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Rising Star - R10Brendon Grech - RupertswoodBrendon Grech from Rupertswood is the R 10 Rising Star.Brendon played his juniors at Gisborne Rookies football club in theRiddell District Football League.Brendon has played at Rupertswood since 2009 where he startedin the under 19s, playing 17 games while kicking 23 goals in U19Premier. He quickly stood out in 2010 playing 8 games for the seniorswhilst only being 18, he also spent half the year in the U18s includingtheir premiership win over Oakleigh whilst being Best on for the daywhilst also coming fourth in the league best and fairest that year.Brendon has become a regular in 2011 playing all ten matches for theseniors and being named in the best 5 times whilst kicking 11 goals.Congratulations to Brendon.To be eligible for the weekly award, players must be born on or after 1 July1989 and must not have played a full season of VAFA senior football priorto 2011. All players born on or after 1 July 1991 are eligible, regardless ofprevious experience.CYAN SPORTING IMAGESaction shotsteam photosgrand final posterswww.cyansportingimages.com.auGARRY SPARKE 0409 007 888THE AMATEUR FOOTBALLER 2011 17
Big V RecollectionsBy Simon LethleanDuring the period 1998-2002, the Big V playednine or ten times against against the Ovens &Murray League, South Australian Amateurs, andVictorian Country Football League. There weresome standout moments both on the field and offthe field that stick in our memories. They can besummarised best as followed:“It’s Showtime” – In the pre-season of 1998at Waverley Park, before a Foster’s Cup matchagainst the winner of the Victorian CountryChampionships – the very strong Ovens & MurrayLeague. In the pre-match, which was the jewel inNick Bourke’s coaching crown (he was renownedfor his emotive orations), just as he was reachinghis crescendo, he turned to Old Xavs centre halfforward Adam Jones, pointed at him and as ked“Wow, do you know what time it is?”. With thehuddle of 21 players hanging on Adam’s response,the room fell silent. Wow, knowing he wasn’t reallysupposed to respond, didn’t, and Nick chimedin on cue with “It’s Showtime!” With that, Wowand Jason Taylor burst out laughing, somewhatquelling the response from the group. It tooksome of us a few moments of the warm up to getover that episode, but we soon settled and wenton to win that match in the dying stages for theVAFA.The Hatfield Years – The years 1998- 2000 werethe golden era of Glen Hatfield, a time when wasat the very peak of his powers. Hatty was a regularRep fixture and was the VAFA’s hard man in theeyes of our opponents – a reputation Glen happilyadopted. Against Vic Country at Skilled Stadium, Iwas set to play half back on Stuart Anderson, whohad won a premiership with North Melbourne in1996. He was fit, in good form and was going tobe handful. I’m not sure if Hatty had set himselfto kill him or not, but he certainly hadn’t toldanyone about it. His intentions became prettyclear, pretty quickly. At the first bounce, I hadthe token arm across the far bigger and far moreoiled arm of Anderson and I looked over at Hattywho was scuffing his foot on the wing like a bullin Pamplona. He looked completely off tap andcompletely out of control. I wasn’t going to getin his way in the middle for the first bounce. Theball was bounced, possibly off centre by Gibbo,and Anderson rushed in to compete. I held backas a nice, safe release player for a feed backfrom Flea Mahoney or some other such tougherplayer than I. Hatty came in at 100 miles an hourand completely blind sided Anderson who wasleft motionless on the deck. The game stopped,Anderson was removed from the arena, Hatty wassmiling like a contented assassin … and the VCFLwent on to smash us by about seventy points, withme finishing at full back on Simon Goosey who didas he pleased!Humey’s Shorts – Can’t remember the game, butat half time, we were preparing to run back out.My teammate and work colleague at the time –Stephen Hume of Old Scotch – jumped in front ofme and I noticed that he had his guernsey tuckedinto not only his shorts, but also into his beigebike pants, which had ridden up half way up hisjumper number. I pointed it out to Andrew Dillonwho agreed it was best we just let Stephen headout . . . good to see we were focussed. Stephen hasnever really forgiven either of us for this incident.Rambo - Andrew Ramsden was a constant throughthese years too. How he is still playing today isbeyond me, and it’s a credit to him that he’s stillinvolved in Premier Section and kicking bags likehe did last week. Rambo’s off-field highlights reelwas full on the 1998 trip to SA. Not only did helive up to his nickname by allegedly becoming18 THE AMATEUR FOOTBALLER 2011
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