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28/4/2015

It's ANZAC Weekend and It’s a rare occasion where the Supers and Legends teams are split up but that is the case tomorrow as the Supers and Reserves travel to Yulong Reserve take on nemesis Northern and the Legends pop down the road to Walter Street Reserve to go head to head with Ascot Vale.

The Supers are coming off a strong win in round 1 while Northern were defeated by Ascot Vale. Recent history tells us the Northern have had the edge over Coburg in the last few years with the suggestion that Northern have had the wood on the Lions since Coburg defeated them in the 2009 Grand Final.

Some good in’s for the Supers with Jason Dean (debut), Mick Noble, Mick Egan and Johnny Bibbis all included in the line-up and a real opportunity for Coburg to back up the performance from round 1 and put the recent results against Northern behind them.

The Reserves have lost a couple of soldiers in Vin Taranto and Gary Jefferys but have a couple inclusions with Carlo Federico, Justin Lewis, Aaron Lee, Cam Lovell, Matt Wiley and Wil Jesser coming into the side.

Again the historic leger is in favour of Northern however strong showing expected after a great effort in round 1.

The Legends have a solid line up despite losing Barry Saunders and Rob Kimber to injury and will be looking to make it two in a row with a victory against Ascot Vale

SUPERS V NORTHERN
Date: Sunday, 26 April
Venue: Yulong Reserve, Bundoora
Start: Supers 2.45pm, Reserves 12.45pm

LEGENDS V ASCOT VALE
Date: Sunday, 26 April
Venue: Walter Street Reserve, Ascot Vale
Start: 11.00am

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Great Start To The Season

13/4/2015

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What a brilliant start to the season and great day for the club with all three teams running out winners on Sponsors Day.

It began with Legends who were not really sure if they were going to have full side on the paddock to begin with but in the end they overcame Waverley by 16 points.

Coburg Legends stayed in front marginally throughout the contest and kicked two vital goals in the last quarter to seal a well-earned victory. Rod Craig (1 goal) led the way all morning and there were excellent contributions from Mark Sedgwick and Ange Chiodo. Sharpshooter Theo Grimaldi kicked three goals with Pete Soligo chiming in with a couple.

COBURG 6.12-48 def WAVERLEY 4.8-32

The Reserves got off to flyer kicking four unanswered goals in the first term to set up a 53-point win.

Despite losing Vinnie Taranto to injury midway through the second term they managed three more majors going into the wind taking a 37-point lead into half time.

It was more of the same in the third term when they piled on another four goals to stretch the lead to 56 points before injury struck with both Gary Jeffery and captain Frank Massara going down.

The Ressies toiled on manfully eventually running out winners by 53 points. Great spirit, determination and effort across the park.

Marco Rabar, on debut, kicked 4 goals, ran all day and put in a best on ground performance. Gary Jeffery was hard at it in the middle and provided 2 goals, Dave Himmelfarb (1 goal) rucked with determination all afternoon, Anthony Manovella gave plenty of run and Ronny Torcasio shored up the tight knit defence.

The forward line was very functional with majors to Taranto, Pengelly, Cummins, Cardillo, and Arnold.

COBURG 12.12-84 def MELBOURNE 4.7-31

To main game and John Haddad celebrated his 50th game with the club in true winning style when Coburg ran out winners by 36 points. In the process Coburg were able to bury the demons of a last gasp defeat at the hands of Melbourne on the corresponding fixture from last season.

Once they settled the Supers got off to a great start kicking 5-4 to 1-0 with the assistance of the wind to open up a 28-point lead.

In the second quarter and despite the effort Coburg couldn’t hit the scoreboard. But, at the same they gave Melbourne very little with defence led by Wayne Pretty in his debut game holding firm.

In the third term Coburg kicked two more majors and held Melbourne goalless, another tick in the box to the defence.

Goals to Pete Cummins and Craig McKay in the last term gave Coburg the buffer they needed and sealed the victory but, it was McKay’s tackle in the dying minutes of the game summed the performance which was full of effort and placed Melbourne under significant pressure throughout the match. The Supers victorious by 36 points.

Wayne Pretty was best on ground with a terrific game at Centre Half Back, Kane “Sugar” O’Brien carved them up early on with two goals, Mark Gillman provided the grunt and plenty of run and carry, the move of Mark Ryan (who bagged a couple of goals) to the forward line was a masterstroke with the big “General “ providing presence and a great target.

Adam Lewis chimed in with two goals and Mark “Hotty” Medley chipped also chipped in with a major.

COBURG 9.11-65 def MELBOURNE 3.11-29

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Good Solid Hitout

11/4/2015

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The scoreboard was irrelevant, the conditions were good, the turnout awesome and what a great hit out we had on Saturday against Northern and Plenty Valley at Anthony Beale Reserve, St Helena.For a first up effort in the pre-season the combination of players from the supers, reserves and legends was exceptional.

The were some great passages of play, signs of running and supporting play in line with game plan that Adam Bruni has been implementing from day one. Most importantly the “effort” was evident. We got better as the matches progressed which was also very encouraging.

Based on that performance Round 1 is looking very good indeed and we are set for a ripper season in 2015.

Here's what the Coaches had to say:

Adam Bruni - Really great hit out. Plenty of positive signs heading into round one. Work rate was terrific, keep building momentum for 2 weeks time.

Jamie Arnold - It was perfect weather for football as a pride of lions made their way to St Helena to compete in a triangular practice match with Plenty Valley and Northern. The day started extremely well with Coburg snaring the most favourably part of the change rooms!!!

The aim of the day was to blow out the cobwebs, give every one a good run and put some of our training into practice.

We started slowly against some stronger opposition, but the effort was always there. There were reiterations at the break about continuing the effort, hunting in numbers, running to support and providing plenty of voice.

No scores were kept, but the day worked out fairly evenly across all three teams - the highlights included goals by Carlo and a pearler from the new king of the u-turn Pete Cummins. Also, Luca's work in the ruck early was great.

There were a lot of great positives to come out of the day, but the key was the willingness by the playing group to take on the message from Adam. If we continue the improvement that we saw though the day we're in for a good year.

See all the photos here

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More Sour Than Sweet

Great Start To The Season

Good Solid Hitout

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