Supercoach, Aussie Rules, Gaelic Football and now match reports, Swannie, Dave O’Shea (pictured in white at the South Asian Gaelic Champs a fortnight ago) has it covered.

Last weekend, Saigon kicked off its Reds Vs Whites internal competition which will be played weekly in the lead up to the Asian Champs in Bangkok on 11 August 2012.

This week, the Swannies’ website has invited Supercoach Sensation, Dave O’Shea, to provide some in depth analysis of what happened in the match.

If anyone should know what happened, O’Shea Should. Two weeks ago we reported that he was sitting in 83rd place out of 352,000 entrants on Supercoach. This week he’s climbed the Supercoach tables to find himself in 17th place.

Over to the Supercoach…

Congratulations to all the boys who played in Saturday’s match at RMIT. The game was a close one from start to finish, with the White team just getting over the line by a couple of goals. The depth of the club was truly evident on the weekend, with a couple of the gun players sidelined with minor injuries, we were still able to play out an exciting and skillful match with plenty of players.

The day started with a warm up of running, push ups, sit ups and squats. Then the teams broke up into Reds Vs Whites with the Whites wearing their Swannies jerseys inside out. Nat (Shinboner of the Century) Payne led the Reds’ warm up, whilst Nicko (big time) Shiells led the warm up for the Whites.

The scoring was opened by Pete playing for the Whites who made a great lead, took a screamer and finished the job by kicking truly straight over the “hey diddle diddle” of the soccer goal posts. The rest of the quarter was a real battle with some solid defence from both teams. By the end of the first quarter, the scores were very close with only a couple of points separating the two teams.

The second quarter was under way and the Whites were unable to capitalize on some great ruck work from new recruit, Luke. The Reds were doing a great job of shutting down the dangerous Whites’ mid fielders. Nathan (Reds) managed to find some space and was creating havoc from the half back line. He would need to be shut down in order for the Whites to get back in the match. At half time, again the scores were close with only a few points separating both teams.

The third quarter, which is commonly known as the premiership quarter, finally saw the Whites edge their nose in front. Phil Ghasseb from (Whites) was solid as usual in defence and put on some great hits, one absolute bell ringer on Ryan Evans. Maybe Phil was upset with one of Evo’s songs? Also Trav the Butcher was letting nothing through the goals and was finding targets from the back line. The Whites finished the quarter in front by a couple of goals.

The fourth quarter saw a dogged fight from the Reds, led by captain Nat Payne who was setting up play from the back. They were able to claw their way back a little, but a couple of goals from big man Kyle Hackenberg was enough for the Whites to finish on top.

The Whites now lead the series 1 game to 0, however, the Reds had some key personnel missing and will welcome those players back next game. What a rivalry this is turning out to be when the Whites will take on the Reds!

Interestingly, below is an extract from the AFL’s website:

The new Krakouer brothers

Greg Williams and Gerard Healy at the Sydney Swans Hall of Fame Dinner in 2009. Could O’Shea and Ghasseb be the next Williams/Healy combo?

OFTEN great combinations are found within good teams.

The most famous pair of all was Greg Williams and Gerard Healy who wreaked havoc with the Sydney Swans in the ’80s. Could the Vietnam Swans’ David O’Shea and Phil Ghasseb be on the way to becoming another super duo?

The signs are promising.

The statistics show that when Ghasseb gets the ball opponents in the vicinity of O’Shea should get nervous. On 19 occasions Ghasseb has passed to O’Shea by hand or foot, the third most common link in a chain of possession this season. When Ghasseb has the ball, O’Shea is often sweeping past like he’s driving a getaway car.