Elimination Final - Frankston V Coburg

Frankston 5-4-34 10-6-66 16-10-106 20-13-133 Coburg Tigers 1-0-6 5-2-32 8-2-50 13-4-82 Scorers: [b]Frankston:[/b] Edwards 9.3, Mariglini 3.0, Burns, Murphy 2.0, Kennedy, Krakouer 1.1, Benbow, Winterton 1.0, Berry 0.3, Phibbs, Conroy, Clarke 0.1, RUSHED 0.2 [b]Coburg Tigers:[/b] Limbach 4.2, Rodan 2.1, Rimington, Hughes 2.0, Kuret, Huy, Humm 1.0, Randello 0.1 Best Players: [b]Frankston:[/b] Edwards, Eames, Kennedy, Marigliani, Rebeschini, Benbow [b]Coburg Tigers:[/b] Humm, Neville, Young, Simpson, Huy, Carnell [b]Crowd:[/b] About 4000 at Frankston A great crowd at Frankston saw I workmen like performance as the Dolphins won their 6th game in a row. Aaron Edwards was great with 9 goals which takes him 97 goals for the year which is a new club record for a season. Ashley Eames, Paul Kennedy and Marcus Marigliani were also good for the Dolphins. While for Coburg Jeremy Humm and Alister Neville tried hard all day. Next for the Dolphins is the Bullants next weekend at TEAC Oval. They lost to them by 17 points at Preston early in the season but anything is possible. [u][b]Reminder [/b][/u] Frankston play the Northern Bullants tomorrow in the Reserves Qualifying Final at TEAC Oval 10:20am start.

onslaught Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:15 pm Post subject: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edwards must surely be drafted. Who played on him today? A tall, or a quick ? He will kill most defenders with his speed on the lead. Edwards ended up having Jacob King play on him towards the end of the match. King is a small and was maybe used to go with Edwards on the lead, definately not strong enough 1 on 1. The loss of Ronaldson after a strong collision in a marking contest with Edwards hurt Coburg where they lacked quality tall defenders. Great performance in the last 6 weeks by the dolphins. They have matched up well with the Bullants recently so hopefully next weekend provides a great contest [/quote]

Edwards had 3 or 4 opponents over the day. Had King for most of the second and third quarters, and finished with Travis Jorgensen for the last quarter.

Well done to the Dolphins today on a very good win. Edwards was too strong and too good for whatever we had to throw at him. However I liked your description of the incidence where Ronaldson was injured as a "strong collison". If by strong collison you mean where one player grabs the neck of another player as he is coming down from a mark and slams him needlessly into the ground knocking him unconscious, then yes I agree with your description. It was the only blimp on a very good performance from Edwards and he is an absolute monty to get drafted next year.

Re: that edward/ronaldson collision: i have seen slow motion video footage of the incident and it just appears to be an unfortunate landing for him. edwards reaching from behind seems to have his hands on the ball on the way down, where his body weight may have contributed to the awkward landing. the players there may have a different version but the footage doesnt appear too damning .....

booga wrote:If by strong collison you mean where one player grabs the neck of another player as he is coming down from a mark and slams him needlessly into the ground knocking him unconscious, then yes I agree with your description.

Absolute rubbish. Its called a marking contest.

I haven't had the chance to review the footage, it was based purely on my first hand vision. If I was mistaken, happy to admit it. It looked like Edwards went to some effort to bring Ronaldson down when he was in mid air which I thought was ordinary. I certainly do not want to come across as a whinging Coburg supporter, just simply putting my view on the 1 thing I thought Edwards did wrong.

booga wrote:I haven't had the chance to review the footage,...............

Well don't go tossing incorrect allegations about then. It was a marking contest. I think you might find that whoever threw the punch at Edwards after that might find himself up before the tribunal. And as for not wanting to come across as a whinging Coburg supporter, well, you fail miserably.