Soccer
 

Alloway topple Waves
Golden Boot - as at 28^th June
Points Tables
Soccer Shorts
Weekend Results
Draw - FBI Cup  - Quarter Finals
Tuesday nights Cup Results
ATW Football Club - 50^th anniversary
Cup Results
Jacob Williams - Cold Rock Star
Draw for semi finals of Ladies Div. 2 Cup
"Magic" School Holiday Football Clinic
Plans to hold a Coaching and Sports Science seminar.
Brothers Aston Villa website.
Goalkeeping Australia Academy Newsletter
Alloway FC are fundraising to send three of their girls to England.
Wee Spirit Supporters Club
Suggested Warm up routine by  Keith Dell, Director of Barolin Physiotherapy Services

Madelyn McCracken (Bingera under 14 girls)

Alloway became the first team to register a win over Waves in the Archem Premier League. Waves had the better of the first half but neither side were able to score in the first half Alloway scored two goals in the second half, the first from Danny Tucker a cracker into the top left corner. Their second came from a Brad Blackwell free kick, while Elliott Causer the leading goal score in the league scored for Waves for Alloway to register a 2-1 win.

Danny Tucker

Alloway coach Richard Sharman felt that his new look defensive line of Shane Stewart-Cook, John Dixon, Brad Blackwell and Jason Piper had performed strongly while Danny Tucker was tireless up front. Brad Blackwell at left full back regularly created attacking opportunities. Youngster Jason Blackwell had probably his best game for Alloway and was named man of the match. Mid fielder Clayton Mattiazzi, Jack Brillante and John Giovannoni were among Waves best.

With no games next weekend due to school holidays and the FBI Cup quarter finals on the 12th July Waves next league encounter will be against Villa on the 19th July. Meanwhile Alloway’s next league clash will be there home game against Bingera on the 20th.

Diggers played out there second draw in a row when they came from behind to draw 2 all with Bingera. Bingera scored first when Matt Kirby headed past keeper Chris Ballantyne however scores were level when Luke Metcalf headed the ball into his own goal to see the score 1-1 at half time.

Substitute Jake Brough broke the deadline and Bingera looked set for a win with only two minutes remaining. Diggers coach Nathan Darlington, whose season may be over following a knee ligament injury pulled the right rein when he instructed Michael White to move up front, with White scoring the equaliser almost immediately.

Nog Connelly, who ran things from the bench in Darlington’s absence, was pleased to get a draw after what he claimed was a poor performance. Bingera are struggling for cohesion and will need to improve to be a threat towards the end of the year, however the signs are promising.

The game between Brothers Aston Villa and Burnett Heads resulted in Villa recording their second win of the season and the goal by Jamie Anderson was the goal of the day. Mal Cooper scored a double in the 3-0 win. The gap between fourth placed Diggers and Burnett Heads (fifth) is now eight points and though Villa and Burnett Heads have a game in hand it is hard to see either side playing in the finals.

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Shorts

Football Bundaberg have shown they mean business with two players suspended for four Club matches after failing to front for the rep game against Gympie.

Isis stalwart Vince Brockfield the $110.00 powerball winner for the week. Tickets available at the bar.

Alloway captain Shane Stewart-Cook will have his “bucks’ party” on the 28th July before getting married at seasons end. Wonder how many parties he will get in before the big day?

John Hendricks issued 7 yellow cards and one red in a match on Friday night. Son Wes received one of the yellows for dissent.

The North Bundaberg connection of Jim Cairney, Peter Hubbard and Grant Connelly (Div 2 Manager) conducted the draw for the FBI Cup quarter finals on Friday night. As a result North Bundaberg drew ATW (Div 1). Nice work boys.

The Alloway crowd was out in force at the Cellblock on Saturday after their win over ATW with Danny Tucker celebrating his 23rd birthday.

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Interview.

BB Well Lynn, the season is more than half done, what have been your impressions to date?,

LH The QSL has developed into a very strong competition over the course of the year. It wasn’t strong at the beginning of the season but it certainly is now. I think it has been a great success and will get better in years to come. Every one of us has had to step up a few levels, including me, but the experience has been invaluable.

BB The players have performed admirably; they seem to get better each game.

LH We’ve been a bit “in and out” but we are getting more consistent as the season has gone on. Lack of concentration has been one of our main problems and we have given away too many goals simply because players have gone to sleep in critical situations. We go out to win every game – there’s no other way to play in my opinion.

BB What do you think has been the best performance to date?

LH Last weeks performance against the Strikers was our best game to date. They took it very seriously, bringing new players in and coming up the night before so they would be well rested. We pushed them all the way and opened them up on quite a few occasions. Had we converted even one of our chances anything might have happened.

BB Four away games in a row could be tough?

LH We seem to struggle mentally playing away from Martens Oval and I’ve told the players that they won’t have proved themselves until they can start winning away from home. We’ve performed really well against 3 of the top 4 teams in our last 3 matches and it would be a shame to let that slip now against sides lower down the table but every team is improving so all the games will be tough.

BB In a poll on the QSL website 29% expect that of the bottom four sides the Spirit will improve the most before the end of the season. That must be encouraging?

LH How many of them are local supporters following the link from your web site, Bob? Support is always good, but the players still have to go out and do it.

BB Do you have any expectations from the remaining games?

LH Win all of them.

BB There has been a lack of corporate support; do you see that as a problem?

LH It has to improve. It’s still early days and maybe we have to look at raising funds in more creative ways, but it is such a good product with a lot of media support and coverage. The concept of one-team cities and expanded competitions is the future of sport. It is already happening in other sports like rugby league and basketball. The Spirit provides something for our young players to aim for and support. I think it is the best thing that has ever happened to regional football.

BB Have you been happy with the crowd support?

LH The crowds have been fantastic. I want all the supporters to know that their presence and cheering really does lift the team immensely. I wish we could take them with us on the road. The team has also captured the imagination of the youngsters as they drag their parents out to watch and come looking for players’ autographs every week.

BB What do you think needs to be done to see the Spirit thrive?

LH More sponsorship. The concept and the product are so good that I think support from fans is guaranteed. We also need to start developing our future Spirit players and we have plans to do that.

BB Have there been any negatives?

LH It is clear that the Spirit hasn’t been embraced by everyone in the football community, but I’m very hopeful that we will win them over sooner rather than later. There are lots of pluses for everybody.

BB Do you see yourself at the helm next year?

LH The players performances will be reviewed at the end of the season and so will mine, I imagine. In any case, if I feel that I haven’t done the job well enough I will offer the club the opportunity to replace me, with no hard feelings. I’m enjoying it so far and I believe my coaching is improving as the season progresses but like I have said to the players many times – “nobody is guaranteed of anything.”

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Jacob Williams

Seven year old Jacob Williams loves his soccer. The Burnett Heads Primary School student plays for Across the Waves Saints and has played for two years now. Jacob, one of seven siblings plays back yard soccer as often as possible with older twin brothers Elijah and Brandon. He also plays soccer at school.

Coach Ted Grohn said “Jacob is a very good striker who works hard on his game and is a pleasure to coach".

more Cold Rock Stars

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Bundaberg Toyota has secured naming rights sponsorship of the Bundaberg Toyota Spirit in the Queensland State League for three years. David Hillier, Managing Director of Bundaberg Toyota has had a long association with the sport having played first Division in Newcastle. He currently plays with Bargara in the local competition as do sons Callum (under13’s) and Brady (under 9’s)

David said "When approached re the State League I saw it as an exciting concept and was keen to be involved” he added “We sponsor Bargara junior and senior sides in the local soccer competition, as well as senior Rugby League and Cricket, and I see sponsorship of sport as a way of being involved in the local community”

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Dynamic Warm Up

1. Run forward and backward (20 metres distance)
2. Light skip
3. Side step
4. High knee pull
5. Light high knees
6. Power skip
7. Light butt kicks
8. Step pull lean
9. Walking lunge
10. Straight leg kick
11. Side lunges
12. B skip
13. High knees
14. Carioca and tapioca (grape vine)
15. Short Sprints (up to 50metres)
16. Drills with the ball
a. Offensive
b. Defensive

Warm Down (post practice and after the game)

1. Light jog
2. Stretches (covering the whole body)
3. Post match nutrition (recovery)
4. Post match recovery (ice bath and warm shower)

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As Richard “Mr. Magic” Mitchell would say, the ‘Wee Spirits’ are here. In a move sure to please many a youngster the ‘Wee Spirit Supporters Club’ has been formed. Youngsters can purchase an especially designed T-shirt with the the Bundaberg Toyota Spirit logo on the back and the Cold Rock Logo on the sleeve. Shirts are available at  the Bar.

Should a ‘Wee Spirit wear their shirt into the Cold Rock Ice Creamery they will receive a free ice cream (value $5.00).Members will also receive a photo ID membership card.

Spirit players will make themselves available to autograph the T-shirt’s for their young fans.

Brothers Menphys-Reyne, Mannyx and Nykodah
enjoyed their visit to Cold Rock

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"Spirit" supporters T-shirts now available at the bar.

Bundaberg Toyota Spirit’s attacking deficiencies were again exposed as they battled out a scoreless draw with Capricorn Cougars in Rockhampton on Saturday night. The result left them on the bottom of the table after ninth placed Logan United remained one point ahead of them, courtesy of a 2-2 draw with Brisbane Strikers, but coach Lynn Hodgkinson remains unperturbed about their position.

“It was a good tough game and it was a pretty good result for us – we were probably better territorially and positionally but they had the better chances,’’ Hodgkinson said. “It was the story of our season – we were in the battle up to the end but we hit the cross-bar once and put a couple wide, but they hit the bar a couple of times too – they made more chances on goal than we did.’’

Although far from a dour performance that the score-line could suggest, it was their fourth game in a row that they have failed to score, but it was not for a lack of effort, with midfielder Laurie Stephenson re-injecting extra vigour in his return from a one-match suspension. In the absence of striker Aaron Bakker, who was unavailable for the clash, Hodgkinson experimented with another new combination up front with Kyle Taylor and Jason De Papi, and he said they also did the best they could. “I moved Jason up there to see whether his strength and ability in the air could make a difference for us, and he did well, and so did Kyle – he is like the Energiser Bunny – he just went all day, as always,’’ Hodgkinson said. “They troubled the defence but our ability to fashion quality chances is missing at the moment, although we put them under extreme pressure at times.

“Certainly our defence was very good – that is the only aspect of our game that I’m completely happy with, and it’s not just our back four, but it’s all over the park – we have worked on it technically and methods in defence, and it has shown with the Strikers and Olympic each being able to only put two goals on us in the last month.

“Our two stand-outs were again our centre-backs Sam Simpson and Andy Wood – they have both really excelled in the position and are really forming a good combination there. “Daniel Watson came back into goal and did a really good job as well, but I will give Dane Rimmington a few more go’s in the remaining games because he did really well against Olympic last week as well.’’

The Spirit take on Logan in the third of their four straight away games next Saturday, and it could be their best remaining chance to climb their way out of the cellar. “But we can’t be thinking about the ladder – this season was always going to be hard – I always thought this team was a long-term prospect with the standard of the local competition that these players have come out of,’’ Hodgkinson said. “This is a genuine State league and it is only going to get stronger each season, and we have to just keep working hard on building and improving. “I always said we were not going to win many games this year and that it would be three to four years before we will be a force - that hasn’t changed and we have to just keep plugging away.’’

 

Vince Habermann

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ATW Football Club will be celebrating their 50th anniversary this year with a celebration in November. Players, past players, officials and supporters are asked to contact the club to ensure an invitation is received to the celebratory dinner to be held at Across the waves Sports Club on Saturday the 15th November.

Those wishing to attend are asked to download the application and forward to the Club.

download application.

FBI Cup

Saturday 12th July  - Quarter Finals

Drawn by Grant Connelly and Peter Hubbard

Tuesday 29th July - Semi Finals

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Cup Results

News-Mail Cup

Alloway 2 Bingera 0
scorers: Danny Tucker, Brenden Banks

Sea fm Cup

North Bundaberg 5 Bingera 0
scorers: Matt Doolan 2, Dayne Rimmington, Frank Cook, Daniel Chamberlayne

AMM Cup

Bargara 5 ATW Colts 2
scorers: Bargara - Chris Hillier 2, Robbie Thatcher 2, Kane Kersnovske ATW Colts - Jay Cooper, Joseph Williamson

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The Simply Magic Football Clinic will give young boys and girls a week of great Football and a lot of fun.

On the last day we will have our own World Cup. What a great opportunity to play Football and learn new skills. I for one believe that it will be a very enjoyable week in a fun filled environment. Live the World Game.

Train and play the Bundy way - Phone 41500702

Applications Close Saturday 14th June.

Richard Mitchell
Development Manager Football Bundaberg

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Five people represented Football Bundaberg at the 2008 FFA Coaches Conference in Sydney recently. It is planned to hold mini broken down version of the Conference to enable local coaches and interested people to hear the latest in Coaching and Sports Science as revealed in Sydney.

A date is yet to be set, probably a Sunday and will include practical sessions and PowerPoint presentations and there will be no charge to those attending.

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Golden Boot

Division 1

Division 2

Division 3

Division 1 Ladies

Division 2 Ladies

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Season Draw

*Home Team listed first.

Finals TBA

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QSL Results

Bundaberg Toyota Spirit 0 Capricorn Cougars 0

Queensland Academy of Sport 5
def Whitsunday Miners 3

Capricorn Cougars 0 - Bundaberg Spirit 0

NQ Razorbacks 4 def Olympic FC 2

Sunshine Coast FC 6
def Redlands City Devils 0

Brisbane Strikers 2 Logan United FC 2

QSL Points

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MVP tally frozen after round 10. MVP points will still be awarded weekly, with final results announced post season

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The Alloway Football Club will hold a special screening of the Ashton Kutcher/Cameron Diaz movie "What happens in Vegas" at Reading Cinemas Bundaberg Thursday 8th May at 6.15 pm. The cost is $15.00 with proceeds to help with the cost of sending three Alloway girls Sarah Bretag, Kate Baldry and Hayley Waters to England in November.

For further information and bookings contact Lee-anne on 0413 492 540 or Allie on 0422 361 783

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FBI Cup Results

ATW (Div 2) 2 Mick Giovannoni, Rob Dunn def Moore Park (Div 3) 1 Chris Mills

Burnett Heads (Div 1) 3 Kagan Eren 2, Michael Stayte def Bingera (Div 2) 0

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