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Winter has finally arrived, and those frosty

A big thank you to Judy Gifford (nee Rogers)

8AM kick offs; the natural enemy of the aging, bare kneed, camera clutcher – will soon be upon us again. Ah yes, those arctic beginnings when picturesque rural settings become shrouded by a thick cloud of refrigerated mist and the icicle laden playing surface crunches noisily under foot. When a shivering line of well scarved spectators spend much of the opening game and a half up on tippy toes trying to catch those very first shards of direct sunlight, as the big yellow ball struggles to rise above the eastern tree line. … all of which adds up to good times for the Carrington St barista.

for all her help with this months historical piece, The Rogers Connection. Judy’ Judy’s hefty contribution included, enduring a four hour grilling from The Eye, Eye, followed by a series of clandestine, after hours meetings in a dingy East Gosford laneway. Having survived all that, the former school teacher went above and beyond by taking time out to proofread the final draft of the story. Cheers Judy!

Totally excited by talk of a Storm Ladies Tag team for 2017 … and The Eye is happy to claim credit for planting the idea at the forefront of President King’ King’s thoughts during a shared game day journey in the regal chariot; a white knuckle ride that occurred just 24 hours before the well received, “Expression of Interest” Interest” was hoisted.

The Eye: colourful, irreverent, and now even, influential !

Oddball Observation #671 –The Eye has noticed that a remarkably high number of opposition coaches, trainers and players refer to our club as, ‘Kariong’ Kariong’. It’ It’s a curious and unique phenomenon, for I must admit I’ I’ve never heard anyone down at Shark Park cheering for Sutherland, or at Brooky Oval chanting for Warringah, let alone any of us heading up to Sohier Park to do battle with Wyoming. Yet when it comes to our own, double bungered identity, I’ I’m forever hearing a post game cry of ‘three cheers for Kariong’ Kariong’.

Strange but true folks … strange but true!

Given our battling Open grades magnificent 2nd half showing at The Entrance – one wonders whether the key to success may entail; a ten man formation, monsoonal conditions, a well berleyed yet distant head coach, with his old mate, the bank manager running water …

Carn the Storm!

- Andrew Stark

All opinions expressed throughout this publication are derived solely from the scattered & random thoughts of the author; none of which are necessarily shared by the GKS club … nor anyone else on the planet really.

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THE ROGERS CONNECTION

by Andrew Stark

When Chris ‘Bucky’ Rogers farewelled Test cricket during the English summer of 2015 with a stellar knock of 173 at the home of cricket, Lords; few local sports fans back on the Central Coast would have realized that a direct genealogical line could be drawn between Australia’s batting hero and the very first Gosford football team of 1892.

It would be fair to assume that Chris Rogers has not ever heard of the mighty Gosford Kariong Storm; for the recently retired opening batsmen spent just the solitary year living in our region; padding up for the Kincumber under 10s during 1986 while attending the Copacabana Public School. And yet the former cricketer’s; father, uncle, grandfather and great grandfather were all prominent sportsmen; the Rogers name becoming synonymous with local sporting excellence through a period spanning the best part of a century.

This rich connection commences on the 24th of October, 1885 when William Rogers first journeyed up from Sydney to purchase 13 acres of waterfront land at the southern end of Frederick Street in East Gosford. …when the land was being auctioned, the auctioneer seeing before him a bidder garbed rather unconventionally, barefoot, and in the equivalent of a sleeveless singlet, asked how much of the land Rogers wanted. ‘I’ll take the lot’ was the ready answer. When the auctioneer asked whether he had the money to pay, the old warrior slapped his pocket, pulled out a handful of sovereigns and said, ‘Here’s the money for it, there are plenty more of them’.

- Br Shanahan (BWHS 1955).

As he entered his fiftieth year, William Rogers moved his family up to the newly purchased East Gosford land and with the help of his son, Billy set about demolishing the existing cottage before constructing an elegant, Victorian gothic styled homestead called ‘Mona Vale’. This historically significant house remains standing to this day and acts as a prized entry point to the picturesque St Edwards College campus on Frederick Street. Having built a home in which to live, William Rogers would quickly enmesh himself within the local community. From 1891 through to 1896 he served as a local alderman, he also became a member of the Gosford brass band and is said to have been involved with both the cricket and football clubs of the period. His son, Billy Rogers was 24 years old when he played in the first recorded Gosford football team of 1892. This initial incarnation of our club went under the rather long winded title of the, Gosford & Brisbane Water Football Club, and with rugby league still a good decade and a half away; they decided to shun soccer in preference for the rough and tumble of rugby union.

The Rogers family photographed at East Gosford during the 1890s. Billy is on the far left, his mother Elizabeth sits beside him and his father William sports the impressive beard.

Photo courtesy of Judy Gifford

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Rogers had arrived in Sydney as a 12-year old with his family, some four decades earlier. His father was a skilled lace maker who had relocated from his native town of Nottingham in the English midlands, to Calais in France, before heading south during 1848; the family arriving in Sydney Cove just a handful of days beyond Christmas of the same year. In the decades that followed, William would marry Newcastle girl, Elizabeth Lawson, obtain the license of the Garrick’s Head Hotel in Sydney, father three children and purchase property in the then, well-heeled suburb of Woolloomooloo.

In consequence of the majority of the players not understanding the rules of the game, and refusing to obey the referee, the game was at times rough.

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By May1892 the official formation of the Gosford and Brisbane Water Football Club was complete. Sadly the records of this period fall sharply toward a category marked, hopelessly sketchy; however we do know that they kicked off their existence by playing an internal trial game as the fledgling club attempted to nut out its strongest combination. Two teams of fifteen players stepped out for that initial scratch match during the May of 1892. The designated captains were 32-year old orchardist George McGovney, and a young colt named Sydney Gelding who was but a few days shy of his 19th birthday. Writing in his 1966 book, Gosford and the Kendall Country, the late Woy Woy historian Charles Swancott wrote that,

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The Gosford Cricket Club of 1894, which included many of the players who had also featured in the town’s original football team.

Billy Rogers stands 5th in the back row, with Sydney Gelding on his right.

The earliest record of a game against outside opposition reveals a narrow 6-0 loss to the Parramatta Norwood club at the Gosford Recreational Ground during late June of 1892, after which a slap up meal was afforded the visitors at James Clarke’s Union Hotel. In the following weeks a number of Sydney teams made the train trip north to take on the fledgling club with Gosford accruing further losses to Waverley 6-5, Enfield 7-0, before an infinitely heftier defeat was dished out at the hands (and feet) of a crack team from Ryde. The vast disparity of the score-line emanating this latter contest engendered a good humoured dig from scribes located many hundreds of miles south of Mann Street; the Wagga Wagga Express writing, Beautiful Gosford is not much “on the kick”. On Saturday a team of footballers from Ryde played a game at Gosford, which resulted thus, Ryde 41 points, Gosford none.

In 1906, Billy’s father passed away aged 70 at the ‘Mona Vale’ cottage just months beyond his son’s marriage to Margaret Smith; the newly wed couple celebrating the birth of their first child, William later that same year. The family moved from East Gosford to Cullen’s Road at Kincumber where Billy took up farming. William Rogers would duly attend Kincumber Public School up until the age of 11 when it was decided he’d had enough of the learning caper and was ready to roll his sleeves up on the farm.

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Mona Vale circa 2016, as part of the St Edwards College campus.

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Mona Vale cottage as it was. The elegant homestead was built

by William Rogers and his son Billy (see inset) during the late 1880s.

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Billy Rogers played in the forwards for the local football club during the winter months and for the Gosford cricket team over summer. He would be the first in a long and proud line of sporting achievers.

The local footballers are looking gay in their blue and gold guernseys, and practising hard.

- The Gosford Times reports on Kincumber’s first football team, (5-7-1923).

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By 1923 a rugby league team had emerged at Kincumber. The town had always been strong at wielding the willow or pulling the oar during the summer months however the forming of a local football team was well overdue and when in June, the local men banded together, they had near neighbours Erina in their immediate sites. Four games involving Kincumber are noted during 1923. The first was disappointingly abandoned when Erina failed to turn up.

The second was played in the mud and resulted in a handsome win for the tricolours, before the Kincumber team reversed that result on a firmer ground at Erina. In their final reported encounter of 1923, the fledgling team proved to be no match for the lads from the Mt Penang Boys Home.

Photo courtesy of Judy Gifford & the Gosford City Library

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The Kincumber rugby league team of 1923, with seventeen year old William Rogers standing fourth from the right.

Billy Rogers had previously moved his family from Kincumber to MacMasters Beach and upon his death in 1939, his son William inherited the East Gosford estate where he farmed beans, peas and tomatoes. The family had retained ownership of ‘Mona Vale’ throughout the three and a half decades that had passed since Billy and Margaret moved east in 1906. By 1951, the farming of the land was pushed beyond the fiscal pale when steep council rates, combined with a drop in the produce market and a series of back to back wet seasons.

William Rogers took up building as his new profession and sold the ‘Mona Vale’ cottage along with all but one acre of the land, to the Christian Brothers; moving his young family into a house he constructed on the remaining acre.

William Rogers married his childhood sweetheart, Lorraine Skiller in Kincumber during the winter of 1940 and the coupling did spawn three wartime babies; Judith, John and Derek. The trio would all grow to be well respected school teachers and the honour boards at Gosford High School do prominently feature all three of their names; Judith as Dux of 1958, John as School Captain in 1960 and Derek for winning three sporting Blues during 1961. The children were all enthusiastically involved in sport as tennis, cricket and rugby league consumed their athletic endeavour. Both John (1960) and Derek (1961) were prominent members of the High School’s 1st grade rugby league teams, while all three siblings combined to win the 1956 Gosford District Tennis Associations B3 premiership in a team that thrived under the May Gibbs inspired banner of, The Gumnuts. They were duly promoted to B2 division and

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The joys of chasing the pigskin about a muddy paddock would appear to have been somewhat less than enjoyable for the Kincumber men as there is no further mention of football having been played in the town until the following decade.

Seventeen year old William Rogers had played for this inaugural 1923 team however like most of his team mates, was better suited to hurling the six stitcher or cracking boundaries during the warmer months. William would mature into a tremendous local cricketer and did famously shine in a game against the visiting Sydney first grade premiership winning team, St George during 1941 in which the visitors boasted Test legends, Arthur Morris and Ray Lindwall. The game was played on the Grahame Park pitch at Gosford and William Rogers opened the batting for the local side against the fearsome pace bowling of Lindwall. Gosford boasted an elongated list of 13 batsmen that day and were bowled out for 113 with Rogers batting right through the extended innings to carry his bat with a top score of 43 not out. When it came time to bowl, he would cap an amazing day by claiming five St George wickets and taking three catches to help his side to an exciting seven run victory.

Billy Rogers; his wife Margaret, son William and youngest daughter Shirley; photographed at the families MacMasters Beach property during 1928.

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The Gumnuts of 1956; 13 year old John (2nd from left), 11 year old Judy 3rd from right) and 9 year old Derek (front and centre).

the following year to A3, winning both competitions. Judith subsequently went away to University and John and Derek then played A grade alongside their mother. Remarkably, Lorraine Rogers would play A grade tennis for more than 50 years, up until her retirement at the age of 70.

When he started playing tennis, he could barely see over the net.

– Judy Gifford (nee Rogers) speaking about her brother Derek.

Derek in particular was a freakish talent with a racquet in his hand and by the time he was 16 had twice won the district’s open tennis championships.

Interestingly during one of these triumphs, a seemingly non descript pre schooler seen scooping up stray tennis balls at the side of the court was none other than future Australian Open champion, Mark Edmondson whose father Ron was fully occupied at the time, trying to find a way to counter young Derek’s flowing ground strokes.

John Rogers would play cricket for NSW. He also played first grade rugby in Wollongong and for St George in Sydney’s premier, Shute Shield competition; while both he and Derek represented Illawarra and Newcastle districts respectively during various Country Week Rugby Union Championships held annually just after the Easter break throughout the 1960s.

Derek set up the winning try and was a star of the game. I saw this game as I’d gone up from Wollongong to watch. He told me afterwards that a selector had told him that if he continued to do well that they were looking at him as Ken Catchpole’s understudy.

– John Rogers Derek’s progress in the rugby ranks would subsequently become stymied by a shoulder injury suffered during his university days. The ball and socket would repeatedly dislocate without warning making his left shoulder a liability in defence and yet he continued to play a prominent role at fly half for Leeton, after taking up a teaching position at the Yanco Agricultural High School, and then Wagga City when he moved to Wagga Wagga. In the Riverina grand final of 1971, Derek was the star turn and kicked Wagga to a 15-0 victory against Cootamundra. The Monday morning headline read;

Rogers 12, City 3, Coota Nil.

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John 1960 (top) and Derek 1961 (below) were both prominent members of the Gosford High School 1stXIII.

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Derek Rogers was a talented half/five-eighth who had switched to playing rugby upon leaving Gosford High and moving up to Newcastle University as a 16-year-old to study teaching. He was selected to play for NSW Country and formed a deadly halves combination with duel international Phil Hawthorne while playing in the northern city. At just 17 years of age, Derek Rogers was instrumental in the Novocastrians winning the 1963 Country Week title.

I’m not sure that there are strong enough superlatives to describe this brilliant all-rounder. I feel to do him justice, you would have to say that in the period 1966-1979 that Derek Rogers played in this competition, that he ‘owned the O’Farrell Cup’, such was his brilliance.

- Brian Lawrence (Co-author of, The O’Farrell Cup: The Quest for the Holy Grail of Riverina Cricket)

Both Derek and John had been instrumental in mentoring a young fast bowler named Geoff Lawson all the way to a baggy green – Derek first as a teacher and coach in Wagga, before ensuring that Geoff played with the University of NSW team, where he was captained by John. Many years later, and after a stellar Test career, Lawson’s autobiography would be dedicated to the Rogers brothers.

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Derek and John pictured together in 1979, just months before Derek would tragically lose his life in a car accident.

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While Derek and John were both talented footballers, it was on the cricket pitch that they truly excelled. Derek would become a legendary figure within Riverina cricketing circles, captaining Leeton to 21 consecutive O’Farrell Cup triumphs. During the mid 1970s Derek Rogers was appointed president of the Wagga Wagga Cricket Association, a position he enthusiastically maintained right up until his tragic death in a car accident at the age of just 34.

John often hitched; he’d stand there dressed up very nicely with his cricket bat and he’d get lifts, no trouble, up to, and back.

John Rogers would ultimately play four games for NSW between 1968 and 1970, including a match against the strong West Indies team, and was 12th man on ten other occasions. His highest first class score was 65 and according to Judy; One of John’s most memorable moments was facing Wes Hall in a grade game at Hurstville. I had taken my mother to see the match. We saw him come out, face three balls and then dash off the ground. We found out afterwards that he was so nervous that he had forgotten to wear his box.

On hearing this, Wes said. ‘Man, I could have killed you!.,

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John Rogers played cricket for the Belmont club in Newcastle alongside Colin McCool, before stints in Sydney Grade with Paddington, St George and the University of NSW. His sister Judy recalls her brother as a struggling young student using his charm to get to games in Newcastle during the early 1960s.

John had become a NSW cricket selector living at Brighton Le Sands in Sydney, when during late August of 1977 his wife, Ros presented him with a son; an infant born with such a marked cricketing pedigree, he probably arrived padded up.

Christopher John Llewellyn Rogers was just 2 years old when his father accepted the position of manager at the Western Australian Cricket Association.

A newspaper clipping from the mid 1960s, showing John Rogers hoisting one to leg while batting in the SCG nets as a member of the NSW Colts team.

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Despite his early form as a backyard tearaway, Chris Rogers never bowled at Test level.

The family moved to Perth from where Chris would develop into one of the country’s most consistent opening batsmen. He made his Test debut in 2008 however would have to wait five and a half years for a second opportunity. It was a chance he duly took with both hands, forging a wonderful, contrast of styles opening partnership with the enigmatic Dave Warner at the top of Australia’s batting order.

Chris Rogers the cricketer, is an oft told and well celebrated story of guts and perseverance in the face of many setbacks. Yet the same man boasts a quieter tale; that of a handy rugby three-quarter, playing for Wesley College and then the University of WA during his mid teens and early twenties.

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Chris Rogers would ultimately played 25 Tests, scoring over 2000 runs at an average of 42.87.

In first class cricket, he amassed a staggering 24,460 runs at a smidge under 50 per innings.

In mid-season 2001, this time playing regularly, he was chosen to play first grade – in the very week in which, he was offered a WA cricket contract to replace Brendon Julian, and was given dispensation by the Association to play this one game. After its fairy-tale ending in which Chris put through a kick for his brother David to dive on over the line for a matchwinning try, he and his brother celebrated long and loudly! He has not played since.

– John Rogers recounts his son Chris’ final game of rugby.

The Rogers family of the Central Coast have afforded our district a rich sporting heritage. From Billy Rogers; revelling in the nineteenth century scrimmage alongside his Gosford rugby team mates, winding up through the generations to the resolute left handed stoicism of Australia’s gentlemanly opening batsman, Christopher Buck Rogers. And the story may well continue, with further chapters still to be written.

Billy Rogers’ great great grandson Lewis, was recently presented with the Kincumber Cricket Club’s U10s player of the year award (the club has 110 players in their own U10s competition). Sadly for local rugby league fans however, I am reliably informed by his proud grandmother, that young Lewis prefers to play hockey during the winter months.

Chris Rogers in action for Australia.

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Chris and his elder brother David, had begun their winter exploits, playing soccer as primary school students, before giving the popular Australian Rules football a bash. Rugby league was almost impossible to find in Perth circa the early1990s and the Rogers brothers ultimately settled on the next best thing rugby union. Chris Rogers shifted from halfback to inside centre as his frame began to fill out and he starred for Wesley College during his final year, wining the team’s coveted Best & Fairest award. Continuing with the game at University, he quickly became a crowd favourite in the lower grades as a fullback with a booming kick; having the uncanny ability to hare after these cloud kissing punts before climbing high above his opposite number to regather and score. His elusive running once famously nabbed the red headed custodian, 3 tries in just 5 minutes during a spectacular 2nd grade game. And yet his footy seasons were always short and sharp affairs, for no sooner had he hit form than he was off to the old dart to further his cricketing education.

In The Press …

Gosford Kariong Team’s Well Placed at Midseason

by Andrew Stark

Coast Community News 16th June, 2016

Central Coast junior rugby league headed into the June long weekend bye, having completed seven of this season’s fifteen round schedule.

Gosford Kariong teams are faring well in a number of the age divisions as genuinely wintry conditions beckon and the chaotic run home toward semi final positions comes into view.

The Storm’s most successful side to date, has been the Rod Godoy coached U10(2)s who have worked their way up into third position on the competition ladder, following five victories from their seven games. A nail biting 24-18 loss to the undefeated leaders Toukley, away from home during round seven highlighted Gosford’s credentials in a competition that is shaping as a four way scrap between the Hawks, Woy Woy, Warnervale and the Storm.

The Storm’s U16(2)s began the season dreadfully, incurring hefty losses in the opening two rounds before clicking into gear to record four wins from their past five games. The Gosford boys followed a last gasp loss to competition leaders Wyong, with a 40-0 demolition of Warnervale in the rain at Narara.

Wayne Oatley’s U13(2)s have reacted well to their promotion to division two and sit just in behind leaders Ourimbah in the standings. With rep’ players Jake Martin and Nash Dorratt-Mavin to the fore, Gosford produced a thrilling 34-24 come-from-behind win at Umina over the long weekend; a game which had seen the Storm staring at a seemingly hopeless 20-4 halftime deficit before running riot after the break.

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Gosford Kariong Team’s Well Placed at Midseason … (continued)

The club’s U15(2)s, U14(2)s, and the aforementioned U16(2)s, all sit just off the podium in fourth position on their respective competition tables and are handily placed to feature in this season’s final series. Greg Eather’s U12(2)s are renowned for building momentum during mid winter, having stormed home late to reach the semi finals in recent years; the team finishing agonizingly close to grand final appearances in both 2014 and 2015. This year, Gosford sit closer to the action in fifth spot at the mid point of the season and once again, this talented squad shapes as the dark horse of their competition.

Having missed last season’s top five by the barest of margins, the Storm’s sole division one side, the U11(1)s are locked in a battle with both Erina and Northern Lakes for the last remaining semi final berth. Premiers Terrigal, along with The Entrance, Wyong and Kincumber are threatening to clear away at the top of the standings having all produced consistently impressive early season form.

Congratulations to Jake & Nash on being selected in the Central Coast’ Coast’s U13s rep’ rep’ squad. squad.

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The Good, the Bad, & the Just Plain Ugly

by Andrew Stark

Coast Community News 2nd June, 2016

Gosford Kariong secured mixed results during round six Central Coast rugby league action, highlighted by good wins obtained by the club’s U10(2)s and U14(2)s, while the U16(2)s ran out hefty 46-20 winners over Budgewoi.

Having accounted for Wyong on the previous Saturday, Shaun Martin’s U14(2)s made it back to back wins, scoring a comprehensive 28-18 victory over Erina at St Edwards Oval. The long striding second rower, Sebastian Burke continued his recent purple patch of form with yet another standout performance for the Storm. Try hungry prop forward Tarren Wargent nabbed a double, while Connor Anderson, Preston Bierton, and Hayden Crampton also crossed the stripe, with Talon Adams converting four of his sides five tries.

The second placed U10(2)s ran to an 18-0 lead against Warnervale before losing their focus and leaking three tries to suddenly find themselves scrapping for the competition points at 18 all. A last gasp Benji Keene-O’Keefe four pointer decided the contest in favour of the Storm boys for whom Tex Dorratt-Mavin had earlier nabbed himself a hat-trick of tries. Impressive prop Lorenzo Godoy led from the front, coupling 23 crunching tackles with a bevy of forceful hit ups for the victors.

On the negative side of the statistical ledger; the U11(1)s, U13(2)s and U15(2)s all suffered defeat, while the club’s Open Grade side proved to be no match for the high flying competition leaders Wyong, going down 60-0 at Duffys Road Oval, Terrigal.

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the Eye of the Storm – June 2016 A spirited effort from our intrepid Gosford 3rd Graders kept the rampant Roos to an almost tolerable tally of sixty in pleasant conditions at Duffys Rd last Sunday.

Prominent engine room toilers for the Storm included; Jaxon Wilkinson, Shaun Trasler and Max Russell who also took over the general play kicking duties in the absence of regular playmaker, Jordan Groom. The attacking highlight for Gossy arrived on 25 minutes when Sean Portus latched onto a well weighted cut out pass from Max Russell, before scampering up the left touchline like a whippet noticing a distant hare. Entering the shadows of the amenities block corner, our man was suddenly chopped down by the Scrooge like Wyong custodian, and the Storm faithful who lined the western hill were forced to resume their seats without any real need to get back up again until Billy Curnoe blew time, about an hour hence. Carn the Storm! (- The Eye -)

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In The Press …

Storm Sixteens Spring to Life

by Andrew Stark

Coast Community News 19th May, 2016

The Gosford Kariong U16(2)s rugby league team have awoken from their slumber to score back to back victories over Woy Woy and the hybrid, Kincumber Eagles to help stay in touch with the competition’s heavyweights.

After slumping to successive losses in the opening rounds of the season, Josh King’s lads lifted markedly during round three to run roughshod over the nonplussed Roosters. Played in front of an enthusiastic home crowd, the 48-4 victory was highlighted by a dominant display up front by prop Ben McGregor and backrowers Logan Campbell and Kyle Young.

Out wide, Gosford’s powerful left centre Adam Peruch cashed in on his sides excellent go forward by charging over for a hat-trick of tries.

A follow up 42-10 win over the combined Kincumber/Erina side realized seven tries with half Brayden Habkouk slotting all seven conversions in a superb display of goal kicking. Gosford led 12-4 at half time after a keenly contested opening period however creative five-eighth/lock forward Graham Porter continually bamboozled the Eagles defence after the break, scoring one try himself and delivering the final pass for three others. The biggest cheer of the afternoon was reserved for Storm three-quarter Mitchell Gale who charged over for his first ever try during the games latter stages.

In other games; an undermanned U10(2)s suffered their first defeat of the season falling 30-18 to Woy Woy, while the U11(1)s went down 42-12 to white hot premiers Terrigal, for whom gifted fullback Corbin Alvarez raced away for five tries (taking his tally to 12 tries in four games this season). Wayne Oatley’s U13s have won their appeal for elevation into division two and will now look forward to mixing it with the big boys.

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Round 10 saw the Storm Open Graders venture out to Joe Banks Oval to take on the Orangemen in wholly wet and miserable conditions. We began the game with a skinny dozen and after a rugged opening period, were forced to play much of the second half with but ten hardy souls.

Trailing 32-0 at the break, Gossy showed tremendous ticker to contain the third placed Tigers to just 14-4 during the final 35 minutes. The period was highlighted by a final tackle dribble kick and plant by Shaun Trasler, who in doing so notched the Storm’s ninth try of the season down a soggy yet glorious left edge.

Trasler, along with Jaxon Wilkinson, Sean Wise, Callum Marsh and Max Russell stood out amongst the forwards while lightweight winger Lionel Martin impressed everyone at the ground with a series of plucky efforts, defending raids by ridiculously muscle bound opponents. Sadly, Lionel’s afternoon came to a premature end when, after dashing 40 metres up the western touchline, he zigged when he probably should have zagged. The fulltime score of 46-4 was Gosford’s kindest of the season and a smidge of confidence may well have been gained as the boys look to catch the Hawks unawares this afternoon.

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The Eye of the Storm – JUNE 2016

2016 COMPETITION LADDERS As of the Completion of Rd 8 (Juniors) & Rd 10 (Seniors)

Opens

U16(2)s

Pts

Wyong St Edwards The Entrance Kincumber Erina Toukley Berkeley Vale Ourimbah Northern Lakes

14 14 12 10 10 10 10 7 3

Gosford Kariong

0

Pts

U15(2)s

Pts

Wyong Ourimbah Toukley

16 14 12

Warnervale Wyong Berkeley Vale

16 12 8

Gosford Kariong

8

Gosford Kariong

6

Warnervale Budgewoi Woy Woy Kincumber Eagles

6 6 2 0

Terrigal Toukley

3 3

U12(2)s U14(2)s

Pts

Warnervale The Entrance Budgewoi Kincumber

16 12 12 10

Gosford Kariong

8

Ourimbah Wyong Erina

4 2 0

U11(1)s

Pts

The Entrance (G) Terrigal Wyong Kincumber Erina

16 14 12 12 9

Gosford Kariong

6

Northern Lakes Berekeley Vale The Entrance (B) Umina

5 3 3 0

U13(2)s

Pts

Ourimbah The Entrance Blue Haven Umina

12 11 9 8

Gosford Kariong

8

Kincumber

4

U11(3)s

Pts

Northern Lakes (G) Terrigal Toukley Blue Haven Erina Northern Lakes (W)

12 12 12 9 9 8

Gosford Kariong

0

Pts

The Entrance (G) Berkeley Vale Warnervale

16 14 12

Gosford Kariong

10

Blue Haven Wyong The Entrance (B) St Edwards Erina

8 7 7 4 2

U10(2)s

Pts

Woy Woy Toukley Umina

14 14 12

Gosford Kariong

12

Warnervale The Entrance Terrigal Erina

9 5 4 2

THE

PLAYER OF THE MONTH

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Jordan Groom While our Open Grade team has struggled during the first half of 2016, one player has consistently risen above the weekly carnage: Jordan Groom, Groom a proud Stormer who first pulled on the purple jersey back in 2001 as a member of the club’s U7(4)s.

Left: 2016 Jordan Groom - Eye footy card Below: Jordan on the charge during 2003 with the U9(2)s

- (Photo – Garry Johnson) Below Left: 2010 Gosford Kariong Yearbook

As the winner of The Eye’s, Player of the Month Award for June, Jordan earns himself a bonza new, Print & Copy Recharge Card from Officeworks.

‘Eye of the Storm’ – Vol 15, June, 2016 e-mag compiled, photographed, written & designed by Andrew Stark © 2016 Contact - 10dollarjpegs@gmx.com

The Eye of the Storm – JUNE 2016

- Kevin Barlow, 2010 GKS Yearbook