Mid-season Club Update

14 Jul 2015 by James Gray

The Seniors, Reserves and Thirds have all played 11 rounds, having just enjoyed 2 weeks’ break. The Unders played their 12th round then had one week off.

The equation for each team is ‘Arts Undergraduate’ simple: they must keep winning to maintain their ladder position and their claims to finals action.

The seniors have the same number of wins as Marcellin (1st) and Old Ivanhoe (3rd).

The Reserves are 4th, 2 points adrift of PEGS (2nd), equal with Peninsula (3rd) and 6 points clear of Williamstown (5th).

The Thirds are one game but 20% off PEGS (1st), level pegging with Marcellin (3rd) and 2 games clear of Salesian (4th).

After 12 rounds the Unders are 3rd, on equal points with Marcellin (2nd) and only a game clear of De La Salle (4th) and Northern Blues (5th).

REPRESENTATIVE FOOTBALL

The two-week break was on account of VAFA representative football, and the Blues were very well represented. All selected Blues players acquitted themselves beautifully.

Joe Cosgriff has been enormous at CHB in 2015, the team emerging as a more powerful unit when Groves formally moved him from key forward to lynchpin backman 5 weeks ago. He played in the Under 23 national carnival alongside Nick Petering who cemented his spot with a sublimely skilled 4 goal first half against ladder leaders Old Ivanhoe. The 18yo Charlie Rosetti, led the VAFA’s ruck in the 3 days & 4 games in Hobart, in which the VAFA won the minor final.

Rosetti, and the smiling Horsham assassin, Daniel Easson, then lined up the following week in Bendigo for the VAFA Under 19 team v Victorian Country in appalling conditions. Rosetti and Easson were in the thick of the action in an honourable, but unsuccessful, 4 quarter effort. Taylor Cameron was unlucky to miss the team, and will surely feature prominently in future representative fixtures (that’s if his father’s determination is anything to go by – 3 trains and a bus getting Mr Cameron from Swan Hill to the Club’s Rd 10 fixture at Therry Penola).

In the next game in Bendigo, Andy Young vice-captained the Premier B to D4 team against VCFL alongside Maddison Hardiman. Hardiman led a charge against the VCFL early in the last quarter, as part of his best afield performance for the VAFA, but in the sodden conditions the VCFL team had a slight and definitive edge in strength and skill.

THANKS FROM THE COMMITTEE

For many weeks now the Club has called on past players to join as a Frearsonian member. The Committee is so grateful to those of you that have joined.

Our goal is to connect as many of our past players to their Club, their mates, and their memories. And for them to help new generations of Monash Blues enrich their University lives as our past players did.

Those membership calls will abate now with the opportunity of a 30 June tax deduction passing. We still welcome you as a member if you so choose, but as a Committee we’ll be focusing our efforts on the huge amount of work we need to do now for getting 4 teams playing finals football, some great social functions (Reverse Draw, 1995 Reserves Premiership Reunion, Grand Final Lunch), and keeping our past players up to date.

Check out the new website (www.monashblues.com) and ask us for sign-in details; send us the email address of a mate who should be but isn’t on our list; get boundary-side and introduce yourself to our debutant Coach or President; follow us on Twitter (@MonashBlues) or drop us a line and let us know if you think we’re on the right track.