Soccer The shock sacking of Seaford United senior coach Paul Williams and five new signings for Mornington have grabbed the headlines this week. Add to that confirmation from Chelsea that coaching legend Gus Macleod will continue as head coach and there’s been plenty to talk about in local football circles. Last week’s bombshell announcement that Williams had fallen victim to his club’s end-of-season review was unexpected given that his last three seasons as senior coach have seen the club consistently in the top four. Williams guided Seaford to a second-placed finish in 2023, fourth in 2024 and second this year.…
Author: Craig MacKenzie
Soccer THURSDAY 20 November 2025 officially kicks off a new era at Peninsula Strikers under joint senior coaches Ross Walliss and Stephen Duffy. That’s when a new promotion campaign is launched as pre-season gets underway at Centenary Park. Walliss and Duffy were announced last week as successors to Scott Morrison, who resigned recently for family reasons. The new joint coaches were recommended to Strikers by veteran midfielder Wayne “Buzzer” Gordon, who is part of an England squad coached by the duo at the All Nations Cup being played at Knox. Walliss was born in Southampton, England, and was on the…
Soccer Skye United gaffer Phil McGuinness had no doubts about handing the captaincy to a player who had only been at the club for one season. “He trains how he plays, he hates to lose and is very, very competitive,” McGuinness said. “He never misses a training session and although there were a few older boys in the running he just ticked all the boxes.” He’s talking about Ben Lund, who took over from club icon Marcus Collier last November after the latter left. And 23-year-old Lund rubber-stamped the coach’s decision by leading his men to promotion from State 2…
SOCCER FRANKSTON Pines have targeted promotion after three successive seasons of relegation. It’s an ambitious aim and one that some will see as fanciful, but try telling that to new senior coach Al Baldwin and assistants Chris Sanderson and Andy McCabe. At the start of September, Baldwin expected to be named new senior coach of Mount Martha as Charlie Platt had told the committee he wouldn’t continue in that role. But when Mount Martha president Sanderson stepped down on 1 September, Baldwin’s situation changed dramatically. Sanderson saw Pines advertising for a senior coach on 10 September and suggested to close…
JAMIE Skelly has been appointed for a fourth straight season as head coach of VPL1 outfit Langwarrin. While Skelly and Langy president Rob Vickery were fine-tuning an agreement last week, Scott Morrison and Stuart Johnson surprisingly resigned as head coaches of Peninsula Strikers and Rosebud respectively. Skelly and Vickery held informal discussions about the coaching role for the past couple of months and the outcome had been anticipated. Skelly took over as senior coach at Lawton Park at the end of the 2022 season and under him the side’s highest finish has been ninth last year. It finished 10th this…