Well welcome again to another season of Goblin football

Firstly a welcome back to all the old greats and legends of the game from seasons gone by. A bit of a revamp this year with a few new faces around the traps. We say goodbye to Waddo (heart) Coully (Sydney) Ev (transferred) and Matty B (king St) and welcome in new recruits, Adam, Chris, Cam and Nick. These guys have shown some seriously good form at training and in the trials and big years are expected from all.

So how has the trial season been going? With have dominated!! Great performances on both occasions with an absolute drubbing of Garden Suburb 6-0 and a good fighting win against Azzuri 3-1. Cam has bagged a couple of good goals, his first, Matty g has found some early form in front and Pez has scored his one and only blinder goal for the season which will once again ensure his nude run takes place at the end of the year. At the back Chris and Scotty B have formed an outstanding partner ship in the sweeper and CB positions and after two games look like they have been playing together for years. Mikey has added a bit of fitness (could he get any fitter!?!?!) and has seriously improved his footwork to once again look like being the form LB in the comp. Adam and a fully fit T$ are looking the goods in the centre of the park, biggin and snowy are running around like there’s no tomorrow and the silent assassin Scotty R is still as good as ever. Nick Bates showed in the game against Gardo hell be a very handy acquisition as well. Guy hasn’t really been called on but has made 2-3 good saves to show hes a solid keeper who only gets better. Once we welcome Back Nick M and Boss the side only looks stronger.

So what do we want out of 09? The last two seasons have seen us push from being bottom of the ladder to a finals football team. Mark did a lot of hard work to get us there the first year and we continued that into our 2nd season of finals football. But the one thing remains, we have yet to win a game in September (or is it august haha). We missed out on the minor premiership by 1 point last year. So what I want to achieve this year is to make the semis, push for the minor premiership and win a finals game. Weve set fairly high standards for the goblins I know but I believe we have the team to do it this year. We’ve played 4 games of finals football so we know what it’s about. Lets though take it week at a time. Id like to set our first goal as winning the first game of the year as this game really cost us the minor premiership last year against a weak side. Our trial form has showed we are ready to go!

A few housekeeping duties, Mikey and I are once again running the team this year so if you’re not available or aren’t happy please contact either of us (this is with football related issues, I don’t give a shit about your personal life and am not a shoulder to cry on haha). Also well announce the captain at the first game of the year so think about who youd like leading the goblins around the park this year. Everyone is a candidate except me. Its one thing I am proud of brining to the goblins as I think Pez did an outstanding job of being our captain all last year and Id like to think whoever wears the band this year will be proud to lead a good bunch of blokes out onto the field every Saturday. We also want to have a fairly social calendar this year so I encourage everyone to hang around after the game and support the esky, and then hit the club after the game. Girl friends, wives, friends, family, kids etc are all welcome. Well also look to organize a few large get togethers throughout the year. Training shirts are being organized we should have some news on those in next few weeks.

So in conclusion welcome to Goblins 09: Its Time!!

See you at the Club

Lee