BORONIA HAWKS FOOTBALL NETBALL CLUB INC.
Senior Men's & Women's Football and Netball, Junior Boys & Girls Football, Auskick and over 35's Veterans and Masters Football. Affiliated with EFNL. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the traditional custodians of the land in Boronia.
All members and supporters of Boronia Football Club and the Boronia Junior Football Club are cordially invited to the inaugural Annual General Meeting of Boronia Hawks Football Netball Club.
When: Monday 30th October
Where: Knox Club Function Room
Time: 7:00pm onwards
Enquiries: Brett Smith, Director of Administration
E-mail:boronia@efl.org.au
Congratulations to Craig McKenzie from @boroniahawks who was again a nominee for Youth Coach of the Year at the Eastern Region Coaches Association Awards. Fletch is a previous winner of this award.
The Hawks are very fortunate to have such a talented coach developing our young players. Fletch was recently announced as the coach of both the Boronia U17’s and U19’s, a great move by the Club to develop the strong junior talent coming through the junior ranks.
NB: Craig is more commonly known as “Fletch” because his playing style was so reminiscent of Essendon great Dustin Fletcher, a fellow full back.
Toby Prime, Knox Leader
NEW Boronia mentor Matt Clark says the club’s exciting young list convinced him to continue his coaching career after departing neighbouring Wantirna South. Clark said he intended to have a year away from coaching in 2018 after a seven-year stint at Walker Reserve. But the prospect of developing Boronia’s emerging players proved too good an opportunity to turn down. Clark replaces Peter Brown, whose contract was not renewed after the Hawks missed finals this year despite recording more wins than 2016.
“That was probably my mindset the whole way through to take a year off, but it was such an attractive club that the way they presented, it talked me out of that,” Clark said. “The whole way along I was leaning towards, strongly leaning towards, taking a year off just to reset but when Boronia’s job became available I think it was probably too good (an opportunity) to not take.”
Clark said the prospect of working with Boronia’s young talent, which includes a host of former TAC Cup players, enticed him to take the top job. “I’ve admired them from afar, just how impressive their whole off-field set up has been and they’ve blooded a lot of kids so credit to the previous coach,” he said. “I think they’ve got a bit of work to do but they’ve got the potential to get improvement.”
Clark, who will be joined by former Devils assistant coach Steve Teakel, took Wantirna South from Division 3 to Division 2 after winning the 2014 premiership and steered it to last year’s second-tier decider. He said he was hopeful of achieving similar success at Boronia.
“I’m confident that what I can bring and support I’ll bring, if matched by their enthusiasm, we’ll get improvement but where that improvement takes us is hard because I don’t know the players,” Clark said. “I’ve spoken to a few of them on the phone already and I’ve been absolutely impressed with their attitude and willingness to want to go places.”
U19’s Squad for Preliminary Final v Park Orchards at 10:00am on Sunday 10 September at East Burwood – presented by Knox Club.
13 A. Biddau 5 Z. Brasher 3 H. Chinn 11 D. Dower 26 T. Dower 17 Z. Dower 14 F. Duke 1 S. Fung 19 J. Gardiner-Hoffman 8 T. Griffiths 7 P. Kinniff 15 J. Lech 23 J. Mellis 10 R. Migues 27 J. Mueller 9 K. Notley 2 J. O’Neill 4 J. Purdon 6 M. Smith 30 J. Stamatakos 16 T. Steele 29 J. Whitmore 40 B. Wright 21 J. Zmood. Emergencies: C De Boer H Clarke.
