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Thursday, 14 December, 2006

The Saints held their annual prize giving awards at Kenny’s Bar & Grill on Sunday 3rd December. The highlight of the evening was the club awarding life memberships to Chris ‘Forrest’ Newlove and Brian ‘Twitchy’ Twitchett.

Chris began his career as our reserves grade ruckman back in 1996 before moving into adminstrative roles at the club that continue to this day. Chris is the club’s secretary, AAFL delegate and team manager for both senior and reserve grades. In an age where good, reliable sporting club volunteers are as rare as hen’s teeth the roles that Chris performs at the club are greatly appreciated and valued by us all.

Brian began his career at the Saints in 1995 (in his forties then and actual age not known) and has played every season since. Brian sets an outstanding example for all at the club with his reliability, his willingness to play in either (and in some cases both) grades and also to take on such roles as goal umpiring or running water. This season when we had ample numbers for our reserve grade team he also helped out our opposition on a few occasion by playing for them. Brian was also captain of our reserve grade premiership team in 2002. Brian shows no sign of retiring and will no doubt be turning out for reserve grade next season helping to bring along the generation of Sainters.

2006 Mt Roskill Saints award winners were:

BEST & FAIREST: Lewis Hurst: for the second year in a row and the only person to win the award twice. This award goes with Lewis’s 2006 AAFL competition best & fairest despite him missing our last three games through injury.

RUNNER UP BEST & FAIREST: Morgan Jones: Missed the first two games through injury before becoming one of our most consistent performers. Loves to run forward and kick a goal or two.

MOST CONSISTENT (3rd B & F): Jarrad Wallace: As the award suggests our ‘most consistent’ player. Held our defence together after the injury to Matt Callaghan

MOST IMPROVED: Tim Hollingsworth: From our young players class of 2005 that took us to the 2005 flag, Tim continued to improve to the extent that towards the end of the season coach Boyce had him playing on the best forwards in the league.

RESERVES BEST & FARIREST: Aran Percy: One of our many first year players that not only starred playing reserves but did very well playing in defence for the senior team.

BEST FIRST YEAR PLAYER: A tie between Liam Ackland and Aiden Hurley: Both under 18 players (Liam 15 and Aiden 17) with outstanding futures ahead of them. Watch out for these guys over the coming seasons as they develop into star senior players for the Saints.

PRESIDENTS AWARD: Jason Snashall: In his first season for the club Jason helped run our very successful quiz night being both the quizmaster and a prize donor. A great guy to have around the club in both a playing and volunteer capacity.

Things that all our prize-winners have in common is their commitment to the club and a willingness to work hard at their game. They all trained regularly and set a standard that, if followed by all players at the club, will result in our return to the top in 2007.

Many thanks again to Allan Wilson for organizing all the trophies and engraving.

Stay tuned over the next week or so as the club takes delivery of its storage trailer which was purchased with funding assistance from Scottwood Trust.

Finally we would like to thank our sponsors, Kenny’s Bar & Grill, Carl Drummond (Mike Pero Mortgages), Cowley Refrigeration and Kwik-N-Easy canopy’s for all their support throughout the season.

Enjoy the festive season and see you in 2007.