Wallsend District Swans Junior Australian Football Club
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Check out the Wallsend Swans Facebook page Wallsend West Newcastle Australian Rules Football Club – “The Swans” Wallsend Australian Football Club – Est. 1883 Inaugural Winners of the Black Diamond Cup “Supporting the Greater Wallsend Community with Quality AFL” Club Information Handbook Season 2019 Website: www.wallsendwestnewcastle.sportingpulse.net Welcome to the “Wallsend West Newcastle Swans” – Original Home of the Black Diamond Cup Table of Contents THE CLUB VISION STATEMENT 4 CLUB CONSTITUTION (2019): Objectives of the Club 4 HISTORY 5 The Glamour Years 6 The Black Diamond Cup and Wallsend 9 How Wallsend Won Two Grand Finals in One Year 10 Reformation – Return to the League 10 The Black Diamond Football League – Modern Era 11 The Junior Club - Our First Premiership of the Modern Era 11 The Swans Welcome Back Seniors 14 2019 CLUB EXECUTIVE AND OFFICIALS 16 2019 REGISTRATION AND MEMBERSHIP FEES 17 2019 TRAINING PRE-SEASON AND SEASON 21 AUSKICK 2019 24 2019 DRAWS 25 PRE-GAME/ PRE-TRAINING - NUTRITION & HYDRATION INFORMATION26 PLAYER REQUIREMENTS 29 CLUB MERCHANDISING 32 UMPIRES – 2019 34 FIRST AID AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE CO-ORDINATORS 35 WALLSEND WEST NEWCASTLE SWANS ARFC LIFE MEMBERS 35 WALLSEND WEST NEWCASTLE SWANS ARFC COACHES, TEAM MANAGERS AND OTHER OFFICIALS – 2019 SEASON 36 CODE OF CONDUCT – NSW/ACT AFL 38 Players 38 Parents and Supporters 38 Coaches 39 Administrators 40 Officials 41 Additional Code of Conduct Matters 42 GOOD SPORTS 43 ALCOHOL POLICY 45 NO SMOKING POLICY 45 FUNDRAISING: BUNNINGS (WALLSEND) & MCDONALDS (WALLSEND) 46 CLUB SPONSORS 47 Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 2 WALLSEND WEST NEWCASTLE SWANS INDIGENOUS ROUND 48 HUNTER CENTRAL COAST PRIDE AFL CUP 49 CLUB SONG(s) 51 USEFUL LINKS 52 NEWCASTLE CITY GROUND WEBSITE / WET WEATHER DETAILS 53 HUNTER / CENTRAL COAST REGION AFL GROUND LOCATIONS 2019 54 AFL HUNTER CENTRAL COAST BOARD, NSW ACT STAFF & UMPIRE CONTACTS 55 2019 YEARLY CALLENDER 59 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 62 Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 3 THE CLUB VISION STATEMENT (SUPPORTING THE GREATER WALLSEND COMMUNITY WITH QUALITY AFL) “To be recognized as the most community orientated and friendly Club within AFL Hunter Central Coast for Auskick, Juniors and Seniors, supporting and teaching the game of Australian Rules Football to the players and families of the Greater Western Newcastle area”. CLUB CONSTITUTION 2019 - OBJECTIVES Objects of the Club • To promote, advance, cultivate and foster the game of Australian Football at an Auskick, Junior and Senior level. • To assist in the educational advancement of the community by means of the development of a sense of fair-play and love of sport and in particular the game of Australian Football. • To encourage, advance and assist in the development of an improved standard of physical fitness in all members of the community both individually and collectively. • To be a non-profit organisation. The assets and income of the ‘Wallsend West Newcastle Australian Rules Football Club’ shall be applied solely in the furtherance of its above-mentioned objectives and no portion shall be distributed directly or indirectly to the members of the organisation except as bona fide compensation for services rendered or expenses incurred on behalf of the organisation. • Dissolution of Club. In the event of the Wallsend West Newcastle Australian Rules Football Club being dissolved, the amount which remains after such dissolution and the satisfaction of all debts and liabilities, shall be paid and applied by the Committee in accordance with their powers to any fund, institution or authority which is a non- profit organisation. Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 4 HISTORY: “Wallsend Est. 1883 – Inaugural Winners of the Black Diamond Cup” Australian football was introduced to the Newcastle area (New South Wales) in 1883 when the Wallsend Football Club was formed by miners from Ballarat. In 1888, the Black Diamond Cup, Australia's oldest existing and active sporting trophy, was first awarded to the champion team in the region. In 1888, a touring Fitzroy Football Club defeated Wallsend by 10 goals to 5. The following year, Wallsend defeated Fitzroy. Excerpts from the Wallsend Australian Football Club: Commemorative Program & Club History (1985), compiled by Ross Walters (Life Member 1985): Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 5 Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 6 Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 7 Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 8 NSWFA clubs of the day were playing for the Alexander trophies as West Sydney, City and Redfern joined the throng. The code enjoyed wide interest in the Newcastle district where by 1884 Newcastle City, Newcastle, Merewether, Northumberland, Hamilton and Wallsend together with the afore-mentioned Maitland were in existence. Wallsend maintained their connection with Sydney AFL when they played West Sydney at Wentworth Park on 7th July 1894 when "there were several thousand people present" which ended in a draw, West Sydney 1.9, Wallsend 1.9. Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 9 Reformation – Return to the League Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 10 The Black Diamond Australian Football League – Modern Era The Black Diamond Australian Football League (BDAFL) was formed in 2000 from a merger of the Newcastle Australian Football League and the Central Coast Australian Football League. The name "Black Diamond AFL" derives from the Black Diamond Cup which has been awarded to the Newcastle AFL Premiers since 1888 (Wallsend). During the 2000-2002 BDAFL seasons, Wallsend was amalgamated with West Newcastle under the guise of the ‘Demons’, winning a BDAFL premiership in 2001. This win was against Cardiff, with the scores being: WEST (21.9-135) d CAR (18.13-121). Seniors folded soon after this win. The Junior Club - Our First Premiership of the Modern Era In 1984 the Wallsend’s Under 17 Team under the guidance of Coach Ross Craney (who is still a coach and life member in the current Wallsend Swans with the Under 9’s) won the premiership. To celebrate the occasional the Club in collaboration with major sponsors, Compass Pools arranged a special bottling of forty dozen bottles of ‘Draytons Rich Port’ wine. In 2005 the local Wallsend community again backed the Swans and they re- entered the local, current junior competition. Today the Wallsend Swans are a very fast growing and friendly club for children from the age of 5 to 14 based at Bill Elliot Oval, Maryland. In the past five years we have seen extraordinary growth with a 300% increase in our numbers and have expanded the number of teams in the local league exponentially. Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 11 In 2011, we were recognised by NSW/ACT AFL as being one of the largest and most successful Auskick Centres in the Hunter Region Area, and our Auskick Coordinator (Sharon Beck) was awarded the “Regional Auskick Volunteer of the Year”. In 2013 the community spirit of the Swans was again recognised, with Julie Cox awarded the Newcastle Junior AFL’s Volunteer of the Year’. In 2015, Wallsend Swans finally saw some finals action after several years of being absent, with both our Under 15s and the Under 17s joint venture team with Lake Macquarie making it to the Preliminary Finals. This was a fantastic feat, especially for the Under 15s who comprised of predominantly new players who had only played together as a team for ½ the season. 2016 saw the Wallsend Swans branch out into Women’s AFL – the fastest growing component of AL – with our inaugural Youth Girls team, which was a joint venture with Lake Macquarie. This team grew and grew during the season and by the end of July were beating the No. 1 side. A feat which was very remarkable given many players had never played AFL previously. Once again in 2016, Wallsend’s commitment to volunteering was recognised with (i) John Fitter awarded Hunter Junior AFL’s Volunteer of the Year, and (ii) Darren Bird awarded Newcastle Volunteer Service Award. Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 12 Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans) Handbook – Season 2019 13 In 2017, the Wallsend Juniors finally had a Grand Final appearance with our Under 11s making it to the Giants Divisional Grand Final against Warners Bay. This was our first Grand Final in juniors in over 30 years and certainly in the modern Hunter Coast competition. Sadly, the dream run was not to be, and our boys and girls went down 59 to 33. Nevertheless, our players did us proud and achieved great heights with many new players to the game – well done!! Also, in 2017, our second year Youth Girls (again a joint venture with Lake Macquarie) made it to the Semi Finals against Newcastle City. The Swans Welcome Back Seniors 2018 was an exciting year for the Wallsend District Swans Junior ARFC as we finally see the addition of two Senior teams, a woman’s and men's team; plus, we enter the big league (BDAFL) and become re-badged under the Wallsend- West Newcastle ARFC (The Swans). The new Swans is an amalgamation of the Wallsend Junior Club and the resurrected West Newcastle club (the Demons) after a 20 year plus hiatus. The new Club sees the men and women playing in a new vibrant strip that plays on the classic Sydney Swan strip with a local icon replacing the Sydney opera house. This strip was designed by Wallsend Swans Junior life member Matthew Harwood. Waratah Oval will become the home of the Swans in 2018, when both the juniors and seniors become one under the ‘Wallsend – West Newcastle ARFC’ banner. The inaugural women's team was initiated under 'Project Newcastle', with the help of NSW/ACT AFL, BDAFL and Hunter Coast.