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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

Annual Report and Financial Statement

Season 1992

In Retrospect

To the players, members, sponsors and supporters of the Parkside Football Club.

Unfortunately season 1992 will go down as one of unfilled promise. One needs to realise that the
success of any club is primarily measured by the performance of its Senior Grade Team.

After the success of season 1991, where the A Grade Team exceeded expectations by making the
Preliminary Final. One would have anticipated we were ready to take the next step.

One would expected that influx of sixteen (16) new/recycled names, all of whom played “A” Grade
football during the year, when added to the 1991 squad should have been sufficient for us to take
that extra step. But that was not the case, and the club now has to ask the question why?

Looking at our performances against Spotswood and St Albans during the home and away rounds I
am convinced that the potential was most definitely there to have achieved better that we did.
Many opposition players, supporters and even league officials who saw our performances against
these two sides commented as to how we were the best team in competition.

So where did we go wrong, and what needs to be done in season 1993 to ensure a repeat of 1992
does not occur?

This issue has already been examined in depth, and I am confident that season 1993 will see shanges
directed at achieving a more professional, more serious and less social attitude towards our football
playing side of things.

I find it difficult to believe that any player can be laughing and joking less than an hour after a lost
elimination final and claim to be serious about their football. This element must be eliminated from
our A Grade side in season 1993 if we are to achieve our ultimate goal.

A change in the senior coaching position late in the season would obviously not have assisted things.
Without wishing to get into great depth about the reasons for the committee taking the course of
action it did, or without seeking to publicise the issue any more than some other parties may wish to
do, it would suffice to say that any person elected to a paid position of responsibility within the
Parkside Football Club is expected to set and maintain standards for others to follow and that
repeated breaches of such standards will not be tolerated.

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider