Sat 23rd Feb - Practice match

Dale61 · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:16 pm

There is a VFL practice match scheduled against Geelong at Skilled on Saturday week (23rd)

With the AFL team heading Albany the same weekend, it could be the only chance to see all the players vying for a spot on the VFL list.

The game starts at midday.

Dave The Man · Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:11 pm

Who's in the Pies VFL Side?

hermerl · Joined: 05 Jun 2007

Anybody know the time of the practice match at geelong 23/2/08

Dale61 · Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 12:16 pm

Read the last line of the first post!

hermerl · Joined: 05 Jun 2007

Thank you

Dale61 · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:34 pm

I left Skilled about 8 minutes into the last quarter, with a stacked Collingwood side 22 goals in front.

Didak, Cloke, Fraser, O'Bree, O'Brien, H.Shaw, Clarke, Lockyer and Wakes all had a run, so the Geelong team, made up mostly by local league players due to a lot of regular players being in Canberra, were no match.

The two questions being asked at the ground were:
A/. Is Geelong this bad, and
B/. Can Collingwood improve much?

The answer to both those questions is NO.

John Wren · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 2:56 pm

shit, for some reason i only thought the vfl squad was gonna be playing, did not realise the others you listed were there.

how was harry looking? thanks for the update.

hermerl · Joined: 05 Jun 2007

Dale61 · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 3:31 pm

I reckon Tim Walsh would have kicked a lazy dozen, Cloke kicked a handful of behinds and a couple out on the full (he's ready to go!), Didak needs to stop taking on the man and dish out the handpass - if he keeps that shit up he will get noticed by the umpires, but for all the wrong reasons.

The Geelong supporters around me commented that #1 (listed on the team sheet as Leon Davis) was the splitting image of Kent Butcher.

The scouts certainly won't be clamouring around for Liam Jarrah's signature. He may have been tearing it up in intra-club games, but was played in defence and was soundly beaten on a number of occasions. He does have sure hands and started to settle later in the game.

Nigel Carmody should have stayed at Casey - enough said!

Saad Saad took a lot of backward steps, so needs to grow a set if he wants to make an impression. You're not in Seymour now.

The Dimmatina name continues on at Lexus, and that's all that Nick has got going for him (which is not a good thing).

Justin Crow was hardly seen, but did take a strong grab in the third quarter and kicked truly, something Travis has still yet to comprehend.

Josh started in the ruck, and for those who insist that he's not an AFL ruckman, he's not a VFL one either. Got beaten by an AFL rookie.

For such a dominant victory, it wasn't a very impressive game. Take out Didak, O'Brien, O'Bree, Clarke, Lockyer, Fraser, Cloke, H.Shaw, and to a lesser extent, Wakelin, and replace them with 2nd and 3rd tier players, the team will drop four or five notches.

die4pies · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:34 pm

http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=41732

~Madness~ · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 6:42 pm

I must have been at a different game than you dale. lol.

It was so good to be able to get close up and personal with those players, i got some great pics, as you could have to d4p. I got a ripper of didak in the rooms, but me and my useless bloody dark shots all too blurry. Got some other good ones too.

Was so good to be able to thrash a team, practice match or not, i was impressed. I have a new "seconds" hero. Frosty!!!!!

Dave The Man · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:03 pm

Didaksgoal · Joined: 12 Mar 2004

What was the final score out of interest?

Dave The Man · Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2008 7:08 pm

Here are some Pics of the Scoreboard:

http://www.vflfooty.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=21189#21189

Piethagoras' Theorem · the hypotenuse, is always a cakewalk Joined: 29 May 2006

So I take it the game in Albany was only a practice match and the one down at Geelong was a ''fantastic win for the club, gee we're lookin good'' type of game?