Josh Partridge and Ryan Bentley discuss the fiery division one clash between St Pats and George Town in episode 86 of The Press Box. Video by Aaron Smith and Paul Scambler (7/5/25)
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00:00Welcome one and all to another episode of the Press Box. My name is Josh Partridge and today
00:11I'll be doing my best Ben Hand impersonation as our usual host is not on today. So he's away on
00:17golfing duties at the moment playing Cape Wickham on King Island. So we're all a bit jealous of him
00:23today but I'm joined today by Ryan Bentley. We've been holding down the fort in Ben's absence.
00:28We've got a pretty big show for you today but we'll start off with what Ben thinks is everyone's
00:33favorite segment numerology. Now Ben's numerology is usually a big bunch of maths combined and
00:45a bit a bit lengthy a bit of a stretch but I've gone pretty cut and dry today. Press Box 86 this
00:51episode is and 86 is important in Tasmanian sport because it is the year that Tasmania first joined
00:57the Australian Women's Cricket National Championships. We didn't have our own team
01:02in the national competition until about 2009 I think it was but this was the 1986 was the first
01:07year we had our team in the competition. So there you go every day's a school day you've learnt some
01:13new things today. Right so obviously on the weekend there was no NTFA Premier Division so
01:18Division 1 was the focus and Ryan you went out to Georgetown versus St. Pats. How did that go?
01:24Yeah we entered Georgetown St. Pats. A couple of good games the men's and the women's game. I'll
01:28speak on the women's game first. St. Pats won that by 15 points. Some wayward gulking from Georgetown
01:34probably cost them in the end because they had the same amount of scoring shots and but yeah it was an
01:39awesome game. You can see how much it meant to St. Pats who are have a fairly new women's program so
01:44it was awesome for them to get the win. And then the men's game as well another awesome game. St.
01:48Pats came out at the top of that as well. 14 points in the end but it was a very close game
01:54throughout. Ebbs and flows. St. Pats you know got ahead in the second quarter and then Georgetown
02:01just brought it right back I think to within five at the start of the fourth quarter and then
02:05Dylan Riley their star recruit kicked two in the last quarter to kick them away and get them that
02:1014 point win. Yeah it was the same kind of story at the game that I was at. I was at Lilydale Bridge
02:14North and it was similar in the fact that the star recruits really shone through and really stood up
02:19at big moments. So Lilydale were leading by up to four goals into the last quarter so it seemed like
02:27they had the game wrapped but then Bridge North kicked three goals in a row in a matter of five
02:31minutes to really get the game within a goal and scare them a bit but Lilydale's Jay Lockhart stood up
02:38and took a few big pack marks to really secure the game for the Demons and really make sure
02:44that they held on and now they're three and one coming in from the old Division 1 competition
02:49into the new one. They're sitting pretty strongly so yeah Division 1's been the competition that's
02:54been I guess the closest. Obviously the Premier Division and Division 2 have been a bit lopsided
03:00here and there so I suppose Ryan talk me through I guess the bigger margins that have happened
03:05I guess throughout the Division 2 competition that you cover. Well I mean this week was a pretty
03:09good example of it. Perth I think beat Uni Mowbray by 270-ish points and Perth I think did the same
03:17thing to Meander Valley the week before so it's just unfortunately in Division 2 I think there are
03:23two teams in Meander Valley and Uni Mowbray that are both I think at that similar stage where they're
03:28struggling to get players together. Yeah it's unfortunate but then at the same time you then
03:35at the top end you have five pretty equal teams I think in Division 2 so you know I think it's always
03:40going to happen that you're going to have two bad teams or one or two bad teams so yeah that's not
03:46the end of the world I don't think. Yeah it's a really interesting one obviously with that one you've
03:49got two teams at the bottom end of the scar but whereas at Premier League you've got two teams that
03:54have come down from the State League so they're two really strong outfits that seem to be cut and dry
03:59above the other four teams that have come in and with that they were the teams that dominated the
04:05rep squads that were announced yesterday so they announced 44 men and 37 women for training for the
04:12NCFA representative games so their training starts tonight actually on Wednesday and with that there
04:18was 16 North Launceston men and nine Launceston men sorry in the men's squad with the women's squad
04:25it was led by Scottsdale and Deloraine so there was nine Scottsdale and eight Deloraine so very
04:30interesting to see who will make those teams for those first games in May I think they are at the
04:35back end so yeah they take on the NWFL here at Utah Stadium and then the SFL at North Hobart Oval so
04:44big clashes there coming up and that wasn't the only rep games that we've had recently we had the
04:49Tasmanian rep game on Sunday which you went to Ryan I suppose talked me through that game against
04:54Sandringham yes so taking on VFL side Sandringham it was probably I mean on both accounts they're
04:59probably under man side particularly Sandringham heavy numbers were certainly a feature of the
05:05Sandringham side I think the lowest number was 44 as for Tassie I think it was a really good
05:11performance run really I've obviously come off the back of two disappointing losses to Norwood and
05:16Frankston yeah that just showed out I think nine new debutants for the side again so it was
05:23the Devils are achieving I think what they want to with this program which is that they want to get
05:30as many players through have a look at as many players going through it for the VFL side but yeah
05:35they came out I think winners by 30-ish points in there and you spoke to coach Jeremy Werrible about
05:40Theo Ives and the performance he had yes yeah Jeremy was really impressed with Theo hasn't had much to do
05:46with him apparently like this is about the first time that he's come through but yeah I thought
05:50Theo was awesome just around the back line kind of playing played a bit one-on-one then played as
05:55the spare just in that kind of goalkeeper role and just came across so many times and took some big
06:00pack marks and just yeah really made yeah that Tassie defense look really strong and to go on with
06:06the Devils theme the earlier this week the Devils announced some of their first off-field signings
06:12for the for the Tasmanian football team so Derek Hine will be the head of recruiting and Todd Patterson
06:19will be the list head of list management and strategy so Hine comes from Collingwood he's overseen
06:24some of their premiership success over the last decade or so so that's a really big signing for
06:29the Tassie side and Todd Patterson Tasmanian face Tasmanian name be massive for him to be involved
06:36with the with the Tasmanian team so next thing we'll go to is soccer so Ryan you covered the the
06:43soccer on the weekend a really big win for Launceston City yes massive win for Launceston City as they
06:47continue their march in the 2025 NPL season they knocked off the reigning premiers from last year
06:54Glenaukie Knights 5-1 it was a crushing victory really for City and I mean if it hadn't already
07:00been proven their premiership credentials are very much on show they'll be probably be ruling their
07:07loss to Devonport strikers I think that was three weeks ago I believe lost one they shouldn't have so
07:14they see a win behind Southover in second place pretty easy schedule coming up for them so they should
07:20get the job done and then the big match at Prospect Park on June 14th will be South Hobart versus
07:26Launceston City and I think that will be probably the title definer for Launceston City and Daniel Sison
07:33and you were saying that this is the best that a Launceston side's ever gone in the NPL Tasmanian
07:38competition yes I believe it was 2018 when City came fourth and that was the best performance ever so
07:44I mean even coming second for a Launceston team is going to be pretty awesome so
07:48get around to Prospect Park when they're playing there because that's bloody awesome to watch
07:53and now we'll wrap things up with the last segment the leading segment now that Ben isn't here
07:59Josh's local hero of the week
08:01my local hero of the week this week goes to a runner an athlete Sam Clifford who
08:14broke the Australian national road record for the 10k distance over in Tokyo at the Tokyo speed
08:22competition over there so he ran a time of 27 minutes and 34 seconds so it was a massive achievement
08:29not just for a Tasmanian but for an Australian obviously to break that record so I've Sam was a
08:35couple of years below me at school so I've known Sam for for quite a while and he was always destined to
08:41be a pretty big good runner and he was always doing laps around areas like the Lugana Oval and all
08:46things like that so to see that go on to an international scale is fantastic so congratulations
08:51to Sam and well done on being Josh's local hero of the week that is another episode of the press box
08:58we have for you today so be sure to pick up a copy of the examiner newspaper or to read our stuff online
09:04and have a nice weekend