Capital football are also running a goalkeeping skills course running for 6 weeks on Fridays from the 1st May 2105 at Memorial Park in Petone. They are looking to recruit 16 children from the U8 & U9 age group and a further 10 from the U10 & U11 age group. For further information email Des Buckingham at des@capitalfootball.org.nz.
Please visit the Becoming a Coach page for more details on other coaching courses.
Last year Nicki Sutherland asked if OJFC members could donate old pairs of football boots and to bring them along to last years Prize Giving. As a result numerous pairs were donated, and last week Nicki visited a Cannons Creek school who were the receiver of the donated boots. This is the experience in Nicki’s words:
“Last week another mum and I took all of the donated boots out to the 2 schools in Cannons Creek with whom we had made contact. At the first school, the hall was packed with about 100 kids of all ages patiently lining up in shoe size order to try on a pair of boots – all with hope & nerves on their faces. You should have seen how happy they were when they were matched with a pair that fitted – they were so excited and thankful. Of course we ran out of sizes and the kids who missed out were gutted – but still respectful and happy for the other kids. We had put half aside for the second school, but given the level of organisation and eagerness at the first, we felt compelled to keep going until almost every child had boots – which didn’t leave many for the second school. We’ve promised to make them our focus next year.
The morning was a huge success, with every child individually saying thank you and telling us what they were going to do with the boots. The level of excitement and gratitude was very humbling. The teachers have asked us to pass on thanks to everyone who donated, and next year we will roll this out across other clubs for sure. Its making a real difference.”
Congratulations to the many Onslow players selected for the 2015 Federation Talent Centre programme.
Details under success stories.
We have been receiving some wonderful, positive feedback regarding our recently launched website. For example:
“I have been today searching through the Wellington Clubs via the Capital Football website looking for a suitable club for my son who is moving to Wellington to attend Varsity. I have been somewhat disappointed and the overall quality of many of the clubs sites with the glowing exception being Onslow JFC. Being involved myself in grassroots football in Auckland I understand the difficulties in club organization, but having as a boy myself played at Onslow it is very satisfying to see that my “old club” is so well organised. For this I extend my sincere gratitude for the excellent job you and your team are doing for the local community.
Kind Regards
Chris Ruffell – Chairman Eastern Suburbs AFC”
Congratulations to all the award winners for all 96 teams at the 2014 Prize-giving.
We hope you all had an enjoyable season, and we hope to see you back in 2015. Don’t forget registrations open at the end of January.
If you need your football fixes, don’t forget 2 Clubs ran a holiday programme over the October Holidays as well as programmes for Term 4.
There are many other opportunities to play football – Try Kelly Sports on Friday nights (Ian Galloway) or Twilight Summer Football (Alex Moore).
We would like to make a special mention of the Player of the Grade Award Recipients for 2014 (These players are chosen as the best overall player in their grade and is chosen from Grade 9 and above and will be selected from the A streamed team)
Grade 9 – Luke Jones
Grade 10 – Henry Sinclair
Grade 11 – Liam Coleman
Grade 12 – Ramsey Tawngdee
Grade 13 – Tyler Collicoat
Grade 14 – Luke Agalawatta
We also recognised players leaving the Club from Grade 14 who have played for Onslow continuously for 7+ years. We thanks you for choosing Onslow and hope you continue your football for many more years
Luke Agalawatta
Adam Doherty
Flynn Elmes
Jack Grethe
Zach Hough
Brennan Patchell
Alex Ware
Daniel Winsley
Liam Watters
Callum Macaskill
Connor Sullivan
Jordan Roes
Thomas Coughtrey
Adam Chung
Alick McCalman
Laurence Hughes
Louis Alexander
Angus Bartlett
Rosina Meredith (we forget to mention you at Prize-giving – our apologies)
Thanks – The Onslow Committee
