HARD BALL GET - UPDATES

Listed below are chronological details of new content launches, new info additions and various modifications across Hard Ball Get...

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2013
DECEMBER 2013

2014
JANUARY 2014            1992 - CAPT: Pastore (Williamstown)
           1994 - COACH: Barker (Sandringham), CAPT: McDonald (Werribee)
           1997 - COACH: Gotch (Springvale), CAPT: Taylor (Springvale)
           1998 - COACH: Weightman (no club), CAPT: Atkins (Werribee)
           2001 - COACH: McDonald (Box Hill), CAPT: MacGeorge (Sandringham)
           2002 - CAPT: Mahoney (Essendon)
           2004 - CAPT: Lloyd (Williamstown)
           2005 - COACH: Williams (Sandringham), CAPT: Robertson (Werribee)
  • VFA/VFL Representative team Honour Roll updated - five captains/coaches added:
           1880 - VC: James 'Jimmie' Robertson (North Melbourne/Carlton)
           1889 - CAPT: Ben Page (South Melbourne)
           1907 - VC: Ernest McDonald (Richmond)
           1907 - VC: 'Nance' Williams (Footscray)
           1932 - VC: Gordon Hellwig (Willliamstown)
  • VFA/VFL Representative team Honour Roll updated - 1881 captain added: Gilbert Major of South Melbourne (thanks to Colin Newton for this info)

FEBRUARY 2014
  • VFA/VFL Grand Finals updated - missing info (1990/92/96) and ladder positions (1996/97/98/99) added (thanks to Ron Doe, Bruce Kennedy, and Andrew Robinson for this info)

APRIL 2014
  • VFA/VFL Representative match results updated - missing scores from the 1981 VFA (Div.2) vs Australian Services practice match added (thanks to cobrascorer from www.vflfooty.com for this info)
  • VFA/VFL Representative team Honour Roll updated - 1984 VFA Second Division captain added: Geoff Rosenow of Mordialloc (thanks to Noel Menadue for this info)

MAY 2014            - Grand Finals 1877-2013 (includes dates, venues, quarter by quarter scores, crowds)
           - Second Division Grand Finals 1961-1988 (the first such list online or in print)
           - Premiership Captains/Coaches
           - Finals Records (highest/lowest scores, most goals, biggest wins, etc)
          - Premiership Timelines (the number of flags won by each club, sorted by era)
            - Minor Premiers... No Grand Final (first-placed teams that missed the decider)
            - Challenge Finals 1903-1932
            - Drawn, Postponed and Abandoned Finals

JUNE 2014            - J.J Liston Trophy (includes Woodham Cup, Recorder Cup, VFA Medal, Field Medal)
           - 'Frosty' Miller Medal
           - Norm Goss Medal
           - Frank Johnson Medal
           - Fothergill-Round Medal
  • NFL NIGHT SERIES HISTORY launched featuring:
          - 1976 NFL Wills Cup
          - 1977 NFL Ardath Cup
          - 1978 NFL Escort Cup
          - 1979 NFL Escort Cup

SEPTEMBER 2014            - Overview
           - Top three each season
           - Runners from each club
           - Race fields
           - Naming rights sponsors           - Most games
          - Most goals
          - Highest & lowest scores          - Centenary Cup
         - Exhibition/Practice matches
         - Foxtel Cup
         - Lightning Premierships
         - Pre-Season Cup
         - Promotion Playoffs
         - VFA vs VFL
         - VFL-TFL Challenge Cup
         - VSFL Premiers' Cup
  • VFA Centenary Cup updated - missing match report from 1977 2SF added, venue confirmed as Lake Oval, not Toorak Park (thanks to Andrew Robinson for this info)
  • VFA/VFL Grand Finals updated - typos corrected (thanks to Richard Attard for his help with this)

OCTOBER 2014
  •  AFL Grand Final Sprint updated - naming rights sponsors for 2006/07/11-13 added (thanks to Matt Gibbs for this info)


2015
MARCH 2015
  • AFL Grand Final Sprint updated:
    - 1996 Lightning Premiership Sprint added
    - Doug Cox (3rd in 1982) added to Top 3 Placings table
    - Geoff Ablett noted as a late scratching in 1982 due to injury
    - Geoff Ablett confirmed as winner in 1985
    - Confirmation unearthed that the sprint wasn't held in 1986
    - Leigh Montagna (St Kilda) and Alex Forster (Fremantle) added to 2013 field
    - Race fields for 2008-2014 added

APRIL 2015            - photo of the Victorian Football Cup (for VFA vs VAFA matches) added
           - new info about the 1975 and 1976 VFA vs OMFL matches added
  • VFA/VFL Records updated - most games list expanded from the top 10 to a full list of the VFA-VFL's 200 Club. 
  • VFA/VFL Non-Premiership Matches updated - 11 new games vs the VFL added plus missing scores for four other matches:
    1898 – Port Melbourne v Collingwood
    1898 – Brunswick v Carlton
    1899 – Port Melbourne v Collingwood
    1899 – Richmond v Fitzroy
    1900 – Port Melbourne v Collingwood (scores)
    1900 – Port Melbourne v Fitzroy
    1902 – Port Melbourne v Collingwood (scores)
    1902 – Essendon Town v Carlton (scores)
    1903 – Richmond v Fitzroy
    1904 – Port Melbourne v Carlton
    1905 – Port Melbourne v South Melbourne (scores)
    1905 – Port Melbourne v Carlton
    1906 – Port Melbourne v South Melbourne
    1936 – Brunswick v Melbourne 2nds
    1937 – Preston v Melbourne 2nds
  • VFA/VFL Representative Football History updated:
           1935 – VFA v Richmond (scheduled night match at the Motordrome, postponed twice then never played)

MAY 2015
  • Typos corrected (thanks to Richard Attard for his help with this). Amendments have been made to the:
           - 1976 VFA Lightning Premiership Grand Final (Brunswick's final score)
           - 1976 NFL Wills Cup semi-finals (Glenelg's final score)
           - 1986 VFA Division 2 Grand Final (Sunshine's half and three-quarter time scores)
           - 1993 VFA Pre-Season Cup (Dandenong's final score vs Springvale in the opening round)
           - 2012 Foxtel Cup (Werribee's score in the opening round)

AUGUST 2015
SEPTEMBER 2015            - A  joint project between David Eastman (HardBallGet.net) and Rob Meredith (www.footyjumpers.com)
           - VICTORIA is the first State to be featured            1980 - Coburg v North Melbourne 'B'
           1980 - Port Melbourne v South Melbourne 'B

OCTOBER 2015
  • VFA/VFL season 2015 updates added:
          - 2015 Grand Final details
          - 2015 Medallists (Liston/Goss/Johnson/Fothergill-Round)
          - Finals Records
          - Premiership Captains/Coaches
  • AFL Inter-Club Awards updated. Huge thanks to Matt Gibbs for researching the winners of many of the various Best on Ground medals and for making me aware of the Sands of Gallipoli Medal
           Three new awards added:
           - Nick Schernickau Trophy
           - Richard Pratt Medal
           - Sands of Gallipoli Medal
           Plus new information for these awards:
           Alec Campbell Cup
           - commenced in 2001 when Tasmanian Devils joined the VFL.
           - missing venues added for 2001-2004.
          Berry Street Cup
          - as of 2015 the cup is no longer presented.
          David Parkin Cup
          - commenced in 1998 as a trophy for the winning team [The Age 12-4-1998]
          - changed to a best on ground medal in 2003
          Frank MacDonald Medal
          - commenced in 2001 when Tasmanian Devils joined the VFL.
          Jason McCartney Medal
          - medal is now defunct (last awarded in 2013).
          Marn Grook Trophy
          - 2002-2013: awarded to the winner of Sydney-Essendon matches played in Sydney.
          - 2014-present: awarded to the winner of Sydney's Indigenous Round match (vs various opponents).


2016
FEBRUARY 2016
NOVEMBER 2016
  • VFA/VFL season 2016 updates added:
          - 2016 Grand Final details
          - 2016 Medallists (Liston/Goss/Johnson/Fothergill-Round)
          - 2016 Rep match vs SANFL
          - VFA/VFL Representative Records            1957 coach vs NTFA-NWFU - Frank Johnson (Port)
           1957 coach vs SA (in Melbourne) - Frank Johnson (Port)
           1957 coach vs SA (in Adelaide) - Frank Johnson (Port)
           1964 VC vs TAS - Bob Freyer (Port)
           1965 VC vs WA - Bob Freyer (Port)
           1966 VC vs WA / TAS / VFL / SA - Tom Crosher (Port)
           1977 coach vs QLD - Norm Brown (Port)
           1977 captain vs QLD - Fred Cook (Port)
           1977 VC vs QLD - Bill Thompson (Dand)
           1980 VC vs NTFA - Robert Anderson (Prahran)
           1980 VC vs SA - Robert Anderson (Prahran)
           1981 captain vs GNFL - Laurie Burt (Coburg)
           1981 VC vs GNFL - Vic Aanensen (Port)
           1989 VC vs NSW / QLD / Aust. Amateurs - Gary Sheldon (Coburg)
           1990 VC vs ACTAFL - Gary Sheldon (Coburg)
           1992 VC vs VCFL - Anthony Allen (Sandringham)
           2001 VC vs SANFL - Matthew Brewer (Box Hill)
           2002 VC vs SANFL - Matthew Brewer (Box Hill)
           2004 VC vs WAFL - Steve Lawrence (Port)
           2005 VC vs SANFL - Nick Carter (Bendigo)
           2008 VC vs SANFL - James Podsiadly (Werribee)
           2013 VC vs WAFL - Marcus Marigliani (Sandringham)
           2016 coach vs SANFL - Andrew Collins (Williamstown)
           2016 captain vs SANFL - Jordan Russell (Footscray Reserves)
           2016 VC vs SANFL - David Mirra (Box Hill)
  • Missing Info added - the first name of the VFA's leading goalkicker of 1881 is Eddy (thanks to Andrew Jenkins and Rob Harris for pointing me towards the E. Brookes page at Blueseum)
  • NFL Night Series updated - two missing attendance figures from the 1977 series have been added:
    - RD.2 Port Melbourne vs Queensland - crowd: 500
    - QF Port Melbourne vs Norwood - crowd: 2,500
  • AFL Grand Final Sprint updated - the 2016 competitors and finals field info added along with race footage.
           ***PLUS***A huge amount of missing info has been added courtesy of Matt Gibbs' fine detective work:
           1986 - further info on the Foster's Grand Final Entertainment Spectacular that (briefly) replaced the sprint and,
                          much like Foster's Lager itself, was an absolute fizzer.
           2002 - Brown (Haw) and Fevola (Carl) confirmed as finallists
           2004 - names of 7 previously unknown runners added: Bannister (Carl) / Crouch (Syd) / Jones (WCE) / Koops (WB) / Lokan   
                          (Coll) / Merrett (Bris) / Schwarze (StK) [Hawthorn's entrant remains the only unknown name from that season]
           2005 - Bannister (Carl) and Campbell (Syd) confirmed as finallists (Begley, Faulkner, Schammer and Pearce did not qualify).
           2006 - Peake, (Frem), Phillips (Syd) and Notting (Bris) confirmed as finallists - full finals field now known plus placings.
           2007 - Copeland (Bris), Goldsack (Coll), Ryder (Ess), Reynolds (Geel) and Fiora (StK) confirmed as finallists - full finals field
                          now known 
           2009 - race video added
           2013 - race video added
           Thanks, Gibbsy!

DECEMBER 2016
  • VFA/VFL Liston Trophy updated - following Sam Mitchell's retrospective 2012 Bownlow Medal win, his name has been added alongside Barry Round and Des Fothergill as the only players to win both the Brownlow and the VFA-VFL's best & fairest award


2017
FEBRUARY 2017
  • Matt Gibbs joins Hard Ball Get as a contributor. Gibbs joins the site with significant football writing experience, having contributed over 300 articles on local football to the Geelong Advertiser over the past five years. He has also provided commentary for numerous Grand Finals in the local Geelong League since 2012 and is a long-serving moderator on the popular BigFooty website.
  • A GUIDE TO YOUTUBE'S BEST FOOTY CHANNELS launched
  • A HISTORY OF THE AFL NIGHT SERIES/PRE-SEASON CUP (1956-1987) launched:
          - All Grand Finals (including quarter by quarter scores, venues, crowds, GF teams)
          - A full review of each season of the Night Series/Pre-Season Cup (including qtr by qtr scores, best players, goalkickers)
          - Premiership captains/coaches
          - Premiership tallies
          - Statistical Records (most games, most goals, biggest wins/losses, etc)

MARCH 2017
MAY 2017           NEW ADDITIONS:
           Goodes-O'Loughlin Medal (2016-)
           Lake Premiership (1938-1964)
           Tom Wills Award (2017-)
           NEW INFORMATION:
           Albert Thurgood Trophy - additional origin info added
           Blue Ribbon Cup/Silk-Miller Medal - 2006 winners added (Mitchell & Riewoldt)
           Col Austen Trophy - confirmed the inaugural year was 1996
           HMAS Sydney II Best on Ground Trophy - confirmed this was not presented in 2011
           Kevin Sheedy Cup - confirmed inaugural year was 1998 (not 2005 as shown on Wikipedia, etc)
           Len Hall Medal/Anzac Day Cup - confirmed the annual match is named in honour of Hall but no medal or trophy is presented

JUNE 2017           1906 Richmond vs Melbourne

SEPTEMBER 2017
OCTOBER 2017
  • AFL Grand Final Sprint updated - 2017 competitors and finals field info added along with race footage
  • VFA/VFL season 2017 updates added:
          - 2017 Grand Final details
          - 2017 Medallists (Liston/Goss/Johnson/Fothergill-Round)
          - 2017 Rep match vs WAFL
          - VFA/VFL Representative Records
          - VFA/VFL Finals Records
          - Premiership Captains/Coaches

NOVEMBER 2017

2018
APRIL 2018            - Glendinning Medal
           - Silk-Miller Medal
           - Anzac Day Medal
           - Brett Kirk Medal
           - David Parkin Medal
           - Peter Badcoe VC Medal

MAY 2018
  • AFL Inter-Club Awards updated:
           - Richard Pratt Medal
           - Showdown Medal
           - Tom Wills Award
           - Marn Grook Trophy
           - Goodes-O'Loughlin Medal
           - Yiooken Award

JUNE 2018
  • AFL Inter-Club Awards updated:
          - HMAS Sydney II Trophy
          - Neale Daniher Trophy
          - Rose-Sutton Medal
          - Ian Stewart Medal

JULY 2018
AUGUST 2018
  • AFL Inter-Club Awards updated:
          - Glendinning-Allan Medal
          - Showdown Medal
          - Brett Kirk Medal/Sydney Derby Trophy
          - Marcus Ashcroft Medal/Q-Clash Trophy

OCTOBER 2018
  • AFL Grand Final Sprint updated - 2018 competitors and finals field info added along with race footage
  • VFA/VFL season 2018 updates added:
          - 2018 Grand Final details
          - 2018 Medallists (Liston/Goss/Johnson/Fothergill-Round)
          - Finals Records
          - Premiership Captains/Coaches


2019
OCTOBER 2019
  • A HISTORY OF THE GARDINER MEDAL launched - Matt Gibbs delves deep into the history of the VFL/AFL Reserves Best & Fairest award (includes top 3 placegetters and votes tallies - the first time these have appeared online or in print - and details of four players who players who originally lost on countback but were somehow overlooked when the AFL presented retrospective medals in 1992).
  • VFA/VFL season 2019 updates added:
          - 2019 Grand Final details
          - 2019 Medallists (Liston/Goss/Johnson/Fothergill-Round-Mitchell)
          - Finals Records
          - Premiership Captains/Coaches           - Rep Matches-VFA/VFL (old)
          - Rep Matches-VFA/VFL (1877-1896)
          - Rep Matches-VFA/VFL (1897-1949)
          - Rep Matches-VFA/VFL (1950-1969)
          - Rep Matches-VFA/VFL (1970-1989)
          - Rep Matches-VFA/VFL (1990-today)
          - Rep Matches-VFA/VFL (2nd Division)
  • VFA Non-Premiership Matches section overhauled.
          - VFA vs VFL page merged into the VFA-VFL Practice/Exhibition Matches page (refer to the VFA vs VFL tab)

SEPTEMBER 2019
AUGUST 2019
  • AFL Inter-Club Awards updated:
          - Brett Kirk Medal/Sydney Derby Trophy
          - Marcus Ashcroft Medal/Q-Clash Trophy

JULY 2019
  • AFL Inter-Club Awards updated:
           - Glendinning-Allan Medal
           - Showdown Medal

JUNE 2019
  • Stage 1 of site redesign underway - AFL Grand Final Sprint revamp completed:
           - all race fields now in table format
           - 2002-18 race reviews moved to a tabbed layout
  • AFL Inter-Club Awards updated:
          -Shanghai Cup & Medal (new)
          - HMAS Sydney II Trophy
          - Neale Daniher Trophy
          - Rose-Sutton Medal
          - Ian Stewart Medal

MAY 2019
  • Stage 1 of site redesign underway - layout and theme of the AFL Inter-Club Awards page revamped
  • AFL Inter-Club Awards updated:
           - Richard Pratt Medal
           - Showdown Medal
           - Tom Wills Award
           - Marn Grook Trophy
           - Goodes-O'Loughlin Medal
           - Yiooken Award

APRIL 2019            - Glendinning-Allan Medal
           - Silk-Miller Medal
           - Anzac Day Medal
           - Alec Campbell Cup
           - Brett Kirk Medal
           - David Parkin Medal
           - Peter Badcoe VC Medal


2022
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