Adelaide Plains Football League

[Dizzee Rascal]

Cyril, come catch up with us, we've got ciders and clearance forms!

i see u boys got up well done lads. mate it was frustrating out there. beauty of it was it was only the first game . we didnt have to many winners if any, thats for sure.

The difference was Mallala's willingness to work without the footy. Hamley were consistently outnumbered at the contest and then beaten on the spread. At times it looked like the magpies had extra men on the field, such was the willingness of their players to work to open space and provide multiple options for the ball carrier. Conversely, when HB had the ball in hand too often players were giving one lead and then stopping, therefore clogging space and forcing the kicker to go long up the line to a contest. As Cyrils said, it looked like a reliance on the big names to do the hard work and a lack of work rate both ways is what blew the margin out. That's what I took out of it as a spectator. Take nothing away from Mallala though, they were very good and exceptionally clean and disciplined, quite the trademark of a Lubcke coached side.

[FREO]

Hopefully some fireworks in the Mallala v Hamley game this week.
Rumours that Parish has had a few snipes at Greenwood, the handbag would want to hope Mal doesnt come after him Saturday. Would have money on the softy running in the opposite direction

Did Greenwood play? Noticed the "handbag" kicked a few and got in the best players yesterday. 18 goal flogging, the bombers have got some work to do by the looks.

[BoundaryRider84]

Hopefully some fireworks in the Mallala v Hamley game this week.
Rumours that Parish has had a few snipes at Greenwood, the handbag would want to hope Mal doesnt come after him Saturday. Would have money on the softy running in the opposite direction

Did Greenwood play? Noticed the "handbag" kicked a few and got in the best players yesterday. 18 goal flogging, the bombers have got some work to do by the looks.

Pumpa may have a little shiner this morning courtesy of Mr Greenwood

[FREO]

Hopefully some fireworks in the Mallala v Hamley game this week.
Rumours that Parish has had a few snipes at Greenwood, the handbag would want to hope Mal doesnt come after him Saturday. Would have money on the softy running in the opposite direction

Did Greenwood play? Noticed the "handbag" kicked a few and got in the best players yesterday. 18 goal flogging, the bombers have got some work to do by the looks.

Pumpa may have a little shiner this morning courtesy of Mr Greenwood

[magpieeagle]

Hopefully some fireworks in the Mallala v Hamley game this week.
Rumours that Parish has had a few snipes at Greenwood, the handbag would want to hope Mal doesnt come after him Saturday. Would have money on the softy running in the opposite direction

Did Greenwood play? Noticed the "handbag" kicked a few and got in the best players yesterday. 18 goal flogging, the bombers have got some work to do by the looks.

Pumpa may have a little shiner this morning courtesy of Mr Greenwood

eye looked quite normal last night,greenwood is a good player no doubt,but should maybe play footy instead of worrying about the shit,to me many played for themsevles,play as a team and they will be strong,was it a forsight or was wearing blackarm bands for a hamley lad above for some newbies,once in a club your part of that club,one told us by the boundry who gives a ratass,not real smart with releies near by.

[Kcco]

Anyone know how ciccolela did in his first game back??

[Nocyrils]

Cyril, come catch up with us, we've got ciders and clearance forms!

i see u boys got up well done lads. mate it was frustrating out there. beauty of it was it was only the first game . we didnt have to many winners if any, thats for sure.

The difference was Mallala's willingness to work without the footy. Hamley were consistently outnumbered at the contest and then beaten on the spread. At times it looked like the magpies had extra men on the field, such was the willingness of their players to work to open space and provide multiple options for the ball carrier. Conversely, when HB had the ball in hand too often players were giving one lead and then stopping, therefore clogging space and forcing the kicker to go long up the line to a contest. As Cyrils said, it looked like a reliance on the big names to do the hard work and a lack of work rate both ways is what blew the margin out. That's what I took out of it as a spectator. Take nothing away from Mallala though, they were very good and exceptionally clean and disciplined, quite the trademark of a Lubcke coached side.

hamley were def playing as individuals. i have no doubt we are a much better side.hamley had 18 blokes chasing the bloody footy , mallala would have a couple going in for the ball and pop it out and had loose blokes everywhere. like i have said, they are very well drilled side as two wells are. majority of there side have been playing alongside each other for 4-5 years. still there is no excuse for hamleys performance yesterday.

[barrys antz]

Anyone know how ciccolela did in his first game back??

By all reports played a good game but was very heavily tagged and target, but was told he still would've had 30 touches. 2nd best on sportingpulse

[hotspur]

Anyone know how ciccolela did in his first game back??

Despite the "attention" he got at times, was a class above the others on the field. Hummocks looked really good in places - was a close game apart from 15 minutes in 3rd term when United kicked 4 or 5.
The fact HWE kicked last 4 goals and were in complete control in the last 10 minutes may be a worry to United; just not enougfh time left.

[westy]

Cica did play well. Lost the plot when Brown went to him. Got real mouthy but was shut up real quick by united's goals. The tigers were 7 goals up with 10 minutes to play. The game was over so they tried some different blokes on ball. I guess you would call them junk time goals. 7 blokes to come in this week against Hamley. I have no doubt they will come out firing after getting their arse's handed to them by Mallala.

[The Big Shrek]

What about the other footballer with AFL experience? How'd he go in his return to the water tower?

[Ace of Spades]

What about the other footballer with AFL experience? How'd he go in his return to the water tower?

Lets just say Rundles 18 would've been a bit tight...

[last paper purse]

Hamley won't play as badly as they did against mallala again. They have some really good players and wouldn't be surprised to see them upset some more fancied sides throughout the year. Taylor was best in my eyes but didnt have to many helping him

[westy]

What about the other footballer with AFL experience? How'd he go in his return to the water tower?

Lets just say Rundles 18 would've been a bit tight...

big boy a.

[roodog]

I did sneak across to see Mallala v Hamley expecting a close result, but Dizzee and Cyrils have summed it up pretty well - Magpies worked harder for the footy. They ran into spots and the leads were honoured as team mates had confidence in each other. It was a classic case of a star team versus a team of stars.

[Kcco]

I did sneak across to see Mallala v Hamley expecting a close result, but Dizzee and Cyrils have summed it up pretty well - Magpies worked harder for the footy. They ran into spots and the leads were honoured as team mates had confidence in each other. It was a classic case of a star team versus a team of stars.

Well it will be interesting to see how Mallala goes this year against the teams that work for each other and don't rely just on their stars to win the footy. Mallala won't have the luxury of little pressure and lots of time against the better teams.

[roodog]

p.s. Interesting to note that the Bombers had to play FOUR under 18 players to meet the 15 point limit. This means that the colts are guaranteed selections, (nearly regardless of form) leaving 17 A grade spots available. I estimate 11 blokes are on dollars and would need to be in really bad form to be dropped, so that leaves only six spots available. Craig Young and Danny Ellis are definite starters so we are down to four.
SO - here's the scenario. The Bomber match committee is going to have make some hard decisions if an import falls out of form. The loss of a 3 point import allows the club to drop THREE colts and bring in four 'in form' reserves, (one to replace the injured/dropped import). Surely this would HAVE to strengthen the team, given that colts will fluctuate in form and an out of form import - regardless of reputation - is a liability.
What do other form users think?

[OnSong]

The unpredictable nature of the season again showed on the weekend, very few posters tipping all three winning teams. Hazbeen and Mythical Creature picked up five points, while leader, Nighthawk, snaffled four to cling to a one-point lead.
Hanno_7 and Half Back Flanker are yet to get one point from two rounds, which is laughable and we're all laughing at them. HAHAHAHA! Get it together lads!
I didn't receive tips from country nomad or ramsgate this week, I reckon, so they also got donuts.

[Nighthawk]

The informants article in the informer was worth the 2.50$ alone

[mighty hounds]

p.s. Interesting to note that the Bombers had to play FOUR under 18 players to meet the 15 point limit. This means that the colts are guaranteed selections, (nearly regardless of form) leaving 17 A grade spots available. I estimate 11 blokes are on dollars and would need to be in really bad form to be dropped, so that leaves only six spots available. Craig Young and Danny Ellis are definite starters so we are down to four.
SO - here's the scenario. The Bomber match committee is going to have make some hard decisions if an import falls out of form. The loss of a 3 point import allows the club to drop THREE colts and bring in four 'in form' reserves, (one to replace the injured/dropped import). Surely this would HAVE to strengthen the team, given that colts will fluctuate in form and an out of form import - regardless of reputation - is a liability.
What do other form users think?

Not bad for someone who just walked across the oval. I heard they used 22 points so the four colts would of put them to 18