Juniors NEWS Page

2008 Presentation Day

Presentation Day was held on Saturday 20 September at Thomas Gibson Park - see the 2008 Presentation Day and At the Ground pages for full details.

Grand Final Results

All Grand Finals were completed last weekend, Saturday 13 September and Sunday 14 September. Of the 8 Thirroul teams participating 3, U12-4th Div, U15-3rd Div, and U15 Girls-2nd Div were successful - see 2008 Grand Finals page for results. All Grand Final results are now available on the IJFA site - click here to see the results

Grand Finals

Its been a very successful two weeks for our teams. Of the 12 teams who originally qualified for the semi-finals 8 have made it through to the Grad Finals. Results can be found in the 2008 Finals page. For Grand Final match details go to the 2008 Grand Finals page.

The club congratulates the Players, Coaches, Managers and parents/supporters of the teams that have reached the Grand Finals.

Finals Update

After the first week of the finals series has been very successful for Thirroul. Of the 12 teams who made the semi-finals, 4 have gone straight through to the Grand Final, 5 will play in the Final this weekend, 2 have been eliminated and we are still waiting on results for Under 16 Girls. If anyone knows the result please send me know (click here to send an e-mail). All the results are in our 2008 Finals page.

IJFA Web Site

The company that provided the web site for the Illawarra Junior Football Association has withdrawn its support and closed the old IJFA web site. A new, temporary, web site has been set up at:

ijfa.thirroulfootball.com.au

Team Photos

The team photos were completed last week with 32 teams photographed on Wednesday and Thursday, last week. The Club would like to thank Jenny Barber, Kathleen Hewes and Gai Orvad for there assistance in recording details and organising teams over the two nights. Also photographer Merissa Carter for making herself available to photograph the couple of teams who didn't make the planned sessions.

2008 Presentation Day

Planning is well underway for our 2008 Presentation Day, details will be posted as soon as they are finalised. However, there are a couple things that need to happen now. They are:

Perpetual Trophies

All perpetual trophies need to be returned to the club. They can be returned to the canteen on match days or delivered directly to the Secretary or Registrar.

Player Profiles

For Presentation Day we traditionally produce a souvenir Newsletter with Player Profiles for each team. So its time to get started, if you are not sure how to go about it have a look in the Junior's section 2007 Archive under Graded Teams or Roo Ball, there's plenty of examples there. Profiles can be emailed to sitemgr@thirroulfootball.com.au , left in the Match Reports pigeon hole in the clubhouse or posted to:
Thirroul Junior Football Club
PO Box 302
Thirroul NSW 2515

Competition Changes

The IJFA has decided to makes changes to the draws for 5, 6, 7 & 8 Team competitions to try to have teams actually play each other at least twice in the season. To allow this to happen the following changes have been made to play some of the competition rounds that were washed out earlier in the season. The list of changes is set out below

All Under 10 Competitions - Round 10 will be played on August 16 (Spare Weekend)

U12 4th; U14 2nd; U14 3rd; U14 4th; U15 3rd; U17 1st; U14 Girls 1st; U15 Girls 2nd; U18 Girls 1st - Round 17 will be replaced by Round 4.

U11 3rd; U14 4th - Round 16 will be replaced with Round 4

Under 13 Girls 2nd - Rounds 17 & 18 will be replaced with Rounds 4 & 10 (in that order)

Under 13 Girls 1st - Rounds 17 & 18 will be replaced with Rounds 10 & 4 (in that order)

Please check your competition draw for match location and time changes

WHERE ARE YOUR MATCH REPORTS?

In the last few weeks the number of match reports being received for publication on the website has dropped noticeably. Sure it can be a bit hard to know what to say, especially if the team has had a bad day, but the players deserve the opportunity to see their team and hopefully themselves in print. The report doesn't have to be the "Great Australian Novel", just a few word about the match and outstanding performances. Have a look at previous examples as a guide, but most importantly have a go and send us something.

If possible match reports should be e-mailed to the Web Site Manager. Alternately hard copy reports can be left in the mach reports pigeon hole in the clubhouse.

SEASON BEGINS

It was a fine and sunny Saturday morning and Gibson Park was a hive of activity as the 2008 season got underway. Good luck to all our teams competing in Roo Ball and Graded Junior competitions.