2010 On The Horizon

Hey Guys,

Well, the inaugural season of the Gold Coast Football Club has been completed and given the history of Queensland footy and where we have been for the past couple of years, I am pleasantly surprised with a few things that have transpired this year. The ability of the boys to come together, work for themselves, work for each other and the football club I think exceeded their own expectations. All of them put their best foot forward and gave their best opportunity to be part of this club next year and they should be proud of their efforts. We are finishing off the review process with the boys, and organising the playing roster for the 2010 VFL season. 15 uncontracted boys will stay for pre-season training as part of the train-on squad which is another 12 months development for them. We have a group of 17 year olds and more 5 rookies arriving for pre-season beginning November 9th. Scotty Clayton and Dom Ambrogio are going to be very busy in the next couple of months. Looking back on the season, two games stick out as pivotal moments. Our game against Vic Metro was always going to be our biggest game and we basically drew with them until about a minute to go and that was a confidence builder for the boys with the realisation of how good they could be. Our first half against Geelong up here at Carrara was the other game. If you told me at the start of the season that it would be first versus second heading to the final round I would have thought you just landed from Mars! But, the first half proved how good we could be when we play as a team, play with that want, desire and play within those structures we have set for them. That game probably summed our team and season, up there with the best we were a good side but we weren’t a great side. Hopefully that can be a spur for the guys for next season.

Just wanted to say thanks to all our fans who got out to the games and supported us and I hope you have enjoyed reading the Blogs.

Bluey