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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

I shall continue to do the book work and Saturday nights for our Bingo but owing to outside
commitments and the strain of the Treasurer's position I will not stand again.

To all who have been of assistance to me, my thanks.

Patricia Mc Dougall,

TREASURER

*****

COACHES REPORT

Parkside Football Club finished 1990 with a win/loss record of 7/11, four games behind final sides
that finished fourth and fifth with win/loss ratios of 7/11. Our cause to make the finals

was not helped by the fact that seven losses were by less than 3 goals [15 points].

RECRUITING

Players lost from Parkside last year were obviously not replaced particularly in terms of tall, marking
players. Greater effort and assistance is needed in this area. Work should commence now to retain
current players as well as recruiting others. I thank

Glady's and Don Browne-Kerr for the help they gave me in attempting to attract new players to the
club prior to the season commencing.

PRE-SEASON

Training pre-season was moderately attended. Practice matches in the night competition had prize
money given to the players trip fund. It was extremely disappointing to lose a potential ruckman
forward who suffered a serious knee injury whilst playing for Parkside in the night competition.
Player numbers were such that the club struggled to have enough to field two sides in practice
matches.

HOME AND AWAY GAMES

A change of Club President occurred before the first game. Disappointingly, the opening two games
were lost by close margins. Two wins followed, one against eventual premiers Spotswood.
Spotswood greatly improved their playing personal however by our next meeting.

A losing streak of four games was to follow. This coincided with a growing injury list, many of which
were long term. A lack of adequate replacement was evident in trying to cover injured players that
included Turner, Bratby, Shepperbottom, Sambeski, McSweeney, Hopma and Brown-Kerr.

All told 38 players played "A" grade during the 1990 season. The efforts of these players for the
majority of the season was credit-able. We were in winning positions in all games through the

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider