The year started off with solid numbers registering to play Under 12's for season 2011. The attitude and willingness to learn from the children was evident from the start. An emphasis was placed upon getting the ball in the kids hands as many times as possible whilst we had them up there for two hours a week.

To the kids credit, as the season progressed it was becoming more evident that their skills and confidence were improving. By the time the practice matches came around we were almost ready to go. After two practice matches against some two very good sides in Kilmore and Rolling Meadows, I was confident that the kids were going to put up some good performances throughout the year.

Premiership season!

What a great 2 words to start my end of year review with. From our first training session this year I felt our team would have an enjoyable season. I realised that our team was will-ing to listen and learn to what our goals were for the season. It wasn't all about football, our goals were to create a great team environment and for all players to know that everyone’s role and place in the team were as equally important. I know we achieved that goal in more ways than I could have imag-ined. The courage, endeavour and skill our team brought to each game were a pleasure to coach and to watch each week.

First of all l would like to congratulate every child who played football for the Lancefield Junior Football Club for a great season, and also to all the coaches for the time and effort they put into the children this year. Being my first year as a junior coach following on from last year as a senior coach was extremely enjoyable. Friday night training ses-sions and Sunday morning game days came around very quickly from week to week and I felt the kids were really en-joying and improving their football during those weeks. The kids tried to learn some basic game structures and contin-ued to develop their ball skills and it was always great to see their smiling faces and share their enthusiasm.