Bundoora Park Thunderbolts and Laurimar Thunder

[4DiMeNSiONaL]

Northern Football League Welcomes Two New Clubs

Written by nfl.org.au

The Northern Football League is pleased to announce that both Bundoora Park Thunderbolts and Laurimar Thunder were unanimously voted in by the League's member clubs at last night's Northern Football League Annual General Meeting.​

In 2011, Bundoora Park and Laurimar will enter teams into the NFL’s Junior competition, with the Thunderbolts to be located at Bundoora Park Oval and the Thunder at Laurimar Reserve.
Northern Football League Chief Executive Officer Kevin Crompton welcomed the decision of the League’s clubs, and highlighted that the two start-up clubs would only strengthen the progress made by the Junior competition in recent years.
“This year we were able to field 197 teams in our under-age competition, which equates to 47 more teams than when the Northern Football League was formed at the beginning of 2007,” said Mr Crompton.
“With the inclusion of Bundoora Park and Laurimar – with the full backing of the fellow NFL clubs - and the adoption of the Northern Youth Girls competition, we fully expect this to grow further in 2011 and beyond.”
“Each weekend we have over 4,500 players take the field in the Junior competition across 24 divisions, and with the inclusion of two new clubs we feel we’re in a strong position going forward to feed not only our Senior clubs, but also our Junior Programs, Northern Knights, and Northern Bullants as well.”​

 

[MelbourneCrow]

My lad's going to play juniors at Bundoora Park, they've replanted the grass on the Oval and moved the cricket away for the summer. Can't wait for the new season.

 

[MelbourneCrow]

Apparently Bundoora none to happy with the new club.....may have lodged a complaint (with AFL Victoria?) about the name.

 

[The hurricane]

Apparently Bundoora none to happy with the new club.....may have lodged a complaint (with AFL Victoria?) about the name.

I would imagine Mernda would be p!ssed off also.

 

[MelbourneCrow]

I would imagine Mernda would be p!ssed off also.

Don't get why. I must be missing something.

Two good wins today in the first two games ever at the oval vs South Morang. Come from behind by the U10s and sizeable margin for the U12s.

 

[#2 trainer]

thunders U10s folding already .that must be the karma they deserved the snobby poaching turncoats.

 

[always happy]

Apparently Bundoora none to happy with the new club.....may have lodged a complaint (with AFL Victoria?) about the name.

And will cause the St Damian's Junior football club to fold at season end.

 

[DeViouS]

And will cause the St Damian's Junior football club to fold at season end.

thats a real shame if true!

 

[MelbourneCrow]

Would be sad if St Ds folded. I counted 9 of the U12s playing the first pre-season game in St D shorts or socks. Only 2 or 3 in the U10s though.

 

[The hurricane]

And will cause the St Damian's Junior football club to fold at season end.

St Damiens has been the stepping stone for hundreds of NFL players, hope it doesnt fold, always been a ripper club.

 

[sweet as 2]

St Damiens has been the stepping stone for hundreds of NFL players, hope it doesnt fold, always been a ripper club.

St Damians are set to merge with Old Paradians and have lost several players to the Thunderbolts

 

[always happy]

St Damiens has been the stepping stone for hundreds of NFL players, hope it doesnt fold, always been a ripper club.

Was a ripper club, unfortunatately the administrations over the last 5 years has allowed this once mighty club to become a shell of itself and cause many many lads transferring to other clubs, Old Paradians will take over what is left of this club and the fantastic Binnak Park will become the domain of St Marys and Watsonia

 

[MelbourneCrow]

As tweeted by Daisy Thomas on Sunday :

Weldone to the bundoora park thunderbolts U/10s for making the granny in the clubs 1st year - wishing the Boys well and a maiden victory!

 

[always happy]

Was a ripper club, unfortunatately the administrations over the last 5 years has allowed this once mighty club to become a shell of itself and cause many many lads transferring to other clubs, Old Paradians will take over what is left of this club and the fantastic Binnak Park will become the domain of St Marys and Watsonia

Rumours are abounding that former committepeople are banding together to take this Club back to it's former mission statement and success , rebuilding is underway now, the last two administrations have totally decimated the Club and people who should be enjoying life away from Junior football may give up that lifestyle to help out this Club and get back to where it was.

 

[looker]

Rumours are abounding that former committepeople are banding together to take this Club back to it's former mission statement and success , rebuilding is underway now, the last two administrations have totally decimated the Club and people who should be enjoying life away from Junior football may give up that lifestyle to help out this Club and get back to where it was.

Best of luck

 

[MelbourneCrow]

Well done son and all your team mates on your great Grand Final win today. F*ck your coach from last year at a club beginning with the letter M! How did he go in the finals this year?

Great first year Bolts, a flag already!

 

[JBs shadow]

Well done son and all your team mates on your great Grand Final win today. F*ck your coach from last year at a club beginning with the letter M! How did he go in the finals this year?

Great first year Bolts, a flag already!

Good to see that there are still plenty of wa.nker parents following junior footy. Its people like YOU, who ruin the game for the kids.

Congrats to your son on a Grand Final win, but celebrate his success, not bag someone you pathetic individual.

 

[MelbourneCrow]

Good to see that there are still plenty of wa.nker parents following junior footy. Its people like YOU, who ruin the game for the kids.

Congrats to your son on a Grand Final win, but celebrate his success, not bag someone you pathetic individual.

I'm happy to meet you at any senior or junior game in the area next weekend (not after 12 on Sunday though) and explain what this individual did to my son. Then you can judge who the w*nker is.

Not sure how my words offended you anyway though.

 

[Ossie]

I'm happy to meet you at any senior or junior game in the area next weekend (not after 12 on Sunday though) and explain what this individual did to my son. Then you can judge who the w*nker is.

Not sure how my words offended you anyway though.

Words like that offend most people associated with Junior Football. Most of the trouble your read about in the papers is not to do with the kids.
No, it's the parents who think it is alright to get on anonymous forums like this and bag clubs.
Speak to the kids, they don't have much trouble with what goes on in juniors. It's a minority of parents, and generally ones who could not play themselves and are trying to make up for their own shortcomings through their kids.

Nobody likes a sore loser. Even more, they hate a bad winner. Enjoy the premiership and remember it for the right reasons.

 

[NFL_JC]

Words like that offend most people associated with Junior Football. Most of the trouble your read about in the papers is not to do with the kids.
No, it's the parents who think it is alright to get on anonymous forums like this and bag clubs.
Speak to the kids, they don't have much trouble with what goes on in juniors. It's a minority of parents, and generally ones who could not play themselves and are trying to make up for their own shortcomings through their kids.

Nobody likes a sore loser. Even more, they hate a bad winner. Enjoy the premiership and remember it for the right reasons.

Beautifully said Ossie!!!

Congrats to Bundoora Park all the same though - great effort!

 

[JBs shadow]

I'm happy to meet you at any senior or junior game in the area next weekend (not after 12 on Sunday though) and explain what this individual did to my son. Then you can judge who the w*nker is.

Not sure how my words offended you anyway though.

I don't have kids myself, but I have been a PE teacher in both primary and secondary schools, coached both junior and senior teams outside of the school, and have been involved in excess of 10 premiership teams across a variety of sports whilst coaching, and yet I can tell you that 99.9% of the time, whenever there are issues within a club or team that it has been caused by a parent.

We have all been kids before, and we know that we love nothing more than getting outside and having a kick of the footy, throw a ball, whatever it is. Whilst we didn't like losing, we didn't care. We had fun with our mates and enjoyed the couple of hours that we spent running around.

We all also remember that parent who yelled abuse at their child, the parent who had a go at the coach, at other parents, that was always in the coaches ear, what ever it is. I could rattle off the names now of people from when I was 10. Those people stick in your mind as the ugly parents that ruined that game that day.

So pipe down. Let your son soak up the glory, sleep with his premiership medal, tell his mates about it, whatever he wants to do, but let him do it. The last thing that your son wants is for you to become "That Parent", and be embarrassed every time you come to games telling people stories from years previous.

 

[MelbourneCrow]

First of all, I profoundly apologise to the 3 of you for offending you with my words. However, I made the assumption that this was exactly the type of place where you can sound off. It is not a club’s website....it is also not a Facebook site for a junior club which the young players (many under the legal age of 13 I assure you) can access, and I must have gauged this site all wrong.
To me this is a website for big boys and the language can be industrial sometimes. I was even called a wa.nker in this very thread. Surely sounding off here is better than on those media that kids readily access.
In my post I did not mention the individual or club - it could be any one of 7 or so within half hours drive..... or 3 within 10 minutes drive. Yes I got frustrated about a lengthy complaints process which will now have to be formally resolved in a court outside of the football administration process. My 2 kids wake up every day facing massive challenges and the person who has done the most damage ever to spirit one of them will be held accountable no matter how much inaction there is from these sporting bodies.
You have all made the assumption that I am an ‘ugly’ parent, but I have not put one foot out of place this season or in others. No kid has suffered because of my actions, no parent or official abused at a game. At this club I have helped out with several matchday umpiring positions, including umpire escort. At the last, I did a hell of a lot more, and by next season there will be boys in 4 of the teams who have benefitted from my input.
As for the coach who devastated my son, I have run into him since the events and we just swerved each other. I will not be party to an altercation when kids are around. Likewise the club official who let our family down, was at an NFL game with his kids the other day and I just walked off round the back of him. I will run into him one day and I will just explain why I am so disappointed in him. That meeting will not even involve raised voices.
Like I said JB I can tell you about the 0.1% of the time it was the coach and nothing but the coach who was guilty of the disgraceful ‘ugly’ behaviour’. The invitation has now been narrowed down to on the hill at Greensy this Saturday btw.