Belwest 2013 Season Review

Belwest Foxes SC 2013 Review

Celebrating Thirty One Years of the Fox

Contents:

Welcome

Belwest 2013 Club Awards

Thanks to our Major Sponsor

Junior Football Awards Senior Football Awards Referees

Season Reviews U8 Stingrays U11 Girls Green Goslings U13 Division 2 Open

From the Pit

“Harry� Horst Wein, Director of Coaching

Belwest Quiz time

2013 Photo Gallery Belwest Women Review Belwest Men Review

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Thanks to our Minor Sponsor

Junior Awards - 2013 2013 Junior Club Person Male 2013 Junior Club Person Female

Taylor O’Connor U14/2 Brianna Gillespie U15 Girls

U12 Best & Fairest Award Girls U12 Best & Fairest Award U13 Best & Fairest Award Girls U13 Best & Fairest Award U14 Best & Fairest Award Girls U15 Best & Fairest Award Girls U17 Best & Fairest Award U18 Best & Fairest Award

U12 Div 2 Coaches Award U12 Girls Coaches Award U13 Girls Coaches award U13 Div 2 Coaches Award U14 Div 2 Coaches Award U15 Div 2 Coaches Award U15 Girls Coaches Award U17 Girls Coaches Award U18 Div 2 Coaches Award

Zachary Saunderson Elina Spannari Bul Juach Sarah Campbell Kyle Gallagher Eleanor Cocks Katie Ryan-Baker Dale Larsen

Coach of the Year 2013

Ashish Madan

Corey Graham Anita Prihanggoto Alexis Gordon Riley Willcox Bailey Ross Andrew Nolan Samantha Thomson Jaimee Thompson Dominic Ross

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Ashish Madan

Congratulations to our winners and runners-up playing squads.

ActewAGL 2013 Junior League Division Winner – U17 Girls Div 3 Gold

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ActewAGL 2013 Junior League Division Runners Up U14 Open Div 2 Blue

ActewAGL 2013 Junior League Division Runners Up U13 Open Div 2 Blue See Report in ‘Season Reviews’

Belwest Women secure our first trophy in 2013.

Senior Awards - 2013 Senior Club Player of the Year 2013 Alan Rankine Senior Female Club Player of the Year 2013

Amelia Gulliver SL1

Golden Boot 2013 Mathew Watson Steve Duffy Perpetual - 2013 Good Bloke Award

Mark Young

Long Service Award Winners David Guyder Paul Guyder Andrew Sainsbury Simon Whiting

George Hay Lea Francis

Tania Lutan

Most Consistent Player Award Div 5 Joshua Grace Div 6 Stuart Wise

Div 7 Aaron Golledge & Ryan Schroder Div 8 Tristan Reed Div 10 Rad Labudovic

Masters 2 Dave Johnson & Ryan Schroder

Masters 3 Alec Stock

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Belwest entered a women’s team in the Capital Football Women’s Pre-premiership competition which was conducted over two Sundays in March.

The team entered the competition with no expectations as it was primarily to dust the cobwebs off and secondly to enjoy the game. It came down to the last game to decide who took the trophy on offer.

Belwest walked away the Heather Reid Trophy after steamrollering Gungahlin 4-0. A great team win.

Senior Awards - 2013 (Cont) Team Player Award Div 5 Div 6 Div 7 Div 8 Div 10 Masters 2 Masters 3

Harley Valerius Andy Young Sean McCaffrey Mark Zorzi Julian Matos Mark Young Doug Witt

Most consistent Most Improved Most Improved Players Player Players Player Players Player Coaches Award Coaches Award Coaches Award Div 5 Div 7 Div 10 Masters 1

Bendigo Bank assisting Belwest Foxes SC

State 1 State 3 State 4 State 1 State 3 State 4 State 1 State 3 State 4

Andrew Batstone Corey Anderson Matthew Watson Dave Johnson

Crystal Tunningley Kimberly Laverty Cecilia Pattison-levi Teneale Bray Rebecca Williams Alysha Lockley Jade Sargent Larissa Campbell Kathryn Chick 321 Award

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Senior Awards - 2013 (Cont) Thank you to all our Referees

Players Player Award Div 5 Andrew Batstone Div 6 Rohan Smith Div 7 Corey Anderson Div 8 Bruce Cunningham Div 10 Eland Drennan

Masters 2 Dave Johnson

Masters 3 Jeremy Jackson Referee Awards 2013 Referee of the Year

Rebecca Wicken

2013 Best New Referee

Jaxon Hanily

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Belwest Under 8 Stingrays Season Review The under 8 Stingrays had a core group of players who stuck together from the previous year. The boys had a great season and everyone developed their skills, confidence and friendships.

Don’t tackle...your own team mate!

Friday afternoon training sessions worked well as the boys had only one day to forget what they had learnt. Major areas of improvement included an understanding of team structures, passing to a player in space and don’t tackle your own team mate (although that is still a work in progress).

Stingrays stung them.

Apparently no one keeps score at the under 8 level but I have it on good authority that the Stingrays won about half their games throughout the season.

A quick summary of the team is as follows Rhino – The immovable force with the ball at his feet, learnt how to pass towards the end of season.

U8 Stingrays

Kian – Scored goal of the year whilst mum had her back turned helping out in the canteen, one of the most improved throughout the season.

The boys had a great season and everyone developed their skills, confidence and friendships.

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Belwest Under 8 Stingrays Season Review (cont) Joshua – Goal scoring machine who covered more ground then a blue heeler.

Ben – The teams utility player, played every position extremely well.

Nathan – Self appointed team striker and the main reason everyone has to wear shin pads.

Jack – Defensive rock number one. Almost impassable (when he was watching the ball).

Ethan – Defensive rock number two. Contender for most improved.

Ryan – Kicking improved immensely throughout the season, occasionally forgot he was playing football and took some great marks.

Sam – Team clown who set the record for most laps at training for not listening. Also a great goal keeper.

Hayden – Had a great year and improved out of sight. Could be in trouble when the offside rule gets enforced.

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Stingrays in action

Belwest Under 8 Stingrays Season Review (cont) In summary • Shin pads are a good thing •

Team structures look good on paper

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Gungahlin is the coldest place on earth

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The boys will only score goals when their parents are not watching

Stingrays in action above

We’re coming back!

Success is measured not through wins and losses but by the level of improvement and the size of the smiles of the boys faces.

We had a great year. Bring on next season.

Regards Joint coaches – Andrew and Damian

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Belwest gets the thumbs up!

Under 11 Girls Green Goslings With most of the girls being underage the competition was always going to be a challenge but the girls proved more than capable of matching it with the older teams.

Annie - the best keeper in the league Several of the girls shared the goal keeping duties throughout the season but most games saw Annie between the posts for half a game and she was far and away the best goalkeeper in the competition – her skill was often commented on by opposition coaches and her aggressive saves cleaned up many tricky situations.

Amy proved herself capable in both defence and midfield and her dribbling skills often got the team out of tight spots. Her goal keeping showed great improvement and she managed a “clean sheet” in her last 3 games in goal.

Our youngest player Alyssa made the right back position her own and she didn’t hesitate to take on girls more than 2 years older. It was great to see her confidence grow over the season and she was making great clearances towards the end of the season.

The team fortunes really took a positive turn when Shannon decided her favoured position was centre back. Her courage and aggression really took the challenge to her opponents and her clearances through to the midfield and forwards often resulted in us mounting a counter-attack.

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U11 Girls Green Goslings above and U13 Girls below

Under 11 Girls Green Goslings (cont) Kearah also spent a lot of time in defence and it really helped the team having someone so fast and fit at the back – the team relied on Kearah a lot, particularly late in the second half – as the team tired Kearah seemed to increase her workload to cover for the weary players.

Midfielders Persia and Aliesha worked hard The midfield is where a lot of hard work is put in and every week Persia and Aliesha ran until they had absolutely nothing left. Persia would always give 100% each Saturday, constantly pressuring the opposition. Towards the end of the season it was obvious to all how her skill had improved with the ease in which she was winning the ball and still managing to get good passes to her team mates.

Great Talent Aliesha has a great talent for passing and many times she set up attacking runs for our forwards with great passes through the opposition defence. Never one to get flustered she managed to stay calm no matter how intense the match became.

Also spending a lot of time in midfield was Tahlia, whose combination of speed and determination proved a huge hurdle for the opposition. As the season progressed so did she, and towards the end of the season she displayed really good ball control and was one of the key players in our win in the final game.

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ActewAGL Capital Football Junior League Play of the Day - June Winner is Belwest’s Toni Dodd.

Well done and thanks Toni from all at Belwest.

Under 11 Girls Green Goslings (cont) Kasey proved very versatile. Playing in goals, defence midfield and forward and many times we needed to rely on her speed and strength. It was really pleasing to see her score the final goal of the season with a calm pass into the net.

The team really missed Rena when she went overseas for a large part of the season. Her speed and calm passing were crucial in helping the team progress at the start of the season and it was great to have her back for the last game of the season to help us to a convincing win over a team that had beaten us twice during the season.

Too Easy One of our regular forwards was Zoe, who also helped out in midfield and defence when needed. At times it almost seemed too easy for her as she ran through the opposition time after time and scored goals for the team no matter where she was on the field.

Monique also spent a lot of the season up front and scored many goals with her great finishing ability. Never one to stand around, she would frequently drop back into the midfield to help when things got tough.

Most of the team will still be eligible to play under 11 again next year and if they choose to do so I am sure they will be able to dominate the competition.

It has been a pleasure to coach the girls this season.

Greg Smith, Coach

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Pee Wees on display above U8s below

U13 Division 2 Newly promoted from Division 3 after being crowned 2012 champions, we expected this year to present a much greater challenge.

Dynamic young Coach We were coached by our Assistant Coach from last year, Chris Rogers, a dynamic young coach with a great love for the game and the ability to inspire his charges. He was ably supported by our coach for the previous two years, Harry Leins, who continues to have an ongoing interest in the team.

We lost some players from the 2012 side but gained three new team members in Riley, Sam and Bul. The other members of the team are Zane, Lucy, Raul, Josh, Fraser, Connor, Parsa, Gordon, Seth, Cormac, David and Jonas.

Preparation paid off We trained early and hard in pre-season including a trial game against Majura U15 Girls. This preparation paid off and we started the season in fine style, winning our first four games and scoring 32 goals in the process!

We faltered slightly in Round 5 with a draw against Woden Valley on a very cold, wet and windy day, but hit back in the following rounds with two more wins against Belnorth and Belsouth before losing to our arch rivals Canberra Grammar in Round 8.

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U13 Division 2 Open - Preparation paid off.

Fantastic Result

U13 Div 2 (cont) Must defeat Canberra Grammar From that point we won four games on the trot including two massive 11-0 victories in Rounds 12 and 13 against Woden and Belnorth. Unfortunately, one bad game against Belsouth in Round 14 meant we had to defeat Canberra Grammar in Round 15 to stay in contention to win the competition.

Classic “Battle of Red Hill” This classic ‘Battle of Red Hill’ saw the lead change several times as the teams exchanged goal for goal. We finally hit the lead half way through the second half and looked on course for a victory before Grammar struck back with minutes to go to level the score.

They went further ahead shortly after and then with seconds on the clock we regained possession but before Bul could complete his shot the whistle blew and the game ended with the ball hitting the back of the net. The final score was 5-4 to Grammar.

Final game to secure second place Our final game was played at Latham against Monaro Panthers and we had to win to secure second place. A loss combined with an unlikely win by Belsouth over Canberra Grammar would mean third place.

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The result was a fantastic 6-1 win and we finished second with 31 points just behind Grammar on 35 and level with Belsouth (who did beat Canberra Grammar) but ahead courtesy of a superior goal difference.

100 Goals During the course of the game we racked up our 100th goal of the season over the 16 rounds. In total we scored 102 goals (way more than any other team) and conceded only 34, a team average of 6 goals per game.

Brilliant defence The defence was also brilliant only conceding an average of 2 goals per game. Scorers for the season were Bul (40), Parsa (34), Zane (10), Riley (10), Jonas (2), Lucy (2) and one each to David, Raul, Seth and Fraser.

Congratulations to all players and our wonderful coaches for another terrific year!

See you all again in 2014.

Richard Maclean (Manager)

From the Pit The money generated out of the BBQ helps to keep players fees and insurances at a manageable level.

We had a total on 80 volunteers help attend the BBQ, your help was really appreciated !!! With our self proclaimed head chef Thomas Boshert at the helm we managed to cook up and shift out: • • • • • •

4000 sausages 2880 bacon and egg rolls 400 x steak sandwiches 200 x Bacon rolls 96 x kransky rolls 50 x egg rolls and up to 20 x onion rolls.

We also went through 12 x 9kg bottles of Gas. Thank You For the young Ref’s that helped out each morning to cut and butter the rolls... many thanks for the help. The master cutter Deidre...a huge thank you xoxo Lachlan...the sorter, cutter, butterer and overall good kid award...go the Rabbits ! Lastlly, Corinna, Toni, Adrian, Brian, Stuart, Lina, Suzie, Kathy and Kezzapops, thanks for your help...no matter what it was !!

See you all next year at ‘the pit’ Regards, Shaun Comber ps. (still looking for our next assistant)

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See you next year ‘at the pit’ Can you assist?

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Thanks to all our Coaches in 2013 We finished the 2013 Soccer Competition with great results. I’d like to pay homage to the hard work and dedication by all the Coaches; from the Pee Wees up to the Juniors, Boys & Girls. Special mention to our Woman & Masters teams who finished on top of the Competition. This is a reflection of the skills and knowledge of the total " Coaching Team .”

At our first Coaches Meeting a Coaching Program for the Future of our Club was outlined Adrian Dodd explained the BUDS Program to us. We have now a Pathway for all our Junior Players Boys & Girls - If they have the skills and desire - to join a Development Team or the Blue Devils Academy of the Premier League Club, Belconnen United.

In 2014 I hope that our Club will again be blessed with as many Coaches as this Year. We welcome all coaches; Father/ Mother Coaches, Grassroot Coaches u6 to u8 year old and Youth Coaches Girls & Boys u9 to u18. We also aim to have a Goalkeeper Coach.

I’d like to thank Adrian, Brian (Golledge)and in particular our "Committee Team" and all our Volunteers, and Referees, for their help during the season. I also thank you, the Parents and Guardians of the Players for supporting them in their chosen sport and allowing us to look after their Training & Development through out this Season.

Wishing you all a fantastic festive season, a great holiday and a Happy New Year 2014. I hope to see you all here again next season.

Yours in Soccer,

" Harry " Horst Leins, Director of Coaching and, Chris Rogers, Asst Director of Coaching.

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Belwest Football Family in action

Belwest Quiz

Are you a “Deadset” Belwest Football Legend?

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Belwest Fox - does this sort of Fox exist?

A Belwest Fox who needs a little work in the off-season. Less hibernation more football?

A Belwest Fox with some potential. Outstanding work clearly you know your stuff.

You are a great Belwest Fox. Maybe more time on school work from here on?

Deadset Belwest Legend - tell your friends.

Quiz Time - answers on next page

Belwest Q1. Club person who won ACTEWAGL Junior June Play of the Day Award(1 mark) Q2. Which Belwest player won the Kanga Cup player of the year? (1) Q3. Belwest - our mascots name is Bertie, Beryl or Basil? (1) Q4. In the picture, top right, who is the Belwest star, first name only? (1 mark) A-League Q5. He lead out Manchester United and he’s from Belwest?(1 mark) Q6. Who is Italian?( Heskey, Ono or Del Piero(1) Q7. Beat Western Sydney in last years Grand Final?(1) Q8. Big Dutch centre half who scored in Grand Final? (1) Q9. Coach of Perth Glory is former Socceroo?(2) Q10. Harry Kewell is back - but which team is he captain of this year?(1)

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W-League Q11. Canberra United - who do we play in our first home game in October?(1) Q12. Who is the new Coach of Canberra United for Season 8?(2) International Football Q13. Brazil v Australia - what was the score?(1 mark) Q14. Socceroos next game is against which country?(2) Q15. Which former Tottenham star has recently moved to Real Madrid? (1)

Hi Belwest family, The 2013 season is over and I thought it would be nice to let the Belwest family know how successful the women’s teams have been this season.

A pre-premiership competition was conducted in March in which a Belwest women’s team competed and won coming away with the first silverware for the Club…Heather Reid Trophy.

All eyes then turned to the season proper which kicked off in April and Belwest had one women’s team competing in each of the following divisions…SL1, SL3 and SL4. After a long season it was pleasing to have all three teams make it thru to the semi-finals. (cont on next page) Belwest SL1 Grand Final Runners-Up

Quiz answers Belwest 1 Toni Dodd 2 Rhien Finlayson 3 Basil A-League 4 Zane Maclean 5 Daniel Findlay 6 Alessandro Del Piero, Italian 7 Central Coast Mariners 8 Patrick Zwaanswijk 9 Alistair Edwards W-League 10 Melbourne Heart 11 Brisbane Roar (away) 12 Liesbeth Migchelson International Football 13 6-0 to Brazil - we’re not happy Holger!

14 France 15 Gareth Bale

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Belwest Women’s Team Review (cont)

Belwest SL4 2013 Grand Final Winners and League Champions

All three games in the semi-finals were very tight with all three going into extra time and two to penalty shoot outs. The teams to survive these tussles and proceed to the Grand Finals were SL1 and SL4. Again tight games, as you would expect in grand finals, with SL4 being victorious (5-3) and SL1 going down 1-0 in extra time.

To cap off the SL4’s tremendous season they were also crowned League Champions along with two players sitting in1st and 2nd position for top goal scorers for the division.

Would you like to join and play with this great bunch in 2014?

Belwest welcomes players of all levels and abilities.

Training is conducted on Tuesday and/or Thursday from 6.30pm till 8pm at Scullin Oval.

Contact details and commencement date of training will be announced thru the website early in 2014.

Cheers, Kerrie Murray.

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Belwest Men’s State League 5 Review After battling with Capital Football over the course of many weeks of pre-season, it was eventually decided that the 5’s would actually play in Division 5 as requested! The goal for the season was to get to the Grand Final, but I’ll get to that later…

The early season form was excellent, reminiscent of the total football played by the great Dutch side of the 70’s. A come from behind 2-1 victory against Narrabundah got us on our way, more wins followed including the 9-0 demolition of Tuggeranong – we don’t like those southsiders! But clearly the match of the first half of the season was the 5-1 victory at home to Canberra FC. A game played on a cold, wet and windy Charny pitch, but so could easily have taken place in a Los Vegas ring on a big fight night.

Two red cards for them only tells a small part of the story, but a committed, solid and composed performance by the 5’s sent them packing and they were soon to be withdrawn from the league.

The momentum was maintained through the second half of the season, with impressive wins against Gungahlin, Weston and Belconnen Utd but unfortunately we lost our grip on First place as Canberra City eventually overcame us in the closing weeks of the season.

Into the finals and a defeat to City left us up against our old foes ANU in the playoff for the final. In a match that will going down in 5’s folk law, we lead 2-1 but then conceded a penalty! The Wall naturally saved it, but was unlucky late on to conceded the equaliser taking the game into extra time. Penalties followed and trailing 2-1 on the count things did not look good, but then again we had The Wall. Two more penalty saves in the shoot out gave us victory by the narrowest of margins. As for the final – what a game, but sadly it was a game too far. With the gods clearly against us, we just could not score. At half time the scoresheet read Belwest 0 – 5 Woodwork. Yes we smashed the post and the bar 5 times in the first half, not to mention their goalkeeper pulling off a couple of fine saves. The second half followed suit, with us hitting the post once more, but then the red mist descended, as a professional foul was needed to stop City in a rare flurry forward. They scored the resulting free kick and then got another on the break to leave us licking out wounds in a one sided 2-0 defeat.

Overall it was a fantastic season, each team member contributing both on and off the field. One thing we can be sure of at the end of the season…. Foxy the Fox will rise again in 2014 Andy Batstone

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Belwest Men’s State League 7 Review It was another great season for Div 7. Coming off the back of our memorable winning championship campaign in season 2012, there was a lot of confidence that we could repeat the feat. After Capital Football again moved the deck chairs, we found ourselves back in Div 7 but it was a much bigger competition, 14 teams split into two pools of 7.

We had many returning players this year which was great to see, but also managed to pick up some great ‘new’ blood as well. We saw the emergence of the great Scot Billy Brooks, the return of Lewis Kemp to the fold, after a season with the Div 5 guys, and finally Peter Davis (aka headlock), Steven Ward (aka Docker), Chris Rogers, Andy MacDonald (the beard) and Nathan Snyders.

Special mention also goes to Josh Roberts who lasted only a couple of games before his knees gave out.

The season itself gave a number of highlights: - a tiny ANU striker thinking he could tangle with Master keeper Scott Butler (pretty sure you can guess who came off second best); - a memorable come from behind victory against Monaro, pretty sure the ref had something to do with that one; and - a couple of fantastic road trips to Gundaroo and Yass.

Overall we completed the regular season impressively with only 3 losses (2 against ANU in our pool and 1 against Yass in the other pool). We finished second in our pool, in fact 2nd out of all 14, which ensured we had a shot at the semi-final against Tuggeranong.

A brilliant last gasp goal from Lewis cemented our place in the decider against Yass.

The Grand Final was one of the best games I’ve been witness to. We knew either way we would be seated against a former 2012 Div 5 team (Yass or ANU), so top form would be required. An early goal to Yass then the first dubious penalty given late in the half saw us two nil down at half time despite the majority of the half controlled by us. Second half saw us fight back regaining control and scoring three times to take the lead 3 – 2 with 13min to go. We were in a great position to repeat our success from the previous year until another dubious penalty was awarded to Yass, effectively tying the game up and sending us into extra time. A scoreless extra time meant we headed to penalties and sadly we came second in that race, despite some brilliant saves from Scotty.

Special mention goes to our supporters this year, who have had an awesome presence at our matches, also Mick (who ‘ volunteered’ to drive us for our Gundaroo and Yass games).

Lastly, thanks again to Coach Adam and Manager Caffs for keeping us organised and inspired!

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