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

Position	Team	Played	Wins	Losses	Draws	FF	For	Against	Percentage	Points
1	Sydney Swans	11	9	2	0	0	1112	559	198.93%	36
2	UWS Giants	11	9	2	0	0	1205	608	198.19%	36
3	NT Thunder	12	9	3	0	0	1210	991	122.10%	36
4	Aspley	11	8	3	0	0	1209	708	170.76%	32
5	Redland	10	8	2	0	0	1075	786	136.77%	32
6	Southport	11	7	4	0	0	1070	702	152.42%	28
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7	Ainslie	11	7	4	0	0	1041	903	115.28%	28
8	Sydney University	11	6	5	0	0	840	866	97.00%	24
9	Sydney Hills Eagles	12	5	7	0	0	931	1102	84.48%	20
10	Brisbane Lions	11	3	8	0	0	851	1045	81.44%	12
11	Queanbeyan	11	2	9	0	0	746	1171	63.71%	8
12	Belconnen	10	2	8	0	0	601	1032	58.24%	8
13	Eastlake	10	2	8	0	0	489	1063	46.00%	8
14	Gold Coast Suns	12	0	12	0	0	684	1528	44.76%	0

Recent Form
Reserves

Round	Team	Venue	Result	F	A
R1	Brisbane Lions	Away	WIN	89	35
R2	UWS Giants	Away	LOSS	78	86
R3	Queanbeyan	Home	WIN	167	30
R4	Gold Coast Suns	Home	WIN	131	31
R5	Brisbane Lions	Away	WIN	51	50
R6	BYE
R7	UWS Giants	Home	WIN	100	25
R8	Eastlake	Away	WIN	156	25
R9	BYE
R10	NT Thunder	Home	WIN	150	83
R11	Gold Coast	Away	WIN	85	66
R12	Sydney Uni	Away	WIN	67	47
R2	UWS Giants	Home	LOSS	38	81

Ainslie

Round	Team	Venue	Result	F	A
R1	Sydney Hills Eagles	Home	WIN	173	114
R2	Redland	Home	LOSS	70	108
R3	Belconnen	Home	WIN	110	68
R4	BYE
R5	Sydney University	Away	LOSS	90	91
R6	UWS Giants	Away	LOSS	59	108
R7	Belconnen	Away	WIN	91	61
R8	Queanbeyan	Home	WIN	105	61
R9	BYE
R10	Sydney Hills Eagles	Away	WIN	133	65
R11	Eastlake	Away	WIN	83	47
R12	Belconnen	Away	WIN	79	54
R13	Southport	Away	LOSS	48	126

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

#	Name	Games	Goals	Votes	Notes
1	Tim MEMBREY	11	36	33	Only played the first half last week before being withdrawn as emergency.
5	Ryan O'KEEFE	7	3	4	Leading tackler in the NEAFL had another 12 against UWS.
6	Tom MITCHELL	6	6	12	A little rusty in his comeback game, now will aim to push for a senior recall.
13	Toby NANKERVIS	10	21	16	4 contested marks in a beaten side was a mighty effort.
16	Gary ROHAN	7	1	0	(seniors emergency)Came off just before half time after heavy collison with Lachie Plowman.
17	Tommy WALSH	6	1	0	Has covered well at full back in Xavier Richards and Allir Allir's injury absences.
18	Jordan LOCKYER	11	1	7	Averaging 29.4 disposals in the past 5 NEAFL games
19	Tom DERICKX	0	0	0	(seniors emergency)Swans reserves debut if he plays
22	Dean TOWERS	8	8	8	A very quiet comeback game with only 7 disposals
27	Daniel ROBINSON	11	9	19	Keeps on keeping on with quality numbers week in week out.
28	Matthew DICK	9	4	17	Like Lockyer, getting more freedom up the ground
29	George HEWETT	10	7	2	(seniors emergency)A reward for consistent performances in the reserves with 8 of his 10 games tallying 20 or more disposals
30	Lewis ROBERTS-THOMSON	3	3	6	BOG last week with his defensive duties on Tom Boyd.
31	Harrison MARSH	9	7	6	(reserves emergency)Test on his hamstring injury.
35	Sam NAISMITH	8	5	3	The primary ruckman last week.
42	Xavier RICHARDS	8	0	2	(reserves emergency)Test on his hip injury.
45	Patrick MITCHELL	11	3	0	Finally received some time in the ruck against UWS
46	Shane BIGGS	11	0	15	After a little mid-season lull, back in top form with team-high 30 disposals and 10 rebound 50s.

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

#	Name	Games	Goals	Votes	Notes
50	Doug HADDEN	4	0	3
51	Vahid ROSER	3	0	5
53	Joel BOTTIN-NOONAN	1	1	6
55	Harrison GREEN	1	0	0
58	Harry DOBSON	1	1	0
59	Michael DICKSON	2	0	4
60	Tim COENEN	0	0	0	(reserves emergency)if he plays will be his Swans Reserves debut

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

B:	28. Damien BOWLES	29. Cam BERNASCONI	4. Jordan TUDICA
HB:	11. Dale WALKER	15. Robert TUOHEY	21. Chris BARRIE
C:	13. Jed COSTIGAN	9. Ash HARRIS	10. Aaron VANDENBERG
HF:	8. Ian LAWLESS	26. Eric STONE	2. Nick HEYNE
F:	41. Blake RENET	14. Alex BIRCH	5. Nick SALTER
Foll:	38. Mitch MULRONEY	6. Jason FLEMING	12. Clint MATHIS
Int:	31. Shaun CAMPBELL	25. James RICE	34. Reuben HAUPT
	17. Lucas O'NEILL
Emg:	35. Djali BLOOMFIELD	27. David TOW	24. Ben HACKETT

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.

[ugg]

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.