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ROOSTHE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER OF THE COORPAROO NEWS JUNIOR AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL CLUB INC. VOLUME: 11 ISSUE: 66 DATE: 2 APRIL 2015 Club Information INSIDE 2015 DATE CLAIMERS EASTER TRAINING Club Information 1 - 3 Sunday, 21 June Training over Easter is at the discretion of the FAMILY / PHOTO DAY Coach or Age Group Coordinator. Match Reports 4 Saturday, 1st August You should all be made aware this week by your Club & Team Sponsors 5 GALA DINNER Coach or Manager when and if you are training over the Easter break. Code of Conduct 6 Sunday, 2nd August PAST PLAYERS & SUPPORTERS DAY The main oval will be closed from 7 April through to 21 April Committee List 7 for seeding. Everyone MUST remain off the Main Oval. This SUPER SATURDAY means you ‘ll have to speak nicely to the school oval users This Saturday is Super Saturday at Giffin Park. to share space. There are no exceptions. The Brisbane Lions Reserves take on the Gold Coast Suns Reserves on our own Main Oval at Youth fixtures start on Anzac weekend, and Junior fixtures start the week after. More on this later. Giffin Park at 10:30am. This is a unique opportunity Have a great Easter footy fans! to see the current and future stars of our game up close, personal and FREE! The entertainment continues as our own Under 10’s put on Lions jerseys and take centre stage at the Gabba for the first Little League Game of the season. You have to pay for this one! Did you know that 5% of the sale value on We will be opening the canteen for the Lions-Suns anything you purchase at Amart Sports can go game and we will require as many canteen staff back to as we can get. So, please put your hand up to Coorparoo JAFC. Through the Amart Sports volunteer for an hour from 9:30am, then enjoy the Kickback Program 5% of your purchase is game. donated back to the club. All you need to do is join Team Amart and nominate Coorparoo JAFC on your account OR nominate our club at the checkout. Then everytime you swipe your card 5% of the value is returned to the club. Coorparoo Junior Australian Rules The kickback program has allowed us to Football Club purchase many items for the club including balls, tackle equipment and other teaching aids which Giffin Park in turn assist your children with the skills and tech- Birubi Street niques required to play AFL. If not for this program Coorparoo alot of these items would have to be purchased through general revenue such as registration fees. coorparoojuniors@aflbj. com So please join up and shop at Amart and help Roos News is support your football club. published each NEWSLETTER Thursday throughout the football season. SUBMISSIONS DUE TUESDAY 4PM For submissions email Helene (Editor) before Tuesday 4pm. [email protected] [email protected] www.coorparoojafc.com PAGE 2 ROOS NEWS Club Information CONGRATULATIONS A huge congratulations to the following 14 Junior Coorparoo Players who have been selected to represent Met East, Darling Downs and Presidents Cup teams in the coming months at the U1 & U15 AFL State Championships Carnivals. U15 State Carnival in Mackay 21st - 24th May, 2015 and U12 State Carnival in Toowoomba 4 th - 8th June, 2015 CJAFL are very proud of these boys achievements and wish them all nothing but great success. U15 Met East Team Justin Currie Zach Rollason Charlie Johnson Will Blew Josh Coombes Louis Cosmo Danilo Gigovic Darcy Marsh U15 Darling Downs Team Tom Matthews Sam Tasker U12 Met East Team Taj Woewodin Zak Clarkson Jasper Fletcher U12 Presidents Cup Team Dante Holdsworth COORPAROO Club Song We are the Navy Blues We are the boys / girls from Coorparoo “NAB Stones Corner offer great packages for CJAFC Members, and a contribution is made to your club for every loan!” We’re the team that will never let you down Because we’re the best there is around We are the champions They try to beat us They’ll never beat us Because they know that they’ve been playing Against the famous Coorparoo. www.coorparoojafc.com PAGE 3 ROOS NEWS Club Information UNDER 16’S WYNNUM / COORPAROO Our Combined Wynnum/Coorparoo Under 16’s Team have been going fantastically in the their grading matches. A few notes from the Under 16 Coach Bruce Cruickshank on the players performance so far this season: 29 March 2015 Wynnum/Coorparoo 19.14-128 def Calamvale/Jimboomba 0.1-1 Great win yesterday fellas albeit against an under strength undermanned Calamvale/ Jimboomba team. The score line of 19.14- 128 to 0.1-1 showed the dominance of our team until the game was called off half way through the last quarter with Calamvale/Jimboomba falling under 14 players able to take the field. A lot of positives to take out of the game where all players contributed and wanted to get a piece of the action. You were able to see just how skilful you are as a team and just how much is possible when you play as a team. It’s great to see that no matter what obstacles are put up you just go about your business to get the job done. Thanks again to our helpers on the day and for getting to the game on time as it was early and it was a bit of a drive. 22 March 2015 Wynnum/Coorparoo 63 def Park Ridge 37 To say today’s performance was great is a gross understatement. Absolutely fantastic! 63 to 37 win over Park Ridge. Words like courage, commitment, discipline, skill and tenacity come to mind which is what we are always asking of a team and it was there in your first game for the season. I must admit the way the team gelled together was quicker than I expected and is encouraging for the season. We had first timers, guys who haven’t played for a while, our Coorparoo team mates and under 14s, who had already played a game at Kedron, coming together with the core U16s to be one united team. From a club GIRLS PLAY FOOTY TOO !! perspective our Club Junior Coordinator To keep up to date with and all the parents and supporters were all the latest very proud at the way you guys conducted happenings at the yourselves. A gutsy effort especially with the club, check the News injured players just getting on with game. page on our website To our supporters you were great, vocal, numerous and together. A special thank you our helpers who did so getting ab- www.coorparoojafc.com solutely saturated and kept smiling. From or LIKE us on Facebook the team we thank you and very much appreciated. www.coorparoojafc.com PAGE 4 ROOS NEWS Match Reports COORPAROO U13 vs AMBROSE TRACEY COLLEGE U13 COORPAROO U15 vs MORNINGSIDE U15 AT KALBAR, SUNDAY 29 MARCH 2015 AT GIFFIN PARK, SUNDAY 29 MARCH 2015 What a great day for AFL on Sunday! A lovely Coorparoo 11.7.73 defeat Morningside 2.5.17 drive out to Kalbar showgrounds and we were rewarded with a win by our boys who showed determination and A couple of eagerly anticipated sporting rematches taking place confidence from the starting siren. this weekend......although the Giffin Park clash clearly rivalling that other eagerly anticipated rematch taking place at the MCG !!! There was hunger early on in the game, Hugh getting in amongst A couple of new faces for season 2015 in the ‘Roos squad. We the action numerous times to steal the ball and our boys kicked welcome Will Blew, Joshua Coombes, Daniel Holznagel-Reid, Thomas Matthews and Sam Tasker to complement the returning textbook goals and took perfect marks. The opposition were core of the 2014 squad. putting up a good fight and at times snuck in between our players to get the ball and it was Zach Bos who scored the opening goal All new players make an impact in the 1st quarter. Joshua for the game mid way through the first quarter. Bouyed up by the Coombes is dominant in the ruck and Thomas Matthews clever goal, the Roos were everywhere. Josh intercepted a massive kick keeping the ball in front as he attacks forward. Zach Rollason gets from the opposition, our boys stayed on their players and we saved us on board early with his first major. With 7 inside ‘50’s to 2, our two goals until Ambrose Tracey College were able to sneak in a kick defence are enjoying the attacking footy as much as the that evened up the score. Thom and Connor found open space supporters. Darcy Marsh snaps a left goal from the pocket and late and showed great determination in fighting for the ball and in the quarter repeats the effort for his second of the day. Justin impressive kicking skills. Harrison had the ball ripped from him but Currie swoops on a loose ball and makes no mistake with his shot fought hard and true teamwork allowed the ball to come back to from the pocket. At the first break, Coorparoo 4.3.27 to Morning- the Roos and it was Harrison who scored a goal. The game surged side 0.0.0. on and within a few minutes Sam had the ball and kicked straight to Hugh who handed off to Harrison – resulting in our third goal Morningside get an early goal but with 9 inside ‘50s to 3, our boys right on the siren. dominate the second quarter.