2009 Under 9's Information Page

Coach: Stuart Brunning 0419 351 416

Email: skt1_is@optusnet.com.au

From The Coach:

Training Times update: Wednesdays at 4:30pm - 5:30pm at our home ground. (One on one training from 4pm every Wednesday)

(Please bring footy boots and wear your favourite AFL team's jumper)

Round 1 Update,  Round 2 Update, Round 3 Update, Round 4 Update,  Round 5 Update,  Round 6 Update, Round 7 Update ,  Round 8 Update, Round 9 Update, Round 10 Update,  Round 11 Update,  Round 12 Update

Coaches Weekly Awards 

Round 1 Update

Congratulations to the young boys for a great team effort during our first game. Although South Melbourne jumped us in the first quarter, we had a solid second half with a great around team effort to keep South from getting away.

Congratulation to the boys who won the Courage, Hard work, Team Spirit & Determination awards.

Great game by Tristan, Bailey, Riley, Tyrone, Tyren, Mitchell, Ruley and Tristan O'Neill

This was our first game with a young team and we can all hold our heads high after a spirited performance to build on for a great year.

Goals Scorers:

Tristan Brunning 2

Big thanks to Cameron, Chris, Colin and the Pavouris family for all their help on match day.

Big Thanks to Karen & Trent Ross for the help pre game with the clean up and for the red & white Balloons and lollies for the kids

Training is on Wednesday as usual, please try your hardest to get to training as our skills and team work is continually improving with a focus this week on match drills.

Round 2 Update

Well another great game although the score board didn't explain the way we played.
Our run at the ball was sensational although when you have the whole 18 players chasing the ball makes it a bit hard.

It was a great team effort but we have a lot of work to do mainly to work as a team but the hard work, the boys are doing on the day is very rewarding.

Our team is quite small with a couple of 6 year olds filling up some positions which is very encouraging.

Well done to Nicolas in kicking his first goal in football, another big congratulations to Tyren and Tristan Brunning for a joint win for the "ANZAC day" medal.

Round 3 Update

3rd May Sunday vs St Pauls
 
With an awesome start they broke carefully with the first score but we were able to match them with a goal in the first quarter to Nicholas and a minor score to Riley and Marchello.
After a great overhead mark, Tristan B kicked an intense second goal to bring the scores even at half time.

We had great run out of the centre thanks to Ruley, Riley, Nicholas, Bailey, Tristan and Tyren.
AN EXCELLENT HALF to James, Luc, Nathan W running hard with their heads over the ball.

St Pauls kicked away in the 3rd Quarter but we held our ground in the last quarter to keep them from scoring and with Tristan B kicking his second goal to reduce the margin to 10 pints.
 

A great effort by the boys making all the parents and the coach proud and showing a win is just around the corner.
 

Round 4 Update

Mothers Day saw the gallant under 9's take on some friends and foes at Waverley Hawks. The boys played magnificently with the ever smiling Nicholas kicking his first bag of 3 goals.

Congratulations to Bailey Thompson on a superb first goal after pass from a courageous mark running back wards with the flight of the ball by James O'Neill.

Another superb game from Riley, Ruley, Mitch, Tyrone and Tyren and a great first effort from Justin Chung.

While we fell short by the narrowest of margins, the boys can sniff a win is just around the corner and all the mums and dads could not be prouder than the effort put in by the boys.

Round 5 Update

What a game>What an absolute ripper of a GAME!! coming off from a 1 point loss last week to stepping it up and to come through with a really good win with Nicholas kicking 6 goals,Tristan kicking 4  goals, James and Bailey kicking 1 goal each.

Really good effort to Conner for kicking 2 points in his first game with us. Great effort and welcome.

Great effort by Riley, Nathan P, Nathan W and Tristan O'Neill marking strongly and Ashton nearly running his legs off his own body.

Tyrone Wilson was good playing up the ground and Tyren running strong in to the forward line.

A great win and a brave effort to the whole team. big thanks.

Round 6 Update

With Murrumbeena a very tall side they got the jump on us with the first 2 goals of the game .Our backline with Tyrone, Tristan O'Neill and Nathan Pavouris stopping some crucial scoring from the opposition. Second quarter was better with Ruley, Riley, Nicholas and Tristan B kicking our first goal for the game.

Murrumbeena were a bit quicker at getting the ball than our boys at times,  but Mitch, Jasper, Nathan W and Zac soon put a stop to that with there courage and determination at the ball. Nicholas also fought hard with kicking a goal and then another in the last quarter and little Ashton kicking a point which brought great happiness to the team.

James O'Neill fought hard on the wing not only his second and third efforts but his fourth and fifth efforts at the ball. (awarded best visiting player by Murrumbeena)

Great team effort a shame about the outcome on the score board not reflecting our effort

Round 7 Update

Sunday 31/5/09 vs. East Brighton colts........today brought our first game under lights due to heavy fog. I would have to say beautiful football coming out of the middle with Bailey, riley, Tristan B and Ruley also supporting along side was Nicolas and Tyrone offering plenty of support, but with Tyren really aggressive at the ball and kicking our first goal and first for the game.

With most of our back men getting lost in he fog we still fought hard in the second with Tristan B kicking our second goal. Jasper, James and Marcello provided plenty of help getting into our forward line and helping Connor, Luc and Cooper to get a couple of minor scores and to come in at half time in front. Well after half time the fog had lifted and so did they wining most of the centre breaks, they slapped on a few goals and put them in front but as tough as Northvale 9's are we didn't stop. Nicolas kicking 1 goal kept our spirits high. James, Riley and Tristan kept pushing despite the score and battled hard.

Full credit to our backline and well done to Tyrone, Nathan P Tristan ON and Ashton to keep hold and stop a lot of scoring.

I think our back men found some holes that were getting dug in the first half but soon climbed out of them to keep going till the final siren.......bad luck boys but we live to fight another day...........................................
 

Round 8 Update

Well before i go on i would like to thank Karen Ross, Donna Amphlett, Chris Davis, Danielle O'Neill and Kylee Brunning
for everything they did to contribute to our pie night we had with the under 11's and a big thank you to Gary Wilson
for taking training and being our guest speaker for the night. he told me he had awesome night and and would gladly be
of any assistance whenever needed also to say he wishes the boys the very best for rest of the year. Well today I
honestly thought that today's game was going to be our toughest game for the year, starting with 2 phone calls and 1
defiant not playing to start on paper with 17 and to start with 15 made it pretty hard.

Our late comers turned up by
the 2nd quarter but our boys especially our backline fought really hard with Tyrone, Zac(attack) and Mitchell playing
some great football. Tristan B, Bailey, Riley and Tyren played some awesome footy with their run and support out of the
middle. Nathan P, James and Jasper also provided some great team morale and endeavor.

Ashton today we'll they couldn't
stop him and whenever when the ump pulled him up for too far he just didn't care and kept running (he was gone). I think today
he just wanted to show how good he can actually play and he did ..Tristan O, Cooper and Connor also today really showed
how they can play under extreme pressure, but some of the silly things that happened today my heart really went out to
the boys and they just kept trying and trying and once again a great and courageous effort ...well done and thank
you.......

Round 9 Update

Northvale vs. Beaumaris....well I don't think anything went our way today. we had (Abby) our first girl umpire and her 2nd game as umpire. We didn't really have any decisions go our way but with Adrian Fisher (her mentor) on the ground helping .They
did a tremendous job. Tristan B today just couldn't hit the sweet spot every time he went for a second bounce, Nicolas
was shattered every time he laid a bump and was called in the back.. but still managed to kick 2 goals. Tyren tried his
heart out but was a bit stiff to not get a free in the goal square. James just couldn't get free every time his jumper
was tugged every time...but on a positive note Ruley had a great game in the backline almost playing kick to kick with
the opposition.

Mitchell had ripper as well in the backline thanks to Lindsey his dad as his mentor. Zac "attack" made sure today that all the goal posts were definitely hard in the ground, Jasper showed everyone how good at river dance he  is, Tristan O not only did he want to give all of the opposition the "Twist of Fate" but made sure all their boots were
dirty and of course Ashton well stood up next to the biggest boy and on the ground and told him how big he really
is. Luc, Justin and Cooper got themselves involved and got a taste of the footy.

Bailey also showed not only us (coaching
staff) but all the mums and dads (with his arms out) were is my free kick..... despite the outcome we all had a good
day and had plenty of laughs.......
 

Round 10 Update

Northvale vs. Prahran blue...Having old Maurie as umpire today was great and to have him come in the rooms before the game and talk to all the boys gave them plenty of encouragement and a smile to some of the parents too who have met Maurie before.

Today we couldn't do much more than attack the ball at all costs and that's what we did .Prahran had some good run out of the middle but were just to good .Mitch, Ruley, Zac, Ashton, Tristan O and Nathan W did a really good job down back as to Bailey, Nicolas, James, Riley and Tristan B opened up our centre line and created good run out of the middle but their defense was just to tall and quick.

Nicolas then kicked our only goal for the day and had Luc, Jasper, Cooper and Connor presented up forward but couldn't quite convert and kept trying though. Tyren stood out today trying his best
to crash through packs.

another great effort and well done .....
 

Round 11 Update

Round 12 Update

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