U12 Mixed Match Report

Round 1

vs Beaconsfield - April 6 2025

🟡🟢 Round 1 Match Report 🟢🟡

We kicked off the season against Beaconsfield on a beautiful sunny day for footy. And what an exciting way to start by celebrating two 50 game players. Congratulations to Hamish and Anmar on this fantastic achievement, you have both been fantastic to coach over the years and a pleasure to have as part of the team. It was so exciting to see you both run through your banners and lead the team on to the field after we acknowledged your achievement pregame with a milestone medal presentation. A huge thank you to Shaun for being involved as has become tradition on these occasions, and sharing some words for the boys as part of this.

To add to the occasion Hamish was our captain for the game after celebrating his birthday on the 5th. With both teams a little short for numbers we were playing a 16 v 16 game. This gave us an opportunity to consider some different tactics in how we would set up our forward and back lineups. We made a decision to run without a centre half forward to open up space for our mids to run through and our full forward to lead up. It was so exciting to see off the very first ball up our 3 mids Brodie, Caleb and Levi F streaming forward into that space sharing the ball between them.

We didn’t stop there, dominating the first quarter with 7 goals 2 behinds to no score for Beaconsfield. This provided us the opportunity to switch players around to try a few different things and to give players the opportunity to get some experience in different positions.

By half time the game was won so we changed our tactics again and moved our 50 gamers into the forward line with the plan to try and get them each a goal. We were able to help Hamish slot one after just missing earlier with a poster, and provided Anmar with a few opportunities but in tricky situations for him to convert.

We were absolutely thrilled to see what we have been working on this preseason start to come to life in the game. Players were clearly looking to find teammates in a better position and using handballs to move the ball while maintaining control. This and the clear intention to play team first footy really stood out and Gordon and I are very proud of the team.

A big thanks to Dan Robb for being our runner, Julie for keeping us organised and Luke for taking care of the kids, thank you all for your support.

Thanks to our parent helpers on the day, Levi T, Emmalee and Aadhi’s families for helping to ensure our kids get to play and enjoy the game.

It was great to sing the song as a team, with our 50 gamers Hamish and Anmar in the middle of the circle getting a light squirt of water. I’m looking forward to the chance to celebrate further milestones with the team this season. Great win team, well done!

Go Baysie.

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