Victorian State squad named.

[Dale61]

Not Williamstown as such, but the Victorian Football League today announced an initial 39 man squad for the upcoming Representative Match vs. Western Australia on Saturday 26th May, 2007 at TEAC Oval, Port Melbourne.

Bendigo Bombers (2)
Jason Cloke *
Simon Rosa *

Box Hill Hawks (4)
Matthew Ball *
Sam Gibson *
Kristan Height *
Nick Smith *

Coburg Tigers (2)
Alistair Neville *
Travis Ronaldson *

Frankston (2)
Justin Berry #
Ashley Eames *

Geelong (4)
James Byrne ^
Jason Davenport *
Todd Grima *
Phil Read *

North Ballarat (1)
Tristan Cartledge *

Northern Bullants (2)
Justin Crow #
Josh Houlihan *

Port Melbourne (7)
John Baird *
Tim Hazell *
Luke Livingston *
Robin Nahas *
Chris Obst ^
David Robbins ^
David Spriggs *

Sandringham (6)
Andrew Biddlecombe *
Rod Crowe #
Ezra Poyas *
Nick Sautner ^
Peter Summers *
Shane Valenti *

Tasmania (1)
Ken Hall #

Werribee (3)
Robert Castello *
Dominic Gleeson *
James Podsiadly #

Williamstown (5)
Steven Greene *
Brett Johnson *
Dean Limbach *
Liam Picken *
Andrew Williams *

* - Player has not represented Victoria before (30)
# - Player represented Victoria in the last State Game against South Australia in 2005 (5)
^ - Player has previously represented Victoria (4)

[WKB]

good job limbach and Willo, deserve a spot, particularly willo dangerous forward hard to match up on. But congrats to Liam Picken, reward for consistent hard footy. I really hope he gets a guernsey and isn't just in the squad.

[Johnson#26]

Onya, Clokey. I'd love to see him get another chance at the elite level, hopefully this is a way of promoting his case.

Ken Hall - now there's a name I haven't heard in a while.

[Dale61]

For anyone wanting to know how this squad matches up with that of WA, here's something I posted earlier:

http://www.magpies.net/nick/bb/viewtopic.php?t=35298

[3rd degree]

I still can't believe there's no room for Iacobucci or Fanning!

[fan4collingwood]

Is Liam Picken Billy's boy. (I have been meaning to ask that for a while)

[ad4eva]

they could get together a decent side.

you would think Green, Johnson and Williams are shoe ins?

[WKB]

Is Liam Picken Billy's boy. (I have been meaning to ask that for a while)

Certainly is.

[fan4collingwood]

Must be a champ to be in the Vic Squad.

[Dale61]

[ad4eva]

well done to clokey on getting a gig.

Would have thought Greene would have got a run but congratulations to Johno

Should be able to string a formidable side together and hopefully run all over the interstaters

[Dale61]

I bet some people are typing one-handed and using 'Cameron Diaz approved hair gel' with the news that C1 is still included in the squad.

[Dale61]

The WA Side is coached by former Richmond and Fremantle footballer Ashley Prescott. His assistants coaches are Simon Eastaugh, Todd Curley and Chris Waterman. Former Port Melbourne coach David Dunbar has been working as a consultant to the team in the lead up to this game.

Here is the squad of 25.

CLAREMONT - Michael Warren, Jaxon Crabb, Ben Colreavy, Daniel Bandy, Anthony Jones, Chad Jones

EAST FREMANTLE - Shane Woewodin(Captain), Theo Adams, Jamie McNamara, Andrew McCarrey

PEEL THUNDER - Daniel Haines, Hayden Ballantyne

PERTH - Chris Bossong

SOUTH FREMANTLE - Adam Hay, Andrew Siegert

SUBIACO - Darren Rumble, Aidan Parker, Marc Webb, Alistair Pickett, David Mapleston, Todd Holmes

SWAN DISTRICTS - Adam Lange

WEST PERTH - Dion Fleary, Jason Salecic, Troy Longmuir

Western Australia will train tonight at Fremantle Oval and on Thursday at Subiaco Oval before flying to Melbourne on Friday.

[Dale61]

BTW, the game will be televised live on ABC-TV.

[eddiesmith]

Very strong side, should win comfortably, hope to be able to get down there and see the game if I can, otherwise I will have to settle for ABCs crappy coverage