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  • AFL News for Saturday 27/3/1993

    From ross@aims.ac.za@21:1/5 to mar...@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au on Tue Feb 9 07:48:09 2016
    On Saturday, 27 March 1993 08:11:56 UTC+2, mar...@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au wrote:
    The AFL News for Saturday 27/3/1993.
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    The footy season has started in earnest with a great game at the MCG last night
    between Collingwood and Footscray. Collingwood was victorious by 20 points in a
    very tough game. The scores were:

    Collingwood 3.4 9.7 15. 8 17.13 (115)
    Footscray 5.4 7.9 12.13 13.17 (95)

    Goals: COLL.: Williams 5, Rocca 5, Russell 2, Fraser 2
    FOOTS.: Del'Re 4, Smith 2, Croft 2

    Best: COLL.: Francis, Russell, A. Richardson, Williams
    FOOTS.: Cameron, Kellett, Coleman, Reynolds

    Injuries: COLL.: Rowe (quadricep) replaced in selected side by Lehamnn
    Pert (concussion) Shaw (knee)
    FOOTS.: Liberatore (conciussion), Mansfield (leg)

    The first quarter started at a fantastic pace with some great tackling and hard
    hits. Both Pert of Collingwood and Liberatore of Footscray received concussion
    in this quarter. Footscray had the better system and opened a two goal lead at
    1/4 time. The second quarter was where Collingwood won the match. They over-ran
    the Dogs with a 6 goal to 2 quarter. Williams was playing well on the half- forward line with 4 goals to half time.
    The second half saw Collingwood's Francis and Wright take over the center. Footscray's forward line was falling to pieces with Del'Re coming up to the wing
    to get kicks. The Pies slowly ground the Dogs down and recorded a good 20 point
    win in front of 59,000.

    In selection news, Geelong has lost Ablett even though he was named in the side
    on Thursday night. In news of the other teams playing on Sunday I only have the
    squads of 23 named on Thursday night. Richmond has included seven new players for their match against Adelaide. The new players are:

    PLAYER NAME D.O.B. HGT WGHT RECRUITED FROM
    DEBUT C/GMS C/GLS '92/GMS '92/GLS
    ----- ----- ----- ------- -------
    BULLUSS, PAUL 23/01/70 194 85.0 EAGLES (SANFL)
    **** 0 0 0 0
    EISHOLD, SIMON 26/03/67 187 86.0 ORMOND/MELBOURNE
    1986 77 50 0 0
    HERNAMAN, WAYNE 15/05/72 180 82.0 SOUTH FREMANTLE
    **** 0 0 0 0
    HOWAT, JOHN 15/07/70 187 90.0 MELBOURNE
    1989 20 10 5 3
    PITURA, MARK 26/06/74 189 76.0 TURVEY PARK
    **** 0 0 0 0
    SCHAEFER, ROBERT 14/02/72 197 87.0 STURT
    **** 0 0 0 0
    SLATER, ADAM 29/10/73 196 93.0 EAST BURWOOD
    **** 0 0 0 0

    Richmond could not consider Stevan Jackson because of suspension and Stuart Edwards because of knee injury.

    Adelaide has three new players in Groom, Ricciuto and ex-Essendon player Greg
    Anderson. Scott Hodges has not been named in the 23. The new players are:

    PLAYER NAME D.O.B. HGT WGHT RECRUITED FROM
    DEBUT C/GMS C/GLS '92/GMS '92/GLS
    ----- ----- ----- ------- -------
    ANDERSON, GREG 14/05/66 186 90.0 PORT ADELAIDE/ESS.
    1988 103 60 19 10
    GROOM, CHRIS 28/08/73 191 91.0 SOUTH ADELAIDE
    **** 0 0 0 0
    RICCIUTO, MARK 08/06/75 182 81.0 WEST ADELAIDE
    **** 0 0 0 0

    West Coast has only named one new player in Matthew Connell from Subiaco. The
    Eagles have not been able to name Chris Mainwaring in their team due to injury.

    PLAYER NAME D.O.B. HGT WGHT RECRUITED FROM
    DEBUT C/GMS C/GLS '92/GMS '92/GLS
    ----- ----- ----- ------- -------
    CONNELL, MATT 03/08/72 179 68.0 SUBIACO
    **** 0 0 0 0

    Essendon could not consider Paul Salmon because of his shoulder injuries. They
    have included one new player in Tony Delaney from Claremont, WA.

    PLAYER NAME D.O.B. HGT WGHT RECRUITED FROM
    DEBUT C/GMS C/GLS '92/GMS '92/GLS
    ----- ----- ----- ------- -------
    DELANEY, TONY 27/12/75 183 81.0 CLAREMONT
    **** 0 0 0 0

    That's all for today. More news tomorrow.

    John Marinopoulos

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    Hi John

    Wondered if you could help me sort out differences in data sources.

    I was using these data from http://www.statsci.org/data/oz/afl.html as a tutorial example. The first game (first row) is
    MCG Other Temp Members Top50 Date Home Away
    1 8.653 72.921 24 12.601 5 1993-03-27 NM Bris

    I'm reading this as North Melbourne played Brisbane Lions at the MCG on the 27/3/1993. Above you say Footscray played Collingwood. This particualr game is interesting because of the low spectator numbers.(according to the data from the statsci site.)

    Interested in knowing what is what?

    Regards
    Ross

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