Northern Women's Premier League 3rd April 2011

Launceston City Allies V Northern Rangers Mitsubishi Park 10.30 am Launceston United V Ulverstone Red Birch Avenue 12.30pm UTAS SC V Riverside Olympic Allenby Oval 12.30pm Devonport City V Launceston City Valley Rd 12.30pm Somerset V Prospect Knights Cardigan St 12.30pm Burnie Have the Bye

FORESTRY TASMANIA NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE Sat 2nd April 2011

Devonport V Somerset Valley Rd 2.30pm Launceston City V Northern Rangers Mitsubishi Park 2.30pm Riverside Olympic V Launceston United Windsor Park 2.30pm Burnie United V Prospect Knights Montello 2.30pm

Governess Is Still Around And Has Been Observing A few Things Once Again Players Having Difficulties With The Refereeing Standards

Please Put Positive Input On How This Can Be Fixed Please Find Below Something For You All To Read On How To Deal With the Situation During A Game .

Try and see the Soccer play from the point of view of the Referee.When time permits,after the game or maybe at half time,Camly discuss your opinion with the referee.

Consider the position of the Referee. The duty of the referee is to ensure the safety of all the palyers on the field.He/she may not be doing a bang up job,but are they keeping all the players safe?

Last,see it as a growing opportunity.Teams never get to pick the Referees.Good teams will be able to win even with a referee that isnt in top notch. See a bad Referee as an extra obstacle that can help you improve.

North West Summer Cup Fixtures.

Saturday the 19^th of Feb – Montello

Devonport Vs Somerset – 12:30pm

Burnie Vs Ulverstone – 2:30pm

Hope you all have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year see you all in the New season ahead

Northern Rangers are thrilled to announce the appointment of Stuart Lomax to the newly created position of “Director Of Youth Football”

Lomax joins the club after a year off from coaching, his last role was with Devonport Strikers as their Northern Premier Women’s coach, where he took Devonport to a runners up position in 2009, and was the only Northern coach to successfully defeat Launceston City during their recent domination of the Northern Women’s Premier League.

The role of Director of Youth Football has been created by the club, to better manage the massive pool of young talent emerging from the clubs youth system. Lomax will directly be responsible for the development and oversight of the clubs junior sides coaches, focusing on the Under 18’s, 16’s, 14’s and 12’s and ensuring all sides are playing in a manner that reflects the playing style of the senior side, thus allowing all players to be promoted up age groups if the opportunity arises, and particularly prepare the Under 18’s to step into the seniors and reserves at any point and be familiar with their responsibilities and surrounds.

Lomax will also be responsible for identifying and developing the clubs talented juniors and better equip them from an early age, both technically and physically.

The role has been created as a result of the clubs strategic meetings which have been taking place over the off season, with many more ideas being adopted from the results of the clubs member survey. This is still open and can be found on the right window of the clubs websites home page.

Stuart Lomax will work closely with the clubs senior Manager and assistant Adam Whitemore and Tony Ludby respectively , both are excited to have Lomax involved in the club in 2011.

In addition to this the club is pleased to announce that John Crooks will partner up with Mel Cuschieri to take charge of the clubs Under 18 side.

Crooks took over in 2010 after the sad passing of Jeff McHugh and we look forward to the continuation of his work in 2011, together with Mel Cuschieri.

The Under 18’s and Seniors/Reserves will begin training at the same in 2011, kicking off on Monday the 10^th of January at 6pm at the NTCA following the clubs annual Cricket Series which this year will take place on Monday the 3^rd of January at Trevallyn Cricket Ground.

Members and supporters are also reminded that the clubs AGM will be held on Thursday the 9^th of December at the NTCA at 7:30pm

The Coaching Staff for 2011 is as follows

Senior Manager – Adam Whitemore

Assistant – Tony Ludby

Director of Youth Football – Stuart Lomax

Under 18’s – John Crooks

Assistant – Mel Cuschieri

Women’s – Ian Loft

Assistant - Vacant

Division One - TBA

The North / North West Blog Is Back tell us your thoughts on how we can make this better for you to read information on the season for 2011

Put forward some topics you would like talked about over the pre season

Referees How to encourage People to be come involved your thoughts

2010 George Dale Medal Winners

Best And Fairest

U18 Elliot Stewart Burnie
Reserve Tyler Murphy Launceston city
Prem Women Natali Reardon Utas
Prem Men Tod Hingston Northern Rangers

Leading Goal Scorers

U18 Nick Lanau-Atkinson Riverside Olympic
Division One Roger Mies Launceston City
Reserves William Nichols Burnie
Prem Women Chelsea Smith Launceston City
Prem Men Brayden Mann Ulverstone

Coaches And Referee Of The Year

Prem Womens Jason Jones Launceston City

Prem Men Adam Whitemore Northern Rangers

Referee Tony Cocker

Press Release For Northern Ranger Football Club

2010 Club Best and Fairest Awards and All Northern State Semi Final at the NTCA

The Northern Rangers held their annual best and fairest count to decide the winners of the clubs 5 seniors sides best and fairest awards, and another great night uncovered some great and generally expected results.

Todd Hingston won the Senior best and fairest after he polled enough votes to have a game off against Devonport when he took an unassailable lead following the Somerset game in round 17. Hingston took more votes against Devonport anyway and finished with 27 votes, 6 votes ahead of Andrew Nicholson (21) who also had a stand out year at right midfield. Honourable mentions to Sam Luck (14) and Derek Schipper (13)

The Award is Hingston’s second club best and fairest in as many years since joining the club in 2009, he last year shared the award with Derek Schipper and went on the win the Football Federation Tasmania George Dale Medal for the Northern Premier Leagues Best player in 2009

The most important side in the Club has to be the under 18s’ where the futures success lies. A stella year for the Burk household saw younger sibling Josh take the award with 13 votes, just one vote ahead of the sides defensive rock in Tom Burk.

Big things have traditionally come from the pick of the under 18’s with club legends names like Tim Schipper, Sam Luck, Andrew Davies, Ben deRuiter, Ayden Demejier and Stefan Jago all winning at least one Under 18 best and fairest, and all have gone onto represent the club at Senior level.

Great news for the clubs goal keeping stocks with Alex Bligh posting well with 10 votes next to Lian Thang also on 10.

For the Reserves it was a case of scoring goals was higher rated than stopping them, with Chad honey taking out the award with 16 votes, just ahead of first year reserve player Josh vanZetten on 13 and captain and defense maestro Ben deRuiter on 11 and Patty Lanua-Atkinson also on 11.

The Women’s was a close battle with Felicity Shaw winning her first award for the club on 18 votes, just 2 votes ahead of 2008 winner Bec Wheatley, who also had a fine year. Emily Hudson and Anna Stackhouse both also featured highly with 14 votes each.

A very even spread in Division 1 saw some 20 players receive votes during the year, Tim Armstrong eventually stormed home with a late flurry or votes, finishing on 17 ahead of Mitch Billing on 14 votes.

What a night, and congratulations to Todd Hingston, Chad Honey, Josh Burk, Felicity Shaw and Tim Armstrong.

Northern Rangers host Burnie United this week in the State Championship Semi Final after both clubs beat their Southern Based counterparts Clarence United and Hobart Zebras last weekend.

The Game kicks off at 2pm at the NTCA in Launceston and is the only soccer game in the north this weekend. The winner will meet the winner between South Hobart and Devonport Strikers which is being played at Hobart’s KGV ground also on Saturday @ 2pm.

Statewide Finals Series

MEN'S

Northern Rangers -v- Clarence United - 2pm NTCA
South Hobart -v- Riverside Olympic - 2pm SOUTH HOBART
Tilford Zebras -v- Burnie United - 2pm KGV
Devonport City -v- Glenorchy Knights - 2pm VALLEY RD

ALL GAMES played SATURDAY

WOMEN'S

Devonport City -v- Olympic FC Warriors - 12:30 VALLEY RD
Launceston City -v- Tilford Zebras - 2pm MITSUBISHI PARK
Taroona -v- Somerset - 2pm at KGV
Clarence United -v- Ulverstone - 2pm WENTWORHT PARK 2

ALL GAMES played SUNDAY

Another Season Comes To An End

Congratulations to Northern Rangers for Back to Back Titles and I do Believe Congratulations Also go To Launceston City Women for title Number Six,

Now its time for the Final Four all the best to all Northern And North West Clubs Involved Lets hope the Title comes were it Belongs this year up to the North/NorthWest.

To all the clubs thanks for a great year and all the best in the off Season hope to see you all around again next year.

Please tell us your thoughts on the George Dale Medal and who will win, your thoughts on who will be this years Referee of the year not many to choose from though.

Also who will take your Clubs Best and Fairest

Again a big thank you to all that participated on the Blog this year I will be back Next Year Hope Fully with some new ideas any ideas you may have please put forward.

Cheers

The Governess

Northern Premier League 14/08/10

Riverside Olympic -v- Somerset	14:30 Sat
Ulverstone -v- Burnie United	14:30 Sat
Northern Rangers -v- Devonport City	14:30 Sat
Prospect Knights -v- Launceston City	14:30 Sat

Northern Premier League

Riverside Olympic -v- Devonport City	14:30Sat
Somerset -v- Northern Rangers	14:30Sat
Launceston City -v- Ulverstone	14:30Sat
Launceston United -v- Prospect Knights	14:30Sat

Place all results and comments here over next two weeks Governess is away all the best to all teams

Milan Lakoseljac Cup

Burnie V Clarence Montello

New Town Eagles V South Hobart Clare St

Northern Women's Premier League

Launceston City Allies -v- Launceston Utd

10:30 Sun

Ulverstone Black -v- Northern Rangers

12:00 Sun

Riverside Olympic SC -v- Somerset SC

12:30 Sun

Burnie United FC -v- Devonport City

12:30 Sun

Launceston City SC -v- UTAS Soccer Club

12:30 Sun

Ulverstone Red -v- Prospect Knights

14:00 Sun

Northern Premier League

Devonport v Launceston City Valley Rd 2.30

Launceston United v Northern rangers Birch Ave 2.30

Riverside Olympic v Prospect Knights Windsor Park 2.30

Somerset v Burnie united cardigan st 2.30

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Statewide Cup

Burnie United v T.I.S at Montello Saturday 14:00
Devonport City v Clarence United at Valley Road Saturday 14:00
New Town Eagles v Riverside Olympic at Clare Street Saturday 14:00
Tilford Zebras v South Hobart at KGV Park Saturday 18:00