{"id":31786,"date":"2018-03-19T14:58:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T03:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afldraftcentral.com.au\/?p=31786"},"modified":"2021-10-06T06:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:29:48","slug":"tac-cup-preview-eastern-ranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/2018\/03\/19\/tac-cup-preview-eastern-ranges\/","title":{"rendered":"TAC Cup preview: Eastern Ranges"},"content":{"rendered":"

EASTERN Ranges may not have had the on-field success last year in terms of wins, but they were clearly the most successful off the field with a staggering 10 players drafted, in the form of Adam Cerra<\/strong> (pick five), Jaidyn Stephenson<\/strong> (six), Sam Hayes<\/strong> (47), Tyler Brown<\/strong> (50), Ryley Stoddart<\/strong> (53), Joel Garner<\/strong> (60), Tom North<\/strong> (65), Dylan Moore<\/strong> (67), Jackson Ross<\/strong> (71) and Trent Mynott<\/strong> (Rookie) all finding new homes.<\/p>\n

They took it up to Dandenong in the first final showing once again that they will always be a threat when it comes to finals football, they even did the same the year before, losing narrowly to eventual 2016 premiers Sandringham in one of the better TAC Cup games you will see.<\/p>\n

Eastern will not be expecting 10 players to be drafted like last year but there are still plenty of players making a good early impression. Eastern had a number of bottom age players have an impact last year with Adrian Kalcovski<\/strong> and Joel Burleigh<\/strong> (12 games), Xavier Fry<\/strong> and Ben Cardamone<\/strong> (nine) all players to keep an eye on. Eastern have a very even spread of players this time around so it will be hard to find the pick of the bunch, Cody Hirst<\/strong> showed a lot of class last year playing as a small forward and should be getting more time up the ground to showcase his great composure and skill. Blake Tahlambouris<\/strong> is a crafty medium forward who can have an impact both overhead and at ground level, he will be a tough match-up for the opposition this year and does his best work deep forward. Kye Quirk<\/strong> looked very comfortable last year playing in defence he showed a great ability to both attack and defend. He is a smart reader of the play who should be set for more midfield time this year, and is also the grandson of Carlton premiership player Bryan Quirk.<\/p>\n

An unexpected arrival as a 19 year-old playing for Eastern this year is none other than Devlin Brereton,<\/strong> son of Hawthorn champion Dermott Brereton. The lively small forward has come over from Sandringham Dragons after narrowly missing out on getting drafted last year; he faces a big year to prove himself. Eastern will be going in with a smaller and younger squad compared to last year so expect to see bottom agers like Jamieson Rossiter<\/strong>, J<\/strong>onte Duffy<\/strong>, Mitch Mellis<\/strong>, James Ross<\/strong> and Todd Garner<\/strong> (brother of 2017 draftee Joel Garner) all push to make an impact, making them the key to Eastern challenging for a finals spot again in 2018.<\/p>\n

2017 Stats:<\/h4>\n

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2017 Summary:<\/h4>\n

Eastern had an up and down year but managed to finish 6th. School football meant that the bulk of their star players weren\u2019t available for selection and that was made even worse at the National Championships when they would also lose their gun players who didn\u2019t have school commitments like Stephenson and Hayes. In the later part of the year Eastern really started to find their groove with the natural progression of their up and coming bottom agers and the return of their star players from school football culminating in a 5-game run of wins in the lead up to the finals. Although they lost their last 2 rounds to high quality finals teams in Oakleigh and Geelong, they gave Dandenong a massive scare in the first final where they lead by 50 points at half time. Eastern went out fighting which they have done so very often in recent years.<\/p>\n

2018 Snapshot:<\/h4>\n

Eastern start the year with a big game down at Skybus Stadium in Frankston against a strong Oakleigh Chargers team. Eastern only get to play the four games at their fortress in Box Hill and incredibly will play at 11 different grounds not including their home ground which they have to wait until round seven to play on. Once again Eastern will play a night game at RAMS arena in round two on a Thursday night.<\/p>\n

2018 Fixture:<\/h4>\n
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Eastern Ranges 2018<\/h4>\n\t\t
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Date<\/th>Game<\/th>Time\/Results<\/th>Venue<\/th>Article<\/th>\t\t\t\t<\/tr>\n\t\t\t<\/thead>\n\t\t\t
2018-03-24 11:00:49<\/date>March 24, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Oakleigh Chargers vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>61 - 11<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-03-29 19:30:59<\/date>March 29, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Calder Cannons vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>83 - 50<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-04-07 10:45:12<\/date>April 7, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Western Jets vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>57 - 25<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-04-21 10:30:28<\/date>April 21, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Geelong Falcons vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>107 - 62<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-04-28 14:30:59<\/date>April 28, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Eastern Ranges vs Gippsland Power<\/a><\/td>62 - 118<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-12 14:00:16<\/date>May 12, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Dandenong Stingrays vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>91 - 39<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-05-20 14:00:37<\/date>May 20, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Eastern Ranges vs Bendigo Pioneers<\/a><\/td>90 - 52<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-06-02 10:45:11<\/date>June 2, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Northern Knights vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>49 - 68<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-06-23 10:30:00<\/date>June 23, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Eastern Ranges vs Calder Cannons<\/a><\/td>55 - 74<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-06-30 12:00:14<\/date>June 30, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Sandringham Dragons vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>54 - 32<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-07-07 10:45:02<\/date>July 7, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Oakleigh Chargers vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>91 - 33<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-07-22 13:00:14<\/date>July 22, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Murray Bushrangers vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>72 - 46<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-07-28 12:00:22<\/date>July 28, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Eastern Ranges vs GWV Rebels<\/a><\/td>38 - 91<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-08-04 10:45:48<\/date>August 4, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Eastern Ranges vs Sandringham Dragons<\/a><\/td>56 - 66<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-08-19 12:30:42<\/date>August 19, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Eastern Ranges vs Calder Cannons<\/a><\/td>45 - 87<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-08-25 14:00:43<\/date>August 25, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Gippsland Power vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>77 - 68<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
2018-09-02 11:00:12<\/date>September 2, 2018<\/a><\/td>\"\"<\/span> \"\"<\/span> Western Jets vs Eastern Ranges<\/a><\/td>84 - 46<\/a><\/td>
N\/A<\/div><\/td>
Recap<\/a><\/td><\/tr>\t\t\t<\/tbody>\n\t\t<\/table>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EASTERN Ranges may not have had the on-field success last year in terms of wins, but they were clearly the most successful off the field with a staggering 10 players drafted, in the form of Adam Cerra (pick five), Jaidyn Stephenson (six), Sam Hayes (47), Tyler Brown (50), Ryley Stoddart (53), Joel Garner (60), Tom […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":25524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7949,8,16],"tags":[108,2535,2439,3738,3737,150,2182,3735,46,126,68,2421,2551,3736,67,3739,2303,2550,125,146,51,2157,2608,170,2416],"class_list":["post-31786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nab-league","category-news","category-tac-cup","tag-adam-cerra","tag-adrian-kalcovski","tag-ben-cardamone","tag-blake-tahlambouris","tag-cody-hurst","tag-devlin-brereton","tag-dylan-moore","tag-dylan-mynott","tag-eastern-ranges","tag-jackson-ross","tag-jaidyn-stephenson","tag-james-ross","tag-jamieson-rossiter","tag-joel-burleigh","tag-joel-garner","tag-jonte-duffy","tag-kye-quirk","tag-mitch-mellis","tag-ryley-stoddart","tag-sam-hayes","tag-tac-cup","tag-todd-garner","tag-tom-north","tag-tyler-brown","tag-xavier-fry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88211,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31786\/revisions\/88211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}