Majura on Facebook - join and assist the social football experiment

in clubland we're investigating how our football club, football family can communicate better, and move our club forward.

No easy task - 1200 players, 3,000 parents and many other helpers.

Will it work?

Here's the latest - be sure and join and support grassroots football in Australia.
We aim to link all our web stories, tweets (including result) right thru to the Facebook site automatically.

Next stage? To find out what our members would like to see changed and improved - then see if we can do some or any of those things!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Majura-Football-Club-Official-Club-Page/214854585196712

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Henwood Park Club makes the switch

Henwood Park Football Club used to be known as Henwood Park Soccer Club. The Wagga Wagga (NSW) club has decided like so many other clubs that it is time to change its' name to football.

Well done Henwood Park.

A minor name change. But symbolic of our changing place in Australian society. And part of the growing number of junior and senior clubs across Australia who feel they want to change their name.

Has your club made the switch yet? Why not?

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For the love of the game

Bill, I met him twenty years ago when I first arrived in Australia.

Back then he was playing in the Independent Inner North Mixed Social comp at the local gym on a Monday night. A Long season, and a Short season and a few weeks break in between. Basically twelve months non-stop football.

Anyway Bill had babies, you know what I mean, and around the age of 40 he stopped playing. Too hard, kids too young, and the creaking knees.

Well at the age of 49 Bill is back, after a seven year break. Filled in to do a favour occasionally but this season he is the man. Every week, every Monday lust like in his late twenties!

"I'm a good goalie, well not bad. But I let two in the other night in the first minute, the captain swapped himself with me. There was no way it was my fault, the shots were just too hard. Anyway we lost 8-2 and the captain let in the rest, "smiled Bill

Why do we come back for one more game! Why do we still want to be blameless in defeat, or valued on the team?

Well, anyway good luck Bill, here's hoping you make it to 50, just like Sir Stanley Matthews, and yes Bill, you're shorts are as long as his but that's okay, coz the fashion has caught up with you.

Bill assures me there is at least one guy older than him in the comp.

You're just never too old to play some level of football are you?

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