YEAR- 2003 NO.3 DATE - 28th APRIL

Club Reminders:

This week most teams travel to Barooga to play Cobram. The 10’s 14’s and 14 girls and Thirds men have a bye. The ground is at Barooga Sports Club on the NSW side of the river – allow one and half hours travel time from Albury.

All teams have normal kick-off times except 15 boys who will now start at 10-00am. The Thirds Ladies will start their game at 1-30pm.

Club Meeting – Next Monday night- 5^th May - 7-00pm Start – Termo Hotel –Dean St. Albury- All welcome.

Rooball starts this Saturday 3^rd May- for boys and girls 6 to 8 years wishing to learn soccer skills –Runs for twelve weeks-Glen Park 9-30 to 11-00. Cost $35-00.

Trivia Night will now be held late May to give the boys more time to think up some questions. More details next week.

Our Nine teams play their first games this Saturday 3rd May- Good Luck to the boys and girls!

9 Gold V Diamonds at Kelly Park 12-20pm kick-off

9 Black V St.Pats at Melrose Park 1-10pm kick-off

Seniors V Benalla won 6-1

Boys played pretty well. The first twenty minutes were very competitive and then gradually we asserted our superiority with some good soccer. Good pressure on our opponents and some quality passing was the difference. Daniel Powell, David Spokes were solid at the back, Ryan and Kanners worked hard in midfield. Possum made some good runs down the right in the second half. Some top goals by Kanners and Robbie Tudor. Other scorers were Millsy 2, the unlucky Tuskar 1 and Ryan Giles.

Reserves V Benalla won 11-0

Outstanding performance with all fifteen players used contributing to the Res. best win in years. Jimmy scored three but was awarded four goals by the ref. and the team mug by the coach. Andrew got a hatrick which is pretty good considering he was the sweeper. Bones gave his body a searching test and found it still works and Hon scored a goal that even surprised him. Keep up the great form.

Ladies V Benalla won 11-0

The ladies played well and scored some nice goals. Mic was really sharp in front of goal and Jessie and Zoe played well in the forwards. Great to see Amy and Georgia back with the team. Mia and Mellanie were great in midfield and Emily was good in defence.

15’s Vs Benalla WON 13 – 1

The boys first half was exceptional with most of the team contributing to all the goals scored apart from one mistake which gave them a goal. Being up 9 -1 at half time probably was not a good thing as the boys went into the second half a bit over confident and tried to score goals from everywhere. It got better late in the second half when we piled on another 4 goals when we started to knock the ball around again.Goal Scorers were Briggsy 4, Towny 3, Finny 2 (there is nothing he cant do at the moment) Seato 2 and Mitchell earnt his 2 late in the game after setting up a couple in the first half and won the weekly award. We won’t mention Marks’ harbour bridge effort either.

14's v Benalla - Won 11-0

This was a very uneven game. Benalla seemed to be half our size, with half our experience! As a result, the ball was rarely in their half of the field, and they did well to keep the score as low as they did. Some great work early from Andrew Lindsay who scored three goals. Goals also scored by Matt Reid (2), James Heath (2), Matt Townsend (2) and Robbie Hawksworth (1). However, overall our game was pretty sloppy due to the easy competition. We lost our sense of positioning and team play. We won't get away with it against our next opponents, the Diamonds!

12’s V Benalla – Won 10 -0

Let’s make it clear from the beginning, the match at training last Thursday was nothing but a trial, and as we all know trials don’t count!!!! The real match, without unregistered players, will be played later in the season. Even so it was a fantastic game and it was pleasing to see so many parents and spectators enjoying the evening with the boy’s.

The match against Benalla was a real confidence booster for the kids, not only in terms of the score, but also with contribution made by all to the final result. The game began with a bit of a sloppy start, where the Benalla kids threaten our goal a number of times. It was the use of the two Liam’s to add experience with Chris and Harry to stiffened the defence that saw the game turn around and save Jonno from needing to play superman and fly across the goals too often. As the game became more free flowing the midfield of Kai, Michael, Peter and Nick pressed forward, offering multiple opportunities to the forwards. Shaun dominated the right wing, reminiscent of the great Frenchman of yesteryear Aub Ergine, and pinpoint crosses setting up Oliver and James in front of goal. Dan grew in confidence and soon the Benalla defence was inundated and the goals came. Highlight goal came when Shaun crossed to Kai who using his egg, planted it in the goal with a forceful header. Kai with four, Olly and Shaun with three each scored the goals.

Under 11's Versus U 10's Won 6 – 0

Under grey skies the team took to the field to try to remember the game skills last used a fortnight ago, which they did to score a plethora of goals. It was a scratchy first half with the defence of Gena, Patrick, Jason and Adrian keeping a clean sheet and the team going into the break one nil up courtesy of a Chris W goal. We got our act together in the second half with the mid-field and forwards passing and combining together. Tom, Robert G, Brent, Blake, Chris C, James N, Robert B all picked up the tempo with James E putting his usual all round effort and getting one goal while Chris W got the other four. Michael had little work to do in goal but he will be tested next week. It was a pleasing effort and we are looking forward to the game at Cobram.

Star Player - Jason Dalitz

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