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If you miss any of the action in local footy, The Victorian Amateur Football Association will this weekend video-cast full coverage of the finals matches via the internet.

For the first time, supporters will be able to click through from the VAFA website and see their local teams’ game in full quality the day after it is played. Throughout the season players and coaches in A Section have had access to all of the weekend’s games to review their team’s performance as well as prepare for next week’s game via the internet.

The online deal was struck with video software solutions company Dartfish who have recently developed the sports video casting platform DARTFISH.TV. The Melbourne based company has been providing cutting edge video analysis software to sporting organisations, schools and broadcasters for over seven years in Australia.

Each week a pool of five camera operators shoot the matches which are captured directly to a laptop computer and then uploaded to the web overnight. From an internet browser, VAFA officials, umpires, team coaches, players and members all have access to view, comment online and download sections of the game for further analysis or simply saving in your video library.

Simon Lethlean, Old Xavier’s Coach said, “From a coaching perspective, having all VAFA A Grade senior matches available on line has been both a fantastic coaching tool and organisation tool for preparation against opponents, but also a great tool to promote the competition and the standard of the VAFA to a wider audience.

The coaching staff of Old Xavs has found having the games available to either view on line or to download a significant advantage in preparing our plans and reviewing our upcoming opponents and we thank the people at Dartfish for making this product readily and cost efficiently available for all A Grade clubs – it has certainly been a really positive step in 2009 for us.”

Video broadcasting on the web has seen websites like YouTube and Facebook become hugely popular. The Ammos hope to see many of the fans that can’t be at the game click on to see the action on line throughout the finals.