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The No. 4241 - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - A002977L ossicker FWeekly bulletin of the Rotary Club of Bendigo Inc. - Chartered 30th July 1925 - District 9800 PRESIDENT’S REPORT FOOTBALL – MORE THAN JUST A KICK IN in residence who will paint the volunteer’s portrait, THE PARK dressed or otherwise, and donate the paintings for Today was our thirty fourth meeting for the Rotary sale. My offer to pose nude for one of the portraits Year and our guest speaker David Newett, the new was refused by Graeme, for obvious reasons. He also coach of the Bendigo Pioneers Australian Rules encouraged members to quickly sell the raffle tickets football team, enlightened those in attendance distributed so far and, when sold, see Des Samson about the nuances of being the coach of a for more books. The aim is to sell $6,000 worth of team of U18 footballers. tickets, so it is incumbent on all members to sell as More about David’s presentation a many tickets as possible. THE little later. Bryan McMahon advised members of the upcoming FOUR Good to see Stuart Cox from car-parking job on Saturday 17th March and said he Pembroke Wales with us again. would be chasing volunteers over the next few days. WAY This will be the last time we FOOTBALL – ETC. see him this trip. It’s back Our Guest Speaker David Newett was introduced by TEST home to Wales later this Chairman Ian “Bear” Coates who told us that David of the things we think, week. commenced his football coaching career in 1998 as the U18s coach at Glenorchy District Football Club say or do... ANNA’S ANTICS Today I remembered in Tasmania, whilst still playing senior football with 1. Is it the TRUTH? to invite Anna to the the club. podium and she told us He remained playing football until 2004, when 2. Is it FAIR to all about her trip to see the appointed assistant coach with the Tasmanian Devils concerned? mechanical harvesting Football Club in the VFL. of tomatoes and how From 2005 to 2007, he coached at senior level 3. Will it build GOOD she spent some time on a back at Glenorchy and followed this with stints as WILL and BETTER harvester. She also had a development coach at AFL Clubs North Melbourne FRIENDSHIPS? trip to Melbourne to meet and Richmond. up with a friend from home. David comes to the Bendigo Pioneers with a wealth 4. Will it be She enjoyed chilling out with of coaching knowledge and we welcome him, his BENEFICIAL her friend and speaking Finnish. wife, Catherine, and 17-month old daughter, Nina, to to all Finally, she told us about her our beautiful city of Bendigo and David, in particular, conerned? crazy Aussie friend who introduced to speak to our Rotary Club today. her to play-dough and they spent all David devoted the first part of his presentation telling afternoon making Pokémons. Talk about us about his beginnings and his life to date. Initially, I a miss-spent youth. thought he was being a little self indulgent, but as the ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE FLOOR presentation developed it became evident that his life Graeme Clarke reminded us about the Easter Art Show experiences were important to the way he approaches and asked for volunteers to pose for the three artists his profession and, hence, needed to be told. NEXT WEEK: COMBINED CLUSTER MEETING - WEDNESDAY David was born in Queenstown on the west coast accordingly. Not David. He lands in Denver when of Tasmania – you know, that copper mining town it is snowing, wearing a tee shirt, shorts and thongs, that looks like a moonscape. He told us that the and with his luggage on its way to Toronto. He did moonscape was created by the removal of all the trees survive however, being the typical Aussie male – no to burn in the copper smelter and now the locals are sense, no feeling. continuing to remove any regrowth to maintain the He didn’t miss out on his footy in the US either. He moonscape. Queenstown is also famous for its gravel found an Australian Rules football team in Denver, football ground. the Denver Bulldogs, which competed in a USA wide David told us that he left school at sixteen to take competition. Having played at senior level in both the up an apprenticeship with an electrician, working TFL and SANFL, I don’t think David had a problem underground in the mines. It was here that he learnt getting a game. After Denver, it was back to Adelaide about reliance and responsibility. He was reliant upon to play at Woodville-West Torrens and complete an his underground workmates and colleagues for his Honours Degree in Sports Science. livelihood but, more importantly, they were all reliant In 2004, with Degree in hand and a good deal of life on him as an electrician to his work responsibly. and football experience, David took up the role of On the football front, David played on that famous assistant coach with the Tassie Devils Football Club gravel ground and endured all of the skun knees, in the VFL, under head coach Matthew Armstrong. elbows and other body parts as one would expect. The job was in conjunction with an appointment as Whilst he didn’t say so, David must have been a fair the Northern Tasmanian Academy coach. footballer at that stage, because he was invited to After a year at the Tassie Devils, he returned to play with Ulverstone in the NTFA and then in 1993 Glenorchy for two years as senior coach, and followed by Glenorchy in the TFL. (By the way, Glenorchy this with stints as development coach at AFL Clubs, wear those magnificent black and white vertical North Melbourne in 2008 and 2009 and Richmond in stripes - GO PIES!!). As mentioned by Bear earlier, 2010 and 2011, the latter including as senior coach of David started his coaching career with the U18 side VFL Club Coburg in 2010. in 1998 and captained the Glenorchy senior side to a David is now at the Bendigo Pioneers, coaching U18 premiership in 1999. footballers in the TAC Cup competition, which for In 2000, he moved to Adelaide to play with Woodville- some, will become the precursor to an AFL career. West Torrens in the SANFL. By this time, he had But as he said, it’s not all about developing the players been an electrician for ten years with his football footy skills, it’s also about creating a group dynamic being only part time. He decided then that he had and team culture and developing personal skills and a better future with football than electricity and reliance and responsibility. With tongue in cheek, returned to studies to undertake a university degree in David also said that his aim was to win more than human movement and sports science, which took him one game this season, which unfortunately has been to Denver, Colorado, USA for twelve months. the plight of the Pioneers over the previous two years. Here, I digress slightly. When Rotary outbound After listening to David’s presentation, I believe that exchange students travel from an Australian summer he is very well placed to achieve his goals and I wish to a northern hemisphere winter, they do some him all power as he takes on his new role. research about the weather conditions and dress Following his address, Chairman “Bear’ presented PRESIDENT SECRETARY TREASURER PAST PRESIDENT Wayne Smith Kaye Graves Ken Richmond John Gallagher BOARD MEMBERS: President Elect - Brian Figg Vocational Service - John Krakowiak Club Service - Tom Seddon New Generations - Nic Bannan Community Service - Libby Hughes Public Relations - Joy Bruce International Service - Valerie Barker Rotary Foundation - Hugh Wheeler Editor: Noel Hobley [email protected] - Distribution: The Terrace [email protected] Correspondence: PO Box 131, Bendigo, 3552 David with the customary gift of hand-made soap, not Fellowship Sunday with the Glazebrooks at from Samoa but from Timor Leste. Morland NOTICES A reminder that the fellowship day at Arthur “Rotary Family” Messages Glazebrook’s is now on Sunday 25th March. I spoke to Mike Hughes this morning and he advised Easter Art Show that Libby is now at Anne Caudle and she is improving Don’t forget to select your times to help out at the Art every day. He said she is mobile being able to shower Show and sell your allocated raffle tickets. and do all those sort of things by herself. She still Special Meeting gets tired and needs her afternoon nap, but don’t we On Tuesday 10 April 2012 (the first Tuesday after all. Her memory is improving and she is now doing Easter and the Art Show), the outgoing GSE Team to crosswords, etc. She is also talking about getting back California will be visiting our Club to make their final to work and out and about as soon as possible. Still presentation before heading overseas the following no visitors at this stage, although I think that it’s now weekend. Libby’s preference rather than the Doctor’s. Mike Mother’s Day Classic said she wants to get home first. I also spoke to Bill Gray this morning and he told The Mother’s Day Classic run and walk around me he is going home today for the second time and Kennington Reservoir and Strathdale Park will be hopefully for good. He feels that his recovery will conducted this year on Sunday 13th May. We have take some time, so it’s doubtful that we will see him agreed again to cook a barbeque breakfast for the at Club meetings for some time.