SAAFL Div 7 & 7R (2009)

[Browny25]

thats why you play cricket!!

I'd come up for sat night though!

[The Ash Man]

The camps are great fun. Get up there on Friday, have a feed and a couple of beers, I think most of us watched a NAB Cup match in our cabins this year. Saturday is when the hard stuff begins, but breakfast and lunch is all catered for. We get flogged for the day, then go out for a pub meal that night and hit the Crown until the wee hours. Bit of a swim Sunday morning and then we're off back home.

The old Cabbage pre-season camp
Does he still do the run from the caravan park up The Bluff and back?
About 10km from memory

[The Riddler]

We had our last training for the year last Thursday. Although we didn't end up training because of the rain and just had beers and a bbq instead. Numbers have been good.

We officially start Jan 13th. WIll be an interesting preseason with a few different things planned, including a camp at Vic Harbour again. Looking forward to it all.

Good to hear...We hit our Pre Season January 6th, boys are keen as mustard to turn the club around and with some new faces amongst the group hopefully this will refresh the vibe.

Gotta admit i've enjoyed the time off since last season but i've missed the footy....still tossing up the idea of a Pre Season camp, we may just play a trial game against a country side instead.

[Bigshow82]

When are the clubs heading back to training in the new year? Quichey how has your pre xmas numbers been looking? Bigshow you've been quiet lately, show your cards mate just playing with ya.

Hahahaha... We have our final training session for the year on Monday night which will be followed by a good session at the bar. I beleive we are starting back on the 5th. From then we will start training 2 nights a week Mondays and Wednesdays.

[S Demon]

The camps are great fun. Get up there on Friday, have a feed and a couple of beers, I think most of us watched a NAB Cup match in our cabins this year. Saturday is when the hard stuff begins, but breakfast and lunch is all catered for. We get flogged for the day, then go out for a pub meal that night and hit the Crown until the wee hours. Bit of a swim Sunday morning and then we're off back home.

The old Cabbage pre-season camp
Does he still do the run from the caravan park up The Bluff and back?
About 10km from memory

Back when I was still playing cricket!! What a shame i missed them. Heard all about how tough it was though...

[hazza11]

But i wanna play against Houghten!

I guess you'll just have to wait. Hopefully we earn our spot back into Div 6 next year and we'll see ya in 2010.

So from what I've been told Houghton have nominated for Div 7?? And the reasoning behind that?

From the outside it probably seems like an odd decision. But with Starry gone, Dow needing surgery on his hand and not available to play, and with Dwyer, Fish, Penn and Ballatori all uncertain to play next year, that's six of our top A Graders missing from a team that finished last this year. We might be able to fill a couple of those holes, but it wouldn't be enough to keep us from getting spanked every week. Hopefully we can have a more successful year in 2009, keep the morale high and give us something to build on.

Ballatori I believe is the guy who has or did have dreadlocks? Reminded me of John Butler Trio, back a couple of yrs ago!
Good player and if I remember correctly kicked 6 against us in a final a few years ago and all 6 were on me haha oh dear!
Penn will also be a big miss, hard tough player

[Q.]

The camps are great fun. Get up there on Friday, have a feed and a couple of beers, I think most of us watched a NAB Cup match in our cabins this year. Saturday is when the hard stuff begins, but breakfast and lunch is all catered for. We get flogged for the day, then go out for a pub meal that night and hit the Crown until the wee hours. Bit of a swim Sunday morning and then we're off back home.

The old Cabbage pre-season camp
Does he still do the run from the caravan park up The Bluff and back?
About 10km from memory

Yep, still does that run. Kept telling us we'd be so knackered after the day that we wouldn't make it past midnight at the Crown. I said "You're not at Hope Valley anymore!"

[Q.]

From the outside it probably seems like an odd decision. But with Starry gone, Dow needing surgery on his hand and not available to play, and with Dwyer, Fish, Penn and Ballatori all uncertain to play next year, that's six of our top A Graders missing from a team that finished last this year. We might be able to fill a couple of those holes, but it wouldn't be enough to keep us from getting spanked every week. Hopefully we can have a more successful year in 2009, keep the morale high and give us something to build on.

Ballatori I believe is the guy who has or did have dreadlocks? Reminded me of John Butler Trio, back a couple of yrs ago!
Good player and if I remember correctly kicked 6 against us in a final a few years ago and all 6 were on me haha oh dear!
Penn will also be a big miss, hard tough player

Yeah that's him, still has those stinky dreads. Never fails to mention that final and how one of his goals was given to Starry by accident.

Hopefully we can convince Penners to not have a rest this year, we'll need him.

[Cougar]

Word has it, Roger James will be taking the St.Pauls lads for one or two training sessions next season. Has connections with a couple of the St.Pauls lads who are ex Brookers.

[Bradman]

Word has it, Roger James will be taking the St.Pauls lads for one or two training sessions next season. Has connections with a couple of the St.Pauls lads who are ex Brookers.

why would they want him when they have G Riddle?????

[Cougar]

Word has it, Roger James will be taking the St.Pauls lads for one or two training sessions next season. Has connections with a couple of the St.Pauls lads who are ex Brookers.

why would they want him when they have G Riddle?????

He must be going there to pick up some coaching tips from G.Riddle.

[Bradman]

Word has it, Roger James will be taking the St.Pauls lads for one or two training sessions next season. Has connections with a couple of the St.Pauls lads who are ex Brookers.

why would they want him when they have G Riddle?????

He must be going there to pick up some coaching tips from G.Riddle.

Thats more like it

[S Demon]

The camps are great fun. Get up there on Friday, have a feed and a couple of beers, I think most of us watched a NAB Cup match in our cabins this year. Saturday is when the hard stuff begins, but breakfast and lunch is all catered for. We get flogged for the day, then go out for a pub meal that night and hit the Crown until the wee hours. Bit of a swim Sunday morning and then we're off back home.

The old Cabbage pre-season camp
Does he still do the run from the caravan park up The Bluff and back?
About 10km from memory

Yep, still does that run. Kept telling us we'd be so knackered after the day that we wouldn't make it past midnight at the Crown. I said "You're not at Hope Valley anymore!"

and we said, "thank god for that!" we prefer to go UP divisions, not down...

[Q.]

The camps are great fun. Get up there on Friday, have a feed and a couple of beers, I think most of us watched a NAB Cup match in our cabins this year. Saturday is when the hard stuff begins, but breakfast and lunch is all catered for. We get flogged for the day, then go out for a pub meal that night and hit the Crown until the wee hours. Bit of a swim Sunday morning and then we're off back home.

The old Cabbage pre-season camp
Does he still do the run from the caravan park up The Bluff and back?
About 10km from memory

Yep, still does that run. Kept telling us we'd be so knackered after the day that we wouldn't make it past midnight at the Crown. I said "You're not at Hope Valley anymore!"

and we said, "thank god for that!" we prefer to go UP divisions, not down...

Did ya? I don't remember you being there...

[04 Premiership Coach]

Has anyone heard anything out of the Ovingham camp?All I've heard is that they aren't getting too many out on the track.I guess that's no surprise given that they didn't even send out letters to inform players when pre-season was starting.You need to do a bit better than that if you want to be competitive in Div 7!

[carey18]

Where,s Bubbla, he was telling us all how good they were going to be and all these players and stuff like that. Come in Bubbla

[gothebombers]

well i guess they all said ovies will self destruct but i suppose they won the gf so well see if they are good enough to play in a better comp and not self destruct....are you playing on carey or are you going to greenies

[carey18]

Mate i think u have got me mixed up with Shaun. He goes on here as carey. Im 38 mate and staying at Paralowie. Greenies hey, ill add that to the other 7 clubs ive heard he is going to

[gothebombers]

yeah sounds like greenies are prob going to buy out all the other players going around and buy that elusive premiership...

[The Riddler]

Word has it, Roger James will be taking the St.Pauls lads for one or two training sessions next season. Has connections with a couple of the St.Pauls lads who are ex Brookers.

Your sources are on the money Cougar....Roger will be taking the Saints for a couple sessions next year, his knowledge and presence will help the lads immensely.