2011

COACHING STAFF

A Grade
Coach:Shaun Walker
Assistant Coach: Vaughn Noonan

Reserves
Coach: Gary Purdie

Under 16's/Under 13's
Coach: Tim Brown & Mo Sherman

Auskick
Coach: Craig Zerk

President's Report

Welcome to the 2011 Football and Netball season, particularly those of you who are new to our club. Our general committee members remain the same as in 2010 with the addition of Scooter Kerley as the Social Committee Rep. We have appointed Shaun Walker as our A Grade coach and Vaughan Noonan as his assistant. Vaughan played several years with Walpeup/Underbool where he had much success both team and individual. As we have up to fourteen players based in Adelaide Shaun is running trainings twice a week with players from three other country clubs also attending. Mark Trowbridge and our reappointed reserves coach Cat Purdie have been taking home trainings on Monday and Wednesday’s. Once a month all players train together at Tailem Bend which have so far been well attended and very worthwhile.
We also welcome Dan Wohling, Shane Agelis and Duane Simon back to our club, together with new players Joel Lewis, Ben Moffatt and Ben Lock. These six plus Shaun and Vaughan will add tremendous skill and experience to our great list of youngsters who battled manfully last season.

Our Junior and Senior Colts sides will again be led by the successful duo of Mo Sherman and Tim Brown and Craig Zerk will continue his great work with the Auskick kids.

With most sides recruiting well over the summer I expect this season to be very competitive and of a higher standard than that of recent years.

Thank you to all those, who have taken on roles as committee reps, managers and many other important positions this year. Without your support our club wouldn’t run as successfully as it does.

We encourage all our past players and members to come along regularly and support all grades in 2011, which promises to be a very competitive competition.

Ric Ridgway.

A Grade Coach Report

It’s hard to believe that footy is back for another year. For some it may feel like a long time coming for others it may feel like we have just finished our summer sports. Firstly it is great to be back at Lameroo as a player and as a coach. I thank the club for the opportunity which I have been given as the coach for 2011. My assistants for the year will be Vaughan Noonan, Mark Trowbridge who has done a great job thus far in taking the sessions at Lameroo and Rocket Maynard, who will be assisting match days.

Pre-season started early for us this year, we began training in December. From January onwards we have been training twice a week, Monday & Wednesday, with healthy numbers both nights. The Lameroo players have been training at Telstra Oval whilst the Adelaide guys have rotated in-between Flinders Park Football Club and West Beach Softball grounds. Due to the amount of our guys based in Adelaide for either work or study, we have incorporated a session at Tailem Bend Oval once a month to enable both the Lameroo & Adelaide based players to train together. This will continue throughout the year and will assist us in improving as a team.

New Players which have come to the club this year include Vaughan Noonan (Whale), Dan Wohling returning from (Nuriootpa), Shane Agelis returning (PHOS Camden), Joel Lewis (PHOS Camden) & Ben Moffat (Blyth Snowtown). We welcome these guys and there partners & families to the club. We hope you enjoy the year footy wise and socially. We have been lucky to have kept the bulk of the playing group from last year; this with the addition of the new guys makes us a very competitive unit. I am expecting more improvement out of the younger guys again this year; Billy McNeilly, Travis Hancock & Tom Caulfield have all had good pre-seasons. Mark Benham & Josh Ridgway are fitter than ever and even the more senior blokes are looking as though they have an extra spring in their step. We have set our goals for the year and we hope to fulfil these as the season progresses. We have given ourselves the best possible chance to achieve these goals by the work we have done already, however this means nothing if we can’t take it out onto the park. We need to stay committed to each other as a playing group on and off the field.

I look forward to the upcoming season, may it be an enjoyable and successful one for both Football and Netball in all grades.

Go the Hawks!
Shaun Walker
A Grade Coach