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Two ex-Tigers have lost their job as senior coach.

Simon Eastaugh has been replaced by Andrew Jarman at Perth in the WAFL.

Justin Charles has been given the flick from Lilydale in the EFL according to a poster on bomberblitz.

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Norwood is chasing after Tom Roach

http://www.vflfooty.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=posting&mode=quote&p=29805

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Rye FC are chasing after Mark Chaffey.

Source: Mornington Peninsula Leader

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He was only on our rookie list....

Smash, Crash & Bang

That's the sound of breaking records.

Adrian Burgiel has smashed Neville Marchesi's 42 year old "1st Grade high score" record with a 265* run onslaught against Bundalaguah. Coming in at the fall of the first wicket in the tenth over when the score was 25, his mammoth innings helped take the score to 402. He accounted for 70% of the 377 runs scored while he was at the crease. 

Burgiel becomes the third 1st grade cricketer to score a first grade double century and the first to do so on turf.  Neville Marchesi and Laurie Stephenson both made hard wicket double centuries in the 1960's.

The breakdown of Adrian's scoring shots is as follows ...

5 x 6s = 30
20 x 4s = 80
15 x 3s = 45
36 x 2s = 72
38 x 1s = 38
Total      265 not out

http://www.smca.asn.au/

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RYE’S recruiting spree has delivered a genuine star to Rowley Reserve - stout-hearted former Richmond dasher Mark Chaffey.

The 30-year-old signed with the Demons last month and has already thrown himself into pre-season training.

“He’s looking really fit,” Rye coach Steve Ryan said.

“He’s pretty keen.”

Chaffey was a much-loved Tiger, playing 166 games with Richmond between 1997 and 2006.

He was known as a hard-running defender, but Ryan said he may play in the midfield with Rye.

“He’ll play probably on ball or across half back,” Ryan said.

“We could play him anywhere really. I’ll just wait and see how our team shapes up.”

http://mornington-peninsula-leader.whereilive.com.au/sport/story/pot-shots9/

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This isn't on the web so I typed it out...

Where are they now? - Brian "Whale" Roberts
By Rod Nicholson
Sunday Herald-Sun | 14 Dec 2008, Page S23

Rod Nicholson talks to former Richmond footballer, Brian "Whale" Roberts

THE MOMENT

During pre-season training in the 1970s, Roberts and teammate Robert McGhie dodged a run around the Botanic Gardens. Upon seeing coach Tommy Hafey approach, the Whale hid in bushes next to the duckpond and called out "quack, quack, quack".

THEN

"They were really tough days under Hafey. Blokes worked so hard they vomited. So every opportunity you got you beat the system," he said.

"There was only one light at Punt Rd Oval in those days (late 1960s and early 1970s), so I'd slide away and hide in the truck shed instead of doing laps.

"I've hitch-hiked a lift during a long run. I've hidden in bushes by the duck pond and joined in at the appropriate time when the boys came around for the second lap of running the tan.

"One day Hafey sent out (assistant coach) Col Saddington to force me to run hard the final mile. When he returned he told Tommy he couldn't find me. I was already back, pretending to be exhausted with tap water splashed over me to make it all look real. Hafey was furious. It didn't take him two seconds to work it out - that I had not passed Saddington but somehow had made it home!

"Summer training was brutal. We had December off but Tommy insisted we all return with three miles running in our legs every day. If Francis Bourke couldn't run one day, he'd do six miles the next. Everyone had to fill in a daily log book. When December 31 arrived, I hadn't run a yard. So I filled in the book: '100 miles, from Melbourne to Seymour and return - by car. Nice run it was too.' Boy, did I get punished for that!

"When I went to South Melbourne we were forced to lift bricks over our heads and do all sorts of ridiculous exercises with them. I found a couple of rubber bricks at my hotel and took them along. Everyone thought I was Mr Universe the way I did the exercises. I just put the rubber bricks back in my bag and took them back to the pub after each session."

BEYOND FOOTBALL

"A footballer is in the prime of his life and you must balance everything. If you are not having a good time then, when will you? You feel indestructible at that age. So we went to the pub after training. Socialising knitted the team together, not training or all that stuff they go on with today," he said.

"You wouldn't get me bungy jumping or climbing mountains or parachuting and that sort of stuff. I would get dizzy standing on a match box.

"We bonded with a beer and we would die for each other on the field. There has to be laughter and fun around a club. I'm not sure being a sprinter, a jumper, a parachute champ or a rock climbing mountain goat makes you a better team man."

NOW

"I'm out of the pub game now, having left the Duke of Wellington in the city. I've had some great times in pubs. I remember the day Carlton's Val Perovic drank 37 cans on Mad Monday after the Blues won the 1981 Grand Final," he said.

"And yes, I used to drink more than 50 six-ounce glasses of beer a day, with a record of 97. It wasn't easy being in seven shouts at the same time!

"I went overseas (to Europe) last year and I'm planning to go back next year, hopefully to watch some of the Ashes action.

"Otherwise I walk my dog down the beach every day and catch up with mates."

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Clay Sampson has officially taken over as coach of South Adelaide for 2009. He was caretaker coach this year after Souths sacked their coach midseason.

Garth Taylor was Swan Districts co-B&F winner.

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BONBEACH has emerged as a chance to pick up former Richmond and Melbourne forward Ben Holland.

The Sharks spoke with the 31-year-old recently. "We had a chat to him but he didn't know what he was going to do,'' Bonbeach president Jacky McLean.

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Where the 2008 delistees are heading to in 2009:

Tristian Cartledge - North Ballarat
Travis Casserly - Swan Districts
Clayton Collard - Peel Thunder
Cam Howat - Old Carey
Chris Hyde - Albury
Greg Tivendale - ROC

Aaron Fiora - East Ringwood .....  (a rare AFL signing this year for the EFL)
Ben Holland - undecided but linked to Bonbeach


Source: Inside Football

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Tim Fleming is captain of the Ammos side playing the bushfire charity game against the EFL. Cam Howat is playing for the Ammos as well. Matt Greig will be playing for the EFL.

Fleming said he crossed the border and played for South Adelaide in 2005 after he was axed by the Tigers and then went OS in 2006. He's been playing with Old Xavs since 2007.

He's been following our fortunes and thinks we've got a good list now to make the finals. He used "we" whenever he mentioned Richmond too.

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Mark Graham and Paul Dimittina have joined Andy Kellaway at Bentleigh FC in VAFA D3 grade.


Source: Moorabbin-Glen Eira Leader

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Former Richmond player Nick Daffy in Geelong for family support
Danny Lannen
May 1st, 2009


CLAN: Nick Daffy has added to the Geelong clan by bringing wife Brodie and children Shilah and Archie. Photo: TONY KERRIGAN


FORMER AFL player Nick Daffy has new designs for Geelong.

The Richmond game-breaker has shifted to the city with his hometown bride Brodie and is revelling in new opportunities to pursue family and business life.

"I couldn't talk it up enough," he said.
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Mt Gambier export Daffy, 35, married Geelong girl Brodie Skene-Haygarth and they have children Shilah, 1, and Archie, seven months.

Geelong is a meeting place for their clans.

"We needed a bit of support and family behind us so we decided to come up here," Daffy said.

"As a Mount Gambier boy it's nice to get back to, I guess, just a nice environment."

He will relish the proximity when he joins family celebrating the 100th birthday of his Geelong uncle Frank Daffy tomorrow.

Nick Daffy had prominent partnerships in a string of Melbourne hotels after his retirement from football but now has interest in only The Lounge in Docklands.

He is now mobilising his hospitality experience through his new business Venue Design Landscaping, which conceives, designs and executes makeovers for hotels and offices.

He said future schooling options for their children were a certain lure to Geelong and he sees so much going for the city including its location and property prices.

"And its beautiful bay, Corio Bay, is just sensational," he said.

Daffy was an ardent Geelong supporter before playing 165 games for Richmond and one for Sydney. He won the Tigers' best and fairest in 1998.

He said family had largely taken priority over football on weekends but he is helping out occasionally as an informal adviser with Geelong West, where his brother-in-law Hayden Skene plays, and he is following a mate playing with Newtown-Chilwell.

And old allegiances linger.

"I won't mind if Archie wants to barrack for Geelong," he said.

"I hope they do well. Well, they do anyway."

http://www.geelongadvertiser.com.au/article/2009/05/01/67161_news.html

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"I won't mind if Archie wants to barrack for Geelong," he said.

Says it all about him 

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"I won't mind if Archie wants to barrack for Geelong," he said.

If Archie becomes a F/S pick we'll have to re-convert him 

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Kyle Archibald and Craig Ednie were among Yarrawonga's best on the weekend. They play Chris Hyde's Albury next week in the O&MFL

Paddy Bowden kicked 5 goals for Balwyn in their loss to Lilydale.

Aaron Fiora was a "matchwinner" for East Ringwood in the victory over Matthew Greig's Vermont in the EFL.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/vermonts-flop-just-one-upset/2009/05/12/1241893982497.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1