Mar 25, 2016
NO JUNIOR TRAINING DURING SCHOOL HOLIDAYS
Training resumes Monday 11th of April
Junior Skills Development Sessions
Commence Monday 11th of April
- 5:00-6:00pm – U/10’s & U/12(Option)
- 6:15-7:15pm – U12(Option), U/14 & U16
PRACTICE MATCHES & BBQ
Friday 22nd April & Saturday 23rd April.
Times to be advised
ROUND 1 MATCHES: Friday 29th April & Saturday 30th April
HV Registration & Club Fees are now due
TEAM MANAGERS
If you are interested in being a Team Manager for 2016 please let Karen know.
Previous Team Managers please return any packs you may still have.
BALL KIDS
Premier League matches start on 2nd April for those interested.
JUNIOR UMPIRES
Umpires are needed on Mondays 5-6pm for Intraclub matches, and Saturday mornings for U/12 & U/10 matches
May 28, 2015
By Cooper Burns & Nicholas Myyrylainen.
On the 22nd of May, the under 14A shield team had arrived at their first game at the snake pit for Altona. The under 14s had their usual team talk, talking about the game, searching for the win we needed.
It wasn’t long until the game started so coach, Jacob, sent us out for our pre-game warm up. Unfortunately, our other coach, Pat, was not able to be there but still gave us all his support to get us through the game.
Once we were all warmed up, we then did a summary of our game plan and prepared to go onto the ground. We flounder along the sideline to the dugout, then out onto the pitch for our warm up, where we got into pairs and hit up with a stick and a ball. Next up, was our aggravated assault, warming up our star keeper Lachie.
Just before the game began, we gathered together and let our Captain, Jamie give us his loyal speech. Just before we were ready to run to the middle of the ground to say good luck the opposition, we did what we needed to do… ‘’A’s ON THREE… ONE, TWO, THREE’’ Jamie shouts. “A’s!” we all reply.
We all ran into the centre of the pitch and the game was just finger tips away. Hawthorn won the toss but let Altona have the ball. The game had begun as Connar knocked the ball back to Cooper – it was game on!
Early on in the first half, it was an even match, both teams fighting for the ball but couldn’t convert into the back of the net. Hawthorn also had some early chances but with Rhino, Matthew, Caelan, Nye, Will, Alex, Harvey, Maxim, Brock & Nicko all playing strongly they couldn’t convert.
The Altona crowd cheered for the under 14 boys nonstop as the team walked back on the pitch for the second half. It wasn’t long in the second half until Cooper gave Altona a 1-0 lead. A great team goal leading the ball up to Connar with his excellent run through the middle with pace and skill passing to Cooper to dribble around the keeper to score! The crowd cheering on loud and proud.
Hawthorn didn’t give up and tried their hardest to even the score. Altona had made Another great team goal as Cooper ran along the base line to give it to Connar on the spot to score a goal! – Score was now 2-0. Altona were holding on but then Hawthorn then just found the goals and made it 2-1 with 2 minutes to go. Altona just needed to milk the clock and so they did. Altona took full possession of the ball and took the final ball on the sideline to hear the final siren for the under 14s first win. It was a great game by both teams and made even better that we had our first win at home!
May 28, 2015
By Bailey Willet.
First half:
Surprisingly last week’s game for 16a’s was quite atrocious. Goldie wasn’t there and we just couldn’t find our momentum. Zaige Porra had a ripper game, Kiara Porra quoted “Zaige had a great game! I am so proud of him. Mitchy Burns,Beama and J.P had a few opportunities but they just didn’t have the pace to put them away. It was a tough game for our forwards not only the dodgy passes but also the horrible trapping next time I’ll get Simone Otterbach to play. After Kew had dominated the majority of the half. Tacos began his weekly tantrum which was quite understandable as the umpiring was average, but everything was resolved when bae the cousin of tacos gave a few motivational words and Tacos was on his way. After a few unlucky goals we were down 5-0 going into the second half.
Second half:
Finally the second half had arrived after our not so great first half and Altona were ready to go out firing. Surprisingly Naish lifted his game working really well in the defence with Big Tommy, Joey baby and the king left half Ollie. The king half man had a ripper game keeping it simple giving off the first time balls eliminating his player. Throughout the rest of the half Kew only scored 1 more goal with our defence keeping it solid. Finally after our main man Rhino had given off pass after pass with an unbelievable work rate we finally got a corner. After Naish missing his first 4km/h drag flick it was time for someone else to step up to the plate. Kieran called upon Bae for Kieran Symons signature spot “The Left Lay Off”. The push goes straight out to bae and he smacks it with immense speed and the goalie just saves it with his right kicker. Another corner is called for danger (finally Jeremy blew something, on the hockey field that is….), Once again Bae is called up for the left lay off. With a beautiful push straight to Jazz who stick trapped the ball perfectly then Naish layed it off with presion to Bae and with a almost majestic movement Bae flicked the ball 100km/h plus into the back of the net, the goalie didn’t even see it.
Over all the game definitely wasn’t our best with super coach Kieran saying “That was probably our worst game for defence, worst game for our midfield and worst game for our forward line”. After a few motivational words from Bae and Tom the team set off home preparing for our next rivals.
