Kingborough Tigers Junior Football Club Inc. ABN

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1 Kingborough Tigers Junior Football Club Inc. ABN Welcome to everyone to a new year of STJFL footy! 2013 is promising to be the biggest year in our club s long history, with many age groups fielding two strong teams, a large committee made up of helpful and resourceful people and continuing upgrades to our ovals, facilities and clubrooms. Currently, the committee is working very hard to have everything ready for the start of the season, which is less than four weeks away. Registrations have been going well (thanks to Sally Donnelly and her band of helpers), our finances are strong (thanks to our new treasurer Les Gardner) and our footy department is well organised thanks to the Coaching coordinators, the experienced Kirk Hughes (Youth) and the very passionate Cooee Direen (Juniors). Also, the appointment of Chris Donnelly to the STJFL board now means our club has a strong voice in the STJFL. I can report that the new Under 16 group (combined under 15 and 16) is progressing very well, with a squad of over 40 players training twice a week at the twin ovals under the watchful eye of coaches Craig Roberts and Bob Burgess, coaching mentor Tim Pearce and a band of assistant coaches. The boys are bonding very well and it looks like two very good teams (1 x A division and 1 x B Division) will be selected in the coming weeks. Both sides will be playing practice games at the Twin Ovals on Saturday 23 March against Southern Storm and Glenorchy. These games are curtain raisers for the big clash between Towball s U14s and the North Hobart Women's Side. The u14s will be running a BBQ to help raise funds for their players trip next year, so come along and have a snag and watch some top class youth (and women s) footy. In regards to our own ground and clubrooms, I can confirm that the curse of the flooding wing should be a thing of the past, as the Council are starting work to fix the drainage as of Monday the 18th of March, the day after the Cricket finals are completed. This work is planned to be complete and ready for the start of the footy season on April 7 (hopefully!!). Please show patience whilst this important work is done, it will be worth it! Also, upgrades to the Bar and clubrooms will continue, with the help of our co-tenants the Crows Cricket Club. And on that note, congratulations to the Kingston Crows A Grade side who took out their Grand Final on Sunday after a rain interrupted day on Saturday. Under 9 coach Marc Owen and Under 12 dad Adam Henley were part of the winning team so congratulations to you both. Lastly, I will be speaking to all teams over the next couple of weeks to emphasise my wish for us to be seen as the model club in the competition. I don t want us to be the subject of complains or even rumour regarding bad player or parent conduct, either towards other teams or especially the umpires officiating games. By all means be passionate and vocal and love your footy, but do not be abusive, derogatory or degrading to other players, coaches, parents or umpires. Such conduct may result in our club being fined, or result in players, coaches and even parents banned from games by the STJFL or our Committee. Well, that was my first crack at a President s report in the newsletter! Hope to see you all soon. Go Tigers! Mike Glancy President

2 REGISTRATION If you haven t registered to play yet or paid your registration fee please get in touch with Sally Donnelly on or or sallycm@bigpond.net.au. It is important that this be organised prior to the beginning of the season. PRE SEASON FUN The Under 14 boys have organised a fun game at the twin ovals on Saturday 23 rd March at 4.30pm against North Hobart Women s Team. The day will start at 12.30pm with the opening game between Kingborough and Southern Storm (under 16 s) then 2.30pm Kingborough and Glenorchy (under 16 s) then the Under 14 s match at 4.30pm against North Hobart. It will be a great day for everyone to get back into the spirit of football season. The under 14 s will be running a BBQ all day and entry will be a gold coin donation and the bar will be open. If you have never been to the Twin Ovals complex now is your chance to visit and enjoy the great atmosphere. Women and girls in the club, if you have ever wondered about how to go about playing football, come along and watch the women have a lot of fun. SOCIAL DRINKS Crows Footy Tipping The first of our regular Friday Nights at the Clubrooms is this Friday 22 nd March. The bar will be open from 4.30 pm to pm each Friday night and everyone is welcome. Call in for a drink and a chat on your way home from work or bring the family, order a pizza and stay for a while. There are always plenty of kids to have a kick with. If you would like to be part of the footy tipping please contact Marcus Newman on or by at marcus@cityglasstasmania.com.au to enter. FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY/FUN/FITNESS (Also known as Cooee s Coaching Clinics!!) This season we are very excited to be running some additional coaching sessions for the kids. These will he held once a month on a Friday night at Kingston Beach Oval. These are just for fun and for the development of skills and are purely optional. Kids from all age groups will be training together so it will be a great way to build club spirit and for kids in all age groups to get to know each other. Our coaches will be running the sessions and we will be bringing in some guest coaches such as Kingston Senior players and Tassie Mariners at various times during the season. Our first FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTY/FUN/FITNESS session will be Friday 19 th April at 5.30 pm at Kingston Beach Oval. TEAMS and COACHES Next newsletter we will give you a full description of each of our teams, coaches and support people but we can let you know that this season we have 310 children registered from Auskick through to Under 16. We are still hoping for a parent to volunteer for the role of Auskick coach, but have coaches in all teams in all age groups. Thanks to all of our coaches for their continuing commitment and hard work. Under 8 Four teams Under 9 Three teams Under 10 One team Under 11 Two teams Under 12 Two teams Under 13 Two teams Under 14 - One team Under 16 Two teams We welcome new coaches for the 2013 season Mark Keogh, Brent Conway, Blair Turner and Andrew Scott SEASON STARTS The first game of the season will be Sunday the 7th of April for Under 10 s through to Under 16 s. Under 8 s and 9 s will begin a week later on the 14 th April. The school holiday breaks in the season will be Sunday 28 th April and Sunday 14 th July. There will be no roster matches on the 9 th of June (long weekend) as the Under 12 and 13 Development Series will be held then along with the STJFL Under 16 representative match against the NTJFA. As soon as we have any sort of roster we will let you know. Check the STJFL website: or the KTJFC website or Club Facebook page Kingborough Tigers Juniors REBEL SUPPORT YOUR SPORT The Rebel Support Your Sport reward programme is operational now sign up instore or online at and receive your Rebel Season Pass membership card. Use this whenever you shop at Rebel Sport at Eastlands to earn points which transfer as $$$$ worth of equipment for our club. If you already have a Rebel Season Pass card, make sure you ask the Rebel staff to link it to the K.T.J.F.C. next time you are in the store.

3 Fun Match Kingborough Tigers Under 14 Team are Vs North Hobart Senior Women s Team That s right Women verses Boys!! Come to the Twin Ovals at Kingston on Saturday 23 rd March The first game will be at 12.30pm Kingborough Under 16 s Vs Southern Storm Followed at 2.30pm by Kingborough Under 16 s Vs Glenorchy Then the premier game at 4.30pm Kingborough Under 14 s Vs North Hobart Women Gate admission of a gold coin donation Fundraiser BBQ and drinks available

4 TRAINING Most teams have begun training and the remainder are starting this week. If you have not heard from your coach or team manager please let Sally Donnelly know as soon as possible. After much organisation and negotiation the training schedule is below. TRAINING ROSTER KINGSTON BEACH OVAL Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday U/ pm pm U/ pm pm U/12 Black pm U/12 Gold pm U/11 Black pm U/11 Gold U/9 Black U/9 Gold pm pm pm HUNTINGFIELD OVAL Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday u/8 Gold pm u/8 Black pm u/8 Cougars pm u/8 Tigers U/9 Tigers U/ pm pm pm STJFL GIRLS COMPETITION The STJFL is keen to introduce a girls-only roster this season. One Junior competition (ages 11-12) and a Youth competition for girls ages 13, 14 and 15. Kingborough would be very keen to have teams in each age group and would love to hear from any potential players. If you have a girl in your family keen to play AFL please get in touch with Sally Donnelly, Cooee Direen or Kirk Hughes. Girls - spread the word amongst your friends! CLUB CLOTHING Tracey is expecting the orders to arrive very soon and she will be in touch with families then to arrange delivery. If you missed out ordering any club gear and would like to, please contact Tracey Jones for any merchandise orders or enquiries on or tj.rb@bigpond.net.au CODE OF CONDUCT The current Code of Conduct is overdue for a re-write and the committee is undertaking this at the moment. We would welcome parent input. If you have any suggestions or comments from your experience with junior sport Andrew Bennett would love to hear from you. Please give him a call or on , or albennett@internode.on.net

5 SENIOR CLUB AMALGAMATION As you may know, our club is working with the Kingborough Tigers Senior Club towards amalgamation into one Kingborough Club, that will hold 50% of the licence of the new TSL club starting in our area in The main concern of many people is that we will be the poor cousin in this arrangement. On the contrary, we believe that the Junior section of the new Club will be supported strongly by the new board and the Senior section of the Club, as they believe that the strength of the new Club lies in the development of youth players and volunteers that will be members of the Club for many years. The dream of both the Senior and Junior Clubs is to see a player currently in the under 8s play all their time with one Club, right up to the day they are drafted to the AFL. Currently, our players need to go to Hobart based TSL Clubs to get the best opportunity to achieve this goal, leading to numerous talented players leaving the Kingston area to play high level footy. When the Kingborough based TSL Club starts in 2014, our kids have the opportunity to aim to play in their home town on the State s best ground and within one of the State s largest Sporting Club. And, we will still run our own Committee as we always have. Exciting times are ahead! CALENDAR Sat 23 rd March pm Under 16 s vs Southern Storm and most likely Glenorchy Sat 23 rd March 2.30 pm Under 16 s vs Glenorchy Sat 23 rd March pm Under 14 s vs North Hobart Women's Team Sat 23 rd March Ronald McDonald Gala Day Fundraiser at N H Oval Under 11 Gold are participating in this. Thursday April 4 th Coaches/Managers Info night at the clubrooms Sunday 7 th April First roster match Under 10 s to Under 16 s Sunday 14 th April First roster match for Under 8 s and 9 s Friday 19 th April First Footy/Fun/Fitness Combined training night at Kingston Beach Oval at 5.30 pm Friday 26 th April - Players trip to Melbourne for Under 15 Gold team Sunday 28 th April No roster matches this day school holidays CLUB COMMITTEE 2013 Our committee for season 2013: President: Mike Glancy mglancy@netspace.net.au Vice President Chris Donnelly chris.donnelly@signet.com.au Secretary: Sonia Shelverton secretary.tigerscommittee@hotmail.com Treasurer: Les Gardner les.gardner@catholic.tas.edu.au Public Officer: Wayne Morgan wtmorganfamily1@bigpond.com Player Registrar: Sally Donnelly sallycm@bigpond.net.au Youth Coach Co-ord.: Kirk Hughes hughes282@bigpond.com Junior Coach Co-ord.: Cooee Direen leeannedireen@hotmail.com Property Officer: Simone Owen msowen@bigpond.net.au Bar Manager: Simon Wilson snwilson@skymesh.com.au Committee: Nicky Wilson snwilson@skymesh.com.au Bec Stevenson rebecca.stevenson@bigpond.com Sarah Gardner sandlgardner@bigpond.com Anthony Beechey abee-chey@hotmail.com Darren Stubbs ZX10r75@hotmail.com Leanne Direen leanne.direen@vodafone.com.au Natalie Ellis natalieellis@bigpond.com Andrew Bennett albennett@internode.on.net Matthew Lamprill matthew.lamprill@bigpond.com Cathryn Harrison cathrynharrison@netspace.net.au FROM THE SENIOR CLUB Don t forget TIGER BINGO at the TWIN OVALS every TUESDAY EVENING (eyes down 7.30pm). Two Jackpots every week 30 full house as well as themed games 5 number lucky door prize Raffles & lucky envelopes Light snacks & refreshments available Professionally run with computerised equipment For info please ring Michelle or Dennis LEAGUE SPONSORS

6 CLUB SPONSORS OTHER SUPPORTERS OF THE CLUB WE THANK YOU VERY MUCH Corporate Express Shiploads Cellarbrations Bayview Market IGA Bayview Grocer Pennicott Wilderness Journeys City Glass Southern Sign Company Nut King Tassal Sportsco - Kingston Mures Kingston Clennetts Mitre 10 Lauren and Sam The SFL Chill Beachfront 32 The Dive Shop Channel Court Newsagency Purple Moon Portrait Studio High Performance Cricket Tas A.R. (Tony) Garth Fish Processor Pty Ltd Kingston Camera Centre B & B Allstars Peps Pizza Legs and Breasts Kingston Senator David O'Byrne Redbill Surf