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March update 2024

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Sun 31 Mar 2024

With the 2024 season looming even closer, we have seen most teams across the club return to training during February. Numbers are looking quite healthy in most junior age groups, which is both encouraging and exciting with our new Oval 3 facility due for completion soon Many of our members will have noticed the Oval 3 pavilion progressing since works began in the middle of 2023. Club representatives had a guided tour a few weeks ago and we can say it is an impressive buildin

Thu 29 Feb 2024

January update 2024

We hope all LSC Football members,supporters, players, coaches, staff and volunteers had a great Christmas and new year season. Your football club senior and junior committees continue preparations for 2024. As usual, this is among our busiest times, organising players, coaches and volunteers for the many teams we expect to field across boys and girls, and men’s and women’s competitions, along with the planning that goes into the season. We expect to have good numbers again this year, but alw

Wed 31 Jan 2024

December update 2023

Since our last newsletter, your Club committee and volunteers have been busy attending to important off-season tasks. Our first round will be here before we know it! While our club strategy is to build a sustainable and successful future through our junior programs, we must also periodically recruit players into our senior squad to add necessary capabilities we cannot fill immediately from within. Our senior coaching and management panel have been busy identifying suitable talent and have su

Sun 31 Dec 2023

November update 2023

COACHING ANNOUNCEMENTS The LFNC is excited to announce the appointment of Eliza Wilson-McDonald as playing/coach for our Senior Women’s football team in 2024. Her passion in football has seen her play over 100 games stemming from her Junior years at Mount Martha, Mornington Football Netball Club, VFLW Coates Talent League U18 - Dandenong Stingrays, Lara Senior Womens & Geelong Cats VFLW just to name a few. Eliza is super excited to be a part of a bright future here at Lara for our senior wome

Thu 30 Nov 2023

October update 2023

With the end of season 2023, we are busy off field with recruiting and re-signing of players Our senior presentation night was held on Thursday 28th September with a full house of players, committee members and supporters. A wonderful night was held at the Sporting Club and some very well deserved award winners. Matt Trethowan was awarded the Bernie Walker Most Exemplary person award. Matt has committed so much time over the years looking after our players and making sure they get on the fiel

Tue 31 Oct 2023

September update 2023

The Football Section hosted the junior boys grand finals for U/16 and U/14 age groups at Bisinella Oval on the weekend of 2-3 September. It was a huge couple of days with massive crowds and a carnival atmosphere, and saw our hospitality areas remain busy from the first game to the last. Everything ran smoothly thanks to the planning by the preparation sub-committee along with a healthy sized group of volunteers who rotated through across the weekend.Congratulations to our sub-committee for their

Sat 30 Sep 2023

August Update 2023

The home and away season is done for all age groups and divisions.

Thu 31 Aug 2023

July update 2023

We are now well and truly into the back end of the home and away season, with a handful of games left in the junior and senior female competitions, and 5 games left for the senior and reserve men. In terrific news for the club, over the last few days we announced that we have re-signed our senior co-coaches, Devon Smith and Shayne Stone, to stay at the helm for 2024. It is a significant show of faith by both of them in the club and playing group. Congratulations and thanks to both of them.

Mon 31 Jul 2023

June update 2023

Our senior men’s side remains on 2 wins so far this season as the GFL heads into this week’s bye. We’ve played some good sides over the last few weeks and have seen the standard we need to reach to climb the ladder. Our reserves side is also battling away in search of their next win. We have had some bright news with milestones among senior and reserves players in recent weeks, including Dylan Jose (100 games), Daniel Weigl (100 games) and Sam Purdy (50 games).

Fri 30 Jun 2023

May update 2023

Our senior men’s side has continued to show improvement, winning two of our last 3 matches and giving St. Joseph’s a fright in last Saturday’s match before going down by 11 points. We are now 2 and 4 from 6 matches as we head into the bye weekend off. Our reserves side has also had a win over St. Albans so far. Senior men’s football resumes on the 3 June with a home game against Colac. This should be a great game, so we encourage all our members and fans to head down to Bisinella Oval to support

Wed 31 May 2023

April update 2023

This newsletter finds us two weeks into the 2023 GFNL season. Our senior men’s and under 18 boys squads commenced on April 15, with senior women and junior sides starting on April 22/23.

Thu 04 May 2023