Round 13 Match reports and club news

HOTSPURS TRIVIA NIGHT – FUNDRAISER

Date: Friday 27th JULY.
Time: 6:30 for 7:00 pm start
Where: Commercial Club Albury
Pricing: To be paid on entry

Adult Registered Players and Social Club Members $20 per head
Adult Non Social Club Member $25 per head
All Youth 16 to 18 years $15 per head

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Details: Tables of 8 to 10 people. Substantial finger food supplied, drinks at bar prices.
Bookings: Please book your Table (8-10 people) ASAP by email.

PRIZES PLEASE, if members could please arrange for some prizes to be donated for the evening would be very much appreciated thank you.

STOCK CLUB WEAR

Please email if you are interested in purchasing any of the below (limited) stock items.
Purchase/Delivery can be arranged.

Jackets $35

Men’s XS(3), S(4), M(sold), L(1), XL(1), 2XL(1), 3XL(1).
Ladies, L8(1), L10(1), L14(1), L16(1).
Kids, K10(3), K12(3), K14(4), K16(2).

Polos $30

Men’s, XS(3), S(2), M(2), L(1), XL(2), 3XL(1).
Ladies, L16(1)
Kids, K4(1), K6(2), K8(2), K10(2), K12(2), K14(2).

Caps (WOW Trucker cap) $15

Neck Tie $25

To view size charts please follow link.

Also available,

Preseason shirt $30, L(1), S(1).
Preseason Singlet $25, L(1), S(1).
Soft Shell Jacket $40, Ladies 14(1).

If your size is not in stock please email your requirements and these can be added to the next production run and shipment.

PREMIER LEAGUE STAR TO TRAIN 11 GIRLS

South Melbourne Premier League star player Chelsea Blissett will be putting the U11 girls through some drills on Wednesday at training. Should be great for the girls as Chelsea is an Albury local who has lived and played in Sydney and now Melbourne all while still completing high school. South Melbourne are sitting top of the Victorian Premier League and set the standard for female football with several Australian Matildas in the squad.

Draw

Round 14 Sunday July 1

HOTSPURS v Albury United

at Jelbart Park

Ground 1

8:30 am 16 Boys
9:55 am Thirds
11:20 am Over 35s
1:10 pm Div 2 Men
3:00 pm Div 1 Men

Ground 2

9:35 am 12 Boys
11:55 am 14 Boys
2:15 pm 13 Girls
3:30 pm 16 Girls

Ground 3

8:30 am 11 Boys
9:30 am Div 2 Women
1:10 pm 11 Girls

Duty Team

The next duty team will be Sunday 15 July v Wangaratta at home.
Please be at the grounds at 7:30am to help set up. Volunteers are required to help on the BBQ between 11am and 3:00pm. Thank you.
Please organise your numbers and book your seats at Brady’s Railway Hotel for your team dinner or drinks.

Brady’s Team Dinner

The Club Committee have suggested the Duty team of the day are to organise their players and family members to have an evening at Brady’s that day. If you have already had team duty and wish to show support to our major sponsor, please book your table any day or night and where you Hotspurs apparel.

2018 MAJOR SPONSOR – BRADY’S HOTEL

Remember to let John Irvine or Simon Baker know you’re from Hotspurs when purchasing you next vehicle, the club benefit with bonus sponsorship and they will make sure you get the best available deal.

Social Club Member

All registered players are automatically a Social Club Member and receive Social Club Members prices to Hotspurs functions. Non members shall incur a slight surcharge.
If you are a non-registered supporter or friend of Albury Hotspurs, for $20 you can now register as a Social Club Member through myfootballclub. Details on how to register as a Social Club Membr can be found on our Registration page.

Miniroos

Training at Aloysius Park, South Albury
5-6pm Every Tuesday after that, except NSW school holidays.

MINIROOS BBQ

Thank you to all the parents who assisted in the canteen at Mini-Roos last Saturday. Thanks also to those who made goodies to sell. The club made $800 profit – Great effort!

Draw Saturday 30 June at Jelbart Park

5 years, Hotspurs Black v United Green SSF1 12:30 pm kick-off
5 years, Hotspurs Gold v Melrose SSF3 12:30 pm kick-off
6 years, Hotspurs Black v Hotspurs Gold SSF5 12:30 pm kick-off
6 years, Hotspurs Gold v Hotspurs Black SSF5 12:30 pm kick-off
7 years, Hotspurs Black v United SSF5 1:30 pm kick-off
7 years, Hotspurs Gold v Boomers White SSF4 1:30 pm kick-off
8 years, Hotspurs Black have a BYE
8 years, Hotspurs Gold v St Pats Gold Q2 12:30 pm kick-off
9 years, Hotspurs Black v Boomers Red Q2 1:30 pm kick-off
9 years, Hotspurs Gold v Boomers Black Q1 1:30 pm kick-off
10 years, Hotspurs Black v St Pats H2 2:30 pm kick-off
10 years, Hotspurs Gold v United Green H3 2:30 pm kick-off

Please be at the ground 20 minutes before kick-off

Full season draw now available on our website from menu, MINROOS>Miniroos Draws>
And on Team app under schedule for each age group.

Make sure you have requested access to your appropriate age on your Hotspurs Team App.

For more information please call Paul Kinning – 0400422805 or Wayne Davies – 0477 872410

Teamapp

Albury Hotspurs Teamapp users, If you haven’t done so already, please open your app and request access to your appropriate teams. Especially Miniroos. We can’t notify you if you don’t have an access group and allow notifications to you mobile.

Hotspurs Club Shop is open

This year the senior group have developed a NEW club Senior polo $30 and jacket $35.
The club has decided to keep some stock of these to be available for purchase on home games at the ground (New WOW hat $15 and club neckties $25 will also be available).

ALL other items in the online shop need to be ordered by certain dates where a bulk order will be placed into production and delivery will then be 3 to 4 weeks after said date. GO TO SHOP

2018 cut off dates

6 April 2018 CLOSED
18 May 2018 CLOSED (approx. delivery 17/6)
5 July 2018 (approx. delivery 3/8) Final season order.

Full payment must be made before placement of your ordering into production.

Hotspurs Club Coaching Panel

Coaching sessions available to down load and follow for all age groups go here

The Hotspurs Club Coaching Panel has been formed, and consists of the following members of the club, John Belgre, Robert Tuksar, John Irvine, Matt Townsend and Fiona Smith.

From time to time there will be some useful information posted here for our coaches.

Coaches can also utilise the Coaching Panel for help, with any aspect of coaching. It’s an experienced, and great group, to assist those wishing to develop their coaching and ultimately the teams performances.

Junior Encouragement Awards

We are currently seeking interest from the current and new businesses who would like to supply/support our junior members with awards for this season 2018.
We would like to thank and acknowledge these businesses for their support.

Match Reports

12 Boys v St Pats lost 0 – 1
In the under 12s Hotspurs dominated in the first half but neither team were able to score. Hotspurs had plenty of shots thanks to Ben and Cooper, but none got past the keeper. There were excellent performances in all positions but an amazing performance from our midfield. Ruby was fast and won every contest on the ball. Lenny was reliable and strong in both defence and in attack. Trae showed some real finesse and gave the forwards every opportunity to score. Sadly even with our great players and Sams beautiful yellow card we had a loss with st pats scoring the winning goal with less than ten minutes to go. The awards were given to the very deserving Ruby and Trae.
Written by Sam Lawes

16 Girls v St Pats won 11 – 0 and 7 – 1
A double header for the girls against St Pats both on Saturday and Sunday. The girls played well on Saturday and passed the ball well on a small pitch.
The girls won 11 nil with Ava scoring 7!! Award to Kate for being first to the ball every time. On Sunday the Under 16s started with 8 plyers as we waited for the rest of the team to arrive. The girls did extremely well and Georgia was awesome in goals. We went into the half 2-1 up and finished our game 7-1. Awards to Georgia for her goal keeping, Ciara for her work in defence, Ava for her goals and Keely for her work on and off the ball creating scoring chances and scoring a nice goal. Keep up the great work girls. A huge Thank you to Jonothan and Craig for running the lines. Also thanks to Rob for taking the girls for training over the last few weeks.

Thirds v St Pats won 2 – 0
Another win for the Spurs to cement their third placing on the ladder. The team played really well and the result didn’t quite reflect the dominance of their attack. Cody scored in the first half after a cross from Oliver and at the half-time break they were 1-0 up. The second and final goal came with the very last kick of the game – Denzel passed to Jacob S who booted it in. It was great to have Ray keeping again. The defence did a sterling job all game. Thirds were the duty team so thanks to all those who helped, especially Casper, Joel, Michael, Manny, Diahann and Harry M. And thanks to Harry N for running the lines.

Over 35s v St Pats lost 0 – 6
This is not how Hotspurs Winter was supposed to go. Boasting the AWFA’s best player, Wildinho, a phalanx of outstanding forwards and a coach with a fine record at the AWFA level, Hotspurs had hopes of going better than it did last season. So, what has gone wrong, and what can be done about it?
Does it make sense to put all of the blame on the coach?
In his post match news conference on Sunday, Irvine could barely raise his eyes to face his interrogators. On half a dozen occasions, maybe more, he made it clear that only one person should take responsibility for the fact that Hotspurs was now on the brink of elimination.
“Had I set things up differently, they might have turned out much better,” he said. “I probably did not understand the match as I should have.”
Irvine made mistakes, without question, in terms of player selection, in terms of tactics, in terms of preparation. Following their loss last game, Hotspurs players only had two training sessions to get used to the system Irvine introduced for the game against St Pats, the most dangerous opponent in Hotspurs group. It looked it, too: against St Pats, Hotspurs had a defense left exposed, a midfield that was overrun, and an attack that was blunted.
There was an emotional failure, too. Irvine’s style has always relied a little on organized chaos. Against St Pats, though, cooler heads were required, particularly after falling behind in such unexpected circumstances, on a goalkeeping blunder. Irvine did nothing to help. He threw on attacking players seemingly at random, with little apparent design and to no obvious end. He proved incapable of thinking his way out of the problem.
Maybe, in hindsight, he would have done better. In 13 games as coach of Hotspurs, Irvine has used 13 lineups, and a total of 19 players. He has never given an impression that he knows what he wants this team to be, or who — beyond Wildinho — he wants to be in it. There was no plan B, to be used in an emergency, because he had not yet settled on plan A.
So, if it’s not all Irvine’s fault, it must be Wildinho’s?
Before we get to that, let’s make one thing abundantly clear: Wildinho does not need to win the leqgue and cup to have a case to be the greatest player of his era, or even of all time.
The logic that only League and Cup winners could be true greats is an antiquated one. It was true enough when it was only on that stage that the very best on the planet regularly encountered each other: a time when Pelé spent his entire career on one side of the Atlantic, and when Maradona played only a handful of European Cup games in his career.
It is not true now, given that we have the AWFA O35s League, and Wildinho can face his peers over and over again, from September until April or May. That is the stage where greatness is bestowed, and Wildinho has shone on it often enough certainly to be one of the two finest players of the 21st century.
Whether he’s better than Cristiano Ronaldo — and whether either of them are better than Pelé, Maradona, Johan Cruyff or anyone else — is, more than anything, a matter of personal taste, but it should not be determined by whether he has won a Cup or not.
Wildinho, though, does not seem to see it that way. There has been a longstanding, and now somewhat clichéd, allegation that he does not deliver for his club, one that somehow managed to linger.
Even more hackneyed is the idea that he does not care, that because he has spent so much time away from Hotspurs that he somehow lacks the requisite passion to represent his club.
His behavior in the last week or so should expose that thinking as flawed: the stress was evident as he stood for Hotspurs anthem at Kelly Park; he had avoided a family barbecue at Hotspurs training facility in Albury in the days preceding the game, preferring to stay alone in the room he shares with Foxinho.
Even before that, his determination to do something for his club — to win the Cup, to cement his greatness — was clear. Wildinho volunteered to change his own role so as to enable Irvine to make more use of the likes of Eddie,Foxinho and Coatesy. He has made tactical suggestions, too, to try to improve the team. In some lights, perhaps that looks like the sort of egocentrism more associated (rightly or wrongly) with his great rival, Ronaldo. In others, it is a veteran player, one of the best of all time, desperate to succeed.
Perhaps he is inhibited by the pressure, crushed by the weight of his club’s expectations, and his own. That seems unlikely: he is well used to performing under pressure.
Perhaps, then, as Irvine said, the flaws in the rest of the team “cloud” Wildinho’s abilities, and prevent him from shining in the way that Ronaldo can for Portugal. His brilliance cannot disguise the shortcomings of the others.
Wait, what? This is a team with Coatesy, Eddie,Tuksar, Davies, White Dog and the rest: Wildinho’s teammates are worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Are they really that bad?
There are two issues here. One is psychological: all of those players rank among the best in the world in their positions at club level, but they have long seemed totally dependent on Wildinho for Hotspurs.
Against Twin City and St Pats — and for years now — it was striking how few of them seemed willing to try to ease the burden on him. Too often, Hotspurs plan seems to be to funnel the ball to Wildinho and hope for the best. It almost worked 12 months ago, but much of the time it makes the team predictable, and easily contained.
St Pats, for example, deployed Marcelo Brozovic to shut down Wildinho. He did his job extremely well — Wildinho did not have a shot until the 64th minute, and made just 15 passes in the first hour — but, more tellingly, none of Wildinho’s teammates was able to take the reins. If Wildinho is not firing, Hotspurs does not seem capable of coping. The rest of the players are diminished in his presence.
The other issue is that Hotspurs squad is almost comically front-loaded. That signifies two issues: one is that Irvine can not, realistically, squeeze all of it into the same team. No system could adequately accommodate Platini, Coatesy, Eddie and Wildinho, let alone the likes of the Irish pair Larry and Aid. Sometimes, having that many choices can be paralyzing: it may be that the richness of his resources is what has left Irvine so indecisive.
The other, more serious, issue is what that abundance of attacking choices says about the team’s defense. There is a valid question over whether the midfield Hotspurs is capable of playing the way Irvine desires — the intense, high-pressing style that has brought him so much success.
In effect, Hotspurs strength is all in one place; too much of the rest of the team is a wasteland.
This is the key issue, the one that has trapped Hotspurs below the waterline, and the one the club must start to address if its time in the AWFA wilderness, at least trophy-wise, is to come to an end.
Players leave for Retirement too young, stunting their development at the crucial moment as they hit 50, energies are directed toward identifying attacking phenomena, rather than the painstaking work of educating defenders.
There is a lack of scheming midfielders, too, a byproduct of what might be called the Bielsa Orthodoxy: the intense, hard-running style of play of Ian Belgre, Irvine’s mentor, is now so widespread in Hotspurs that players capable of stopping and thinking are in short supply.
Hotspurs soccer used to be defined by what they call pausa: a playmaker’s ability to wait for the exact moment to play a pass. There is no pausa in Hotspurs O35 soccer any more. The game against St Pats was the perfect example: all running, no thinking, an advertisement for a team that has lost its way.