.133 Goals Box Hill Hawks Neil 4 Hill 3 Daniher Dell Aquilla 2 Angelopoulos Fieschi Suckling Smithwick Wright Sandringham Hardiman Martyn Zomer 3 Dean Lyall Waller 2 Cheney Gilchrist Monaghan Lockwood Monaghan Plymin Best Box Hill Hawks Cross Daniher Neil McEntee Angelopoulos Dell Aquilla Sandringham Johnston Waller B Liddell Monaghan Cheney Martyn

Box Hill Hawks vs. Sandringham Sunday 20th April Box Hill City Oval at 2:00 PM Box Hill Hawks Backs Whitecross McQueen-Miscamble Markovic Half Backs Bull Kennedy Batsanis Centreline Kenna Neville Morton Half Forwards Dowler Morrell Gibson Forwards Grima Thorp Stokes Followers Renouf McGlynn Moss Interchange (from) Cross S Daniher Hunter Marcius O'Sullivan Pedersen Papaluca Shore Sandringham Backs Garland Lamb Warnock Half Backs Frawley Holland Buckley Centreline Moloney Summers Bode Half Forwards Poyas Crowe Maric Forwards Tregear Sautner Liddell Followers Martin Valenti Yze Interchange (from) Bate C Johnson T Johnston Meesen Newton Spencer Sandringham Reserves Cheney Kyle Cleeve Stuart Curcio Michael Dean Thomas Gilchrist Rennie Gribbin Daniel Hardiman Maddison Jake Williams Johnston Marc Liddell Brett Lockwood Scott Lyall Nicholas Martyn Guy McConnell Andrew McNamara Tom Monaghan Sam Plymin Jarrod Summons Justin Vickers Jack Waller Chris Weetra Isaac Zomer Trent

This was one of Sandy's poorest games for a long time. Frankston won becasuse of its intensity, desire for the ball and willingness to play as a team. There were 12 AFL listed players in the Sandringham team while the visitors were a no name team that was willing to put in and get the hard ball. Very few players put their hands up to play against Carlton. Maric and Moloney were the better of the Demons with a nice performance by Jake Spencer especially after Stef Martin went off injured early in the game. Matthew Bate played in the reserves and had 32 possessions including 14 in the first quarter in a 14 goal winning team.

Yes.

Watch out for Stuart Cleeve if he happens to get a run in the Zebra seniors. He was very impressive in the twos last week.

He might mean well but despite the name, I want to make it clear that we are unrelated. Sorry, I mean we is unrelated.