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Annual Report 2016 Belconnen Magpies Football Club Incorporated Annual Report 2016 Table of Contents Club Patron The Hon. Andrew Leigh MP Reports Corporate Partners President .............................................. 3 Magpies Sports Club Treasurer .............................................. 5 Affinity Electrical Football Manager ................................. 6 Dixon Advisory Functions and Events ........................... 8 Monaro Windows 1st Grade .............................................. 11 2nd Grade ............................................. 14 Rising Stars ........................................... 16 Committee 4th Grade ............................................. 18 President Scott Reid Women’s ............................................. 20 Vice President Jo Foster Magpies Juniors .................................... 22 Senior Football Co-ordinator Lenny Haddrill Belconnen Cats ..................................... 23 Treasurer Michael Price Secretary Terri Jamieson 2016 Records Directors Katrina Gallway League Award Winners ........................ 25 Dannielle Green Award Winners ..................................... 27 Rob Lamb (from June) Best & Fairest Votes 2016 .................... 28 Rory Markham Milestones ............................................ 30 Sean Michelle Leading Goal kickers ............................. 31 Glenn O’Sullivan Ladders ................................................. 32 Daniel Posch Finals Results ........................................ 33 Chris York (from March) Historical records Club Service .......................................... 36 Editor’s note: Representative Honours ....................... 41 Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of AFL Canberra Senior Teams.................. 42 the information contained within this report. Coaches and Captains .......................... 44 However, as the sources for this information are Club Best and Fairest - Winners & R/up 47 many and varied, there may be some minor Other Perpetual Trophies ..................... 52 inaccuracies. If you notice anything that requires attention, email [email protected] AFL Canberra Awards ........................... 54 Match Records ..................................... 58 Goal kicking Records ............................ 59 Editor: Club Matches ........................................ 60 Terri Jamieson How teams finished in previous seasons 61 100 Matches - all grades ...................... 62 Printer: Years of Playing Service ........................ 66 Elect Printing Historical Records - West Canberra ...... 68 Photography: Women’s Grade Records ......................... 69 Julie Smith/Annabelle Lamb/Ian York 2016 Senior Players - Games Played ....... 71 Belconnen Magpies Football Club - Annual Report 2016 1 Corporate Sponsors Magpies Sport Club: Magpies Golf Club: 76 - 80 Hardwick Cres, Holt Stockdill Dr, Holt Contact 6278 8777 Contact 6254 2922 Affinity Electrical, operating for 15 years, are fully Dixon Advisory has assisted many clients since 1986 licensed and insured for ACT & NSW, with to develop sound financial strategies tailored to accreditation to QA ISO9001. their individual situation. These include maximising Affinity provides quality services for all domestic, the value of employer super funds, tax effective commercial, industrial electrical and investing and where appropriate, self-managed communication requirements. super funds. Contact 6241 3255 www.affinityelectrical.com.au Contact 1300 852 017 www.dixon.com.au Club Lime is Canberra’s premier health club with Monaro Windows provide customers with the most mod- eight locations, catering for all your fitness needs. ern and energy efficient windows and doors. They We have the best gym facilities and complete range specialise in double glazing, tinted windows, entry and of equipment to cater for your fitness desires. “It’s bi-fold doors, odd shaped and segmented windows that are custom made at a very high quality. time to get your body into Lime”. Contact 6299 1515 www.monarowindows.com.au Contact 6251 7888 www.clublime.com.au 2 Belconnen Magpies Football Club - Annual Report 2016 President’s Report Reserve and Women’s teams finish in the top 4, hence playing finals football. Our sponsors, of which we regard ourselves as very lucky to have, enabled us to provide a professional environment for our players and their commitment and loyalty to our club is the envy of our competition. The ups and downs of a football season change from year to year. Different challenges, The Sports Club, our major sponsors, faces different people, awesome people. Our club many challenges in an extremely competitive found itself in quite a predicament in 2016 with market yet still is able to generously contribute a problem it hasn’t faced in a very long time - a significant funds to our club to enable us to lack of player numbers. This resulted in a compete in our competition. To Andrew Smith twofold challenge around our U18 and Districts and your Board, your unwavering support is teams. A decision was made with huge very much appreciated. consultation that we go with only one district side in 4th grade and we pushed ahead with a A small mention to Paul Gunn who was depleted U18 side which left those involved recognised on Presentation Night for 30 years trying to find up to 10 players each weekend. of continuous service to our football club. A Many heartfelt thanks must go to Tim Xirakis great asset to the club, I hope Paul realises just and the Magpies Juniors, our U18 coach Jason how appreciative we are of all his efforts. Kidney, U17 coach Brendan Trevaskis and Reserve coach Brock Weston for engaging all Our club should be very proud of two current Youth players to field a team each week. and two former Women’s players to be drafted this year in the inaugural AFL Women’s League. In this day and age of a football club like ours Our club captain Talia Radan (Adelaide) and we rely so heavily on volunteers and club vice captain Hannah Wallett (GWS) and former culture to undertake all facets of putting- 5 6 players Elise O’Dea (Western Bulldogs) and teams on the oval each weekend. Volunteer Heather Anderson (Adelaide) are certainly depth is dwindling and decreasing player worthy of their selections and I’m sure will numbers are placing our club in quite a have wonderful careers as they now get to play predicament. Only those of us who ‘choose’ to on the big stage. be here can make a difference. As each year ends we often find ourselves Rob Lamb did an exceptional job heading up having to say farewell to quality people who the volunteer portfolio and sadly found himself for one reason or another have to leave the playing a lot of roles that are, in the past, BMFC family. spread amongst many. Our game day experience is needing help so our priority Jeremy Rowe, our 1st grade coach, has needs to be engaging new people into roles regrettably made the decision to move on and that will be enjoyable and of benefit to the club we sincerely thank him for his tireless efforts to as a whole. see us through a very challenging time in our competition. He kept our club competitive and The BMFC Board worked tirelessly again to displaying a level of professionalism that is a produce a quality product that saw our 1st, credit to him and his commitment to our club. We wish you well in all future endeavours and Belconnen Magpies Football Club - Annual Report 2016 3 President’s Report cont. I’m sure your love for BMFC will see you volunteers, we all need to realise how well we around in the future. are doing in our down cycle, and it won’t be long before we only have positives to reflect Katrina Gallway, our functions portfolio holder, on. has decided it’s time. A 100 game player for our Women’s side and the overseer of all our A final thank you to all the BMFC Board. Your functions, Trina will be sadly missed and I’m commitment and love for our club is to be sure I would be joined by everyone in saying admired and on behalf of all past and present how appreciative we are of all your efforts over members, thank you. the years. See you in 2017. Rory Markham will leave an enormous hole in Scott Reid our ranks as he provided more than just a President Belconnen Magpies Football Club playing role, a Board member and a champion for Districts football. We lose a much needed voice of reason and sensibility, especially around League and legal strategic matters. Thank you Rory for the enormous amount of hours you have committed and you will be sorely missed. Sean Michelle, a former player and now Board member has been another voice of reason we will miss, however we are lucky enough to keep him engaged in junior strategic work that will ensure our future is strong. We thank you for your commitment. Our executive in Michael Price, Jo Foster and Terri Jamieson have been exceptional in steering our club and upholding all we stand for. A lot of their efforts are not seen, however the fact we have strong financials, a competitive club and wonderful base (the Nest) is testament to all the hard work they do. Lenny Haddrill is proving to be a real asset as our football administrator. It’s been an interesting journey and he is certainly up to all the challenges this competition and club puts on the table. Thank you Lenny for all the hours you commit and the professional way you go about your work. While the future looks challenging with dwindling player numbers and lack of 4 Belconnen Magpies Football Club - Annual Report 2016 Treasurer’s Report volunteers and
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