MID SOUTH EAST FOOTBALL & NETBALL ISSUE #1286 The Family League Port MacDonnell skipper Will Macdonald goes upstairs to bring down this spectacular mark against Nangwarry last week. Photo: Karen Cawthorne. ROUND 3: APRIL 12TH, 2014 MOUNT BURR vs ROBE KALANGADOO vs NANGWARRY PORT MACDONNELL vs TANTANOOLA HATHERLEIGH vs KONGORONG Glencoe bye ADMISSION: ADULTS $8, CONCESSION $5. NO ALCOHOL IS PERMITTED TO BE BROUGHT INTO THE GROUND. PROUD SPONSORS OF MID SOUTH EAST FOOTBALL AND NETBALL CLUBS FRed’s fooTY FEED Tantanoola. ROUND TWO REVIEW GLENCOE’S miserable start to 2014 has continued with a 37 point loss to Mount Burr who looked the goods. J.L. “Fred” Smith It is amazing what a solid summer of training has done for the Burr ROUND THREE PREVIEW Boys. IT should be a one-sided encounter As I wrote in the round one when Robe heads to “Mick” and Budget, it was a crazy programming decision to have reigning wooden Jean Walker Oval this afternoon and spooners Nangwarry to play last the 5pm scoreboard should show year’s grand finalists in the first two the Mozzies will be well ahead. games. The home team will have new Kalangadoo again impressed with assistant coach Rick “Steamer” a 47 point win at Robe while the Stephens in charge of the bench. Tantanoola/Hatherleigh showdown New Mozzie coach Frazer Scanlon produced an 18 point win to the has an important personal social Tigers thanks to an effective but occasion today and we wish him inelegant second half. well. Today will also be the first time CHANGES TANTANOOLA coach Jason Dawe returns to the Bay today where he ex-Mount Burr skipper Pete Agnew THERE were a number of gave valuable service as a player and mentor. Photo: J.L. “Fred” Smith. will be playing against one of his constitutional changes made at the younger brothers Jonny and against annual general meeting of the Mid arrives, the flu strikes, injuries combined but have stayed in the his old club. SE late last year and I will explain happen and the dummy spits occur. KNTFL. The late bump delivered by some more of them in the coming You can bet that plenty of kids The move for an additional player Robe player and ex-South Adelaide weeks. will be called upon to play multiple in the finals in the Mid SE also goes skipper Kim Cobb to Pete Agnew in Please keep in mind that these games when the numbers dry up against the prevailing population front of “Can Hill” about six years ravings are not the authorised view and that footballers aged in their trend of the SE region which is ago is well remembered. of the powers-that-be that operate 40s will be playing B Grade. heading downwards. Some wags have suggested the in our competition. I am well aware that the new four The manufacturing sector is not two Agnews will be standing each They are just my opinion. man interchange bench rule only robust in the South East at present other but I think not. The laws of the Mid SE now state applies in A Grade and only in finals. with major job losses in recent times The meeting of Kalangadoo and that it is OK to field up to 22 players There won’t be any shortage of at Safries, KCA and the Nangwarry Nangwarry will determine just how in A Grade in finals. players who will be striving to get and Kalangadoo mills. much improvement these teams That is, the number of their name on the team sheet and The lobster sector is doing well have made over the summer of interchange players has increased the Fox Sports list for these fixtures. but the fishing fleet numbers have 2013/14. from three to four. However, it sends the wrong dipped by 10% in the past two The Saints could have two vital I reckon the club delegates who signal about player availability in the decades while there are a fewer jobs players missing and will be the supported this move were wrong. Mid SE. in banks and stock agencies and on underdogs. At a time when a significant I truly believe that we should farms. On form, you would think that Port number of clubs regularly need colts be moving to 16-per-side lineups There are many successful MacDonnell would be able to lower to make up the numbers in A Grade, across the Mid SE in a bid to keep enterprises and Holla-fresh at the colours of Tantanoola. it has been decided to increase the our wonderful competition intact. Tantanoola springs to mind. However, the Tigers also have size of the bench albeit just in the We have only had one change in I don’t want to paint a downbeat made a perfect start on the major round in A Grade. the structure of the Mid SE since picture but it is hard work in many scoreboard to 2013. I wonder if the Robe, Nangwarry 1966 while other competitions have places to put four footy teams on the Visiting coach Jason Dawe and Kalangadoo club delegates suffered. park each week. returns to the Bay where he gave supported this move as these clubs The Mid SE lost Tarpeena just Trimming the number of players valuable service as a player and regularly needed the mid-teens in over a decade ago while we have back to 16-per-side would remove mentor. the not-so-distant past. just witnessed the merger of four players from our mostly small Kongorong might be fresh from The numbers crisis around the Casterton and Sandford. ovals in the Mid SE and open up the a fortnight’s break but the Hawks Mid SE is not so obvious at this time Looking further afield, Apsley and play. probably won’t defeat the reigning of the year as players are keen, Edenhope had to unite a few years I hope this four-men-on-the- premiers at Hatherleigh. the sun is shining and the mood is ago and then chose to leave the bench-in-A-Grade-final only occurs The Eagles will need to improve optimistic. KNTFL. in the 2014 major round and the on their round two showing at Wait until the wintry weather Kaniva and Leeor have also constitution is changed again at the KICKING GOALS IN PEST CONTROL & proudly supporting the MSEFL Trevor Crowe 8724 9645 www.murraypestcontrol.com.au 2 - MID SOUTH EAST BUDGET • SATURDAY APRIL 12TH 2014 www.msefl.com.au 5145 Proudly sponsored by 31B George Street Millicent SA Mid SE annual general meeting in the sad news and to pay tribute to SEEBOHM’SPhone 8733 1725 November. Nimmy who had passed away at Email the Sheoak Lodge Nursing Home in NEW RECORD www.in2tmw@ Millicent. bigpond.com IF media reports are correct, the “He played the game in the same MILLICENT Padthaway Football Club has set a way as Byron Pickett.” new (and sad) record for any of the Nimmy spent about a decade of SPONSORS OF three leagues in the SE. his working life at the KCA Millicent The KNTFL Lions are set to have Mill and was nick-named after up to 12 Adelaide-based players in “Nimrod” the fabled king and hunter their team every week. of ancient times. LEADING Even allowing for the fact that some of them might be ex- LAST BUDGET FOR A FORTNIGHT locals, this number appears to be THIS is our last Budget for a GOALKICKERS excessive. fortnight and the Mid SE has rightly For quite a few years now, the decided not to play any games over A GRADE KNTFL has been dubbed the spot- the Easter holiday long weekend. Name Club Round 2 Total Dylan Bromley Port MacDonnell 6 11 the-local league due to the carloads It is good to have a break at this of buy-ins in most of the clubs. Anthony Kilsby Kalangadoo 3 9 time. Jaryd Dawson Robe 4 8 How many of the Padthaway It is entirely inappropriate for the Leo Sharaf Glencoe 4 7 players will make themselves Western Border to play a game on Glen Gascoyne Tantanoola 2 6 available for the tri-league carnival Good Friday. Tyson Ploenges Nangwarry 3 6 at Vansittart Park in Mount Gambier This is the most solemn day on Tyler Jones Kalangadoo 4 6 Simon Beggs Hatherleigh 2 6 on the Saturday of the June long the calendar for Christians. weekend? Matt Pilmore Tantanoola 2 6 At the last Census taken in 2011, Scott Bevan Mt Burr 6 6 To be played on June 7, the a significant majority of South carnival concept will have each East residents stated they were RESERVES league compete at Under 17 and A Christians. Dylan Tincknell Tantanoola 7 11 Grade level, with the top two sides If the Western Border was so keen Ben Chant Tantanoola 5 9 playing off in the grand final. Karl Schaefer Nangwarry 0 7 to have a game over Easter, it could Games will be played in two Benjamin Curran Glencoe 2 6 have been played on Easter Day or halves to follow the SA Country Thomas Bannister Kalangadoo 3 6 Easter Monday and not caused any Aaron Ilsley Kalangadoo 2 5 Championship format. Nathan Roach Port MacDonnell 5 5 After the final siren, players will offence. This is not simply a case of James Varcoe Tantanoola 4 5 be named in the Murray SE training Dylan Gull Kalangadoo 5 5 squad to play in the SA Country Western Border bashing as I would Alistair Scott Glencoe 0 5 be expressing the same view if the Championships in Kadina on July 5.