Coach: Mark Turner
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Coach: Mark Turner
Team Manager: Phil Longton

Season Summary

Wins: 13
Points: 41
Draws: 2
Ladder position: 3rd
Losses: 3

The team had an excellent season finishing 3rd on the ladder only missing a runners up pennant by goal difference. It was very pleasing for the boys, particularly for those who have come through the under 10’s and 11’s where our success rate was low.

There are many factors that contributed to this improved performance but most of the credit must be given to the Coach Mark Turner, who brought the best out the team with his planning, instruction and mentoring. He is a great role model for the boys and a high quality coach.

We enjoyed the influx of some talented new players with Matt Singhavong, Yonatan Noyman in the midfield and Nicholas Riley and Liam Feather usually in attacking roles. They all had good seasons and will be improved by the experience going forward. With the boys that have now played their 3rd and 4th season significant improvement could be seen. There was an excellent team structure starting with Paul Fitzgerald leading Shaun McCooke, Luke Longton and Ken Lustig-Asai in defence. Rhys Foran, Adam Asi and Adrian Marcon shared goalkeeper duties with mid field and attacking roles. Josh Garmen and Jarrod Ragozzini moved between defence and midfield and our leading scorer, Josh Dixon spending most of the year in the striker’s role.

The boys were well graded this year with most of the games only decided by the odd goal. The exceptions being 2 heavy losses to the premier side Manningham and a couple of big wins against the bottom sides. We were a very even side brought out by the fact that most players in the team scored at least one goal for the year. They all contributed!

Thanks to Phil Longton for his great work as Team Manager. The team and parents appreciated the significant time and effort he and his wife, Kerri, have put in for the last few years. Thanks also to all the parents for their positive verbal support and commitment to the Club duty roster.

We hope to see all the boys back next year in the under 13’s, where they will undoubtedly be capable of meeting higher challenges.

Laine McCooke
(posted 19:45 07 October 2007 by Laine McCooke)