Round 2: Williamstown Vs Collingwood
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Date: Saturday 5th April
Venue: Burbank Oval,Williamstown (Morris Street) (Melways Map 56 D12)
Seniors: 1.10pm start (ABC TV game)
Reserves Practice Match: 10.20am start

Come and watch the Seagulls take flight against former AFL alignment partner Collingwood in the big ABC TV clash on Saturday at Burbank Oval in sunny Williamstown.

We encourage all Members, Supporters, Past Players, Life Members, Sponsors and all those connected with the club in the past and present to attend this Saturday in a showpiece day for the Williamstown Football Club. We also encourage all Western Bulldogs Supporters and Members to attend and support your new VFL Partner the Mighty Seagulls.

The Seagulls are pumped up after the 56 point hiding dished out to rivals Werribee and look forward to battling a Collingwood side that defeated Port Melbourne in Round 1. Dean Galea and Andrew McDougall are possible inclusions for the Seagulls but it will be hard to omit anybody from last weeks victorious side. The fine form of new recruits Jason Cloke, Callum Urch and Ben Jolley has the Seagulls supporters excited about Williamstown's future prospects. Former Collingwood Assistant Coach Brad Gotch who is now Development Coach with the Western Bulldogs and Williamstown Coach will be keen to take on his old side and display his coaching prowess.

All Western Bulldogs Senior Players from this Fridays blockbuster game against St Kilda will be in attendance to sign autographs and conduct handball competitions for the kids at half time on the ground. Bulldogs Merchandise and Memberships will also be on sale.

The club is proud to announce the sell out of our 1st Presidents Luncheon of the year with over 160 people booked in to attend this great day in the history of the club. The Guest Speakers at the Luncheon will be Western Bulldogs Captain and 300 game superstar Brad Johnson and the guests will be entertained by legendary entertainer Mike Brady who will sing the Seagulls new theme song "Stand and Deliver". On behalf of President Trevor Monti we thank everyone for their enormous interest in the Presidents Luncheons and we are committed to being better than ever in 2008 and deliver the best pre-match Luncheon in the VFL.

Williamstown Memberships will be on sale at the ground on the day and the Club's Merchandise range will be on sale in the Social Room from 1pm onwards.

There will be a Aftermatch Function held in the Williamstown Social Rooms which will begin from 4.45pm onwards. Drinks and food will be available plus speeches from both teams will take place. We encourage everybody to attend to finish off the big day in style.

Special thanks to Match Day Sponsor Buffalo Sports. We thank Eane Whitton and his support team for their great support of the Williamstown Football Club and are proud to wear their off firld apparel.

All enquiries about the day please contact Brendan Curry/Trent Mosbey on 9390 0611 or by e-mail bcurry@westernjets.asn.au



Saturday 5th April, 1.10pm vs. Collingwood

Where: Burbank Oval, Williamstown

When: Saturday 5th April

10.20am: Reserves Practice Match: Williamstown v Box Hill

1.10pm: Seniors: Williamstown v Collingwood

Entry: Adult $10/Conc $5. Kids under 15 are FREE

Members: Memberships are available at the gate: $60 ($35 conc.) gives you FREE admission to all Williamstown home games and 1/2 price to away games ($5).

Special Events:

* All Western Bulldogs players will be at the game. A marquee will be set-up where fans can meet them and the players will be signing autographs for the kids.
* Williamstown Sponsors Day - we encourage all Williamstown loyal sponsors to enjoy the club's hospitality in the special Marquee which will be erected in front of the Social Rooms. We will be providing finger food and complimentary drinks to our Sponsors as they enjoy the football action from 1pm to the end of the match.

Sounds like Williamstown are doing everything possible to get a big crowd down there on Saturday, as well as truly create a partnership with the Western Bulldogs.

Great stuff.

Ill be there, good to finally too the doggies show a bit of interest, there was nothing when they were with werribee, even when they 1st chose to go with them, was pathetic, so its great to finally see them do somehting about it, hopefully this partnership works.

The Seadogs (with only 8 AFL listed players) absolutely pumped the Magpies (with 14 AFL listed players).

Williamstown: 4.6.30 ~ 11.7.73 ~ 16.11.107 ~ 25.12.162
Collingwood: 3.3.21 ~ 10.5.65 ~ 13.8.86 ~ 14.10.94

GOALS:
Williamstown: Rose 5, Galea 4, Skipper 3, Urch 3, Lyons 2, O'Keefe 2, Jolley 2, Johnson 2, Beaumont, Stretton.

BEST:
Williamstown: Johnson, Cloke, Rose, Galea, O'Keefe, Stretton.

Bulldogs listed players were largely disappointing.
- O'Keefe - Very good game. Seems to have no problems slotting into VFL senior level. Will just get better and better. Impressive.
- Skipper - Looked dangerous and can be more than happy with his efforts.
- Street - OK game, he can be satisfied.
- Tiller - Quite a good game. Got a lot of the ball, marked well and delivered well by foot.

Cloke was brilliant. Threw himself at everything. Rose was also very impressive for Williamstown.

Great result. I watched the first half on TV, before having to go to a family function - Willy had played okay, but kept letting the Pies back in. Looks like an amazing last quarter.

How did the Seadogs go in the reserves game? Was there a reserves game?

Paulie lets a dud like walsh kick 5 on him, ye the week before lets a superstar in pods just kick the one.

In the ressies henry white james mulligan jarrad boumann and john shaw played.

Cant say i took a whole lot of notice tho sorry.

I left out the players I thought were sub-par.

Stack struggled to find meaningful ball. Too often he was just standing around. He should be running hard to support the players around him.

I don't think O'Shea played the entire game on Walsh. Walsh was also very fortunate to kick 2 goals from marks that he actually dropped. Walsh is more developed and played OK so I wouldn't hold it against him.

Ward didn't get enough of it, and didn't do anything spectacualr with it when he had it. Wouldn't say he was bad but really didn't have an impact on the game.

Fair call I probably missed Reid who did show positive signs when he got the ball.

The reserves played, but it was only a practice match.

Remember, there are only 11 teams in the reserves comp, so they only play an 18-game H&A season.