Year 10 ACC Football Hello all St Joey’s faithful, I’d first like to thank our co-coaches this year in Mr Lynch and Mr Holt. They put in an enormous amount of time and effort and the entire squad are very appreciative. I’d also like to thank Lenny and Mick for their efforts this year with the strapping and great encouragement from the boundary. Now the season recap.The first match resulted in a 150 point belting to the hands of the eventual cellar dwellers in Mazenod and our midfield dominated hitting up big boy Ben Thomas who went on to kick the equal Year 10 goal kicking record of 7. De La Salle was a good 42 point winner with Jack Brogden a stand out having said to be incredibly close to the perfect 10 by coach Holt. The Parade game was a great wake up call for the boys going down by 61 points and which was a turning point for the season. Whitefriars away was never an easy journey but the boys stood up to the challenge even with the MCG like cheering and booing from the Whitefriars fateful. The team spirits were up and about, with the game highlighted by the goal of the year from Dave Handley who gave the Whitefriars boys nightmares with a candy selling goal. Round 5 saw us up against undefeated St Bede’s and the boys started like a house on fire with a strong lead early. But to St Bede’s credit they finished well to beat us by the post by 9 points.
The final home and away match was against St Bernard’s with the stars aligning to make the winner of the game play against Bede’s who had already locked in the home grand final. To add fuel to the fire Mr Holt overheard a few St Bernard lads say “these country fellas are no chance against Metro schools” which I gladly told the troops to get us up and about, which followed with a 53 point win in fine fashion. We went into the grand final as the underdogs against St Bede’s, and it was a hard fought match from siren to siren with a the little things just not going our way. Rumours have it Harry McMahon had to go to the local Police station to after being robbed of his clutch goal in the last two minutes which would have given us the lead. Anyway… the year was a lot of fun and the boys had a blast! Special mention to the award winners; Best and Fairest David Handley; Runner Up Best and Fairest Jack Brogden, Harrison Ling and Aaron Stone; and Coaches Award Jack Purcell. Congratulations to all the boys who made their debut for the school. The future of St Joseph’s first XVIII is in safe hands. Andrew McNeel - Year 10 Football Captain 2015
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Zachary Carew, Logan Mitchell, Harry McMahon, Jack Purcell, Zachary Walter, Thomas Douglas, Tom O’Callaghan, Ayden Gras, Jye McEwan, Oliver Monteith, Ben Arcoraci, Daniel Reed-Sharry Third Row: Blake Nicholls, Zack Mongelli, Patrick Brice, Jacob Bakker, Aaron Stone, Harry Ling, Matthew Ling, Xandar Harrison, Bayley Cockerill, Maxwell Cook Second Row: Jordan Imbrogno, Jake Brooks, Thomas Soraghan, Brayden Ham, Thomas Smith, Rory Cogan, Jack Stanton, David Handley, Harrison Smith, Matthew Haste Front Row: Hugh Darke, Mason Fraser, Fraser Toohey, Charlie Lang, Andrew McNeel, Jack Brogden, Matthew Wrigley, Aiden Sweeney, Jack Hodgson Absent: Benjamin Thomas Coaches: Paul Clohesy, Jono Holt (absent) Trainers: Mick Hinds, Len Alford
