It was a glorious day for a lunchtime match at Erina’s centre of academia versus the dreaded Avoca. They rocked up seemingly fitter and younger than last year, whilst we rocked up in Brown’s Cow’s fashion and with some trepidation as our talisman, big Dave, was out following an injury he received whilst playing for the Kings. Read more
So there’s a couple of matches to tell you about, dear reader, but before we get into those Boy’s Own tales of sporting heroism, we must first pause and acknowledge with reluctance the retirement from the beautiful game of our long serving centre back Jason Horne. After putting his Herculean body on the line, often quite literally, repeatedly for us over the years, he has sadly now decided to hang up his boots. Read more
What a difference a week (and two players) makes. After going down 5-1 to South Ettalong in a fairly shambolic performance last week, Barnstoneworth turned up to Frost Reserve to find Andy and Tom Lynch available upfront. Read more
Welcome back chaps. Here we go again.
But before we get into it, may I respectfully request that you all assume the appropriate position, and sing the following lustily to the tune of your national anthem: Read more
After a pre-season that included four weeks of continuous rain, Barnstoneworth had some fitness work under their belts, but not much in the way of skills training, and no trial game, so it was something of a motley crew that turned up for the first game of the season. Read more
It was a game of 2 halves, The game of football was the winner – Hugh Jarse: a supporter narrative of the B South Vs B North Clash of the Titans.
Duffys Ground (Located in a run down rough area, do not travel in your car or wear nice clothes/watches – more atmosphere in a fish tank): I sat where Mark (former B Souths Manager) sat and it had a pungent smell of something very bitter. Perhaps a prelude to the game that was to unfold. Read more
With our 35A’s winning their Grand Final the previous weekend, the pressure was squarely on the Barnstoneworth 35BN team to follow that up and clinch the Premiers title to go with our League Championship, which saw us squaring off against Doyalson on the showpiece Pluim 1 pitch. Read more
The 2016 Over 35 A champions are Barnstoneworth. A hard fought game which could, and probably should, have been over in the first 30 minutes with Barnstoneworth hitting the woodwork and missing a penalty. Read more
Thanks to typhoon ‘Bruce’ lashing the Central Coast for 24 hours on Thursday and Friday, our Major Semi-Final versus Doyalson (DOY) was moved from ESACC to ‘glorious’ Ourimbah. Read more
After being rained off several weeks before, the match against East Gosford became D-grade’s final game for the season, having finished fifth in the competition.
As the team had been formed only the year before to play in F-grade, and was composed largely of non-soccer players Read more