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Attacking defender Roach makes welcome return

By Robbo June 08, 2007
From Ballarat Courier

ATTACKING defender Tom Roach is back for North Ballarat's big assignment against Williamstown in the Victorian Football League at Williamstown on Sunday.

Roach has missed the Selkirk Roosters' past two matches after dislocating a collarbone against Port Melbourne on May 12.

The Victoria-Western Australia clash between those home and away fixtures provided Roach with an extra week to recover.

Roach was in season-best form when injured.

Ruckman Orren Stephenson is also among eight inclusions in an expanded line-up named last night.

Stephenson missed North Ballarat's gripping win over Sandringham on Saturday after failing to recover from a groin strain.

Roosters coach Gerard FitzGerald has also included Kangaroos trio Blake Grima, Shannon Watt and Matt Campbell, AFL rookie Ben Hughes, Steve Clifton and Matt Sharkey.

Grima, Watt and Campbell have been named by the Kangaroos on an expanded interchange for their clash with St Kilda on Sunday along with Ed Lower and Eddie Sansbury, who are also in the Roosters team.

Lower has been in season-best touch for North Ballarat and promotion would be a fitting reward for the youngster.

Slug on Devils

By Robbo June 08, 2007
From The Mercury
Reported by James Bresnehan

TASMANIA is facing a sharp increase in its VFL licence fee next season whether or not the Devils are a stand-alone team.

AFL Victoria plans to hit the Devils' hip pocket by upping their licence, which is already the VFL's most expensive.

That means an increase on Tasmania's $85,000 aligned licence fee, thanks to its partnership with the Kangaroos.

Or the non-aligned licence fee of $35,000, which the Devils would revert to if the alignment ends as expected at the end of the season.

But instead of paying more, AFL Tasmania wants its slice of the VFL pie.

"Next year will be our eighth season in the competition, so I would think after such a long time we ought to get the same deal as everyone else," AFL Tasmania's general manager Scott Wade said yesterday.

Stand-alone VFL clubs Frankston and Port Melbourne get a $140,000 "incentive" grant from AFL Victoria each year.

North Ballarat, which also has a partial alignment with the Kangaroos, gets $70,000 -- half the incentive grant.

TRUenergy VFL Fixture Amendments - Round 15

By Robbo June 07, 2007
The TRUenergy Victorian Football League advise of the following amendment to the VFL Round 15 games, Coburg Tigers vs. Box Hill Hawks and Tasmania vs. Frankston, due to ABC TV broadcasting commitments, as documented below:-

1. Coburg Tigers vs. Box Hill Hawks has been rescheduled from 1.10pm to 2.00pm. The linking curtain raiser match has also been rescheduled accordingly, from 10.20am to 11.10am. The match remains on Saturday 21st July at Coburg City Oval.

2. Tasmania vs. Frankston has been rescheduled from 2.00pm to 1.10pm on Saturday 21st July at Bellerive Oval and will now be broadcast live on ABC TV.

Ramanauskas joins party as Coburg crashes

By Robbo June 04, 2007
From Herald Sun
Reported by Geoff Poulter

ADAM Ramanauskas and old Essendon mates Chris Heffernan and Scott Camporeale helped the Bendigo Bombers burst the Coburg Tigers' bubble with a resounding 52-point home win yesterday.

With Jason Cloke kicking four goals, the Bombers belied their ladder position - Coburg had won six straight and was six rungs higher than the ninth-placed Bombers before yesterday's game.

With Richmond emergencies Chris Hyde (beaten by Cloke) and Jack Riewoldt (two goals) having quiet afternoons, Bendigo again showed it was an improving outfit in its 19.10 (124) to 10.12 (72) triumph, coming on the back of a strong win at Frankston in the previous round.

The Bombers led by only 20 points at halftime but cleared out in the second half, kicking 4.1 to 0.5 in the third term and six goals to four in the last.

Bombers at home in Bendigo

By Robbo June 04, 2007
From The Age
Reported by Sean Cusick

BENDIGO ended Coburg's unbeaten five-match run, hammering the Tigers by 52 points in their first home match since August last season.

The Bombers clearly relished the return to their home turf at Queen Elizabeth Oval, Bendigo, after drought conditions forced the transfer of their previous home fixtures to Windy Hill.

Coburg kicked the first three goals and looked set to shoot as high as second on the ladder with another strong win on the road.

But after Bendigo wrested back control in a tight first half, it destroyed the Tigers in the second half, kicking 10 goals to four, with Kepler Bradley (12 marks and two goals) providing a focal point, while Courtney Johns played another exceptional game in his experiment at the centre half-back.

Cressa blasts critics

By Robbo June 04, 2007
From The Mercury
Reported by Brett Stubbs

DEVILS coach Daryn Cresswell has hit back angrily at Port Melbourne president Peter Saultry, who advised the Tasmanian VFL side to cut its partial alignment with the Kangaroos.

Saultry said in Saturday's Mercury Port was like a new club after cutting its ties with the Kangaroos at the end of 2005.

"I think he (Saultry) should stick to running his own footy club and not worry about ours," Cresswell said.

"I thought the Kangaroos players were terrific (against Port Melbourne) and I have got nothing but praise for our involvement with the Kangaroos and the way they have gone about things in the way they have structured things with players coming down.

"I challenged the players coming down and today they stood up, every one of them."

Cresswell had the Mercury article pinned up on the white board in the changerooms prior to Saturday's 26-point loss to Port Melbourne in front of 1825 fans at Bellerive, with Saultry's comments highlighted and under a headline of "Everybody Read!"

Roosters run over reigning premier

By Robbo June 04, 2007
From Ballarat Courier

THE emotion shown by coach Gerard FitzGerald demonstrated just how much defeating Victorian Football League reigning premier Sandringham meant to North Ballarat at AUSTAR Arena on Saturday.

FitzGerald rushed to his players - addressing and embracing them.

And then with misty eyes, stood back and applauded his young outfit as it left the ground.

FitzGerald said the 35-point win over the previously unbeaten Sandringham meant the competition held no fears for the Selkirk Roosters.

"This has opened up the year (for us)."

Up until the 18.15 (123) to Sandringham 13.10 (88) triumph, seventh-placed North Ballarat had struggled against teams at the business end of the ladder with losses to Geelong (top), Coburg (fourth) and Northern Bullants (sixth).

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