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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

A special thank you to Joanne Nitschke for her assistance. Also to Alan Nitschke along with all
members of the 1989 committee.

Finally, I congratulate D. Brown and T. Wells for winning the senior clubs best and fairest awards and
to all other trophy winners in the club.

A quick word regarding our juniors;

G. Wickson as junior president along with all the junior committee have done a magnificent job once
again. Recruiting players for our club is difficult enough; we compete for these children in times
when there are multiple choices of sport, part time jobs available both Saturdays and Sundays.
Furthermore Footscray is now an older suburb and young families tend to be of ethnic background.
Whilst we struggle to field sides of 18 players we compete against sides such as Deer Park, St Albans,
Williamstown to name a few.

Season 89 we were able to field sides from under 11 to under 17 inclusive with our under 13 making
the finals.

To all coaches and club officials, I thank you all, keep up the good work.

To the junior committee the job you are doing is greatly appreciated, without our juniors, we will not
have a football club.

TREASURER’S REPORT

1989 has been a concerning but successful year for the Parkside Football Club.

It was a concerning year from a financial perspective as additional funds in excess of what had been
achieved previously was required to obtain success on the field and to improve facilities available for
members.

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider