Mernda FC Senior Team

Coach: Rohan Doherty

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Mernda FC Reserves Team

Coach: Brett Ferguson

03/05/08

Seniors

Out Played NOT good enough. Goal kickers Curran 4, Stewart 3, Pow & Vasilevski 2each

Reserves

Another great win by the boys, Next week should be a cracker 1st v 2nd.   Best Shaun, DT, Chesty, Dezzy & Bobby. Goals Adam 5, Lepper & Wheels 4

u/19's

Not a good way to represent the club in the 1st half, Your here to play Footy. Training Wednesday & Thursdays now.

Goals Payne 2, 1each to Zabrieszach, Missailidis, Johnston & Sheil.

26/04/08

Today we had all three teams at home, The day started with the u/19's unveiling their premiership flag, The boys then shot out of the boxes against Whittlesea with a four goal to one 1st quarter and a seven to four goal lead at the big break. Our boys lack of fitness showed in the second half with the boys only kicking 3 more goals for the rest of the match, eventually going down to a fit Whittlesea team by 8 goals. Goal kickers were Matt Radziejewski 3, Kyle Mansfield & Russell Payne with 2 each. Better players on the day were Liam, Costa, Luke, Daniel & Jayden, We need to do a bit more work on the track  and better results will come.

The Junior Machine is still going flat chat with no one able to get near them at the moment. With a 164 point win you don't get a bad player, the only thing was the 27 points we kicked.1st Quarter; four goals, 2nd; five goals, 3rd; eight goals & the last seven goals. Better players were Carpet, DT, Cawsey, Lukey, Les & Kane Searle. Goal Kickers Adam I'm bored 5, Cawsey & Stilla 3 each, Blow, Jnr & Lukey 2 each.

The Senior's had nice 100 point win, with a 15 goal to 2 first half was all that was needed to take the points, A little concerned with the second half was only 7 goals to 5. Better players were; Curran, Pearso, Milky, Spoon, Twiggy and Welcome Matt Pow.         Goal Kickers : Mr Curran 9, Welcome back to full forward, and 2 each to Donga, Twiggy, Pow& Reesy.

Next Week Hurstbridge There.

20/04/08

Well what a weekend it all started on Friday night under lights with the u/11s having a big win at Yarrambat and the u/19's having a 7 goal win against Watsonia. I watched the u/19's and was pleasantly surprised on how good the boys looked, with 13 of the boys playing, only coming to the club in the last few weeks. Some of the better players were Liam, Eggy, Luke Hagg, Matt Radziejewski, Daniel Shiel & Robert Johnston but there wasn't a bad player to be seen. Now that there is a playing list of 34 for the u/19's Rocket is a very happy man, The Thursday before round one we had 12 players, Thanks to all the clubs and the NFL with all their help clearing the boys so they can play, No club held up any clearance. Can some people PLEASE give Paul Davies a hand on game day, he needs a Time Keeper, Umpire Escort and Interchange Stewart, none of the jobs are hard and you still get to see the whole game and help the club be a better club.

Now came Saturday and we all went up to Panton Hill, The Maggos started the day off in fantastic style having a 115 point win with only three good quarters of footy, the boys went to sleep in the second & Jnr got stuck into them at the long break and the boys came back with two seven goal quarters. Adam & Jnr both kicked 4 and Beau Lowry, Jason Faralla, Ben Clark, Matt McKenzie & Sam Wallace all got 2 goals. Now when you win by over 100 you don't have a bad player so well done to everyone. Special mention to Trent Prior, got himself put to full back so he could stand in the shade from the tree's & for the first time this year managed to take all his gear home, although he lost his phone on Friday night at Watsonia until he rang his number and the misses answered it from home??? She must be a good woman as she gave him a check list of things to bring home after the game.

Now comes the ones, After a poor start and a luke warm 2nd quarter the boys went wild in the 3rd  & 4th quarter to come home with a 17 point win, Yes we won. We must not and cannot give sides a huge start like we did on Saturday, What is the point of having a coach when you don't do what is asked, You proved in the first half it doesn't work, and when you started to do what you were asked for the team and put your body in for the team the whole game was turn right around. Remember it's a TEAM sport so if you want to play a me sport go and play Golf.

With the size of the ground there isn't much room for the forwards to lead so it was up to our full back to kick 5 goals, well done Luke. The ever young Patty and Ben Anderson both kicked 3 and the Collingwood six footer in Tyson got 2. We had a total of 10 different goal kicker for the game. After a fair first half Donga was move up the field and asked to use his controlled aggression and put the wind up a few of the Panton Hill boys which seemed to work and spark us into action. With Doeven playing a  magnificent game, Reesy and Spudda ( aka Daniel Roberts) Started to win more of the ball.                My BOG went to Mr Milky as he is now known, An outstanding Captains game across the half back,  One of the few players that had 4 great quarters. I think Tyson has come of age, he has proved to me that he can and wants to play A grade footy, Just watch out for those head high tackles.                     The better player I could see through the dust at Panton Hill were Marc Knight, Luke Drakes, Daniel Roberts, Tyson Truong, Matt Rees & Krys Douglas, with a heap of cameos in the Game, It's much better coming home with a win so lets rack up a few more. We have Heidelberg West at home this week so get to the ground, as well we will be unveiling the u/19's Premiership flag before their game  and as you know a Premiership flag doesn't come around all that often.

Special mention goes to Junior and Wheels, sparks were flying and you could cut the tension with a knife after a very intimate dance routine between the both of them... Get a room you two!

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 Lest We Forget   

13-04-08

Today we had a big crowd at Mernda in cool conditions.

The result in the one's wasn't so good . Mernda 8-3-51 Whittlesea 23-13-151. The good players were  Jay Pearson, Luke Shelton, Phil Doeven, Luke Drakes & Justin Stewart (BOG). Whittlesea reaped the benefit of a solid pre season, they used the ball much better by hand and foot and ran hard all day.    That Game is now over so let's all get behind the boys and get a win on the board. pull your fingers out and get to training and bloody well put in.

On the other hand the Magoo's played a great game of TEAM Footy and came home with the bacon.  It's was a great four quarter contest with the game still in the balance 15 min into the last quarter.        Mernda 15-7-97  Whittlesea 11-6-72, Better players were Justin D'Avoine, Brett Butler & Jason Szeremeta But you wont find a bad player. Goals Rod Adams 4, Jnr 3 & Stilla Benny D'Avoine 2 each were the multiple kickers. On a sad point it looks as it might have been the last time we see Big Bez on the field for Mernda as he popped his shoulder again. Get well soon there's still plenty you can do for the club.

I would like to thank Whittlesea for staying back and having a few beers and buying some raffle tickets. I'm sure we can repay the same for you guys, on and off the field

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