SUMMER FOOTBALL COMPETITION

The Hoey Moey in conjunction with the Northern Storm Football Club are pleased to announce The Hoey Moey Summer Football Competition is now open for registration! Matches will take place on Wednesdays between 4pm and 7:15pm (depending on age division) - stay tuned for further details such as draws etc. to be released in the coming weeks.

 

WHERE: York Street Oval, Park Beach, Coffs Harbour

WHEN: Starts 21^st October 2009

FINISHES: 10^th February 2010

Registration dates 7^th and 8^th October 2009

At York Street canteen from 5.00pm to 6.30pm

 

ALL SHIRTS FOR ALL PLAYERS ARE PROVIDED AND CAN BE PURCHASED FROM THE CANTEEN

 

TO ENTER:

Send a cheque/money order, along with your Team Registration form to

PO BOX 1328 Coffs Harbour NSW 2450

For further information call Don on 0439 343 191

Summer Football Registration Form

Summer Football Competition Rules

COST: ($40.00 per player). Shirts are $10.00

Plus $2.00 per player per game for the referee

Number of players: Min 8, Max 10 per team

(if a player is not already registered with a club, therefore has no insurance it is an extra $30.00 to cover insurance. This applies to senior players only).

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JUNIOR PRESENTATION DAY

The club's annual Presentation Day was a success, with a large crowd turning out to support Northern Storm teams in age divisions between Under 6 and Under 16. Photos of the event can be seen below:

 
Photos courtesy of Tim Klingbiel

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GRAND FINAL RESULTS

Congratulations to the 13 Boys 1st Division side who won 3-1 against Boambee Bombers and the 12 Boys 1st Division team who soundly defeated Boambee Bombers 5-1. Commiserations to our 11 Boys 1st Division side who went down 4-1 to a strong Woolgoolga Dolphins team. Congratulations also to the Over 35 Lightning Bolts who won 4-2 in a penalty shootout against Orara Valley Dingoes after a 2-2 deadlock at the end of normal time. Northern Storm have taken home three trophies in this year's North Coast Football competition and congratulations to all teams who took part in the 2009 season - see you once again in the 2010 season or in the Hoey Moey Summer Football Competition!

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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)

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JUNIOR GRAND FINALS


JUNIOR ELIMINATION FINALS

Sawtell ~ Toormina Oval

 

Age	Team 1	Team 2	Time	Field
12 Boys 2nd	Nambucca Heads Strikers	Northern Storm Hurricanes	10:00	T1

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JUNIOR SEMI-FINALS

Coffs Coast ~ Polwarth Drive

 

Age	Team 1	Team 2	Venue	Time / Field
14 Girls	Coffs Coast Tigers	Northern Storm Cyclones	Polwarth Drive	09:30  P1

Coffs United ~ Coffs Harbour Showground

 

Age	Team 1	Team 2	Venue	Time
15 Boys	Coffs United Lions	Northern Storm Tornadoes	Coffs Harbour Showground	11:00 Den

Corindi Red Rock ~ Corindi Sportsground

 

Age	Team 1	Team 2	Venue	Time / Field
12 Boys 2nd	Corindi Red Rock Breakers	Northern Storm Hurricanes	Corindi	10:00 CO1

Nambucca ~ Coronation Park

 

Age	Team 1	Team 2	Venue	Time / Field
16 Boys	Nambucca Heads Strikers	Northern Storm Tornadoes	Nambucca	13:00 NH1

Northern Storm ~ York Street

 

Age	Team 1	Team 2	Venue	Time Field
12 Boys 1st	Northern Storm Tornadoes	Boambee Bombers	York Street	09:30 Y5
13 Boys 1st	Northern Storm Tornadoes	Boambee Bombers	York Street	11:00 Y5

Woolgoolga ~ High Street

 

Age	Team 1	Team 2	Venue	Time / Field
11 Boys 1st	Woolgoolga Dolphins	Northern Storm Tornadoes	Woolgoolga	09:30    H4

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SENIOR SEMI-FINALS

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STORM WIN CRUNCH MATCH
Cyclones U-14’s Pizza Night
 
Fine young ladies

 
Damn fine supporters.

 

And the person behind the camera.

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ALL GROUNDS CLOSED

Due to the weather experienced over the past few days throughout the Coffs Coast region, Coffs Harbour City Council have elected to close all sporting fields in the area. North Coast Football have subsequently called off tonight and tomorrow night's Over 35s games.
ALL GAMES FOR THIS WEEKEND HAVE BEEN CANCELLED
Stay informed by visiting the following websites for updates:

http://www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/www/html/3121-sporting-grounds-closures-.asp

http://www.northcoastfootball.com.au/weather.html

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HOME GAMES THIS WEEK

GAMES FOR THE COMING WEEK (28 May - 1 June)

At this stage, York Street has re-opened, so Men's 1st Division and Youth League training will go ahead tonight as scheduled. BCU International Stadium has also re-opened, so Thursday and Friday night's Over 35s matches will be held. However, Korora Oval has not yet been re-opened. It is due to open within the next couple of days, but players, coaches and fans should check the wet weather websites to stay informed of whether the weekend's Men's 1st Division and Youth League matches will go ahead. As for away games on the weekend, McLean Street/Forsyth Park (Coffs City United) and Coronation Park (Nambucca) are the only other grounds that have been opened at the current stage. Updates on the situation will be posted at regular intervals over the coming days. UPDATE: All grounds are now open except Coffs Showground ('The Den'), Maclean, Westlawn and Urunga.

 

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ALL GROUNDS CLOSED

Due to the weather experienced over the past few days throughout the Coffs Coast region, Coffs Harbour City Council have elected to close all sporting fields in the area. North Coast Football have subsequently called off tonight and tomorrow night's Over 35s games. Despite no decision having been made on whether or not the weekend matches will go ahead, it is doubtful that Saturday and Sunday's matches will be played.
UPDATE: ALL GAMES FOR THIS WEEKEND HAVE BEEN CANCELLED
Stay informed by visiting the following websites for updates:

http://www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/www/html/3121-sporting-grounds-closures-.asp

http://www.northcoastfootball.com.au/weather.html

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MEN'S 1ST DIVISION SECTION

A new section has been added to the Northern Storm Football Club website. On the Seniors page (http://www.northernstormfc.com/NorthernStorm/Seniors.aspx), fans and players can now access the most recent scores, top goalscorers,  team line-ups, ladder, match reports and directions and details about the next match of the Men's 1st Division Thunder. The aforementioned Seniors page is home to all information pertaining to the Men's 1st Division side, and any related anecdotes, match reports and the like should be sent to tim@craigscomputers.com

 

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RESULTS OF MATCHES: 14-17 MAY

Round 5 began with the Northern Storm Lightning Bolts taking on Bellingen Blitz in the Over 35s on Thursday, with Storm going down 5-3 in a tight match. Friday night's match was between Northern Storm Thunderbolts and Orara Valley Dingoes in the Over 35s, with Northern Storm losing 9-1. Things began to get better on Saturday, with the Under 16 Boys Tornadoes winning 4-0 against Woolgoolga Sharks, and the Under 15 Boys Tornadoes winning 5-0 against Macksville Redbacks. A win was also achieved by the Under 14 Girls Cyclones (2-0 against Nambucca Heads Strikers). Battling with only 8 players, the Under 12 Girls side held Bellingen Tristrams to 2-2 until the final 6 minutes of the match, when Bellingen scored 3 goals to make the final score 5-2. Congratulations to the Storm girls for putting in a mammoth effort with 3 players down. An outnumbered and outgunned Men's 2nd Division side went down 12-1 to Grafton City on Saturday afternoon, with the Youth League side going down 6-4 in a pulsating and controversial encounter at Westlawn Tigers. The Women's 1st Division team went down 5-4 to Corindi in another controversial game where two contentious penalties were awarded to the opposition. Women's 2nd Division managed a 3-1 win against Corindi, registering their first points of the season. The weekend culminated in Saturday night's feature match between Northern Storm Thunder and Westlawn Tigers. Despite the Storm's best efforts to break through in attack, and a very heavy and late tackle on goalkeeper Simon Ellis, the Thunder were held to a 0-0 draw by a defensively well prepared Westlawn side. The draw leaves Storm with 4 points after 4 games, sitting in 7th position.

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RESULTS OF FOURTH ROUND MATCHES

Northern Storm had wins in the Under 12 Boys Hurricanes (8-0 against Bellingen),  the Under 14 Girls Cyclones (3-1 against Coffs Coast Tigers), the Under 15 Boys Tornadoes (7-0 against Sawtell Scorpions), the Under 16 Boys Tornadoes (2-1 against Boambee Bombers) and the Women's 1st Division Cyclones (5-2 against South Services Sirens). The Under 13 Boys Hurricanes drew 1-1 with Bellingen, while losses were sustained by the Over 35s Thunderbolts (21-2 against Woolgoolga Sharks), the Under 14 Boys Tornadoes (3-1 against Bellingen), the Men's 2nd Division Thunder (9-1 against South Services Gunners) and the Women's 2nd Division Cyclones (2-1 against South Services Sirens). More matches will be played today, including Youth League and Men's 1st Division (at Korora), and fans are encouraged to come along and support our teams as they take on Orara Valley Dingoes at 12:00 and 2:00 respectively. Match reports should be submitted to tim@craigscomputers.com and current round match reports can be found at http://www.northernstormfc.com/NorthernStorm/MatchReports.aspx.UPDATE: Northern Storm's Youth League side were victorious (2-1 over Orara Valley Dingoes - Harley Parker scoring both goals), while the Men's 1st Division Thunder won 2-0 in a convincing performance against Orara (Paul Moss and Brett Lacey were the scorers).

 

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BALL BOYS/GIRLS

NCF have requested that each club provides 4 ball boys/girls for each of the Men’s 1st Division games.  Each ball boy/girl will receive a free meal and drink, not to mention the opportunity to soak up the atmosphere (and Don’s microphone skills) and watch the clubs top players do their thing!  There are eight remaining home games for the season, with the first of these on this coming Sunday at 2pm.  In the next couple of days the details of the other 1st Division games will be posted on the clubs website so anyone interested may look the dates and times up on the site to see what days will suit them. As always, the more helpers we have, the least amount of times we will need them to help.  We are open to any offers of helpers taking turns per game half or any other arrangement they would like.  If any players are interested, could they please contact NSFC Secretary Karen Filewood (nsfcsecretary@iprimus.com.au) ASAP to arrange dates, times etc.

The remaining Men's 1st Division home games for 2009 are as follows:

Sun 10th May 0914:00 Northern Storm Thunder   v

Orara Valley Dingoes

Sun 31st May 0914:00 Northern Storm Thunder   v

Boambee Bombers

Sun 21st Jun 0914:00 Northern Storm Thunder   v   Maclean Bobcats

Sun 28th Jun 0914:00 Northern Storm Thunder   v   Sawtell Scorpions

Sun 12th Jul 09 14:00  Northern Storm Thunder   v   Urunga Raiders

Sun 26th Jul 09 14:00 Northern Storm Thunder   v

Westlawn Tigers

Sun 9th Aug 0914:00 Northern Storm Thunder   v   Coffs Coast CC Tigers

Sun 23rd Aug 0914:00 Northern Storm Thunder   v

Woolgoolga Wolves

All of the above matches are played at K1 (Korora - Plantain Road Oval). Directions to the field can be found at http://www.northernstormfc.com/NorthernStorm/Maps.aspx

 

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RESULTS OF THIRD ROUND MATCHES

Northern Storm's Over 35s Thunderbolts side went down 9-0 to Woolgoolga Sharks on Thursday night at the BCU International Stadium. Our Under 13 Boys side came out of Saturday morning's clash with Coffs United with a resounding 15-0 victory, and the Under 16 Boys side went down 6-3 in a spirited performance with the scoreline not reflecting their dominance through large parts of the match. Under 15 Boys won their match 6-0 against Nambucca Strikers at York Street, while Under 14 Girls were victorious (4-0 over Woolgoolga Pippies at York Street). Women's 2nd Division went down 7-0 and Women's 1st Division were defeated 6-1, each by Urunga. Despite playing well, our Youth League side lost 2-0 to Urunga, and our Men's 2nd Division team lost 5-0 to an experienced Orara Valley team at York Street on Saturday afternoon. In the feature match on Saturday night, Urunga defeated the Northern Storm Men's 1st Division team 4-0. Match reports can be found at http://www.northernstormfc.com/NorthernStorm/MatchReports.aspx.

 

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MATCHES FOR THIS WEEKEND

The Men's First Division team will be playing at Urunga playing fields at 7pm on Saturday night. The night will be opened by our Youth League team, who play at 5pm. All fans are encouraged to come along and support the Northern Storm boys as they take on Urunga in a must-win clash.

 

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SOCIAL KICKABOUT

On Saturday morning at Plantain Road Oval (Korora), Northern Storm Football club will be holding a social kickabout, to be attended by Men's 1st Division, Men's 2nd Division, Youth League and Over 35's. Anybody who wishes to participate is encouraged to turn up at 9:00am for a 9:15am kickoff. We hope to see you all there. UPDATE: Our Men's 1st Division goalkeeper Brad Palmer has been given a three match suspension for dissent in the match against Coffs City United Lions. Youth League's goalkeeper Simon Ellis will be the most likely player to fill in for him during the time in which he is suspended, so all supporters are urged to come along to these games to give Simon some support and encouragement.

 

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RESULTS OF SECOND ROUND MATCHES

After the first round of matches were washed out (to be played on Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th June), the majority of second round fixtures went ahead last weekend.
The first match was at 8pm on Thursday night at the BCU International Stadium, where the Northern Storm Lightning Bolts Over 35s side earned a hard fought 2-2 draw against a well drilled Corindi side.
The Friday night Over 35s match was at 6:10pm between Northern Storm Thunderbolts and Sawtell Scorpions. Unfortunately the Thunderbolts went down 14-0 in a difficult encounter.On Saturday afternoon, the Men's 2nd Division side took on the Coffs City United Lions (winners of that division last season). The match was forfeited due to lack of numbers, but an informal game still went ahead with a number of players filling in for the side. The match was counted as a 3-0 loss by North Coast Football due to the forfeit, but the final score of the game was 7-1 to Coffs United. The match report can be found at the following page: http://www.northernstormfc.com/NorthernStorm/MatchReports.aspxAt 3pm on Saturday, the Women's 1st Division side, led by new coach Rob Manning, played the Coffs United Lionesses at Korora. They played well but lost 3-1 in another tough encounter. A full report of this match can be found at http://www.northernstormfc.com/NorthernStorm/MatchReports.aspx. Our Women's 2nd Division side also played against the Coffs United team, but lost 2-0. A lot of confidence should be taken out of these two matches which finished in respectable scorelines against some very tough opposition.
Sunday's play began in Korora at midday with the Youth League side taking on the Coffs United Lions team. The field had to be inspected before the game due to damage sustained overnight from car burnouts, which caused ruts up to 6 inches deep on the far side of the pitch. Thanks to Youth League coach Brett Ellis who had some fill-in handy on his work vehicle that he drove to the game, which allowed the game to be played and prevented last minute relocation to York Street. Many of the players from both sides had played for the Men's 2nd Division teams on the previous day, and some even featured in the Men's 1st Division match later on the same day. Northern Storm got off to a good start, but went into the break 3-0 down. They also began the second half strongly, scoring through a lucky collision between Nathan and the opposition keeper, but eventually went down 9-1.The weekend's matches culminated in the Men's 1st Division match, between Northern Storm Thunder and Coffs United Lions. Running on to the pitch to the sounds of AC/DC's electrifying 'Thunderstruck', the Storm looked threatening on a number of occasions in the first half. After going down relatively early to a contentious goal, the Storm fought hard and constructed some good passing play in the midfield. Coffs went into the break with a 1-0 lead, but the game was far from over. The Storm came out for the second half in inspired form, and although their comeback progress was slowed by a Coffs goal against the run of play, they had soon pegged the game back to 3-2 after a penalty scored by Evan Williams and a close range sliding finish by Doyle Clare. However, Northern Storm's first choice keeper Brad Palmer was sent off for dissent after a contentious decision by the referee to award Ben Mackay a goal after what appeared to be a handball, which put Coffs up 4-2. Simon Ellis was brought in as the replacement keeper after playing for the Youth League side earlier in the day, and unfortunately conceded two late goals which he could do nothing about. The final score of the match was 6-2 to Coffs, but the Storm played much better than the scoreline appears. A match report written by Rob Manning can be found at http://www.northernstormfc.com/NorthernStorm/MatchReports.aspx

 

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MATCHES FOR THIS WEEKEND

The Over 35's matches tonight (Thursday 16 April) and tomorrow night (Friday 17 April) are STILL ON as the BCU International Stadium has re-opened today. York Street was officially re-opened yesterday and Plantain Road playing fields have re-opened today. All home matches for the weekend will still be on, as well as matches at the following venues, which are also OPEN:

• Coronation Park - NambuccaDorrigo Playing Fields - Dorrigo
  Dairyville Road - Orara Valley
• Angourie Road - Yamba

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CLEAN UP DAY

The following announcement was recently posted on the North Coast Football website:

Given our frustration with the inclement weather last weekend please be aware that the only games from R1 that must be played are:

Men's 1st, Youth, 2nd division games
Women's 1st, 2nd and 3rd division games

These games are set down to be played on the first wet weather weekend 6th and 7th June however they can be played sooner if mutually agreeable by the clubs/teams involved. eg Some clubs have chosen to play on the Anzac day Sunday 26th April. Club officials: please let the NCF office and the referees know if you choose to play games outside of the designated dates on the fixture list.

The second wet weather weekend is on 1st and 2nd August, let's hope we don't need it.

All Junior games were cancelled last week and the round is now void. We will amend the draw to show the week that Junior games start for points. Games preceding that weekend will be treated as trial matches with no points awarded. These "non-comp points" games must still be played.

Fingers crossed for some dry weather and here's hoping that the frustrations of watching football only on the TV will soon pass.

Wishing you all a good and relaxing Easter. See you on the park soon?

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