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Hawks cling onto fifth spot, mid-season 2006
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Hawks cling onto fifth spot, mid-season 2006
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03 November 2025
Eaglehawk moved back into fifth spot on the BFNL senior ladder with a big 73-point win over Kyneton in Rd. 8, 2006.
After a hard-fought first half with just four goals separating the teams, the Two Blues dominated the second half nailing 11 goals to the Tigers' four.
Kyneton was still in the game at the long break --- but only just --- trailing 6.9 to 10.10, as the Eaglehawk defence stifled the Tiger forwards, apart from Steven 'Revenue' Reaper, in the second half.
Reaper nailed six of the Tigers' 10 goals with no other Kyneton forward worthy of a mention.
For several seasons Filo and Reaper were teammates at Kyneton before 'Revenue' joined Gisborne, but it was another occasion (of many in that era) when the Hawks' coach had tried to plot ways to stop the champion full-forward.
"He's a class act so Kyneton look to kick to him a lot. And the reality is he will kick majors no matter what you try to do.
"Overall our defence and midfield worked hard to not allow too many easy passes to Reaps," said Filo.
The Hawks had promoted Travis St. Clair to No. 1 ruckman, replacing Nick Heath who was playing against his old club.
In his comeback to the BFNL St. Clair went into the Kyneton game with 35 goals to lead the Reserves goalkicking and in the seniors match against the Tigers, like 'Roggo', he nailed four majors.
"He gave us a big target to kick to in attack and played really well," Filo added.
And acting skipper Brad Rogerson marked his second match back from injury by nailing four goals. A knee injury had sidelined 'Roggo' for most of the 2006 season and then on his return he added plenty of skill to the Eaglehawk attack.
"It will be another two to three weeks before "Roggo" can play back in the midfield, but he is doing really well up forward," Filo said.
After the long break Eaglehawk sailed away booting 11 snag rolls to four and managed to hold onto fifth place on the BFNL ladder but only by percentage over Castlemaine.
The Maine lost its round 8 match to South Bendigo in a high-scoring match where 33 goals were kicked ---- the Bloods had nine goalkickers and the Camp Reserve Pies had eight.
The Bloods led by a solitary point at half-time --- 6.9 to 6.8 --- but an eight-major third term burst sealed the Pies' fate with Danny 'Breezer' O'Bree leading South's big goal-kicking list with five.
He drilled four of those five in the desperate final term with his ability to outmark opponents in one-on-one duels a key highlight.
Coach Ian Martin tried four, different Castlemaine opponents on O'Bree -- Adam Culvenor, Chris Jardine, Aiden Millard and Alan McLennan --- but none could shut him down in the Bloods' full-forward line.
O'Bree was quick at full-time to water down his performance.
"Playing out of the goal square is something we've tried a few times this year, but it hadn't come off," he said.
"I suppose if you do it time and time again it will have to pay off at some stage, but I wouldn't be getting too carried away with it."
And despite O'Bree's later final term onslaught, the young Magpies had closed the margin to just 10 points only 12 minutes into the final term.
David Taylor nailed the third of his three for the day, followed up by Lachie Brown and the talented Brock Bouch.
But the Bloods' simple game plan then kicked in as South Bendigo players realised kicking long to O'Bree was the answer and he sank three of the match's final four goals to give South a commanding 37-point win.
Eaglehawk. 5.5. 10.10. 15.21. 21.10 (146)
Kyneton. 2.4 6.9 9.11 10.13 (73)
Goals, E'hawk: B. Rogerson 4, T. St. Clair 4, T. Findlay 3, L. Jacobs 3, P. Eyles 2, Z. Harvey, P. Lobb, T. Nicholson, S. Tuddenham, A.Wilson. Kyneton: S. Reaper 6, B. Talbot 2, S. Carroll, B. Cook.
Best, E'hawk: J. Ketterer, B. Herdman, T. Findlay, S. Tuddenham, B. Rogerson, A. Wilson. Kyneton: L. Erwin, B. Else, G. Chambers, C. Walker, H. Edmonds.
Other final scores: Sandhurst 14.15 (99) def. M'borough 8.6 (54); Gisborne 36.25 (181) def. North City 12.5 (77); Sth. Bendigo 19.16 (130) def. Castlemaine 14.9 (93); G. Square 25.13 (163) def. Kang. Flat 14.18 (102).
A grade netball: Castlemaine 49 def. Sth. Bgo 35; Golden Square 48 drew Kang. Flat 48; Gisborne 69 def. North City 16; Sandhurst 68 def. Maryborough 36 and Eaglehawk 69 def. Kyneton 19.
Ladders, footy: Gisborne 7 wins, 1 loss, 265.3%, 28 prem. pts; South Bendigo 7-1, 154.0% 28; Golden Square 7-1-1, 129.3%, 30; Sandhurst 4-3-1 draw, 18; Eaglehawk 4-4, 109.8%, 16.
Bottom five: C'maine 4-4, 16; M'borough 3-5, 12; Kyneton 2-5-1 draw 10; Kangaroo Flat 1-7-1, 6; North City 0-8, 0.
A grade netty: Golden Square 7 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw, 30 prem. points; Sandhurst 7-1, 28; Kangaroo Flat 6-1-1 draw, 26; Gisborne 5-3, 20; Maryborough 4-4, 16.
Bottom Five: Eaglehawk 3-5, 111%, 12; South Bgo 3-5, 106%, 12; Castlemaine 3-5, 85%, 12; North City 1-7, 4 and Kyneton 0-8, 0
