00:00 G'day guys, Edward Holland here at the Korea office.
00:04 Time for Team Talk on a Thursday night.
00:07 David Prio, who is usually alongside me, is suspiciously sick just in time for my league's
00:13 grand final.
00:14 So it's just me tonight talking about Dali's grand final matchup with North Ballarat.
00:19 A few injury clouds over both sides but the main news out of it all for North Ballarat
00:25 is that Stuart Crammery has been named to return.
00:30 Not quite sure who he comes into the side for with North Ballarat naming an extended
00:34 bench which is a little bit cheeky in grand final week but Renner McCartney has confirmed
00:39 that Stuart Crammery will line up.
00:41 He missed last week's preliminary final against East Point with a hip complaint that had been
00:47 troubling him throughout the season and North Ballarat had been managing it pretty well
00:51 throughout the season.
00:53 Just if it flared up he would just sit the game out and not train as hard.
00:57 So talking to Brennan McCartney last week he didn't really have any doubts that Crammery
01:02 would miss this week's grand final and yeah there's zero doubts confirmed with him being
01:08 named.
01:09 And for Dali, Will Johnson returns from his one match suspension that he was dealt for
01:15 headbutting Luke Heaney at Melton in the qualifying final.
01:20 He comes into the grand final side for Lee Spatieri who dislocated his shoulder against
01:27 North Ballarat in that semi-final so a bit of a heartbreak for the devil there but Will
01:33 Johnson a very handy inclusion for Dali with a handful of goals in the back half of the
01:39 season but interestingly none against North Ballarat this year so I'm sure he'll be eager
01:46 to break that streak on Saturday at City Oval which has been spoken about enough.
01:52 But yes so Dali holding a 2-1 advantage against North Ballarat this season, those two wins
01:57 both at Dali Park.
01:58 The one loss was I think in Round 9 against North Ballarat at Mars Stadium.
02:03 That was a bit of a one-sided affair but they were without a few of their key players such
02:08 as Billy Myers and I think they were down two rotations on the bench.
02:12 I remember one of the cabin boys running off with a bandage on his head so they can throw
02:18 that game away, it doesn't really matter that much whereas for Brenna McCartney's side they
02:23 had that one-sided semi-final defeat which he's not looking too far into.
02:26 He thinks the two sides are a lot closer than that suggests so should be a good game of
02:32 footy at City Oval.
02:33 It kicks off at 2.30pm.
02:35 I'll just run through the rest of the day as well.
02:39 So the Reserves starting at 11.50am, that's Sunbury and Sebastopol.
02:43 So Sunbury once again in the Reserves Grand Final and the Under-19s at 9.20am, that's
02:50 Sebastopol and East Point.
02:51 I know Sebastopol probably hoping that East Point got over the line against North Ballarat
02:57 last week because it's been the juniors out at East Point that have been carrying their
03:01 side through this finals campaign like Straw Robinson and Harry Charlson out there as well,
03:07 maybe Alex Molan but I don't think Alex Molan is eligible to play I think or maybe it was
03:14 Harry Charlson, one of them.
03:17 Nothing controversial, nothing like the North Ballarat-Darley situation but East Point have
03:21 managed it and just the way the limits worked with the games.
03:26 Over on the City Oval-Nepal course, same match-up in the Nepal Grand Final as the Football Grand
03:34 Final, it's North Ballarat hosting Darley at City Oval, that's at 3.15pm.
03:39 Plenty of black and white throughout the day in the Nepal with Darley and North Ballarat
03:43 also going head-to-head in B Grade, 1.45pm.
03:47 Darley once again in C Grade hosting Lake Winneree, 12.30pm.
03:52 Sunbury and Ballarat D Grade, 11.15am.
03:55 Lake Winneree, Melton E Grade, 10.15am and Under-19s at City Oval, 9am.
04:03 Darley and North Ballarat for yet another match-up there, so powerhouses in both Nepal
04:09 and football this season.
04:10 So looking forward to getting into it, the career will be doing a live blog of the match-up,
04:14 Ballarat Football Nepal League will continue their streams with the Grand Final stream
04:19 at City Oval and yeah, just doing some profile pieces throughout the week of some personalities
04:26 out at Darley and North Ballarat.
04:27 We had Ryan Hobbs yesterday, Billy Myers today and the Cabin Brothers to come and also Tom
04:34 Bromley-Lynch who's as North Ballarat as they come coming in to build up to Grand Final
04:40 Saturday, so bring it on.
