Get the latest insight from Sandringham Senior Coach and St Kilda Development Coach Jake Batchelor following Sandringham's Round 5 win against the Northern Bullants.

VFL MATCH CENTRE: View all news, stats and highlights from Round 5

SANDRINGHAM  3.6  7.8  10.12  12.15 (87)
BULLANTS  0.4  1.8  2.9  3.12 (30)

GOALS
Sandringham: Vesely 3, Hayes 3, Collard 2, Zagari, Young, Jones, Brown
Northern Bullants: McKenzie, Jorgensen, Chubb 

Zak Jones

30 disposals, four tackles, one goal

Zak was the most influential player on the ground during Saturday’s match. Strong in the contest and repetitively helped bring the ball forward. Played like you’d expect from a quality AFL midfielder.

Lance Collard

2 goals, nine disposals, two tackles

Lance had some good chase efforts with opportunities for consistency still present. He went through a few centre bounces in the seconds half where he looked lively which is good weapon to be able to throw at the opposition going forward. He finished the match with four shots at goal and six overall score involvements.

Paddy Dow

22 disposals, four marks, three tackles

Paddy played his first game for the club on the weekend and brought a tough brand of footy. He was really lively around the ball and had a great step on him. Good to get him through a full game.

Isaac Keeler

21 disposals, 14 kicks, nine marks

Another progressive game for Isaac. His work in the air was strong with six spoils and nine marks. He played his most consistent game for the year, standing up as the lone key defender.

Jack Hayes

18 disposals, three goals, seven hitouts

Very strong performance by Hayes. Overall, five shots at goals, ten score involvements and three contested marks for the big fella. He competed strong in the ruck when we needed him also. Great game by Jack.

Angus Hastie

25 disposals, seven marks, three tackles

Hastie performed well on the wing after a quarter at AFL level the night before and a flight back to Melbourne in the morning. He ran hard to open spaces for our ball movement and provided good support in the contest.

Arie Schoenmaker

27 disposals, 23 kicks, seven marks

Saturday was Arie’s best game for the year. Starting with physicality and intensity around the contest, he competed well with five score involvements as a back so clearly still brought his weapon to the table, good progression shown this week.

Matt Allison

12 disposals, three marks, two tackles

First game back for Fruity in six weeks off an MCL. He performed strongly, competing well against some strong defenders whilst getting involved in our team attack. Good to have him back.

Ben Paton

22 disposals, eight marks, four tackles

First game back for Pato, he was strong in the contest, took the game forward for us well and did his usually proactive position on defence. Great to have him through for his first game back.

Tom Campbell

51 hitouts, 16 disposals, four tackles

Colossal as a ruckman, he competed really hard, and gave our mids best use. Really solid performance. Tom stuck to our structure and didn’t take his foot off the pedal at any point despite the strong lead.

Angus McLennan

11 disposals, seven kicks, seven marks

McLennan put another solid game in. His running power and ability to play our team defence system is increasing each week. Couple of moments with ball in hand to review but defensively going well.

Liam O’Connell

15 disposals, five marks, two tackles

Good game by Liam, he was involved in our attack a bit more this week as a high half-back, bringing his strengths to play with his run and carry. We work through developmental aspects each week, and he’s been very proactive about making the tweaks required to build his repertoire on game day.

FOR THE ZEBRAS

Darby Hipwell

18 disposals, nine kicks, two tackles

Quiet game for Darby compared to his usual high standards. Still cracked in hard and helped take the ball forward. Looking forward to a bounce back from him next week.

Vincent Zagari

Nine disposals, four total clearances, one goal

Quiet game stats wise however he challenged his opponent well inside and was consistently first back defensively. Vinnie made a really strong ground ball in the defensive half to take us forward which personified his toughness at this level.

Tom Blamires

21 disposals, seven marks, four tackles

Historically a back and wing. Tom played high half forward, supported the stoppage and was involved with our attacking chains resulting in having multiple shots at goal. Straight kicking would have called his game off nicely.

Will Vesely

13 disposals, three goals, eight marks

Will’s first game for the year. He competed very strongly in the air with three contested marks, challenged the Northern Bullant defenders inside 50 and finished with five shots (3.2).