VFL Round 14: Ainslie Tricolours v Sydney Swans Reserves

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NEAFL 2014 Round 14

Ainslie Tricolours v Sydney Swans Reserves

Sunday 6th July 2014
12.00pm
North Dalton Park, Wollongong

Ainslie are the best performing non-AFL reserves Eastern Conference team this year, but their inability to defeat a Northern Conference team has them in a tight struggle for a Top 6 spot.

After last week's defeat to the Giants, the Swans are barely hanging on to the top spot thanks to a miniscule difference in their percentage and will not want to lose two in a row to give up their advantageous position of a Top 2 finish.


NEAFL Ladder

Recent Form
Reserves
Ainslie
Past Meetings
2013
R10 Ainslie 6.13 (49) defeated by Reserves 19.9 (123) @ Ainslie Oval

Goals: Walsh 7, White 4, Mitchell 2, Weir, Robinson, Lloyd, Hadden, Jack, Marsh
Best: Richards, Mitchell, Jack, Lloyd, Walsh, Brown

Last Round
Resreves 5.8 (38) defeated by UWS Giants 10.21 (81) @ Sydney Cricket Ground

Goals: Dick, Nankervis, Dobson, Towers, Membrey
Best: Roberts-Thomson, Biggs, Dickson, Hadden, Dick, Lockyer

Southport 19.12 (126) defeated Ainslie 7.6 (48) @ Fankhauser Reserve

Goals: Paine 2, Ellis, Salter, Mathis, Hirst, Harris
Best: I.Lawless, Hirst, Bowles, Bernasconi, Mulroney, Walker

Team List
Listed players
Changes
In: Derickx, Marsh, Richards
Out: Aliir ALIIR (shoulder)

Hewett has flown over to Perth as detailed on the Swans website while earlier in the week Horse said that Derickx would be flying over too. Since both the seniors and reserves are playing on Sunday it is very unlikely that Hewett and Derickx would fly back for the reserves game (not to mention a drive down to Wollongong). Unsure about whether Rohan flew over too. I would think he would need the game time in the middle.

Academy Players/Topups
In: Bottin-Noonan, Green, Roser
Out: Tom McCAFFREY, Daniel PREEN, Oliver WETZLAR

Reserves leading goalkickers

• Tim Membrey 36 (11)
• Toby Nankervis 21 (10)
• Daniel Robinson 9 (11)

For full list: 2014 Goalkickers - RWOwiki

Reserves leading votegetters

• Tim Membrey 33 (11)
• Daniel Robinson 19 (11)
• Matthew Dick 17 (9)

For full list: 2014 Best Votes - RWOwiki

Reserves leading disposals (avg) min 4 games

• Tom Mitchell 32.5
• Daniel Robinson 30.5
• Ryan O'Keefe 30.1

Reserves leading tackles (avg) min 4 games

• Ryan O'Keefe 9.4
• Tom Mitchell 5.2
• Sam Naismith 4.5

Reserves leading marks (avg) min 4 games

• Tim Membrey 6.7
• Toby Nankervis 6.6
• Matthew Dick 6.4

Reserves leading clearances(avg) min 4 games

• Tom Mitchell 6.7
• Daniel Robinson 6.5
• Ryan O'Keefe 5.3

Reserves leading inside 50s(avg) min 4 games

• Brandon Jack 5.7
• Tom Mitchell 5.5
• Doug Hadden 5.0

Reserves leading rebound 50s(avg) min 4 games

• Shane Biggs 5.3
• Zak Jones 2.8
• Jordan Lockyer 2.5

For full list: 2014 Reserves Stats


Ainslie
In: Barrie, Birch, Haupt, Renet
Out: Sean ELLIS, Jeremy HIRST, Nick PAINE, Mitch WARD (all injured)

Losing Paine and Ellis are significant outs for Ainslie as they are the Tricolours' 2nd and 3rd leading goalkicker respectively this season. Former Port Adelaide player Nick Salter is their leading goalkicker with 30 and looms as the danger man to watch for the Reserves defence. Young gun Aaron Vandenberg equals our own Daniel Robinson as the leader in the NEAFL disposal count and must be closely watched whilst Mitch Mulroney is the clearly the competition's leading hitout winner (averaging 38 a game) and will provide stiff competition for our own ruck division.

[707]

Thanks Ugg, comprehensive and insightful as ever, appreciate your work.

Reading about Lockyer, do you think he may survive this years delistings? I remember his preseason game/s in his first year where he looked to be a smart footballer then got lost in the wilderness for 2 years.

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Updated team list doesn't have any of the 3 emergencies in there, so they must all be in Perth. No Richards or Marsh either.

[aardvark]

half time Swans 6.4 Ainslie 5.2

[aguy]

half time Swans 6.4 Ainslie 5.2

C'mon swans reserves. Should be smashing them.

[wolftone57]

Half Time; Reserves 6.4=40 Ainslie 5.2=32

[ugg]

8.4 52 8.7 55 at three quarter time

[aguy]

8.4 52 8.7 55 at three quarter time

Hmmm. Where was the final team list ugg ?

[wolftone57]

Time for Reserves to turn on the afterburners.

[wolftone57]

Reserves 10.10=70 Ainslie 9.10=64. Just. From Twitter, ainslie FC Tweet

[liz]

People need to bear in mind that we only had 13 or so listed players available (if all senior emergencies made the trip west). That's the level at which the team tends to come down to the level of the Canberra sides. This exacerbated by the relative inexperience of most of the top ups listed, and an imbalance in the listed Swans that were available - ie very little of our gun reserves midfield would have played - ROK, Mitchell, Robinson would be about it. The available listed players instead included three ruck types (if you can count P Mitchell as a ruck type).

[Matt80]

People need to bear in mind that we only had 13 or so listed players available (if all senior emergencies made the trip west). That's the level at which the team tends to come down to the level of the Canberra sides. This exacerbated by the relative inexperience of most of the top ups listed, and an imbalance in the listed Swans that were available - ie very little of our gun reserves midfield would have played - ROK, Mitchell, Robinson would be about it. The available listed players instead included three ruck types (if you can count P Mitchell as a ruck type).

You have ROK a Norm Smith Medalist and Mitchell who is highly rated. They should be able to carry the reserves team. If you have your two best players on the ball you should dominate.

The Reserves must be looking at when they can get Heeney and Mills back in the team.

[mcs]

You have ROK a Norm Smith Medalist and Mitchell who is highly rated. They should be able to carry the reserves team. If you have your two best players on the ball you should dominate.

The Reserves must be looking at when they can get Heeney and Mills back in the team.

That is being pretty harsh on the rest of the NEAFL Matt80. Plenty of the non AFL aligned teams have several ex-afl players. Having 8 or 9 places filled solely by topups, when your best top-ups aren't there surely must make a huge difference! You can't expect 2 players in a 22 man squad to 'carry the team', no matter the predigree of those particular players.

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Swans 10.10 (70) Ainslie 9.10 (64)
Goals: Nankervis 3, Towers 3, Membrey, O'Keefe, Naismith, Biggs
Best: Biggs, T.Mitchell, Towers, O'Keefe, Hadden, Walsh

[ugg]

We lost our spot on top of the ladder though because UWS belted the Lions Reserves by 130 points

Next week is Belconnen away in Canberra.