Author: Booragoon Junior Football Club
Pre-Primary to Year 2 Players (AFL Auskick)
Returning Year 3-12 Players
Online registration and payments are available herefor returning Male and Female Booragoon JFC players – this is for Year 3-12 teams.
Returning players must have Registered and completed Payment by 31st of January to guarantee their place in the Team. New and transferring players will be accepted from the 1st of February until teams reach the District imposed player/Team size limits.
Year 3 players graduating from AFL Auskick must register as a New player.
If you are a Year 3-12 player that has not played football before, please register here.
If you are transferring from another club, please submit a transfer request here.
Results of 2016 AGM
The Booragoon JFC AGM has been held – the new Committee has been appointed. There are a number of key Committee roles still vacant – we need volunteers to fill these position ASAP.
The 2017 Booragoon JFC Committee is:
President Mark Downey
Vice President (Junior Football) Lindsay Marley
Vice President (Girls Football) Lee Lawrence
Secretary Marie Schmidt
Treasurer Steve Gerovich
Registrar Paul Logothetis
Auskick Co-ordinator Renee Cailes
Merchandise Co-ordinator Helen and Daniel Nolan
Social Co-ordinator Scott Lieschke
General Committee Dean Motton, Mark Zwyster, Tim Bell
The Vacant Positions where volunteers required are:
- Coaching Co-ordinator – updated 16/02/2017 – Heath Schmidt
- Canteen Co-ordinator
- Property Co-ordinator – updated 16/02/2017 – Cameron Bell
- Sponsorship Co-ordinator
2016 Annual Report
We have had a great season at the Booragoon Bulldogs. Highlights of the season include:
- Sixth consecutive year of growth in player numbers – we continue to be in the top three clubs in the East Fremantle District
- More teams than ever before – 17 teams from Year 3 to Year 12s
- Continued growth of Girls football, with Under 12s and a new Under 15s team
- First time we’ve had a Year 12 team for six years
- Year 3s entering the Junior Football competition for the first time
- Another excellent AFL Auskick program, this year focussed on Pre-Primary to Year 2s
- Over 30 Booragoon JFC players in District and WAFC Development Squads
- Exciting finals series, with Year 10s and Year 9s making Preliminary Finals and a first-ever Booragoon Year 8s Grand Final Derby to finish the year
- Long awaited renovations at Karoonda Park finally underway, to be ready for 2017
Our Financials are very healthy, with funds in the bank finally able to contribute to the renovations in-progress at Karoonda. The last two-years have not been typical year financially, with no Canteen, significant investment in new Jumpers last year, and the second year of two-year sponsorship arrangements coming in this year.
2017 Goals should be
- Retain and grow player group across Auskick, Junior and Youth Football
- Grow Girls Football specifically: Riding the wave of the AFL Womens competition to be run in February and March 2017, we should aim for three teams across Under 12s and Under 15s. These teams and players need additional focus as it still is a new area for the Club and Players, but it is a major growth area and a great opportunity for our Club
2017 Changes to Manage
- Fremantle Conference Competition extends to cover Year 8s to Year 12s and merges with the Girls Football Competition. While this does change some aspects of Year 8 and 9 football, I think it is a positive move for the game
2017 Focus Areas
- Game-day environment – ensure our Club Ethos is lived every day, and our players, coaches, officials and parents abide by their respective codes of conduct. The purpose of our Club is for Kids enjoying and improve playing footy, not winning football games. We all need to remember this
- Player skill development, driven by good Coaches that prepare and execute well, and make football fun
- Moving in to our new Clubrooms
- Financials – continue to be disciplined
Thank you to our major sponsors IGA, Pharmacy 777, Ship Agency Services, RentWest Solutions, Niagara, Mazu Shipping, Jones Ballard, Ranford Veterinary Hospital, Bradford Legal Services.
On behalf of the Committee, I would like to thank all of the players, coaches, team managers, game-day volunteers, and parents that make the Booragoon Junior Football Club a great community to be part of.
I would like to thank all members of the Club Committee – a great bunch of people that do things right, put in significant effort to make this Club run smoothly, work together extremely well, and enjoy the job. Thank you to Mark, Marie, Steve, Paul, Dean, Leigh, Erin, and Lindsay, it has been great working with you.
This community is powered by volunteers, we need more people to be involved – please now consider contributing to this Club, it is very rewarding and a lot of fun.
Roll on 2017, it will be a fantastic year!!
2017 WAFC Female Talent Academy Development Squads
Congratulations to these Booragoon JFC players for being accepted into the 2017 WAFC Female Talent Academy Development and Orientation Squads:
Brittaney Gonslaves
Bronte Montague
Chloe Ducrow
Chloe Hogg
Kylee Pearson
Monique Blasiak
Tyler Jones
Jade Jerome
Ellie Suriano
Amalea Lawrence
Jess Creighton
Millie Jones
Well done to all players, enjoy the development program over the summer!
Notice of AGM
Notice of 2016 Annual General Meeting
To be held at Karoonda Park
Sunday October 30th at 3PM
All Committee positions are vacant. We are seeking nominations for all positions. The success of our football club is solely dependent on contributions from volunteers.
Almost half of our current nine-member Committee is from our Year 9s team. We currently have no representation on Committee from Year 3s, Year 5s, Year 6s, or Year 10s, with more representation from Auskick and Girls Football welcome as well. A number of long term Committee members will be permanently stepping down after this season.
We need you to get involved in the running of your football club. Ideally we have at least one person from each Year group. Running this football club is a very rewarding experience and great way to contribute to our community.
We look forward to seeing you put your hand up to be part of directing our football club in 2017 and beyond.
Required Roles
We’re looking for people to fill these positions on the Club Committee. More details here.
- President: Overall leadership, primary District-level engagement
- Vice Presidents: Oversea all football related matters, leadership for coaches and players, support the President
- Secretary: Manage business considered by the Committee, provide planning focus to ensure the overall efficient management of club functions
- Treasurer: Ensure effective financial management system is in place, govern and expenditure and income
- Registrar: Ensure players and teams are registered or transferred in accordance with the competition rules and regulations
- Auskick Coordinator: Manage all aspects of the the Clubs AFL Auskick Program
- Coaching Coordinator: Recruit, develop and coordinate all Club coaches
- Canteen Coordinators: Ensure a canteen service is effectively operated for all home games and other events
- Events Coordinators: Schedule, plan and managed events – sundowners, social events, fairest & best evenings, club wind-ups, etc.
- Property Coordinator: Manage football equipment purchase, distribution, maintenance, collection
- Merchandise Coordinator: Manage Club merchandise sales to players and supporters
- Sponsorship Coordinator: Recruit and retain club sponsors and sponsorship income
- Marketing Coordinator: Publish newsletters, run web site and social media presence
AGM Agenda
As defined in the Constitution
- Confirm Attendees & Apologies
- Confirmation of Minutes of Previous AGM
- Annual Report
- Treasurer Report
- Election of New Committee
- Determination of Annual Membership Fees
- Notices of Motion
- Urgent General Business
Britt in the News
Booragoon JFC Under 15s Player Brittaney Gonsalves made it into the news this week after an excellent first season.
YANGEBUP resident Brittaney Gonsalves was not a football fan before taking it up earlier this year, but it does not appear to be holding her back.
The 14-year-old scooped the Booragoon Junior Football Club’s Under-15s fairest and best award after following friends to the club for season 2016.
It was not the only win for the defender, who was also invited to a number of talent identification days run in the lead up to the new AFL women’s league.
She is too young to be drafted at this stage but said she was enjoying the opportunities.
“I’ve heard about what scouts are looking for, research into opposition players, what food professional players eat and how they prepare for matches,” she said.
The full article is available here.
2016 Under 12 Girls
Left Photo: Alyssa Foster, Jade Jerome, Amy Ivandich, Shoniquah Wilson-Bandy, Amelia Tooker, Ava Hagger
Right Photo: Tayla Keillor (Asst Coach ), Jasmin Hall, Alyssa Foster, Jade Jerome, Amy Ivandich, Ellie Suriano, Ben Tooker (Coach), Amelia Tooker
I brought my daughter down to the club at the beginning of the year to see if she would be interested in playing Australian Football. A few weeks in and I was approached to assist with the training. Before I knew it I had been nominated the head coach and was wracking my brain trying to remember my junior footy days and the drills we used to do 30+ years ago. The assistant coach Tayla was a big help here as she has a much better knowledge of modern training structure and drills than I.
The girls bonded quickly and showed a level of skill and tenacity that was far beyond what I was expecting. The team developed well throughout the year and it was a real pleasure to watch their skills improve. It was also great to see the girls start using tactics like quick handpasses and marking up without having to think about what they were doing. Despite our small numbers I felt that we outperformed the other teams in most of the games we played and had heaps of fun in every match along the way.
I thoroughly enjoyed the season, and Milly and I will be back next year. I think we will see some of these girls in the Women’s Football League in the not too distant future.
Gooooo Bulldogs – WOOF WOOF!
Ben Tooker (Coach)
2016 Year 8 Whites
Back: Steve Dropulich (Manager), Graeme Fitzgerald (Coach), Lachie Ballantine, Leigh Wardell-Johnson (Asst. Coach), Roosevelt Williams, Thomas Gerovich, Jasper Stewart, Jake Thygesen, Benedict Nwannukwu, Bet Chamnan, Charles Casale, Ethan Lewins, Andrew Gerovich, Bernard Nwannukwu, Kyle MacDonald, Alex Marchese, Troy Irwin (Asst. Coach), Lachlan Wild, Nick Casale, Paul MacDonald
Front: Hamish Wardell-Johnson, Connor Fitzgerald, Jad Dropulich, Luke Frampton, Ryan Leong, Declan Ryan, Jackson Halse, Lochlan Irwin
Absent: Cameron Webb (inset), Liam Barnett (inset), Ethan Cook, Heidi Cook (Manager)
Firstly, I would like to thank our assistant coaches for their contribution this year, especially over the time I was away overseas. Paul “Macca” McDonald has hardly missed a training all year and is always reliable and is a great positive role model for the boys. Troy “Tank” Irwin has taken on the backline this year and can be well pleased with his performance with our team having the best defence in the league and conceding the least points in the entire competition for the home and away season. Nick “Up there” Casale had the difficult job of Boardman and did a fantastic job getting the boys on and off the field. Leigh “Two Dads” Wardell-Johnson was our skills man and his knowledge of the game has been an invaluable asset for our team.
A big thankyou to Steve Dropulich and Heidi Cook for their roles as team managers. We are very lucky to have 2 such organised people doing this job. Nothing is too much trouble and they just get on and get things done.
Special thanks to Mark Thygesen and Wayne Frampton for running our first aid. I know there have been some games where they have been quite busy and this can be quite a stressful job. I would also like to thank Pat Leong for helping out at training, running water on game day and being available to assist wherever possible. Thanks also to Chris Ryan for running the i-pad each week and well done to all other parent helpers on game days.
The season started where we only had two boys not returning from last year. Stacey Collier started the season with us, then graduated to the East Fremantle Youth team in the WAWFL. Disappointingly Ethan Cook broke his thumb in the first 5 minutes of the first game. This was his 2nd fracture in two seasons (it was 2nd game last year) and he decided he would give footy a miss for the rest of the year and concentrate on his tennis.
We had four new boys join the team this year. Benny and Bernie Bollum had their first season playing footy, Jasper Stewart returned after a season playing in the country and Roosevelt Williams returned after a season break from footy.
At the end of last year we spoke to the boys and advised that if they wanted to continue to play footy they needed to try to develop a competitive edge. This is the year that “edge” arrived and I can genuinely say we have a fantastic team. The boys bonded well, enjoyed each other’s company and played for each other and their team. At no stage in any game did they ever give up or stop believing.
I thought I would now write about what I loved about coaching this year and why my 11th year as a coach at Booragoon has been my favourite.
- Bet’s extreme pace and power running off half back
- Ginger’s strength to stay on his feet, keep the ball in front and execute terrific tackles
- Wildy’s fierce competitiveness and straight run off half back
- Thomas’s terrific strong hands and ability to take a great grab forward
- Jacko’s hard attack on the ball and fierce tackling for a small bloke
- Razza’s love of the tight in close contests and willingness to work at the bottom of the pack
- Hammer’s fantastic skills by foot and hand and ability to slow the game and hit up a target
- Jasper’s amazing kicking ability and skill at hitting up a target at 40-50 metres
- Benny’s run, chase, raw speed and ability to get to as many contests as he can
- Al’s sharp shooting around goal and willingness to work hard at training
- Gero’s fast run and carry of the ball forward as well as terrific high marking
- Liam’s improvement across the season and ability to take a strong mark
- Cam’s clever evasion and ability to kick a goal when forward
- Dropo’s beautiful raking left foot kick and being part of that hard working backline
- Machine’s determination to impact as many games as possible and fierce tackling
- Ballas’s ferocious attack on the ball, attack on the ball carrier and attack on the contest
- Roo’s raw athletic ability to jump, to mark, to run and fierce competitiveness
- Bernie’s love of playing footy, to train hard, to run hard and really worry the opposition
- Fitzy’s explosive attack to hit the ball and execute a full range of skills at extreme pace
- Kebabs rucking and ability to run all day with a fantastic raking kick. Deserved MOST IMPROVED AWARD
- Frammo’s role at fullback, hardly missed a training all season and being one of the most dependable members of the team. An apt winner of BEST TEAM MAN AWARD
- Jake Thygo’s hard work all season whether it be at training, playing as a strong forward or stepping in to help out rucking. He had a great season and was a pleasure to coach and much deserves his COACHES AWARD
- Dec’s steely approach to his footy, taking charge and making the backline his as well as his ability to hold the ball until he was confident he could hit a target. Dec very much deserved his RUNNER UP FAIREST AND BEST AWARD
- Chucky’s great all round season. His high marking, his work at ground level and his ability to take on the opposition and run and carry the ball. Charles led the team all year with his performance and deserved being voted the team’s FAIREST AND BEST
Finishing 2nd on the ladder after the home and away season was a great result for this team. When this report had to be in and go to print our season was still incomplete as we still have a Preliminary final and depending on that result, a Grand Final ahead.
Graeme “Fitzy” Fitzgerald (Coach)