Anon
Years ago

VC Junior Finals

Who will win the rest of the VC Junior finals on Friday, both Boys and Girls?

snafu
Years ago

thought I would help out the original post by listing the actual games - just the VC games

Boys
Un 12 Hawthorn v Bulleen
Un 14 Melbourne v Keilor
Un 16 Dandenong v Bulleen
Un 18 Melbourne v Dandenong

Girls
Un 12 Hawthorn v Bulleen
Un 14 Knox v Bulleen
Un 16 Latrobe v Knox
Un 18 Bulleen v Eltham

Bulleen seem to be appearing a few times

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Anonymous
Years ago

Boys
Un 12 Hawthorn
Un 14 Melbourne
Un 16 Dandenong
Un 18 Melbourne

Girls
Un 12 Bulleen
Un 14 Bulleen
Un 16 Latrobe
Un 18 Bulleen

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Anonymous
Years ago

Boring""""

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Anonymous
Years ago

U20?

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snafu
Years ago

I generally don't look at the Un20s as historically has been made up from the kids who couldn't make it into youth league. So therefore not a true championship.

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Anonymous
Years ago

SNAFU

interesting you say you that 20s is made up of players who couldn't make YL, I coached 20s VC this year and come up against many players who are play YL Champs.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Yep many coaches do the you must play U20s and then rotate into YL. SNAFU you pretty much mailed it

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Anonymous
Years ago

There is a difference between bench 5 that rotates into under 20's and Youth Championship. Just saying.

Anyway picking VC winners
Boys
12s Bulleen
14s Melbourne
16s come from behind Bulleen
18s Dandy

Girls
12s in overtime Bulleen
14s win by 15+ Bulleen
16s Latrobe
18s Bulleen

Under 20s Dandenong for boys and Nunawading in the girls

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Bear
Years ago

I always thought for kids doing year 12 especially, playing under 20's and youth league would be too much, but hey if they can fit it in good luck to them.

Also depends very much about where the kids play and how it suits them and their future plans in the game.

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Anonymous
Years ago

True Bear, our YL coach is the U20 coach so we have 8 YL players in the U20 team

I am biased but I'm tipping Sunbury to win U20 VC they beat Dandenong to win Eltham Dandenong tournament then won 2 out of 3 so they'd have to be slight favourites

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Bear
Years ago

Anon^ I wouldn't even begin to say how any particular Association handles their youth league age kids, I would however try to put into perspective how much demand is placed on them and how this may impact the individual kid's future.

If a kid is playing both, how does he/she cope with time allocation to fit in everything, for example:

1. Year 12 studies and exams for some
2. University studies or exams for many
3. Part time work, for many who have to earn
4. u/20's team training sessions (2 X per week)
5. YL training sessions (2 X per week)
6. Additional recovery/video/strengthening work
7. Friday night VJBL games
8. Saturday or Sunday YL games
9. Tournaments or State commitments (for a few)
10. Growing up as a young adult...?

Just sayin' it is a pretty full schedule!

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Bear
Years ago

Sorry to drift off topic, I wish Sunbury u/20 men luck, but Dandenong will be a tough hurdle...

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