TIGER JUNIOR NOTES TIGER JUNIOR NOTES

U12E

It was another great effort for the E’s against West. Great teamwork and sharing thefootybythewholeteam.

Award winners this week were Flynn Moyle, Cruz Bilney, Sam Copping, Nate JohnsonandKadeLynagh.

U12D

Round two had North Gambier U12 D’s playing against West Gambier Football Clubonwhatwasagreatdayoffootballinthesunshine.Inthefirst30seconds,we had our first goal kicked by Morgan Renko, by a superb midfield clearance. Ryan Davison provided elevation in his ruck work, which assisted others to grab the football and go in what was a generous distance between goals. Jimmy Crozier displayed slick hands to move the ball like a hot potato, and the likes of Brax Edwards, Corey Phillips and Xavier Wurst provided a link in the chain to move the ballforward.BeauWhelanusedthespaceofthegroundextremelywellandkicked throughthebigsticks.

West Gambier players showed some amazing skills with some superior marking, handballingandkicking,whichproducedmultiplegoalsbeingkicked.Thiscreated a few magnet changes to the Tigers field and exposed the elite running of Flynn Buckley and Finn Roscow In what was all about teamwork, creating space and looking for the right options to kick too, this was done with plenty of smiles and laughs!

GG(goodgame)isanewwordcoacheshavelearnt!

Awards on the day were handed to Finn Roscow, Xavier Wurst, Hudson Rogers, CoreyPhilipsandMorganRenko.

JoeyRenko-Coach

U12C

The U12C are playing beautifully as a team. It's a joy to watch but makes picking bestplayersahardthingtodo.

Thisweek'sstandoutswereRyleyJudd,HarryLucas,THomasBryan,CohenMinter andMorganRenko.

DannyVinko-Coach

U12B

Our first home game for the season against West started a little slowly with the team taking a while to catch up with the pace of the game which put the backline underabitofpressureearlybuttotheircredittheyhandleditwellandweathered thestorm.Oncetheteamsettledtheyputtogethersomereallygoodfootballwith some fluent passages of play that were great to watch and also resulted in some greatgoals.GoalkickerswereMaisonRoscow1,ThomasBryan1andRyderSealey 1, best players were Cooper Stephen, Lakyn Corcoran, Ryder Sealey, Mason Bradshaw and Will Mullens. Thank you to Cohen, Thomas and Ryder from the C's forplayingupforustoo.

StacyMullens-Coach

U12A

It was a much improved effort after round 1 from the entire team The contribution was collective and the coaches could have easily given awards to many more players. The first year and less advanced players should be recognised fortheirindividualgamesandabilitytobecomepartoftheteam.

AwardwinnersforRound2vWest

-EddieBuckland,AddisonSchloithe,JakeCarey,JobeCreek,RonnieColeman

Overallitwasgreattoseeallplayersperformreallywellatourfirsthomegameand show some signs of how the team can develop and hopefully be very competitive fortheseasonahead.Therewereplentyofsmilesandhighfivesandtheendofthe game!

AdrianFlowers-AssistantCoach&TeamManager

North Gambier North Gambier Yellow & Black

Aweekislongweekinfootball, particularly if you play two games. While it is an honour andprivilegetoplayAnzacDay, a few of the seniors struggled to come up after a short turn around.

AllcredittoWest,whowerefar too good on the day and will hold on to the Tom Hall Trophy for another year, noting they were fairly confident, not worrying about bringing the trophy Our senior highlight was having two debutants in W i l l B r o w n , t h e b e s t optometrist in town and Tyler Horrigan, a father son recruit. Both can be proud of their efforts.

After another quick start, we fell away in the 2nd half, seemingly getting frustrated with what was being served up. Named best players were Mitch Kelton, Cameron Ortlepp, Josh Jenner, Sam Stafford (3 goals), Dale Bachmann&TylerHarris.

Another good start to the day with coach Roulstone having the U14s flying already, having f i x e d t h e i r w a y w a r d goalkicking, goals were evenly spread with 10 individual goal scorers Better players were Sam Baron, James Butler, C h a r l i e Wa te rs , Ea s i e KulimushiandMasonRogers.

TheU16sgavecoachSamZeitz his first win after a very competitive game, holding on to an 8 point lead at the final siren. Aaron Dally channelled Jeremy Cameron and kicked 6 goals.Betterplayersontheday were Cooper Turner, Aaron Dally, Bowen Rogers, Tate SmithandChadMcLaughlin.

After a disappointing first game, coach Kevin Bryan got the U18’s up and about this week, with assistance from some of the U16s. There were some great goals and marks, including Chad taking a screamer over older brother Reece, which I am sure has been spoken about at home. The major goal scorers were included in the best players, including Darcy Bryan (3 goals) Trae Hamilton, captain Zayne Young (4g and another that looked very close) Chad (3g) and Reece McLaughlin and JontyCollins.

The reserves are not getting the results on the field at this s t a g e , b u t t h e r e w a s improvement this week and room for more as the season goes on As a club we appreciate the reserves efforts as the new players are adding to the club activities (and saving the juniors playing m u l t i p l e g a m e s ) . Unfortunately, Tim Boxall ended up in hospital Saturday night with a nasty injury and we wish him a speedy recovery Coach Young named best players in Danny Poyner, Brayden Walters, Aidan Curtis, Bradley Nottle-Justice, James PhillipsandTimBoxall.

Today we host Millicent. While the seniors are playing a twilight game, teas are available at the club from 6pm and awards at 7.30pm, before our first social function for the year Hot Dub Tige Machine commencingaround8.30pm

Just a reminder of game times thisweek;

Millicent

Red, Black & White

Congratulations to our reliable and loyal Clay Reilly on reaching 150 games His experience and poise in defencewillbewelcomedback into a Reserves team that defeated South for the first time in quite a few seasons. Matt Withers and Nat Robbins were influential against the Demons in the middle along with a great running game fromdefencebyAidanSchultz, and Josh Peters doing the finishingworkwith3goals.

After a slow start, the Seniors really kicked away in the last quarter for a comfortable 51 point win. We've welcomed back Frazer Bradley (who had to take on some of the ruck load) and Harry Tunkin from Glenelg over the past couple weeks, and also introduced Micah Rupcic for his first game for the Saints on the weekend. Micah got his share of ball in close to feed possessions out to our running players. This good work was finished off by Jacob 'there's a pig at full forward' Carger with 6 majors, and Hamish Nitschke and Kade Varcoe with 2 each Josh Werchon, Clint Gallio and Jack Verbena were also influential acrossthegame.

Atoughdayforallofourjunior grades against some strong South outfits, but loving the effort the kids are putting in and looking forward to seeing there improvement across the season.

Norththisweekforoursecond twilight fixture for the year. Hopefully the weather is kind and a good crowd turns out to see what should be a great gameoffooty.

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