SOCCER CALLUM Goulding has high expectations of what Langwarrin can achieve this year in NPL2. And the midfielder doesn’t buy into talk of 2022 being a disappointing season. “From the outside it may have looked like we didn’t have a good season but we drew eight or nine games – something ridiculous like that – and if you win some of them it’s a whole new season altogether and people are probably not talking about us the way they were last season,” Goulding said. Much hype surrounded Langwarrin heading into last season with the club eventually finishing seventh in a…
Author: Craig MacKenzie
SOCCER SEAFORD United and Mount Eliza will play in State 5 South next season. Both clubs were given the welcome news from Football Victoria last week after undergoing a rigorous application process. South East United had withdrawn from State 5 South as FV screened the applicants thereby reducing the competition to 10 teams so the inclusion of the two local clubs restores the league’s 12-team format. For Seaford it’s a return to State League after a one-year absence while Mount Eliza will compete in State League for the first time. Seaford is yet to formally announce its senior coach for…
SOCCER THE first thing that strikes you as you enter the Centenary Park clubrooms is a bar with a Shiplap timber cladding façade. There’s signage on the façade. It reads: “The Clayton Lee Bar.” Lower your gaze to a 75-year-old grey-haired man with a welcoming smile and a lilting Welsh accent. He is serving behind the bar – his bar – and he’s been doing that for decades. Since July 1982 when the Lee family from south Wales emigrated to Australia Clayton Lee has been one of the constants of the local game. Lee, wife Ann and oldest son Darren…
SOCCER ASPENDALE Stingrays captain Peter Dimopoulos has a blunt message for players thinking of joining the State 5 club. “It’s a culture-driven club so no matter how good a player you are you have to be prepared to be part of the group,” the 25-year-old said. “Look, at the end of the day it’s a State 5 club and if you’re not going to get in amongst the boys and be prepared to have a bit of fun then you won’t fit in. “Right now we’re in talks with one or two players to come down and see what they…
SOCCER ANDY McIntyre could become the fourth Mornington player to join Peninsula Strikers in the off-season as the State 2 outfit closes in on the signature of the experienced defender. Campbell Steedman, Stevie Elliott and Jamie Davidson have already moved from Dallas Brooks Park to Centenary Park. Liverpool-born McIntyre, 31, joined Langwarrin during the 2014 season and switched to Mornington for the 2019 season. The promise of better things to come at Strikers was part of the lure of Centenary Park. “Strikers have a lot of young lads coming through and they said they just need a bit of experience…