for god sake,can someone tell nathan bassett to harden the f##k up a bit?
he is bitching and whingeing about having to play on tuesday night after a 4 day break,
both us and claremont only have a 3 day break in between games this week.
if he wants to play a second string side of colts and ressies players on tuesday night against the sharks so be it.
all the teams have known for at least 6 months when the games were scheduled to be played so why wait until now to squeal like a 3 year old?
the game is being shown on the big screen at the left bank on tuesday night,at 6.35pm
looking forward to seeing heaps of sharks fans there to support the boys.
GO SHARKS 2013!
Swans played West Perth on the Anzac day Thursday after playing Peel on the Sunday and won comfortably, so don’t know what Basset is on about. His team has got a bye after the Foxtel game so if he wants to put a second string team in, more power to the Sharks. He may be trying to set up a siege mentality amongst his players in the SANFL, similar to what John Todd did with Swans in 1982 when he sent a reserves team over to play Richmond and they won the WAFL flag this year. Dont think Foxtel will be impressed with his antics though as they are putting up a fair bit of money for this competition
It will be good to watch. Norwood is a traveling quite well at the moment - second on the SANFL ladder.
Its also the first time that there has been a strong contender from the SANFL in the Foxtel cup.
I’d put my money on Norwood for this one.
Rnd 1 Foxtel - My tips
Norwood Redlegs def East Fremantle Sharks
Queanbeyan Tigers def Werribie Tigers (the upset of the round)
West Adelaide Bloods def Port Melbourne Broughs
Claremont Tigers def Southport Sharks
Swan Districts sent a reserves team over to play Richmond in the 1982 Escort Cup as a protest against the late rescheduling of the match. According to Wikepedia:
The WAFL’s Swan Districts Football Club generated controversy when it sent a team of reserves and colts players to contest its quarter-final against Richmond in protest at the rescheduling of the match. The match had already been pushed back from 1 June to 8 June to accommodate an interstate match between South Australia and Victoria on Monday 17 May. Then, after South Melbourne and St Kilda both qualified for the quarter-finals, it happened that those teams would be playing two televised matches against each other inside three days: a league match on Sunday 20 June in Sydney, then the Escort Cup match on Tuesday 22 June. This was unfavourable for the teams; and in a time when few football matches were broadcast live, it was also unfavourable for the television sponsors. As such, the AFC moved the Swans-St Kilda match to 8 June and the Swan Districts-Richmond match to 22 June.[19]
Swan Districts was unhappy with the way the reschedule occurred. The club was not consulted prior to the AFC announcing the reschedule, and it affected arrangements that the club had already made for a social club function on the night of 8 June. Additionally, the 8 June timing was located between league matches against the WAFL’s bottom two teams; but, the 22 June timing was located between league matches against the second- and third-placed teams – and, being placed first at the time, Swan Districts was worried about the effect of a mid-week match in Melbourne upon its WAFL premiership aspirations.[19] More generally, Swan Districts coach John Todd was already a vocal critic of the dominance of Victorian influence in the administration of the game at a national level, and he was unhappy at seeing his club treated in a way in which he did not believe a Victorian club would have been treated.[20]
When the reschedule was first announced on 19 May, Swan Districts considered forfeiting the match.[19] On 1 June, the club announced that it had decided that it would send a full-strength team to the match.[21] But, two days before the match, it reneged on this promise, and sent an inexperienced team of reserves and colts players, only two of which had played seniors the previous weekend, and which had a total of 69 senior games’ experience across its 21 members.[22] Unsurprisingly, the inexperienced team was completely uncompetitive against Richmond – which was at that time on top of the VFL ladder – and lost the match by 186 points.
The following month, the AFC banned Swan Districts from competing in the Escort Championships until 1985 as punishment for the controversy.[23]"
However I have read in several sources where the SANFL says Norwood has known since September its opening Foxtel Cup game would be on a Tuesday and it would be followed by a scheduled bye.
So I don’t think what Norwood are proposing to do can really compared to what Swans did in 1982, as they have nothing to protest.
Foxtel Cup Teams
NORWOOD
Backs: Gavin Hughes Ben Jefferies Andrew Kirwan
Half Backs: Darren Pfeiffer Kristian Roocke Michael Ialeggio
Centres: Tullio DeMatteis Craig Evans Luke Wilson
Half Forwards: Josh Donohue Liam Davis Kane Murphy
Forwards: Orazio Fantasia Matthew Panos Mark Evans
Followers: Patrick Levicki Ed Smart Peter Bampton
Interchange: Trent Dumont Peter Persinos Matt Fuller
Interchange: Simon Phillips
Emergencies: Alex Georgiou Steve Baldasso Alex McKay
EAST FREMANTLE
Backs: Hooker Jupp Crisafio
Half Backs: Stephen Howlett Bayliss
Centres: Hancock McGough Henson
Half Forwards: Boyle McDougall Lester-Smith
Forwards: Read Ricciardello Depane
Followers: Symonds Hadley R.O’Brien
Interchange: Cronan Curley A Tropiano
Interchange: Jansen
Emergencies: K Tropiano
Good to see a few new faces given a chance to prove themselves
cheers for that SharkAttack…great to see Read, Hooker, Crisafio and Curley get a chance to show their ability…haven’t got a clue about the Norwood side…is that their best team or the side full of reserves and colts they said they would play in protest?..Panos got delisted from WBD last year after 2 -3 years of doing nothing for them…other than that I aint got the foggiest who’s good or not…
good luck to the team…not very often you play reigning premiers back to back in 4 days…hopefully they kick a wee bit straighter than Saturday…though not too sure where the goals are gonna come from…would of been tempted to give the likes of Jonathan Marsh, Alirr Alirr, Jared Jansen, Jacob Green and Paddy Cripps a run from the colts…what time is the game?
Foxtel Cup Teams
NORWOOD
Backs: Gavin Hughes Ben Jefferies Andrew Kirwan
Half Backs: Darren Pfeiffer Kristian Roocke Michael Ialeggio
Centres: Tullio DeMatteis Craig Evans Luke Wilson
Half Forwards: Josh Donohue Liam Davis Kane Murphy
Forwards: Orazio Fantasia Matthew Panos Mark Evans
Followers: Patrick Levicki Ed Smart Peter Bampton
Interchange: Trent Dumont Peter Persinos Matt Fuller
Interchange: Simon Phillips
Emergencies: Alex Georgiou Steve Baldasso Alex McKay
EAST FREMANTLE
Backs: Hooker Jupp Crisafio
Half Backs: Stephen Howlett Bayliss
Centres: Hancock McGough Henson
Half Forwards: Boyle McDougall Lester-Smith
Forwards: Read Ricciardello Depane
Followers: Symonds Hadley R.O’Brien
Interchange: Cronan Curley A Tropiano
Interchange: Jansen
Emergencies: K Tropiano
Good to see a few new faces given a chance to prove themselves
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This is a pretty decent side, given the resources available to the Sharks. I hope the boys equip themselves well & are competitive. I have just checked the SANFL website. Norwood will be resting 6 regular key players. But given the recent talk that they may field a reserves side, their listed squad appears reasonably strong.
I enjoy this inter state competition & is good to see the teams field reasonably strong sides to maintain some sort of integrity. SA treated this comp as a bit of a joke in the first couple of seasons, as only weaker sides entered. It is good to see a strong club like Norwood entering this year.
When WP played last year I watched the full game (Replay) about 24 hours later. Stream was good as well.
Dont know if they have live scores now but can check it out at
I tuned in about half way through the third quarter and the Sharks looked more desperate than Norwood. They were more efficient with their disposals whilst the SA team tended to just bomb it forward. Norwood wasted so many opportunities in the last quarter and it must have been shattering for them when Lester-Smith showed them how!
Well done Sharks, you have done the WAFL proud in what were conditions that would have been totally foreign to most of the players. Should be a lively trip home.
Probably a bit early to start hoping for an all WAFL grand final yet. There are a couple of VFL teams still in the way. But you never know as Claremont are the defending champs and East Freo are only one game away from the decider. After the State game this would cap off a great year for the local comp.
That was a very pleasing & welcome result. I don’t have Foxtel so I couldn’t watch the game. Maybe it will give the club a bit of momentum for the remainder of the season.
well done east freo. good for the wafl. werribee havent had such a good season to date so a good chance at playing in the final against either claremont or port melbourne