VFL Games 2026

[rb4x]

Dattoli and Phillipou both very disappointing.

[dejavoodoo44]

Slightly strange votes this week, with Mellis getting maximum votes in a losing side.

10 Mitch Mellis (SYD)
4 Billy Cootee (SYD)
4 Josh Pollocks (RICH)
4 Harry Scott (RICH)
4 Kaleb Smith (RICH)
3 Mohammed Yassine (RICH)
1 Nicholas Collier (RICH)

[dejavoodoo44]

The team for the match against St Kilda at Tramway tomorrow. It looks a bit stronger than last week, with a few more AFL listed players. One interesting inclusion is James O'Loughlin, who is the son of Michael. He does have skills and goal sense, and he improved during his draft year, where he was probably a reasonable chance of being rookie listed. He was supposed to play this season as an overager, but I assume he was injured, because he only played the final game, where he bobbed up for three goals. Not sure why he's listed at half back?

B: H. Podmore-Taylor (62), P. Snell (41), K. Gibbs (70)
HB: N. Bowman (23), H. Cunningham (7), J. O'Loughlin (60)
C: J. Harrison (65), B. Cootee (25), J. Tidemann (57)
HF: J. Phillipou (18), T. Hanily (40), J. Sutton (54)
F: T. Ryan (64), M. Mellis (50), J. Hamling (29)
R: P. Ladhams (19), C. Warner (37), J. Dattoli (9)
INT: M. Geddes (61), N. Shipley (52), H. Cameron (69), C. Peters (53), K. Harbour (66)
23rd Player: J. O'Loughlin (60)
EMG: J. Callegari (59), B. Laws (55), N. Andreacchio (67)

IN: N. Bowman, H. Cameron, H. Cunningham, T. Hanily, P. Ladhams, J. O'Loughlin
OUT: N. Chamberlain (hamstring), A. Curry (unavailable), J. Longmire (unavailable), N. Andreacchio, J. Callegari, B. Laws (omitted)

[rb4x]

Great to see Bowman listed

[bandwagon]

So we have 10 AFL-listed players while St Kilda have 12. We are coming off 2 losses while they are on a run of three wins, but we are playing at home. Should be an entertaining match, I'm interested to see how Bowman goes.