Monash University
Whites Football
1964-1965; 1971 onwards
Victorian Amateur Football Association


BEYOND 2000



2009 RESULTS

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  • Round 7    30th May, 2009 at Gordon Barnard Reserve, North Balwyn
    Old Camberwell Grammarians 4.1 7.3 13.4 15.7.97
    Monash Blues 1.0 3.1 4.1 7.3.45

    Goals: O'Brien 2, Coughlin, West, Adamson, Speekman, Collier.
    Best:     Coughlin, Speekman, Costello, Riddle, Woods, Smibert.

    Match Report: So, as is always the case after a loss, the match report has been written up late, and with a little bit of a bitter taste in the author's mouth.

    I actually had written a really riveting piece in my head on the way home from the game but, given it was still before midday (almost) and we had just suffered a loss, the content may have been a little on the dejected, frustrated, annoyed, angry side of things. And as the old saying goes “Never e-mail/sms/phone angry”

    So I have taken a sit back this week and am now writing the match report with a clear head.

    The Monash Whites travelled out to Gordon Ramsey Reserve which was to seemingly become a freezing ‘Hells Kitchen’ for the boys from Clayton. An early morning start for the “students” of Monash was going to be tough, but assuming Old Camberwell also uphold the Club 18 tradition of ‘Friday Night Drinks’, both teams were probably in the same boat.

    Monash got off to the customary slow start, with Seb O the only Whites player seemingly switched on in the first few minutes. While some other players started to get into the action, the Grammers took the early lead and were never headed for the rest of the match.

    Poor decision making, disposal and tackling (three fairly important areas of any football side) were the order of the day, especially heading into the forward line, and unfortunately this also had the added issue of showing up the lack of defensive run from the Whites. The second quarter showed this off markedly, but the Whites were still only 4 goals down and not completely out of it at half time.

    The belief that this writer mentioned in the match report the week prior, needed to come to the fore in the third, and the boys knew it. Unfortunately, the talk at half time was just that, and the sloppy nature of the Whites game continued, and it seemed as if the team was chasing all day but never gaining anything. A 6.1 to 1.0 quarter saw the Whites lagging 9 goals down and virtually out of the game.

    Lucka stressed to the boys to take something out of the game, win the quarter. And so the boys did, not convincingly but still the final siren went and the team had won the quarter by 5 points.

    The Whites best players on the day were sparse, with Seb, Chuck, Roo, Ben, and Joey giving a good account of themselves.

    With this wake up call behind them, training was hard on Tuesday night, as the boys started on the road of working for each other yet again.

    As the Coach succinctly put it, “we just aren’t morning people”.

     

  • Other Results:  Old Brighton 24.16.160 v North Old Boys/St Patrick's 1.8.14; University Blacks 16.11.107 v Whitefriars OC 10.8.68; Fitzroy 17.13.115 v Mazenod OC 7.6.48; Old Trinity 5.6.36 v Marcellin OC 7.7.49.

 

ROUND SEVEN
CLUB XVIII (2) SECTION
  W L D For Agst % Pts
University Blacks 7 0 - 754 275 274.2 28
Marcellin Old Collegians 6 1 - 585 417 140.3 24
Monash Blues 5 2 - 510 494 103.2 20
Old Camberwell Grammarians 4 3 - 603 482 125.1 16
Old Brighton Grammarians1 3 4 - 519 379 136.9 12
Whitefriars Old Collegians 2 5 - 476 639 74.5 8
Old Trinity Grammarians 2 5 - 410 597 68.7 8
Fitzroy 2 5 - 441 668 66.0 8
Mazenod Old Collegians 2 5 - 371 599 61.9 8
North Old Boys/St Patrick's 2 5 - 361 594 60.8 8
1 Ineligible player Round 1 v Old Trinity

 

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