Round 15 – Jimma and Essendon
Turning our attention to this weeks’ game against the Bombers, a team that has had the wood on us over the past few years (but then again hasn’t every team?) we should look to the game with optimism. If there was ever a time Essendon are ripe for the taking it is now and a fast start and similar commitment shown for 3 quarters last week for the whole game should see us come home with the 4 points. Add this to the emotive interview with Big Jimma on the footy show last night (if that doesn’t inspire the boys then I don’t know what will) and I can see us chalking up a win.
There are some key changes this week with Grimes unfortunately missing with his hamstring and Spencer out with a back injury. But the big news is the return of the excitement machine LJ! LJ certainly provides that ‘X’ factor and to see him line up with Watts in the forward line will be worth the admission alone.
The team
Melbourne team
B: Jamie Bennell, Jared Rivers, Clint Bartram
HB: Col Garland, James Frawley, Tom Scully
C: Nathan Jones, Jack Trengove, Brad Green
HF: Lynden Dunn, Jack Watts, Cameron Bruce
F: Colin Sylvia, Matthew Bate, Jordie McKenzie
FOLL: Mark Jamar, Brent Moloney, Aaron Davey
I/C: Joel Macdonald, Kyle Cheney, Paul Johnson, Liam Jurrah
EMG: Rohan Bail, Addam Maric, Neville Jetta
In: Johnson, Sylvia, Jurrah
Media Coverage
TV
The game will NOT be telecast live this weekend.
Round 14
This week we turn to the game this Sunday, this time against a team that systematically tore apart the raging flag favourites last Friday night. Any sane person would predict this game to be a whitewash but sanity doesn’t always prevail in demonland. Our performances against the top 4 sides this year have been more than admirable and with some luck (and FAST STARTS) we would have won more than we have lost against them. So which Melbourne side will turn up????……who knows but let’s hope that we go in hard, show commitment and get a FAST START!!.
Coming into the team this week are Jamie Bennell and Kyle Cheney who are both named in the starting 18 and Jake Spencer and Addam Maric who are named on the interchange bench. Joel Macdonald, Tom Scully, Jordie McKenzie, Brad Miller and Matthew Warnock complete the extended interchange bench. Great to see Cheney get a chance to play his first game for 2010 after he played 12 matches in 2009. Cheney has been consistently named in the best for Casey Scorpions in the VFL competition. And also great to see Jared Rivers playing his 100th AFL match. After a bright start to his career including the Rising Star in 2004, Rivers has had to overcome a debilitating injury to again become an integral part of our defense and a member of the leadership group!
The team
Melbourne team
B: Clint Bartram, James Frawley, Kyle Cheney
HB: Colin Garland, Jared Rivers, Jack Grimes
C: Brad Green, Jack Trengove, Cameron Bruce
HF: Jamie Bennell, Matthew Bate, Lynden Dunn
F: Neville Jetta, Jack Watts, Aaron Davey
FOLL: Mark Jamar, Brent Moloney, Nathan Jones
I/C (from): Joel Macdonald, Tom Scully, Jordie McKenzie, Jake Spencer, Brad Miller, Matthew Warnock, Addam Maric
In: Cheney, Bennell, Spencer, Maric
Out: Morton
Media Coverage
TV
The game will be telecast live on Fox Sports at 4.30pm on Sunday 4 July. Join other Demons supporters and watch the game on the Big Screen at the Camelia Grove Hotel, 146 Henderson Rd, Alexandria. Ph:02 9516 5611 Check out websites www.nswdemons.com and www.thecammy.com.au for more information.
As always enjoy your weekend and Go Dees.
Sally
Round 13
Last week
You know it is funny sometimes that no matter how many things change some things seem to stay the same. Slow starts to game…..tick! Smashed at AAMI stadium…..tick! Last weeks’ game was so disappointing on both these fronts……probably up there with the Eagles game as the most disappointing game this year. So what can we say about last weeks’ game??? Surely nobody was surprised that after the Jamar/Moloney Psychic Friends Connection had been talked up so much over the last fortnight that Adelaide would subject Beamer to a smothering tag and we were much worse for it. Surely opposition coaches were sitting on their couch going “ahh, there’s an idea”, and his future is to be tagged relentlessly for the rest of the season! And for the rest of the game HOW MANY PLAYERS FELL OVER!!……I know they like to protect their feet but why on earth they weren’t wearing stops after it had been raining for days in Adelaide is beyond me.
Now for 5 positives from the game:
1. Bate and Dunn both can hold their collective heads high for solid performances up front
2. Grimes, Scully and Trengove showed great commitment and courage and set the standard for the rest of the team
3. Frawley again played a great game and was one of very few players that beat his opponent on the day
4. Watts continues to show improvement each and every week
5. We now only have to play 1 more game at AAMI stadium this year.
Round 12 – Queen’s Birthday Draw!
Highlights of the Queen’s Birthday game against Collinwood included:
• The defensive work of Clint Bartram (kept Leon Davis to 9 disposals), and Lynden Dunn (kept Heath Shaw to 12 disposals);
• The never stop efforts of Brent Moloney and Mark Jamar including the latter’s post game interview;
• Garland, Rivers and Morton finding form;
• Once again the sublime skills of Aaron Davey especially in the last quarter; and
• We more than matched it with Collinwood to deservedly come away with a draw!
Round 12
Last week:
Jordan Gysberts demonstrated in only his 2nd game and for the 2nd week in a row that he will be a dynamic addition to the Dees on ball brigade. Captain Junior McDonald was once again a model of consistency along with Cameron Bruce who plays a sublimely skilled game that is easily overlooked. And while consistency is not yet there across the playing group, each week we see the players improve as they get to know each other and how they play the game. Patience is a virtue!
This week:
Cale Morton and Matthew Bate will continue to improve as they play more games after returning from injury. We welcome Frawley back into the team this week along with Jordie McKenzie, Lynden Dunn and Paul Johnson. I am looking forward to seeing McKenzie join Scully, Trengove and Gysberts (if fit) in the dream midfield rotation and Dunn replicate, in the AFL, his stunning form at Casey – 8 goals last week! Unfortunately Junior will miss with a hamstring injury and we will miss his onfield leadership. Injury clouds over a few players including Jones, Sylvia and Gysberts make it difficult to know who will make up the final 22 on Monday. Three players will be omitted from the extended bench that includes Garland, Morton, Gysberts, Jones, Watts, Johnson and Bennell.
I am going to Melbourne for this traditional match and will enjoy watching the Dees take on Collingwood after walking with thousands of other Melbourne supporters from Federation Square to the ‘G’. See you there.
Melbourne team:
B: Bartram, Warnock, Frawley
HB: Bruce, Rivers, Grimes
C: Sylvia, Trengove, Scully
HF: Jetta, Bate, Dunn
F: Green, Miller, Davey
F: Jamar, Moloney, McKenzie
I/C (from): Garland, Morton, Gysberts, Jones, Watts, Johnson, Bennell
In: Johnson, Dunn, Frawley, McKenzie
Out: McDonald (Hamstring)
Media Coverage:
TV
The game will be telecast on Channel Ten on Monday at 2.00pm on Monday 14th June. Join other Demons supporters and watch the game on the Big Screen at the Camelia Grove Hotel, 146 Henderson Rd, Alexandria. Ph:02 9516 5611 Check out www.thecammy.com.au for more information.
As always enjoy your weekend and Go Dees.
Sally
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