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 MINGARA
PRESENTS
PHOTOGRAPH
Mingara
Director, Keith Crossman, was joined by several of his fellow
Board Members when they presented a studio photograph of
the 2008 Under 16 Premiers recently.
Under 16 coach, John Grose was on hand to accept the very
detailed photograph which will gain a prize spot in the clubroom
wall. |
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FREO SCOUT TO LOOK
AT
K/VALE HEAT PLAYERS
A leaked report has revealed
that a Sydney based Fremantle Dockers Talent Scout will be
checking out the four Killarney Vale players selected in the
Northern Heat Under 18 Side.
The team will continue
training after new year and play a series of matches at the
Coffs Harbour Carnival in the same month. |
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 TRAINING
BEGINS
The
club started it's first of two before season training
runs at the North Entrance Beach under new coach, Dave Dunning.
There was a smattering of players from the three grades in
attendance while Dunning and Under 18s coach, Todd Clarke, put
them through a routine which included a number of new drills and
exercises.
Besides the players a number of officials were on-hand with the
new movie camera capturing every moment of the evening's
activities - apart from the adjournment to the bottom pub at The
Entrance.
A
further run at the same venue will be held next Wednesday at
6.30pm followed by a Christmas gathering at the club on Friday
19.
Training will re-commence in the new year on Tuesday 20 January. |
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THE
PROFESSOR CAN FIX YOUR COMPUTER
In
days when fixing your computer or getting an upgrade can become
a bit expensive, the club has organised with a local, Mick
'The Professor' Byrne, to come on board and offer his
services.
He lives at Berkeley Vale, works out of his garage and is a
highly regarded computer engineer with a degree to go with it..
Mick can be contacted on 0410338996. |
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 FOUR
MAKE
NORTHERN HEAT TEAM
Four of the club's Under 18
players have been selected in the Northern Heat Under 18 Team
which will now contest the state Under 18 Championships in Coffs
Harbour in late January.
The Northern Heat is a
regional representative side and second step for players to gain
further representative honours. It is the pathway for
these young men to bigger things in their football.
Bryce Singleton, Luke Freemantle, Hugh Wells and
Daniel Lloyd were the four from the Killarney Vale Club who
were chosen.
They have been training with the Central Coast Under 18 side on
a weekly basis since October and today competed in the selection
trials for the Northern Heat team held at Teralba.
The other sides the Heat team was selected from included
Newcastle, North Coast and Central West NSW.
The Heat will now train under coach, Scott
Harrington until the Coffs Harbour carnival which will involve
eight teams from all round NSW. In the past this series
has been held over the Australia Day Weekend where a NSW
Team will be chosen to contest the National Championships in mid
2009.
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Hugh Wells |
Bryce Singleton |
Luke Freemantle |
Daniel Lloyd |
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CLUB ADOPTS A YOUTH
POLICY
Following several meetings of
the club's enthusiastic match committee a decision has been
taken that they will concentrate on youth in an attempt to
continue building the club into a strong and competitive
organisation.
"I had watched what happens in the club over the past year
since I have been here" senior coach, Dave Dunning
said "and I can see there is a lot of scope to work with and
while we have some experience in our ranks I want to use as many
young guys as I can to play in the senior side."
"I would welcome any young
guy who wants to play with the Bombers and I can promise that
everyone who tries out with the club will get every opportunity
to perform."
The club's administration
backs the move saying it will lay the foundation for the club
for many years to come.
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SOLID GROUP BACK IN CHARGE
Most of the incumbent members of all three
committees at the football club were returned unopposed in an
act of overwhelming support at today's Annual General Meeting.
Before a healthy crowd of supporters and
players, the club declared a small operating profit on the
year's activities but more importantly said that they were
consolidating on a good year and working towards on-field
success in both senior and junior divisions in 2009.
The Bomber's executive committee will again
be headed up by life member, Ian Granland with another life
member, Graham Edgley as Administration Manager and Russ Stimson
the Finance Director.
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Senior Committee |
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Junior Committee |
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Alan Elsworthy |
Chairman |
Brendan Wilson |
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John Carpenter |
V.Chairman |
Peter Mifsud |
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Position not filled |
Secretary |
Lynda Baldwin |
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Bob Barnetson |
Treasurer |
Lisa Wilson |
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Position not filled |
Football Mngr |
Paul Forster |
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Not applicable |
Registrar |
Karen Simpson |
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Tom Aafjes |
< Committees > |
John Grose |
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Ann Aafjes |
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Murray Schubert |
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Kim Parker |
Warren Pritchard |
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Bob Evans |
Debbie Pritchard |
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Craig Friend |
The meeting also discussed the following
issues:
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Online payment of registration fees;
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Pre-season game of International Rules
Football with The Entrance Soccer Club;
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Fundraising;
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Recruitment;
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2009 Functions;
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Training;
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Videoing of the entire 2009 club
activities.
A detailed annual report on the season 2008
was issued with an online copy available by
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few moments to load) |
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DUNNING APPOINTED
COACH
Dave Dunning has been
appointed first grade coach for the 2009 season.
The club is now in a position
to announce his appointment following weeks of delicate
negotiations with his employer: AFL(NSW/ACT). Dunning is
the local AFL Development Officer on the Central Coast and
initially it was thought that his coaching could compromise his
employment. It now turns out that other development
officers throughout the state are in a similar position.
Dunning played most of his football with Sydney's Pennant Hills
Club as an outstanding on-baller. In 2007 he played on the
Gold Coast and this season signed up with the Bombers where he
has proved most successful finishing third in the clubs best and
fairest.
He has already flagged two training sessions before Christmas
both at North Entrance Beach. The first will be on
Wednesday 10 December and another the following week on the 17
December commencing at 6:30pm. Training will then continue
in earnest in mid January.
Contact with Dave can be made on 0414198213. |
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CLUB TO CONCENTRATE ON UNDER 18s
The
club executive have already started to plan for next year and in
particular, the Under 18 side.
They
have shown concern at the general skill level of boys coming out
of Under 18s and moving into senior football and have begun
their journey into improving the situation with the appointment
of Todd Clarke as coach.
Todd
spent last season with the Wyong Lakes club after moving to the
area from Adelaide. He is very keen on his football and in
particular, coaching. At a meeting with members of the
club executive and the Assistance Club Director of coaching, Bob
Barnetson, this week they outlined a plan for 2009.
There
it was confirmed that the club will concentrate their energies
on the Under 18s as a beginning to introduce a better and more
structured approach to coaching right across the club and in
particular in the junior ranks.
Issues
discussed for the Under 18s included training, facilities,
equipment, recruiting, training programmes and regimes, staff
etc. Amongst other things it was decided to hold an
information night for players and their parents at the beginning
of 2009.
The
club is well on the way to improving their on-field performance
and will throw all their resources behind their plan to bolster
coaching and instruction to the junior players.
A
similar plan is currently being developed for senior football
with the match committee working on releasing details before
Christmas. |
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 CLUB
OFFERS
HISTORY VIDEO
The
club has received more copies of DVDs detailing the club's
history in still photographs and vision after the first issue
was sold out.
The cost for the two part set is $25 which includes two DVDs.
One
contains up to 500 still photos of club activities and
personalities going right back to 1978.
The other is a DVD of video film of games the club participated
in including the:
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$1,000 winner take all match against Cardiff in 1981;
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1987 grand final;
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1986 499-31 record score win;
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Clips from various recent matches;
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Interviews with the McVeigh brothers, and
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2007 Grand Final
This is
a unique look into the workings and people involved with the
club over the years and probably contains the faces of well over
1,000 people who were at one time part of the club. Some
are quite unique photos which capture the the time and the
occasion with the double set certainly value for money.
Click here to order
your set or contact the president on 0412798521 for further
details. |
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SNELLING
WINS CLUB B&F
Tim
Snelling, the club's strong 28 year old ruckman won the 2008
Best & Fairest in a tight finish revealed at the annual
presentation night held at the Bay Sports Club.
Snelling, a schoolteacher, has been in and out of the Bombers
side since his debut in 2002 the same year he gained selection
in the BDAFL Rep side.
A big strong athlete who knows no boundaries, Snelling, was the
teams power house this year and it told on their fortunes
late in the season when an injury put him out of action for the
last three games.
He won
the award with 43 votes just ahead of 2004 winner, Jason Edgley
on 39 and Dave Dunning on 38.
The Reserve Grade was won by popular former secretary and
president, Dan Bembrick on 53 votes. He also won the
league reserve grade B&F this year.
Bembrick, who flew in from Queensland especially for the event,
was an easy winner for the award. His closest rivals were
Alex Wells on 34 and last years winner, Rus Stimson who 32
polled votes.
He
spoke passionately about his time with the Bombers and
encouraged the younger players to concentrate on their football
and work hard to gain a first grade spot in 2009.
 The
Under 18 award was won by Brendan Lewis who surged from the
middle of the pack mid-season to win by a fairly comfortable
margin on 61 votes, nineteen in front of his nearest rival Bryce
Singleton with Hugh Wells in third place picking up 39 votes.
Corey Shackleton was awarded the Mingara Player of the Year
Award with Tom Aafjes a popular winner of Club Person of the
Year Award.
BEST & FAIREST
VOTING FOR 2008
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CLUB
TO INTRODUCE NEW
COACHING STRATEGY
The club will hold a
meeting on Tuesday Night (14 Oct.) with all 2009 club coaches
invited to attend to discuss several issues for next season.
One will be the appointment of a Club Director of Coaching
who's job will be to mentor, monitor and assist all coaches
within the club, both junior and senior.
This has been on the drawing board for some time but now after
12 months with the new administrative system within the club
having found its feet the executive felt it was high time to
take it another step forward and begin a program of 'coaching
the coaches'.
For too long the club has
faced the situation of junior players generally being poorly
skilled which boils down to them being poorly coached. So
when they begin to reach maturity only the exceptionally
talented have an inkling to move into the senior ranks with the
majority of the others either move out of the game or give it
away when they find they are not competitive after they enter
the senior ranks.
Club president Ian Granland said for too long the club has put
up with this situation with really no alternatives but now with
it growing and more people coming on board it provides more
opportunities to properly develop players.
"Over the years I have seen many very keen young men playing
senior footy who just don't have the skills. Its not their
fault but the fault of the club and consequently on the field
these players find it very difficult to match their opponents.
We want to change that" Granland said.
"We find this a lot in reserve grade and certainly in the
Black Diamond Football League, apart from this season, we have
been far from competitive over the years."
"Success on the field
is critical to our existence and I don't know if many people
appreciate that. If you have success there you attract
more players, more sponsors and supporters. Everyone loves
a winner and we have to ensure that we capitalise on every
opportunity which presents itself."
"We can't just have
players turn up each year just to 'play football'. I know
it's a just a sport but we have to win. Other clubs in the
league have shown how success breeds success. Just look at
the top four since the competition started." |
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 THONE-KAIN
WINS U16 B & F
Travis
Thone-Kain, winner of the GSJ-Central Coast Under 16 Best &
Fairest Award was again recognized by taking out the club's
Under 16 B & F announced at the junior presentation day.
Held at the ground in brilliant weather, 200 attended, many of
whom were involved in the presentations and awards.
We shall publish all the winners shortly but can announce that
Travis won the Under 16 Award, Ryan Meyn took out the Under 14
Award and Jessie Friend the Under 12 B & F. |
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Caleb Jones and
Auskickers |
Under 12 B&F
Jessie Friend |
Under 16 Team |
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JACKIE APPOINTED
GRANTS OFFICER
Former senior club secretary,
Jackie Meaney, has been appointed to the new position of 'Grants
Officer' for the football club.
Following an increase in
available grants within the community the club has taken the
positive step of appointing a person to monitor and where
necessary apply for grants which can benefit the club.
For the most part none of the
grants involve actual money. They have become increasingly
available from large corporate organisations who see a benefit
in distributing some of their profits throughout the community
organisations in this manner.
Jackie has already targeted some potential grant areas for the
club. |
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 BOMBERS
TAKE
UNDER 16 FLAG
In a
gutsy effort at the Adelaide Street Oval before a large crowd,
the Under 16 team won a gutsy grand final over Terrigal Avoca
12.10 (82) to 9.9 (63).
This was the first junior premiership for the club since 1998.
Western Bulldogs Scholarship player, Daniel Lloyd was awarded
player of the game.
Initially it was poor kicking that let the Bombers down in the
first quarter. They had their chances in front of goal but
could only manage 1.6 which allowed their opposition to take a
slight lead at the first change.
In the second term the team went up a gear. Their tenacity
and desire for the ball gave them the strength which was
needed when they piled on six goals to overwhelm the minor
premiers and hold a commanding lead at half time.
It was this quarter that Daniel Lloyd was in a class of his own.
He took some sensational marks and kicked ever so accurately
from at times very wide distances.
The Panthers came back in the third quarter. Several
errors and poor discipline by the Bombers allowed them to get
back into the game and at one stage the scores were tied at 63
apiece before the local side were able to kick away.
The last quarter was set the stage for a thrilling finish.
Nathan Higgins in the ruck was cramping but he too proved a
tower of strength along with the captain, Travis Thone-Kain who
continually shot the ball into attack for their forwards.
Three goals in the final term sealed the game for Killarney Vale
who went finished their season on the best high possible.
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1.6 |
7.7 |
9.9 |
12.10 (82) |
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Terrigal Avoca |
2.5 |
4.7 |
7.8 |
9.9 (63) |
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Goals: Daniel Lloyd
6, Aiden Greentree 2, Travis Thone-Kain, Brendan
Cousins, Jack Nancarrow, Jake Dean 1 each. |
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Best: Daniel Lloyd,
Travis Thone-Kain, Nathan Higgins, Angus Baldwin,
Brendan Cousins, Aiden Whymark. |
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The Under 16 Premiership Team
The Team:
Corbin Bond, Daniel Lloyd, Travis Thone-Kain (capt),
Edward Nichols, Jessie Jaumzems, Jessie Conley, Aiden
Greentree, Aidan Whymark, Kiren Sattler, Angus Baldwin ,
Daniel Dickson, Dylan Everard, Nathan Higgins, Reece
Newman, Paul Blain, Jarrod Craig, Jake Dean, Jack
Nancarrow, Brendan Cousins, Matt Starkey, Rowan Ritchens,
Daniel Cartwirght. |
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 DAN
WINS
LEAGUE
B &
F
Dan Bembrick
has won the the Black Diamond Football League's Reserve Grade
Best and Fairest Medal with 22 votes after leading throughout
the count.
This is the 32 year old Bendick's second season in the reserves
and because of his superb play the team led the competition for
most of the season only to see injuries upset the side at the
bottom end of the year.
He has
announced that he is moving to the Gold Coast within weeks to
take up a new position within the mining supply company he works
for and says he wants to play football with a local club.
Bombers officials have indicated that he may well now be better
suited to a Master Rules Club in the area!!
Bendick
(minus medal) is pictured here with a worse for wear Takeout at
the league function.
Rus Stimson
was the only other Killarney Vale player to figure in the top 20
in reserve grade.
Newcastle
City's Luke Rawnsley won the first grade
medal with 28 votes. Dane Amidy on 13 and Rick White on 9
votes the only two players from the Bombers to get in the top
twenty players.
Unfortunately
the club did not get a player in the top 20 in the Under 18s.
Full details of the voting will be released over the next few
days. |
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 BAY
SPORTS CLUB
SUPPORTS BOMBERS
The Bay Sports Club has
decided to get behind the Bombers as it's major sponsor for
2008. The club, which was formerly known as the Bateau
Bay Bowling Club and since taken over by Canterbury
Bulldogs, are keen to involve clubs like ours in their community
programme.
Killarney Vale Bombers are keen to foster a further association
with the Sports Club and have already discussed additional
events and other functions with Sports Club Officials. |
TECHNICAL
DIFFICULTIES
DEFER NEW
WEBPAGE
With the club's new webpage almost about to be posted
difficulties were found in the editing process which has now
delayed it's launch until a new editing progamme can be
located. For the meantime we are stuck with what you
see.
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WHO IS THIS??
Clues:
Taken many moons ago when this person was in the prime of his life.
He is now well involved with the club. |
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