R20 Match Reports and Club News 2023

Fixtures

Round 21, away.

Heart	Hotspurs	13 Boys	12/08/2023 10:30	Willow Park 2
Heart	Hotspurs	16 Boys	13/08/2023 8:30	Willow Park 1
Hotspurs	BYE	17 Girls
Heart	Hotspurs	Div.2 Women	13/08/2023 9:50	Willow Park 1
Heart	Hotspurs	Div.3 Men	13/08/2023 10:00	Willow Park 2
Heart	Hotspurs	12 Girls	13/08/2023 10:55	Willow Park 3
Melrose	Hotspurs	Div.1 Women	13/08/2023 11:20	Willow Park 1
BYE	Hotspurs	Over 35’s
Heart	Hotspurs	Div.2 Men	13/08/2023 13:10	Willow Park 1
Heart	Hotspurs	14 Boys	13/08/2023 13:10	Willow Park 2
Cobram	Hotspurs	14 Girls	13/08/2023 14:20	Cobram 2
BYE	Hotspurs	Div.1 Men
United	Hotspurs	17 Girls	15/08/2023 18:00	Jelbart West 1

*Note, all fixtures are subject to change and you should confirm with your coach and GameDay

Miniroos

Saturday Fixtures at Willow Park. Go to fixtures

12:30pm 5, 6, 8, 10s
1:30pm 7, 9 11s

Training Tuesday’s

All 10s and 11s teams 5:15 PM.
All others 5-9s on 5 PM Aloysius Park.

Click for final Miniroos Teams

Coach/Game Day Manager contact number updated on Teams page. Please communicate with them your unavailability thank you.

Season 2023 Information

Club Shorts $25 and Socks $15 can be purchased from the canteen 9am-4pm Sundays at Home games
More stock of shorts on order, will advise when available.

All Abilities

Final session, Sunday 20 August 11-12pm Lambert park, all club home games.
Stay tuned for AWFA Grand Final Day fixture.

Club Shop – Orders

SPURS SHOP ORDERS NOW AVAILABLE

#997 Steven Harvey
#1017 Jessie Handley
#1018 Jacklyn Hewitt
#1034 Natalie Pursehouse

Collection and payment from canteen Tuesday 8 August 5-6:30pm or Sunday last home game 20 August or contact Brad Howard 0413 994 177 to arrange.

Stock 50 years Beanies, Bucket Hats, Black Caps, Gold Caps and the classy 3D black on black caps also available along with grip socks.

New 50 Year Retro Training/Supporter shirts added, available in short and long sleeve and 3 colourways, Gold, Pink and Black. Have you NAME or NICKNAME on the back. Head to Made to order now.

Shop open, Order Cut-Off Date for Made to order TBA

New hats and beanies now in stock

Your pre orders can be collected and paid for at canteen.
Note, each size has its own product, make sure you check before you order, Sizes depending product type S/S, S/M, L/XL
Go to Stock items in the shop

Club Shorts

More stock has been ordered for Miniroos sizes. ETA mid to late May.

50 Years Hotspurs Muscat

Match Reports

Div.1 Men

Div.1 Women

Div.2 Men

Div.2 Women

Div.3 Men

Over 35s Men

We traveled to Jelbart to face off against rivals and third placed United on a Saturday afternoon. With the usual plethora of players unavailable the coach went fishing, dangling a tasty luer of being able to play alongside Tuksar and Kinno and be coached by the tactical mastermind Kelvin “The Strangler” Davies, to Brian Vanega. He was tempted but unsure as his knee is very suspect. In the end Brian committed to play after hearing he’d get a chance to toy with United and AWFA legend Webby.
This proved to be a match winning inclusion. Spurs got off to a great start and Brian was directing play and bamboozling the opponents making them look foolish and leaving them chasing shadows, mostly their own shadow. Brian worked some magic on top of the box and was played in for a one v one in which the United keeper made a great save to deny him. Not long later though, Brian unleashed a thunderous strike from the top of the box that was past the keeper before he knew what had happened. Kinno scored our second and we went to the break 2-0 up and in control. Half time talk was to keep doing more of the same, score more goals but most importantly keep giving the ball to Brian!

The second half resumed and United came out with a more forceful attacking play which resulted in them scoring their first goal. Brian Scored again for us and Mickett also scored before United pinched another themselves. The FOX should have capped off the game with our 5th after being supperbaly put through by T-bone but lacked the quality finish that we had seen from our other goal scorers. Still a very enjoyable and exciting win. Not sure if we’ll be blessed with Brian’s brilliance again as his knee was very swollen from playing this game.
We have a bye this week followed by our last game v St Pats where a win will see us finish 4th on the ladder, the highest this team has finished in years. No matter the result we will again play St Pats in the first leg of the finals the following week.

17 Girls

16 Boys

14 Boys

14 Girls

13 Boys

Well what a big weekend for the club, we ventured to Jelbart on Saturday to take on our clubs biggest rivals and hopefully secure our championship endeavours.

Before the game the team was lucky enough to hear from club legend Rob Tuksar who spoke about what it means to him to see junior teams succeed. The kids took it all in and you could sense that this wasn’t just any other game.

The match was a somewhat dour affair as United started with numbers behind the ball from the first whistle and made it hard for us to break through their backline.

We ended up with a 3-1 result and our goal scorers where Connor with 2 and Murieann from a free kick.
Best on went to Cayde and Archer for their tireless work up and down the wings.

With that result we cannot be caught at the top of the table and are the 2023 U13s champions. Congratulations to all the kids that have been involved this year, be it 1 game or every game, you have all played a part. Thank you to Eliza for managing us as a team and keeping the coaches in line (one more so than the other) and thank you to the parents who have trusted us with the kids and get them to training and games.
We reset this week and start to plan for finals and aim for that cup.

We would also like to congratulate the U12 and U14 girls teams who both secured the championship as well over the weekend. The future looks bright at Spurs Stadium.

No fear, no egos, no excuses.

12 Boys Black

12 Girls

While watching our 13 boys and 14 girls secure their league title on Saturday afternoon, the tension was high for us to do the same Sunday!
We came up against our strongest competitors, Wodonga Diamonds at their home ground on a very short pitch. This was the 3rd time we have come up against them with the results swayed a 6-0 first time and a draw the 2nd.
With Mia Anderson out of our strong defense with a school injury to her collarbone it called for some structure change from the coaching staff. Mia Harding and Roxi lifted to the pressure of Diamonds attacking.
The first half was dominated by Spurs play with some great football from the girls when going forward, it wasn’t long till this lead from a great ball from harper for Gabby to find the back of the net.
Just before the end of the half our defense was caught napping, and diamonds got the equalizer.
The half time talk was about the importance of playing our game and talking. This half was hart fort, and you could see the will, desire & passion in the girls just wanting the win! With harper going down with 15min to go we looked on the back foot. The pressure from our forward line forces and error from the Diamonds defense and give Sasha a penalty, having practiced this on Thursday night she made sure it was in. 2 – 1 WIN!

2023 league Champions!

I am sure the girls don’t fully understand the importance of the League title and what it means. They will look back in years to come as they get harder to get and be proud as all the families involved are right now!
There has been a long history and dominance of the Hotspurs 12G team in history and winning several league titles in a row and we weren’t about to let that down!
On to the last 2 games of the year now with the build up to finals with a focus to keep our winning run alive and try and go the whole season undefeated.