Monday Sep 28 Practice Cancelled

From the looks of things flu and cold season has already arrived! As a result I think it's for the best if we cancel practice tonight so that everyone can either rest or recover. Hopefully we'll have most of our battalion ready and healthy for practice on Wednesday.

Official Team Photographer!

Thanks to Lydia's dad for some excellent game photos from our match against Lakehill!

Lakehill 1 Chaos 5

Good energy, good intensity + good ball movement = an excellent opening day win for Chaos. You kept up a very high-tempo for most of the 60 minutes which is remarkable given the heat, our lack of subs and a couple of you feeling under the weather. Imagine what you can accomplish with a full team!

Camille - very nice finish on the two goals and some very nice lay-offs when playing striker
Claudia - a couple of rampaging runs in the first half that almost led to goals and some good headers
Erin - lots of hard-running and some vital defensive work in the midfield position
Genevieve - hardly put a foot wrong all game, winning many important 50/50 challenges
Kathleen - an excellent job sweeping up in the first half followed by a clinical finish for our last goal
Lucy - a goal 3 minutes into the game and a constant thorn for the Lakehill defenders with your tenacity and energy
Lydia - solid play throughout the game and a highly deserved goal after a long mazy run
Olivia - caused plenty of problems for the Lakehill defence with her direct play and unlucky with a belter of a shot in the first-half
Robyn - asked to do a lot of running in midfield and striker and did not disappoint, excellent game!

Have good rest on Sunday girls, you deserve it!

Saturday's Game UPDATE

Our game on Saturday has been moved to 9:30am at Beckwith Park. So this should give the players a couple extra minutes shut-eye. Players should ensure they get plenty of rest Friday evening (at least 9 hours sleep) and no sleep-overs!

Lochside Sunday Soccer Academy

The club can finally confirm details of the Sunday afternoon soccer academy at Lochside Turf.

The sessions will run for 9 weeks from September 27 until December 1 from 3:30-4:30pm. The academy will be run by World Cups Academy Staff Brett Hyslop, Steph Steiner, and will include club Goalkeeper coach Trevor Styles and guest coaches.

Cost is $100 and includes an academy t-shirt. Registration will be done through World Cups Academy website.

In the meantime interested players should contact myself so that we know how many coaches are required to run the sessions each week.

Gold Team Announcement Delayed

Unfortunately I wasn't able to confirm a couple of details today so Gold and Silver team announcements will be delayed until Tuesday evening. What I can confirm is that we will be promoting some U11 girls to U12 which should allow both the Gold and Silver teams to carry 11 or 12 players each. So please stay tuned!

I'm also away on course Monday so need to cancel Monday practice.

See you all Wednesday @ 5:30pm.

Monday Practice Cancelled

Unfortunately both Doug and myself are unable to attend practice tonight so we need to cancel.

Apologies for the short notice and for anyone who doesn't get this message in time!

This Week's Practices

Monday's practice is still 5pm at Lochside Turf.

This is not an "open" practice and is intended for those players who have received an email advising that they have been selected for the Gold team.

The primary purpose for the practice is to go over plans and expectations for the Gold team for the 2009-10 season. However I will also be asking a couple of other players to attend as I have not quite made my final decisions. I will try and get the phone calls done this evening.

All U12 girls should plan on attending the Wednesday practice scheduled for 5:30pm.

Saturday Game

A reminder that our game against GH on Saturday is open for all CB U12 Girls. We will do a thorough warm-up and drills starting at 9:30am. The girls will be split into two teams for the hour-long game.

See you all there!

Gordon Head U12 Blog

Coach Collin has created a blog for the Gordon Head U12 Girls Gold.

Click on the link below to have a look http://ghu12gold.blogspot.com/

Next Week

Great game today! Considering it was your first game for quite some time I thought you all did very well. Congratulations to Claudia on her goal. Claudia did a nice job to fend-off a challenge from a GH defender before scoring.

A reminder that all 1998 girls are invited to next Wednesday's U12 assessments 5:30-6:30pm at Lochside Turf. The following Saturday we have a second scrimmage game against GH. This game is being used by both coaches to confirm selection of players for Gold teams for the upcoming season.

In the meantime have fun back at school ladies!

Girls Soccer Academy on Sundays?

The soccer club is considering offering a Girls Soccer Academy Sunday evenings 4pm @ Lochside Turf.

The academy sessions would be run by Club Technical Staff and would be user-pay. Sessions would likely run for 8-10 weeks beginning Sept 27 and would be geared toward 1998 and 1999 born players.

We're looking for feedback so please complete this week's poll.

Saturday Game

Kick-off is 11am this Saturday @ Lochside Turf. Please try and be there for 10:30am so that we can do a proper warm-up. I will bring the uniforms Olivia :-)

Our opponents will be Gordon Head U12 Girls, many of whom we know very well from our summer kick-arounds.