Proudly sponsored by: Box Hill Hawks Football Club Limited ABN 77 090 410 227 58th Annual Report 2008 BBHH-AReport-08-IDHH-AReport-08-ID 22-3-3 226/11/086/11/08 12:46:3512:46:35 PMPM Major Partner Season Highlights Box Hill Hawks 2008 Club Champion Steve Kenna Community Partners WHITEHORSE COMMUNITY CHEST Corporate Partners On Sunday 22nd June 2008, the Box Hill Hawks and Frankston clashed for the Eastlink Cup for the fi rst time, which the Clubs will compete for annually. Club Captain Alister Neville is hold- ing the Eastlink Cup, which the Box Hill Hawks won after a hard fought 7 point victory. we make you look great... 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Representation, V.F.L. Medal Voting, 12 V.F.L. Ladders History Club Information 13 Record Against Other V.F.A. / V.F.L. Clubs – 1951 to 2008 14 Season by Season V.F.A. / V.F.L. Record – 1951 to 2008 15 Honours Life Members – 1936 to 2008 16 Executive Officers, Coach, Captain and Club Champion – 1951 to 2008 17 Player Records – 1951 to 2008 – 100 Senior Games, 150 Senior Goals 18 Financials Statement of Changes in Equity, Statement of Financial Position 19 Statement of Financial Performance, Statement of Cash Flows 20 Corporate Information Registered Name: Box Hill Hawks Football Club Limited Australian Company Number: 090 410 227 Australian Business Number: 77 090 410 227 Registered Office: Box Hill City Oval, Corner of Whitehorse Road and Middleborough Road, Box Hill, VICTORIA, 3128 Postal Address: P.O. Box 143, Box Hill, VICTORIA, 3128 Secretary: Andrew Pirchan www.boxhillhawks.com.au Box Hill Hawks Football Club Ltd – 58th Annual Report 2008 1 Box Hill Hawks Football Club Limited Staff List 2008 Board of Directors Statistics President John Ure Head Statistician Rod Cameron Vice-President Jim Conway Statisticians Daniel Bourke Directors Rob Collier Matthew Cameron Greg Cook Shane Keane Mark Evans Gaston Naylor Chris Fagan Ramon Rodriguez Sam Koulis Mark Lisle Medical Staff Martin Ralston Team Doctors Dr Andrew Buchanan Dr Luke Holden Administration Physiotherapist Laura Baquie General Manager Andrew Pirchan Rehabilitation Manager Frances Gray Administration Manager Bob Lyford Football Manager Greg Boxall (resigned) Training Staff Ric Sprake Head Trainer Pam Pringle Trainers Farley Douglas Coaching Sharna Lamb Senior Coach Barry Mitchell Amelia Parsons Reserves Coach Dale Bower Emma Sexton Assistant Coaches Kevin Collins Tony Sykes Damon Paul Craig Thorley Glen Thorley Football Support Staff Kate Walters Team Manager – Seniors Stewart Ward Team Manager – Reserves Bruce Tomkins Match Day Staff Runner – Seniors Rick Dyer Time Keeper James Bainbridge Runner – Reserves Kevin Fitzgerald Gate Attendants Katrina Aabryn Fitness Advisor Kevin Collins Karen Lowrey Player Welfare Manager Stewart Ward Naomi MacLean Strength and Conditioning Craig Abbott Julia Tranter Support Staff Team Leader Alan McDonald Lindsay Wilson Recruiting Officer Anthony De Jong Merchandising Peter Wilson Property Steward Peter Martin Tina Wilson Tribunal Advocate David Reilly Scoreboard Attendants Phillip Behan Interchange Steward Drew Pass Jason Fleer Match Day Assistants Russell Firth Beer Booth Attendant David Behan Gordon McCrimmon Umpires Race Attendant Elaine Brown Graeme Walshe President’s Room Hostess Rochelle Fyander 2 Box Hill Hawks Football Club Ltd – 58th Annual Report 2008 www.boxhillhawks.com.au I congratulate all our trophy winners in 2008, particularly our President’s Report Club Champion, Steve Kenna, who we were delighted to welcome back to the Box Hill Hawks after four seasons playing The year 2008 was a difficult and challenging one for the Box in the A.F.L. and the S.A.N.F.L. He clearly showed that he is Hill Hawks Football Club. Under the circumstances, the fact an elite player at this level and was a shining light during the that the Club was able to improve on its 2007 on-field early rounds of the season when the team struggled. performance, maintain a stable financial position and significantly advance its plans to redevelop Box Hill City Oval Whatever were the Club’s problems during the first half of 2008, represented overall a satisfactory result. the ability of our Senior Coach to get the best out of the playing group was not one of those. Barry Mitchell is an outstanding Entering 2008 under a new and proven Senior Coach, Barry coach who, by the end of the season, achieved an improved Mitchell, and with an improved V.F.L. player list, the Club had performance from the Box Hill Hawks despite trying expectations of a first Finals appearance since 2005. A circumstances. Barry expressed his burning desire to return to coaching in the A.F.L. to the Club when he accepted our moderately successful recruiting campaign enticed Steve coaching appointment. We were therefore disappointed but not Kenna and Alister Neville back to the Club and reaped several surprised when he informed us at the end of the 2008 season new recruits including Nathan Batsanis and Digby Morrell. On that he had accepted an assistant coach’s position with the the down side was the departure of 2007 Club Champion, Nick Fremantle Football Club. We wish Barry well and thank him for Smith, and dual Club Champion, Matthew Ball. his efforts with the Box Hill Hawks this year. The season commenced disastrously with the Seniors losing Barry Mitchell’s departure left the Box Hill Hawks in the the first nine matches. For much of the time the team was invidious position of looking of a new Senior Coach for the fifth competitive but an abnormally high number of injuries and time in seven seasons. I believe that the lack of stability in our suspensions amongst Hawthorn’s list severely tested the depth coaching structure has been one of the significant contributing of the Box Hill Hawks list and we were found wanting. The low factors to our decline in on-field performance since 2004. We point came on the Queen’s Birthday holiday when we were therefore took a different approach to the selection of our next defeated by the Bendigo Bombers at home; the Box Hill team Senior Coach and deliberately sought an outstanding young contained just seven A.F.L. listed players with a combined total coach from outside the A.F.L. system who would see a three or of 18 A.F.L. games of experience. There is a mantra in V.F.L. four year period in the V.F.L. as an essential part of his career circles that an aligned Club is only as good as it’s V.F.L. list, to progression. For this reason I see the appointment of Brendon an extent this is true, but no Club could have performed at its Bolton, previously an assistant coach with the Tasmania Devils, as an exciting one for the Club. At 29 years of age, I believe he best under the circumstances that the Box Hill Hawks is the youngest Senior Coach of this Club since 1975, when our encountered during the first half of 2008. great champion Geoff Bryant was Captain-Coach of Box Hill at the age of 28. Brendon is extremely well credentialed to coach After the ninth successive lost against Bendigo, the season in the V.F.L. and during the interview process his passion and could have gone either of two directions. The players and desire to coach at this level was apparent, which was not coaches could have lost heart totally and we could have gone displayed by other quality candidates who had already coached through the season with very few wins indeed. To the great in the A.F.L. system. In many ways Brendon Bolton’s credit of all involved, the players regrouped and 6 of the final 11 appointment will be seen as a bold or even experimental one, matches were won; 4 of those victories against teams that but I believe that he is the right man to lead this Club into a new eventually played in the Finals. In the final weeks of the and successful era. season, with a good complement of A.F.L. listed players blending with a number of strong performers on the V.F.L. list, I Off the field, the Club experienced significant challenges on a believe we were playing a standard of Football worthy of a number of fronts.