From the Williamstown Football Club
The memories you've made Ben Jolley. You will never be forgotten!
| Williamstown 2008-2018 & 2023
| 306 VFL games (record holder)
| 2015 Williamstown Premiership Captain
| 233 Games for Williamstown
| Multiple B&F’s
| Multiple VFL Team of the Year
Make sure you check out another great episode of VFL rewind, this week featuring special guests as part of the games record breaking Special
Gary Ayres, Andy Collins, Adam Marcon and Nick Meese as well as an interview with Ben Jolley himself.
From FoxSports.com.au
Michael Gibbons was once again overlooked by all AFL clubs. Photo: Mike Owen/AFL Media/Getty Images.Source: Getty Images
What more does Michael Gibbons need to do to get onto an AFL list?
The Williamstown VFL player is a dual JJ Liston Trophy winner (VFL Best & Fairest Winner) at just 23 years of age, but continues to be snubbed by AFL clubs.
Former Melbourne and Sydney coach Paul Roos told Fox Footy’s On The Couch in August that Gibbons was worthy of a spot on an AFL list and could help struggling clubs down the bottom of the ladder.
The three-time VFL Team of the Year winner also won the 2015 Norm Goss Medal as the best player in the VFL Grand Final.
“Now Micky Gibbons is now playing for Williamstown in the VFL, he was as standout young kid that played I think two years in the Rams (NSW-ACT) program as a bottom-age kid and played as a top-age kid.
From the Star Weekly
Reported by Lance Jenkinson
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The VFL premiership defence is over for Williamstown.
And the all-west VFL grand final that footy fans in this neck of the woods had dreamed of for 24 hours is a non-starter.
The Seagulls were beaten at their own game, receiving a lesson in hard, physical and disciplined football from the Casey Scorpions in a 42-point preliminary final loss at North Port Oval on Sunday.
Williamstown was on the back foot from the outset.
The Seagulls conceded the opening four goals of the game to go into quarter-time with a 29-point deficit.
In true Seagulls fashion, they never went away and turned the game into an arm wrestle.
But they could not erode the deficit on the scoreboard, which was always comfortably in the Scorpions’ favour.
The Scorpions put a lot of work into limiting the Seagulls’ “big three” midfielders – Liston Trophy winner Michael Gibbons, captain Ben Jolley and Willie Wheeler.
Gibbons had a target on his back and was often the recipient of a bit of extra oomph from the Scorpions tackles.
Caleb Hislop was another of the Seagull midfielders to be hit with brute force on multiple occasions.
That David Fahey and Ben Bese were two of the Seagulls’ best says plenty about the dominance of the Scorpions in key areas of the ground.
Fahey and Bese never stopped trying and saved the scoreboard from being a blow out.
The grand final loss brought to an end an up and down finals series for Williamstown.
The Seagulls started their September campaign with a miserable 46-point loss to Collingwood.
They backed that up with a dominant 46-point win over Sandringham and then fizzled out with the heavy loss to the Scorpions.
Meanwhile, the Box Hill Hawks took out the AFL Victoria Development League premiership after a 105-point win over Casey Scorpions in the grand final at North Port Oval on Sunday.
From www.localfooty.com.au
Reported by Paul Amy
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THE conditions were miserable. It was cold, a biting breeze blew to the Williamstown Rd end of North Port Oval, the ground was heavy with water and in some places thick with mud, and there was on-and-off rain.
