GV Suns weekly newsletter – 23 August 2018

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GV Suns Newsletter
Thursday 23 August 2018

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SAP Suns shine at gala

Our SAP teams travelled to Darebin last weekend for their first gala weekend of the season. In rain, hail, wind and occassional sunshine the U9 and U10 teams played some great football. Thanks to Lewis Coyle and Sean Grant who not only coached our buys and girls but also refereed matches. For more photos from the day visit our facebook page.

SAP Gala v Murray United - Saturday 22 September

The Murray United SAP gala day is scheduled for Saturday 22 September. This date is the first week of the school holidays so please confirm your availability with your coach.

GV Suns 2018 Presentation Night - Saturday 6 October

Players, coaches, familues and supporters are invited to join us for our season 2018 Presentation Night on Saturday 6 October.
Venue: Main Paviliion, Shepparton Sports Complex.

Further details will be shared shortly.

Shepparton to host A-league Preseason - Friday 12 October

Save the date - Melbourne City’s final pre-season game, will take place against Western Sydney Wanderers on Friday, 12 October at Shepparton Sports City.

For more information and to keep up to date for ticket sales visit greatershepparton.com.au

AFS Tournament (U7 - U17) 26 - 28 October

We encourage all our age groups to enter a team if they want and you are welcome to include non-GV Suns players. The tournament can be a great way to introduce potential players and to recognise the amazing development we see each year in each age group.

Please talk with your team manager if you want to enter a team - GV Suns may be able to assist with playing kits. http://footballskool.com.au Registrations close 26 September and some age groups are already filled.

Match Reports

U14s
Tommy Giuliani

Our U14s battled back from a difficult first half to win against Port Melbourne Sharks on Sunday. It was a very pleasing performance and fightback by our boys. We continue to play in a 4-3-3 formation with only one holding midfielder and we always try to get our fullbacks pushing high into the middle third in possesion.So we always set up to play attacking football. With the windy conditions on Sunday we failed to adjust and stopped committing ourselves to play out of a high press.We also needed to keep the ball on the ground against the wind and build up patiently. We also,didn’t win the 50/50s and second balls. We were just a few steps “off”,not sharp and aggressive enough

Port scored two goals in the first half. Not through their brilliance though. The second goal was most disappointing as we lost possession high in our final third and decided to argue with a referee decision rather than play the whistle and win the ball back.

At half time the message was simple. In possesion increase our tempo, commit to our effective possession game, have the courage to play through a high press and attack relentlessly with penetrating forward passing. We also adjusted our pressing to win the ball back higher up the pitch and really squeezed our lines back to front.

These boys were magnificent in the second half.They hit 4 goals in a 15 minute burst to go from 0-2 down 4-2 winners. Most pleasing for the club was the fantastic contribution by Reece Reedy and Hassan Alhilfi stepping up from our U13s team. They were both class in those last 15 minutes. Well done boys.

U16s
Paul Nieuwenhuizen

After the week off to rest, the boys trained with the 18s and really worked hard.
We talked before the game about pressing Port Melbourne high up the pitch and winning the ball back quickly. We were soon rewarded for our efforts going up 1-0. However, our work rate fell away and we let Port Melbourne back into the game. This saw the mistakes creep in and we gave away a couple of goals to find ourselves down 2-1 at halftime.

Halftime saw the boys reminded of the need to maintain a high work rate, to not rush their decisions when playing the ball and look to play the ball forward. The 2nd half saw the team put in to practice what we talked about, with the team looking to play the ball forward to a teammate at all times, while pressing Port Melbourne quickly to regain the ball. This saw the team rewarded with 3 second half goals to come away with a well deserved win.
The effort showed what the boys can do when they work hard together.

Upcoming games

Date	Squads	Venue	Opposition
18/08/18 (Sat)	SAP	Darebin	Gala day
19/08/18 (Sun)	Juniors	Home	Port Melb Sharks
19/08/18 (Sun)	U20 & Seniors	-	-
25/08/18 (Sat)	U20 & Seniors	Away	Springvale White Eagles FC
26/08/18 (Sun)	Juniors	Away	White Eagles Stadium
01/09/18 (Sat)	Juniors, U20 & Seniors	Away	Murray United FC
08/09/18 (Sat)	U20 & Seniors	Home	Moreland City FC
09/09/18 (Sun)	Juniors	Away	Langwarrin
15/09/18 (Sat)	Juniors	Home	Bentleigh Greens
22/09/18 (Sat)	SAP	Away	Murray United FC

Your club contacts

Club

President
Mick Crisera
0427 239 871

Vice President
Paul Uniacke
0418 575 185

Technical Director
Shaban Mehmet
0401 843 372
techdir@gvsuns.com.au

Assistant Technical Director
Tommy Giuliani
0437 812 965
techdir@gvsuns.com.au

Club Secretary
Maria Sepe
0419 317 704
secretarygvsuns@gmail.com

Operations Manager
Nick Corbo
0417 055 879
operations@gvsuns.com.au

Team Managers

U12
Marisa O'Halloran
0447 775 515

U12 Orange
Tracy Williamson
0422 171 603

U13
Terry Reedy
0490 373 467

U14
Ivan Mori
0408 123 029

U15
Noel Mitchell
0409 001 260

U16
Annette Keck
0438 531 294

U18
Luba Pigatto
0412 777 055

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