Coburg vs Frankston, Sunday April 18

[WA Tiger]

Agree, from all reports Contin should be playing for Coburg and why is Griffiths playing for the ressies as well?? Is he that underdone??

[mightytiges]

Griffiths is at least understandable in some ways as he missed a lot of footy last year in the TAC Cup due to his crook shoulder. So in his case it would be about getting runs into his legs and building up match fitness gradually. Contin on the other hand makes no sense to me. His body-type is fairly solid for his age so playing open-age footy shouldn't be an issue and 29 possies last week shows he is too good for VFL Ressies level. He needs to be test and develop at VFL senior level. He seems to be being punished because he is rookie-listed. Why couldn't one of the "naughty boys" pay for their misdemeanour in the Coburg ressies allowing Contin the needed gametime in the Coburg seniors. Roberts is another rookie who has gone straight from Richmond down to Coburg ressies.

[Danog]

At least Roberts is named in both sides.

[mightytiges]

At least Roberts is named in both sides.

Usually that means they'll play in the ressies and are only an emergency for the seniors.

[one-eyed]

A guessimate of the Coburg seniors side with 12 RFC players......


B:  Webberley     McGuane      Polo

HB:  Carnell        Gourdis       Clifton

C:  Thomson        Foley         King

HF:  Cousins        Polak      Piuselli

F:   Browne   Dennis           Nahas

R:  Graham    S. Power      Kahlefeldt

Int (from): Rayson, Fahey, Morgan, Lucin, Lawton*, M. Smith

[one-eyed]

I couldn't find this on the web so I scanned it in.....


Tiger back ... in VFL twos
By Michael Warner
Sat 17 April 2010, Page 40

OUT of favour Tiger Jordan McMahon has been named to play in the VFL reserves for Coburg.

Richmond football operations manager Ross Monaghan said McMahon was returning from injury and was unlikely to play in the Coburg seniors against Frankston tomorrow.

"Things haven't been completely finalised, but he's missed a little bit of footy and training and playing against Frankston we've got the 12-team rule. So we're restricted to 12 players -- and the 12 who play will have to be 100 per cent fit,'' Monaghan said.

"And at the moment we are in the fortunate position that we only have two injuries on our list -- Will Thursfield and Chris Newman.''

McMahon, 26, has been selected on the wing in the reserves team, but was named as one of several possible bench players on the senior list.

VFL rules allow for only 12 AFL-listed players to play against stand-alone teams.

A crowd of up to 5000 is expected at Frankston Oval tomorrow, with Ben Cousins to play only his second VFL game since joining the Tigers. Suspended Tigers Daniel Connors, Dean Polo and Luke McGuane also will play.

Richmond will blood first-gamers David Astbury, Matt Dea and Troy Taylor in tomorrow's clash with Melbourne at the MCG.

[jackstar is back again]

Richmond must have a stand alone reserves team.
This is a joke.
Paying a player $330,000 a year to play at Coburg 2nds  .
15,000 a game

[Ramps]

Richmond must have a stand alone reserves team.
This is a joke.
Paying a player $330,000 a year to play at Coburg 2nds  .
15,000 a game

We all want our own reserves but the club thinks otherwise. The club needs to find a way to progress Contin and Gourdis onto the senior list ASAP.

[Danog]

Jack, I'm pretty sure the AFL have banned all clubs that don't have their own reserves team from starting one up for a few years.  I have no idea why, but I remember reading it somewhere last year.

[tigersalive]

Richmond must have a stand alone reserves team.
This is a joke.
Paying a player $330,000 a year to play at Coburg 2nds  .
15,000 a game

Would you prefer he was playing at the MCG tomorrow afternoon?    

Where McMahon is, is where he belongs.  Biding his time until he is cut.

[one-eyed]

2010 VFL Reserves

Frankston         0.1   1.1    4.7     6.10 (46)
Coburg Tigers   7.3  13.8  21.10  27.14 (176)

GOALS:
Frankston: Alanis 2 Mitchell  Marotta  Wise  Anwyl
Coburg Tigers: Jordon 6 Westhoff 5 Hicks 3 Griffiths 3 Cattapan 2 Bisetto 2 Duhau  McMahon  El Houli  Grimes  Ezard  Warren

BEST:
Frankston: Bateman Cole Wise Cottrell Anwyl Williams
Coburg Tigers: Jordon Hicks Pope Cattapan McMahon O'Rielly

[one-eyed]

Coburg seniors losing to Frankston though   


2010 VFL Seniors

Frankston        4.6  8.8  12.8-80
Coburg Tigers   1.2  3.5  8.7-55

[one-eyed]

Came back strong in the last but all too late and just fell short 


Frankston   15.11-101
Coburg       15.7-97

[jackstar is back again]

Coburg seniors losing to Frankston though   


2010 VFL Seniors

Frankston        4.6  8.8  12.8-80
Coburg Tigers   1.2  3.5  8.7-55

Thats a joke

[Danog]

Wow, 7 goals in the last.