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Round 1 Saturday 30 March, 2019 www.aflhuntercentralcoast.com.au AFL HUNTER CENTRAL COAST FOOTBALL RECORD—ROUND 1 SATURDAY 30 MARCH, 2019 www.aflhuntercentralcoast.com.au SUPPORTING AFL HUNTER CENTRAL COAST 2 www.aflhuntercentralcoast.com.au AFL HUNTER CENTRAL COAST Unit 1, Kam close, Morisset NSW 2264 AFL NSW/ACT REGIONAL MANAGER—NORTHERN NSW Simon Smyth COMMUNITY FOOTBALL MANAGER Sam Zikman [email protected] 0413 223 910 FOOTBALL OPERATIONS MANAGER Michael Gray [email protected] 0418 494 634 FOOTBALL OPERATIONS COORDINATOR Lauren Francis [email protected] 0455 954 507 UMPIRE DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR Emily Brown [email protected] 0435 763 351 AFLHCC HEAD UMPIRES COACH Christine Burrows [email protected] BOARD MEMBERS David Flynn (Chair) Brett O’Farrell Simon Smyth Ross Hughes Cameron Clark Ryan Stanton Paul Redman Lindsay Guy Roy Reichert WEBSITE This Football Record is published by the AFL Hunter Central Coast for the benefit of the players, club members and supporters of our game. AFL Hunter Central Coast takes responsibility for the editorial content, apart from those published under the names of clubs as notes. AFL Hunter Central Coast does not take responsibility for any information which may be found to be injurious to any person or organisation in those notes. Complaints or other reference to the material in the publication may be directed to the Community Football Manager, AFL Hunter Central Coast, Unit 1, Kam Close, Morisset NSW 2264 3 www.aflhuntercentralcoast.com.au WELCOME TO 2019 Welcome to 2019 AFL Hunter Central Coast season! Wow its been a big offseason, but now its time to play some footy! Congratulations to last year premiers who today officially begin their premiership defense; • Newcastle City Men’s Cup 2018 Premiers • Newcastle City Women’s 2018 Premiers • Terrgial Avoca Men’s Plate 2018 Premiers The Off-Season has been a busy one with several key changes occurring at a league level and at the clubs; • Newly established AFL Hunter Central competition formed. • The league will continue to play for the historic Black Diamond Cup in the Men’s Cup competition. • 15 Clubs affiliated with the new league. • HAVAL motor group including both Hunter HAVAL and Brian Hilton HAVAL have come onboard to become naming rights partners. • ISC, Belmont 16ft Sailing Club, Awards R Us, Subway Morisset, Central Coast Physiotherapy and Sea FM have come onboard as foundation partners with AFL Hunter Central Coast. • Bar TV have agreed to be the Media partner for AFL Hunter Central Coast and will broadcast two live streamed games each week of the 2019 AFL Hunter Central Coast season. This will include one AFL HCC Women’s game and one AFL HCC Men’s Cup game live streamed each week at a minimum. • The competition structure for 2019 is as follows; • Men’s Cup 10 teams • Women’s AFL HCC 15 teams • Men’s Plate 13 teams • AFL HCC Social competition 7 teams (Including the newest club—AFL Hunter Maters) • Brining the league to 45 teams in 2019. • The newly formed AFL Hunter Central Coast Board will be Chaired by David Flynn. David is a multiple Premiership winning player at Cardiff and is joined on the new league Board by Ross Hughes, Roy Reichert, Paul Redman, Si- mon Smyth, Cameron Clark, Ryan Stanton, Brett O’Farrell and Lindsay Guy. • AFL Hunter Central Coast has appointed Christine Burrows as Head Umpire Coach for 2019. Thanks to Christine for her continued involvement. • 2019 Season Launch was conducted last weekend at Belmont 16ft Sailing Club, a fantastic day with all clubs in attendance and over 150 people kicking off the 2019 season with a bang! • AFL Hunter Central Coast have formed a partnership with NCCUA to continue to support and develop the league’s umpires. Thanks to Jake Lowe and the NCCUA. • The 2019 Preseason Women’s Gala day was held last Saturday at Lake Macquarie, thanks to entire Dockers team for their effort to support the day. Looking forward to the 2020 event already. • Educations session’s have be run across the region with free ERC and FIRST AID courses on March 17th. Ground Manager and Team Manager training session’s are on this Sunday March 31st. Best of luck to all teams in 2019, looking forward to seeing the action kick off on Saturday as we officially launch the AFL Hunter Central Coast competition. 4 www.aflhuntercentralcoast.com.au AFL HCC WOMEN ON THE REPRESENTATIVE STAGE The Women’s regional representative carnival is set to continue in 2019 following its’ fantastic debut last season. The con- cept was developed when the AFLW winter competition was announced and all planned women’s league representative matches in 2018 were subsequently cancelled. The 2018 carnival proved to be a hit and the AFLHCC had no hesitation in continuing the concept this year despite a women’s league representative match against South Coast also being on the calendar. "AFL HCC are excited to offer two representative opportunities during the 2019 season for Women in our competition" Com- munity Football Manager Sam Zikman noted. Once again teams representing Central Coast, Newcastle and The Hunter will battle it out in a round robin format. Newcastle will be hoping to go back-to-back, though teams were very evenly matched last year. Killarney Vale’s Peter Kelleher who co-coached the inaugural Central Coast regional women’s team was excited the concept would continue this year. “League rep games only reward the top 25 players. The regional representative day gives 75 women a taste of rep football most of which would otherwise not receive the opportunity to play a higher level of football.” “Last year the players particularly enjoyed the opportunity to train together before the carnival. Training and playing when surrounded by better players really helped improve their game when they went back to club football. Ultimately this can only serve to improve women’s footy in our region.” The carnival will be held on April 22nd which is Easter Monday, Zikman added the background to this scheduling. “Generally we prefer to keep the Easter weekend free when it comes to local football. However, the match against the South Coast (Men's and Women's) is scheduled for May 18th and it’s logical to hold the regional carnival before this so in effect it acts as a selection trial. Provided the Easter Monday date is well recevied I can see this day becoming one of the biggest on the AFL HCC football calendar." “The upside is that all focus for the week leading up to the game will be on women’s footy as there will be no men’s or junior games running parallel.” Last year a full men’s round was scheduled on the same day as the women’s carnival which meant the opportunity for all who would have liked to attend the game was limited. This year personnel including support staff, trainers, commentators and umpires will have their full complement available to help celebrate women’s football in our re- gion. Once again the day will be held at Ferodale Oval which is the home of Port Stephens AFL club. Port Stephens did a marvellous job hosting the carnival last year and it remains a nice touch that a women’s carnival is hosted by a senior club which was built upon and remains with only a women’s team. Women’s football in our region continues to develop at speeds no one could have imagined 5 years ago. This should be something all supporters of AFL should be very proud of indeed. Written By Ryan Stanton 5 www.aflhuntercentralcoast.com.au 6 www.aflhuntercentralcoast.com.au CLUB CONTACTS CARDIFF HAWKS Peter Risby 0419 584 401 [email protected] GOSFORD TIGERS Gavin Cornish 0468 570 545 [email protected] KILLARNEY VALE BOMBERS Paul Forster 0418 660 984 [email protected] LAKE MACQUARIE DOCKERS Ray Gooley 0439 036 025 [email protected] MAITLAND SAINTS Rob Eddy 0421 046 904 [email protected] MUSWELLBROOK CATS Annette Garland 0422 248 770 [email protected] NELSON BAY MARLINS Madison Young 0428 181 643 [email protected] NEWCASTLE CITY BLUES Nathan Wilmott 0404 030 676 [email protected] PORT STEPHENS POWER Rose Potter [email protected] SINGLETON ROOSTERS Nadene McBride 0439 931 511 [email protected] TERRIGAL AVOCA Ryan Weber 0402 417 109 [email protected] PANTHERS THE ENTRANCE BATEAU BAY Tracey Allen 0407 294 085 [email protected] WALLSEND WEST Steve Lewer 0459 082 162 [email protected] NEWCASTLE SWANS WARNERS BAY BULLDOGS David Redden 0421 922 910, [email protected] WYONG LAKES MAGPIES Simon Wood 0414 286 074 [email protected] AFL NSW/ACT CODE OF CONDUCT Each Parent and Supporter understands and agrees to: • Support the participants and enjoy the Match; • Encourage participation, but don’t force it; • Teach that enjoyment is more important than winning; • Never ridicule mistakes or losses; • Lead by example and respect all Players, Coaches, Umpires, Officials and spectators. Physical or verbal abuse will not be tolerated; • Recognise all volunteers who give up their valuable time; • Never publicly criticise Umpires and instead raise personal concerns with Club Officials in private; • Do not use remarks based on race, religion, gender or ability as many such comments are politically incorrect and it is your Coach, team-mates, Club and family that are let down with such remarks; • Respect the facilities and equipment of their own and opposing Clubs; • Do not engage in physical and/or verbal intimidation, abuse or conduct toward any Player, Official, Umpire or supporter. Such actions are totally unacceptable; • Condemn the use of violence in any form, whether it is by spectators, Coaches, Officials or Players; • Refrain from using abusive language.
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