Monash Gryphons Amateur Football Club

So far the following practice matches have been organised:

March 20th: Practice Match 1 vs West Brunswick
Where: De Chene Reserve, Coburg. Access via Urquhart St
Start Times: 12pm Reserves and 2pm Seniors.

March 27th: Practice Match 2 vs Nilma-Darnum
Where: TBC
Start Times: 12pm for a 6 qtr Match

Please let the coaches know of you availability for these matches.

The first pre-season training kicks off on Monday the 18th of January 2010 at East Caulfield Reserve. Please arrive at 6:15pm to be ready to go at 6:30pm.

On Wednesday we will be meeting at Albert Park lake:
Albert Park Lake opposite entrance to Melbourne Sports Aquatic Centre – 375 Albert Rd, Albert Park.

Training will be every Monday and Wednesday.

18/01 – East Caulfield Reserve
20/01 – Albert Park Lake
25/01 – East Caulfield Reserve
27/01 – East Caulfield Reserve
01/02 – East Caulfield Reserve
03/02 – The Tan opposite Lexus Centre – Tan Track corner of Alexander Ave and Swan St.
08/02 – East Caulfield Reserve
10/02 – Middle Park Beach opposite Beach Hotel – 97 Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park.
15/02 – East Caulfield Reserve
17/02 – East Caulfield Reserve
22/02 – Ashburton Gym – 8 Warner Ave Ashburton – 7.15pm start.
24/02 – East Caulfield Reserve
01/03 – East Caulfield Reserve
03/03 – East Caulfield Reserve
08/03 – East Caulfield Reserve
10/03 – East Caulfield Reserve
15/03 – East Caulfield Reserve
17/03 – East Caulfield Reserve

If you are not able to attend, make sure you let one of the coaches know:
Richard Osborne 0439919544
Jack McDonald 0412277226
Phil Warren 0418365736

New to the club? Want to find out more information?
Please feel free to contact our Recruitment Manager:

Rob Fletcher
(m)0404082434
(e)recruitment@monashgryphonsafc.org.au

Our first session to meet the coaches will be on Wednesday 25th November at 6:30pm.

Please make sure you are all available to come down to the club 6.30pm and hear from Richard and Jack. We’ll also have a light run to kick off our fitness training!

Training will be every Wednesday and some Mondays from then on leading up to Christmas. All these training sessions are at 6.15pm for a 6.30pm start
Wed Dec 2nd – East Caulfield Reserve next to the BBQ.
Mon Dec 7th – Middle Park Beach opposite Beach Hotel – 97 Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park.
Wed Dec 9th – Albert Park Lake opposite entrance to Melbourne Sports Aquatic Centre – 375 Albert Rd, Albert Park.
Mon Dec 14th – The Tan opposite Lexus Centre – Tan Track corner of Alexander Ave and Swan St.
Wed Dec 16th – East Caulfield Reserve next to the BBQ.

Then a break through Xmas and back full time on Mondays and Wednesdays starting 18th January.
Late Feb/Early March we will move to our normal Tuesdays and Thursday sessions.

Richard and Phil are on holidays through January and will be back on board from starting Feb 1st. So Jack McDonald will be taking training for the last 2 weeks of Jan.

We will advise the venues for each training sessions soon.

There is an article on the VAFA website written by the Communications Manager:

“On Wednesday, a different ball game began at the little green hamlet aside the Princes Highway. Monash Gryphons, lately but formerly of D3, reassembled under new coach Richard Osborne.”

Read more here. www.vafa.com.au

There’s a small aticle in todays The Age newspaper(Thursday 19/11/2009) on page 12 in the Sporting Life section.

Gives me great pleasure to announce the finalisation of our coaching panel for season 2010.

Jack McDonald has been appointed reserves coach for next season.
Jack was a former senior coach of the Gryphons from 2000-2004 and took the senior side to 2 finals appearances during that time. Notably the Grand Final in 2004. He was instrumental in bringing the Rutherfords and Adrian Flowerday to the Gryphons. Jack stepped away from coaching to spend more time with his young family and is now keen to return to the club and help develop young players and be a part of our clubs future success.

Jack is very excited to be working with our new senior coach Richard Osborne and is passionate about developing reserve players into senior footballers. And to also strive for reserves finals success in 2010.

Please join me in welcoming Jack back to the club. And also to thank Jim Gonis for his work with the reserves over the last 3 years. Jim will continue to be involved in the club in some capacity for many years to come. In fact i’ve heard rumours he might have started pre-season training!

I’m sure you’ll all agree we’ve managed to appoint 2 excellent candidates with loads of experience. Including a very talented assistant… Phil Warren!
Again I encourage all of you to actively start recruiting players. Lets leverage off the momentum we have with signing ‘Ossie’. The festive season is always a good time to start to get blokes keen.

This finalises our coaching panel for 2010.
Senior Coach Richard Osborne
Senior assistant coach Phil Warren
Reserves Coach Jack McDonald

Our first session to meet the coaches will be on Wednesday 25th November. 2 weeks away. Please make sure you are all available to come down to the club 6.30pm and hear from Richard and Jack. We’ll also have a light run to kick off our fitness training!
Ill send an email out before then as a reminder.

It gives me great pleasure to announce our new coach for season 2010 is Richard Osborne.

Most of you would have heard of Richard as he played 283 games of VFL/AFL football. As well as representing Victoria on 7 occasions.
Richard started his VFL career in 1982 and played 11 seasons with Fitzroy before moving to the Sydney Swans for a year, Footscray for 3 years and finishing his AFL career with Collingwood in 1998. Richard is probably best known as a strong marking, leading forward kicking 574 goals through his 17 year career.

Richard has played under some of the great coaches including Ron Barassi, David Parkin and Robert Walls and this wealth of experience will be a fantastic addition to the Gryphons for 2010. This is an outstanding appointment and really sets up up with some massive momentum coming into the new season.

Richard is 45 years old, a great family man with 3 kids and is keen to put his passion, time and energy back into grass roots football.

There will be meeting next week to discuss the finalisation of the coaching panel. We will then communicate a date and time for a meet the coach session and advise pre-season training.

We’ve all spoken about 2010 being a huge opportunity for the Monash Gryphons to have a successful year on field. But it wont just happen. You have to get yourselves as fit as possible, and do your best to recruit and bring new players to the club. Now is a great time to start talking to mates and get them keen to be part of the success at Monash Gryphons AFC.

Richard is aware of the standard of lower level amateur football, however he has high expectations of the commitment of the playing group and the professionalism of the club. With a new president and leadership for 2010, exciting things happening off field (especially the construction of 4 new light towers) we have plenty to look forward to for season 2010.

Please join me in thanking Richard for accepting the position of senior coach of our footy club and welcoming him onboard.

Planning for 2010 is well and truly under way and after a very successful AGM last Thursday the new committee for 2010 has been announced.

Firstly I’d like to thank the 2009 committee for all of the hard work they did during the year and hope they can assist the new committee with their knowledge throughout 2010.
With special mention to Walter who has lead this club for the past 3 years, your leadership and work ethic has been paramount to the current off field position that this club is in, and your experience with be sorely missed amongst the committee in 2010.

The Monash Gryphons Football Club will be represented in 2010 by the following committee:

President: Rob Fletcher
Vice President: Phil Warren
Secretary: Simone Beddison
Treasurer: David Ratner
Social Coordinator: Ben Rose
Sponsorship Coordinator: Gareth Kent
Facility Manager: Vaughan Coffey
Merchandise and Subs Manager: Tristan Russell
Social Committee: Rodney Tuttle

Congratulations to everyone who has been elected on the committee in 2010.
Special mentions to Simone who has taken on the role of secretary and to Ben Rose and Tristan Russell who have stepped up and taken on more responsibility in 2010.

We are still looking for someone to fill the role of recruitment/new player registration manager.
For those that are keen to join the committee, please contact Rob Fletcher as he will be more than happy to discuss potential roles for 2010.

The AGM will be held at the Mt Erica Hotel at 6.30pm on October 29th.

All positions amongst the committee will be decided. Be there and have a say in how your club is run!

The meeting should only go for about 30min and will be followed by dinner for those who would like to stay.