June Newsletter - Mt Roskill Saints Auckland AFL FC

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Thursday, 4 June, 2009

It has just been confirmed that Liam Ackland will be travelling over to South Australia on the 25th July to trial with the Glenelg Football Club. This is a great opportunity for Liam who will be involved with a club that plays in arguably the best competition in Australia outside of the AFL. The club wishes to thank Ian Francis who arranged the contact between Glenelg and Liam’s family.
It will be a tough assignment for Liam as it’s our off-season and he will be playing against very good opponents who are midway through their season. The club is planning several Sunday training sessions to help prepare Liam please make an effort to attend.

In other developments around the club:

Coaching Appointments
Matt Kemp has been appointed senior coach for this season. Jarrad Wallace will be charge of the white board on game days. Ian Francis will be taking on the reserves coaching job.
Peter Boyce and myself will help out with assisting the coaches. Steve Fairweather and Brendan Hines will be team managers.
The club would like to thank all these guys for putting their hand up and helping to put together a very strong coaching structure.
It is vitally important that everyone gets behind Matt and gives 100% commitment this season. It makes it hard to attract coaches when we get anything less.

Pre-Season Training
As Liam will be heading over to Glenelg out of season we are attempting to get regular Sunday training underway. It will also be a good opportunity to meet our new players and improve our fitness and skills.
At this stage it is planned to be at Seddon Fields Meola Rd Point Chev. As we have no fields booked this early in the season we may need to change at short notice. As a back up Cox's Bay and the Western Springs outer oval (facing Great Nth Road) may be used. Please contact me on training days if need be.
Can we have some feedback on preferred training times and day (i.e. Saturday or Sunday - morning or afternoon)?
We would like to get a few along this Sunday at 10am at Cox's Bay. Please let me know if you can make it.

Administration
Congratulations to Bede McCarthy who was appointed club secretary at our AGM in March.
Please Note that our next club meeting has been brought forward to Wednesday 17th June at Oscars Bar 300 Dominion Road at 7pm. Pre-season training and 2009 fund raising will be discussed at this meeting.

Given that Liam will be paying his own way over to S.A. several funding raising ideas have been put forward. One was a club golf day. Can we please have some feedback on who would be keen to play, any prize donors and ideas on playing format (I think Ambrose format as per our previous efforts worked quite well). Details will be finalized at our next meeting on the 17th June.

New Recruits
We would like to extend a warm welcome to our new recruits to the club: Jamieson Botica-Graham, Rhys Buzza and Brendan Dixon. We look forward to seeing you at training shortly.
A reminder to everyone to be on the look out for new recruits in our off-season.

Other Goings On
Congratulations to Tabe and Sonya Voigt and Jarrad and Nicole Wallace (2nd time around) who are expecting babies shortly. Congratulations also to Chris 'Forrest' Newlove and his brother Anthony 'Bush' Newlove who recently got married within a week of each other. Chris also turned forty a got engaged earlier in the year.

Cheers
Greg Cairns
Club President