I apologise for the blog, Orble is telling me the blog is inactive, and I am blogging because, it's telling me that if I wanna keep it I have to...so I am using this opportunity to say there have been no new list movements to report.
Even though the Sportingpulse site has a few on there from all teams, but that seems to be out of whack.
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Launceston will be out for revenge in 2011 as it tackles Devonport in Round 1 at Windsor Park. The Blues were knocked out of the 2010 Finals Series in a shock upset by Devonport.
The game is set for Saturday Afternoon in what will be a big match as Devonport have survived for 2011, and will hope to break through for a win at Windsor Park. The Blues were expected to meet the Roos in the Grand Final this season, and were expected to be a flag favourite last season but they have failed in both campaigns to reach the TSL Grand Final.
Launceston broke through for their first ever state league finals win against Devonport at their home ground of Windsor Park in 2010, and will hope that they can inflict some very early pain on the Magpies who have already had a bit of an exodus which is almost like Burnie's last season.
New Devonport Coach Glen Lutwyche will have his work cut out for him as he takes on the Magpies line up that has lost Trent McCrossen, Rhys Mott, Ben Brown, Clinton Viney, Chris and Brad McDonald. The Magpies could also lose Ben Reynolds to Glenorchy where Mott, and Brown have already found a new home.
Both McDonalds brothers have returned to their former NTFL side Penguin, while Viney and McCrossen have also left to join the NTFL. Viney burst onto the scene this season after a stint with NWFA side Wesley Vale, his break out game was against Hobart at the TCA Ground where his 5 goals started to swing the game in favour of the Magpies.
Launceston will hope that they can turn around their woes in 2011, and become a challenger in 2011, the former NTFL powerhouse have started well but have fell away towards the end of the season both this year and last season.
It was the season where the Launceston Blues were meant to have been a challenger for the flag, that was however until they started the finals series. Launceston were first away to Clarence, the eventual premiers at Bellerive, and Launceston looked out of their depth. Stephens was unable to get into the game, their forward line power of Brian Finch was no existent, and it took some Sinclair magic in the 3rd quarter to keep the Blues alive.
This is from the team that were the only ones to beat Clarence this season, they took the game against the Roos away from them, and then when the finals came, where were the Blues? It reminded me a lot of last season, until the Blues played Devonport, they managed to beat them at Aurora, and set up another week in the finals.
Draft hopeful Joe Groenewegen looked out of his depth in the finals, every time he'd get the ball, he would either fumble, or turn the ball over. If scouts were watching his hopes for an AFL club may have evaporated there and then.
The Blues are now 1 win from 5 finals so far, their only win, came against the Magpies, who went on to face the Roos for the flag. The finals seemed to expose the Blues, last season they had injury problems, with their forward option Derbyshire going down with a shoulder and then he wasn't quite the same.
He retired this year, so it meant that someone had to stand up, Finch and O'Donoghue did, but disciplinary reasons saw Nathan shown the sidelines leaving Brian Finch to try and lead the Blues. He managed to take the Hudson Medal away form the now retired Brett Geappen,
Andrea Miar, the Sudanese ruckman still lacks any real skills apart from tapping the ball, which he often seems to not do anyway. His foot skills, and his other disposal skills are lacking. He can mark, but decision making lets him down.
It's hard to see this side winning a flag, if they do all the hard work during the season, and then fall away come September.
David Harding
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