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I was asked by Bushy at the Roosters to umpire Moorooka's reserves on the weekend against Wynnum. While not having any great affiliation with the club anymore (I coached the Friday night team last year) I did my best to be as fair as possible. Wynnum's umpire was an absolute pleasure to work...

Mayne are no chance against us Roosters. We'll flick the switch this week ;)

I can promise you we won't be stacking. The vast majority will be those that played last week. The only senior/reserves guys that will get a run are those coming back from injury/unavailability and need a run. We potentially have one or two new players to the club as well. We'll see at...

I can't speak highly enough of the Collingwood Park guys on Friday night. Bringing both teams in after the game and having a few laughs before we left the ground really capped off the night. Although we battled hard we just weren't good enough but we keep seeing good new signs from all our...

Thanks for stating the bleeding obvious. We'll be ok. Give us a few years, like GWS!

As the Roosters Friday night coach I've come to realise this league (Div 5) is strong, and after playing Ferny Grove and Jindalee we are well aware of where we sit. We currently select those who are unavailable Saturday and those that have missed out on a reserves game. Given the tough...

Come on mate, still plenty of time to stack our Div 5 team. I'm all for it but I doubt the rest of the coaching staff will be keen. We'll keep plugging away.

Ferny Grove were much too good for us tonight. They had some big bodies and appeared well drilled and had a lot of chat. Our boys tried hard but we just had too much inexperience. I'm sure we'll continue to improve as the boys play together a bit more.

Hey Lads (and Ladies), I'm the Griffith-Moorooka Roosters Div 5 coach for 2017. Just wanted to wish all teams an injury free and enjoyable season ahead. I hope your players are as excited as ours for tonight.

If you're a bit worried about body size/ability etc I'd go with QFA Div5. I'll be coaching a Brisbane suburban club so feel free to private message me if you like.

I'm not even sure why anyone bothers replying to this clown. We all know what these divisions are about.

I personally don't see the point in stopping anyone from leaving that doesn't want to be there, unless they owe the club money. One thing I've learnt over my last 17 odd years in amateur club footy, match payments eventually kill footy clubs by and don't necessarily win you premierships.

Most didn't realise it at the time but it was all done the wrong way. The exodus of people from that period is remarkable. The disillusioned ones are slowly starting to trickle back now which is great. 95% of that team aren't even at the club anymore.

I think the less said about the last three years the better. After coming back after a few years away I'm blown away by the transformation of the club. We're definitely heading in the right direction and the future looks bright with a great bunch of people.

I wonder where everyone would play if there were zero player payments (With the exception of kitchen upgrades by the coach of course). One can dream I suppose.........