Coburg vs Frankston, Sunday April 18

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VFL Round 2

Frankston Dolphins vs Coburg Tigers


Sunday, April 18 @ Frankston Oval

Reserves:  11am
Seniors:     2pm

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Cousins lines up with Tigers for Frankston clash
Simon McEvoy
Leader
April 14, 2010 12:36PM

The AFL star will line up with the Coburg Tigers against the Frankston Dolphins at Frankston Park, along with fellow banished Richmond players Daniel Connors, Dean Polo and Luke McGuane.

The phones have been running hot at Frankston Football Club over the past few days as fans seek confirmation that Cousins will be in action.

Dolphins officials are bracing themselves for a bumper crowd and have ordered twice the usual amount of beer and food.

"We’ve ordered a heap more," Dolphins coach Simon Goosey said.

"I reckon we’ll get a few thousand (people) here. Heaps have rung up."

Goosey said it was likely a young Frankston player - either Mark Baguley, Mitch Bosward or Michael Hibberd - would tag Cousins.

"We’ll treat him like any other player, but we’ll me mindful of him," Goosey said.

"No doubt he’ll run through the lines pretty well. We’ll probably have someone minding him."

Coburg Tigers will bring their own security to try to keep the estimated 5000-strong crowd at bay.

Both sides are looking for their first win.

Goosey said Sunday’s big crowd would create a “finals-type atmosphere” and be a good learning experience for his young side.

"We’ve just got to focus on what we have to do on the footy field and not get too caught up in the media circus," he said.

Meanwhile, former Port Adelaide star Brendon Lade will make a comeback to football in Frankston on Saturday.

He will line up with his new side, Karingal, in the opening round of MPNFL Peninsula league at Ballam Park.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/cousins-lines-up-with-tigers-for-frankston-clash/story-fn53khop-1225853602434

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Dolphins officials have ordered twice the usual amount of beer and food.

"We’ve ordered a heap more," Dolphins coach Simon Goosey said.

That's just a bad joke!  Cuz is off the grog and Connors is getting counselling.  Order less, not more!

[cub]

Same day as Richmond - Stupid decision - How are coaches and us supporters to a lesser extent supposed to monitor how our players are going. Would have liked to see this one. Just another reason we should have our own side.

Anyway re:the security issue - Good decision - I do know a couple of the Frankston Hill boys and it is all a bit of fun but some of them are nuffers who take it a bit far also. Be a good idea to have a few extra coppers on hand, just in case.

[Mr Magic]

What a circus.
If I read one more Ben Cousins article I think I am going to throw up.

[harry bosch]

Should pull him out of the side at the last minute just to annoy all those feral bogans , i doubt they would be happy at giving up a
day of foraging at the tip for nothing.

[tigersalive]

Same day as Richmond - Stupid decision - How are coaches and us supporters to a lesser extent supposed to monitor how our players are going. Would have liked to see this one. Just another reason we should have our own side.

And that would make a difference to the fixture how...?

[cub]

Thinking that if it was our team we could request it  ???
Do Skunks or Cats reserve games clash with seniors  ???

[WilliamPowell]

Thinking that if it was our team we could request it  ???
Do Skunks or Cats reserve games clash with seniors  ???

As Coburg are the AWAY team they have no say in the scheduling of the game. With the VFL the Home team requests the day to play on.

Even if we had our VFL team - we would still have no say as we would be the away team.

[cub]

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[sabartooth]

Should pull him out of the side at the last minute just to annoy all those feral bogans , i doubt they would be happy at giving up a
day of foraging at the tip for nothing.

whereby you could just stay at home, tip rat.   

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Coburg Tigers seniors squad

B:  Webberley     McGuane      Polo

HB:  Carnell        Gourdis       Clifton

C:  Thomson        Foley         King

HF:  Cousins        Polak        Hislop

F:   Roberts       Astbury       Nahas

R:  Vickery    S. Power    A. Collins

Int: Rayson, Fahey, Morgan, Piuselli, McMahon, Lucin, Lawton*, Kahlefeldt, Graham, Dennis, M. Smith, Browne



Coburg ressies squad

B:   Rayson      Fahey     Morris
HB:  McErlain    Bisetto    O'Rielly
C:  Measures    Duhau   McMahon
HF: Roberts    A. Meroli   Grimes
F:   Warren     Lawton      Hicks
R: Dahl    Contin    Lucin
Int: Saville, Sardo, El Houli, Pope, Kandilakis, Ezard, Jordon, Griffiths, Groves

[Danog]

Why is Contin playing in the reserves?! 

[Fishfinger]

Frankston are stand-alone so only 12 Richmond listed players can play in the seniors. 

[mightytiges]

Why is Contin playing in the reserves?! 

Agree Danog. It doesn't help his development playing 3rd grade footy when he at least should be playing in the VFL seniors.

The problem is as a rookie he misses out to senior listed RFC players even if they are duds with no future at Richmond beyond this year. I'd have Contin ahead of King and Thomson every day of the week.

18 RFC guys named in the squad. Take off 4 who'll end up on the Richmond bench plus McMahon and Roberts who are named in the ressies squad as well. That leaves the maximum of 12 FF mentioned.