World Footy News

The Canadian Under19 team known as the Wolfpack are back in Australia. They played a series of matches just prior to IC08 and are doing the same thing again this year.

Their first hitout was against the Ballarat school St Patrick's college, which traditionally has a very strong football talent pool drawn from far and wide as the school has many borders from other rural areas in Victoria as well as interstate.

The Canadians went down to St Pats in the match but Mike McFarlane told us that "Our boys were a little in awe for most of the first half but in the second half they played really well and competed right to the final siren. St.Pats told us that they were impressed by the boys tackling and general skill level and the way they keep going right to the end regardless of the score. They said that they had to work hard for the win. Our best players were Nico Valderamma, Cormac Hotti and Chris Steer."

An indication of the talent in the school's intermediate team that played against the Wolfpack is that they have one GWS signed player, one U16 All-Australian and up to five players their coach thinks will play in the AFL.

The match received some good coverage in the Ballarat Courier.  The (unconfirmed) final score appears to be St Pat's 14.7 (89) to Wolfpack 0.1 (1).

The Wolfpack were off to Healesville to play their U16 club tonight under the lights this evening and we will post scores once they become available.