VAFA ROUND 2.indd - Victorian Amateur Football Association

CLUB XVIII
Norm Nugent
SAME
AGAIN?
The season opened with many one sided match
results, which may prove telling or may just prove
to have been an opening Round aberration. Let us
hope the latter is the true interpretation.
Right from the start, Old Xaverians and Old
Melburnians stamped their class on Section
One and a second successive Grand Final clash
seemingly awaits them. The Xaverians were eighty
one point winners over University Blacks, who
finished third last year. Old Melburnians gave Old
Ivanhoe a torrid time as the “Hoes” returned to the
competition. With victory by 25 goals, the Old
Melburnians certainly built percentage.
The closest game of the round was that where
Prahran/ Assumption, despite inaccurate kicking,
defeated Monash Blues by nineteen points. De La
Salle went to ladder leadership with a one hundred
point win over St Bernard’s, whose Season started
miserably.
Up North, early matches were no assistance to
either Old Paradians or Therry Penola as each
suffered a heavy defeat at the hands of a 2010
Finalist. Banyule, with David Witchell kicking 6
goals, won at Bundoora by forty three points
while at Oak Park, Fitzroy finished fifty eight points
ahead.
A powerful, Old Carey overcame all Richmond
Central opposition to win by eighty nine points.
For Carey, Callum O’Brien starred with 6 goals.
Ivanhoe started well with the wind to lead
Williamstown CYMS by ten points at quarter time.
Unfortunately for the newcomers, they managed
only four more scores as Williamstown took
control and won in a canter by eighty six points.
In the afternoon match, North Old Boys/ St
Patrick’s had a convincing sixty three point win
over the inaccurate University High School/ V.U.T.
Down South, inaccuracy cost AJAX dearly as their
game against Mazenod was lost by twenty two
points after a very even contest.
Old Geelong made Club XVIII history through
their sixty eight point defeat of Richmond Central
because for the first time ever they head a ladder.
Ormond accounted for the inaccurate newcomers,
Hawthorn by fifty points.
Ormond forward, Metz, with seven majors actually
outscored Hawthorn by himself!!
TODAY
Old Ivanhoe can expect another torrid encounter
against Old Xaverians, who should take the four
points despite the strangeness of Chelsworth Park
to most of its players.
In another afternoon game, Old Melburnians
should continue on their winning way by
accounting for Prahran/ Assumption.
Monash Blues make their “Great Trek” to play St
Bernard’s who surely will offer more resistance at
home than they did away in Round 1. Nevertheless
Monash should take the points.
Although I expect University Blacks to show
improved form today when they meet leaders, De
La Salle, I believe the visitors will win comfortably.
Two of last week’s big winners, Banyule and Old
Carey meet at Banyule in a morning match. My
“mail” tells me that Banyule will field a stronger
side than that which won last week. Conversely I
am told Carey will lose several of last week’s stars
to Premier Reserves. Therefore I select Banyule to
win again.
North Old Boys/ St Patrick’s should make it two
wins in a row by defeating Ivanhoe on the Gillon
Oval, where I suspect the lack of running fitness of
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