With the 2011 season over, Win or lose the Boys never cease to give us a great experience. Thank you for a fantastic season.  Well done to the 1st and 2nds on a great effort this year, who will forget the ycw win, what a great day...... To the
U18. good luck next year stick together boys and hold your heads high you are to be commended on the way you handled yourself and turned up week after week, To the boys leaving and going up to the 2's all the best next year hope we will see some of you in the 1's in years to come, To everyone that helps around the club a

HUGE THANK YOU.

Great job done by Danielle  with the setting up and recruting of players for our 1st of many Netball Seasons,

Good Luck next year girls. 

SEE YOU ALL NEXT SEASON

PINES FOOTBALL CLUB 2011  

BY PAUL WILLIAMS SNR

 Neil Tedge continued on as Club President, Leanne Morse took over the secretarial duties from her husband Mark who still made himself available to help out with that work and Terry Bashford stayed on as treasurer. Gary Connolly came in to his second year as senior coach and Paul Wilson, after being an assistant to Gary in the previous year, now took over our reserves team. Jason Morse, apart from playing in our seniors or reserves, once again coached our thirds of who had less than a minimum of lads each week. Thankfully, all opposition clubs sensibly supplied players to fill our team and therefore not cause a forfeit. The team finished last with no wins and once again we look forward to some good lads coming through from our junior club. A number of our 2010 snr listed players found that it was retirement time including Russell Bishop (193 club games), Matt Mackay (155) and Reegan Stubbs (179). Cade Egan (220 club games) and Paul Lewis (135) decided to try their luck elsewhere. This loss of veteran players was not a concern to Gary and although pushing for better recruitment knew that he could persevere with those that he had. There was however a good influx of senior recruits to assist the basis of our senior players, some of who had been in action for many years. Gordon Hendry pushed on in our Reserves and reached 424 club games at seasons end. We had one Thirds player ‘crack it’ for a senior game and that was Rhys Chalkley, son of Barrie Chalkley our cricket club president. Our seniors, after winning the first game of the year v Mt Eliza, were headlined as to be answering the critics but by the half way mark of the season they had won only another three games to be sitting in seventh place. One of those wins however was against 2010 runner up in Seaford who we defeated by 27 pts. The round 10 win over 4^th placed Edi Asp was inspiring and by round 13 the team had made it in to the top five. This would be the first time since 2003 that our seniors could possibly be looking at playing finals. The round 15 win over highly rated undefeated 2010 premiers YCW was superb, followed by a win over LWN then saw the team lose the last two games against strong finals contenders in Chelsea and Karingal. The year was over. Very much the same story for our Reserves who plodded along to be within striking distance of playing finals until the last round. Both of the teams finished in sixth place. Snrs with 10 wins missed out by 1 win, Res with 8 wins dipped out on percentage. A highlight of the year was Jamie Messina being equal first for MPNFL Peninsula League Snr Best&Fairest. Not a bad effort considering his career was deemed to be over when he suffered a ruptured spleen in 2010. A Pines netball club was formed in this year following the push by the MPNFL to have all football clubs involved and fielding at least one netball team. Pines fielded an A and a B team and were coached by Danielle Saunders who also handled the administration being President, Secretary and Treasurer. Much in the same vein as the early years for our football club, the netball girls found wins hard to come by but each team did manage one win each. Inaugural team captains were- A team, Emma Messina and B team, Jayne Bashford. Netball Best and Fairest trophies went to A- Carla Middleton, B- Karen Stephens. Leading Goalers were A- Taschelle Archer 186, B- Michelle Maling 127. The awards were presented at the combined Football Netball Presentation night held at the Villa Adriana Reception Centre and football club awards were B&F’s- Snrs Chris Guganovic, Reserves Travis Pastuska and Thirds was Rhys Chalkley. Jamie Messina was third in the senior club votes. Simon Bishop who was third in the league reserves votes received the most consistent trophy. LGK’s were Snrs- Shaun White 41 and Res- Rick Ramsdale 32. Rick finished fourth in the league reserves goals and was close to possibly winning it until he was elevated to the seniors in Rd 16 and then did not play in the last two games. Club Life Memberships were granted to Terry Bashford and Doug Martin. Doug played snrs in 1976 after coming through from our fourths and our thirds where he was captain of that team in 1973 and 1974. He played in our 1972 thirds prem team. He was club treasurer from 2006-09. Most other years would see Doug ‘around the club’ doing whatever work that was required. Will Casey received Life Membership for playing service (175 games) and the Ludewig Family received the Best Clubman trophy. Adam Marriner became our eighth player to reach 200 senior games since 1964 and as seen below, twelve players played every senior game for the season. This was a somewhat exciting season with two of our teams clawing at a chance in the last round to play finals along with fact that our seniors had improved from their being last in 2008 and 2009 and eighth in 2010. We look at this year as being a stepping stone for better times next year.   

Most senior games (18) M.Curcio, C.Guganovic, B.Hendry, Guy Hendry, L.Houldcroft,

A.Maling, D.Marguglio, A.Marriner, J.Messina, Brendan Neville, T.Potts, D.Ramsdale.

Most reserves games (18) S.Bishop, W.Casey.

Most thirds games (16) N.Beggs, there were 2 byes.

Highest one game senior goals (7) S.White. Rd 2 v Edi Asp.

Highest one game reserves goals (6) R.Ramsdale. Rd 10 v Edi Asp.

Highest one game thirds goals (3) K.Alexander. Rd 11 v Mt Eliza.

Seniors highest score; Rd 13 22.11-143 d BONBEACH. Marg 80 pts.

Pre-Season Training
Starts
Wednesday 9th NOVEMBER
6.00 pm
At Pines Football Club Rooms

with Steve Ryan

E.V. SHADE MEDALISTS FOR 2011.