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Had the privilege of attending the SANFL Coach Awards dinner last night and thought I'd post the winners;

COUNTRY ZONE COACH OF THE YEAR AWARDS

Central: Tony Linke - Nuriootpa Rovers U15's
Glenelg: Brad Richardson - Naracoorte A Grade
North Adelaide: Ashleigh Dunkeley & Peter Combe - Lions FC Senior Colts
Norwood: Brett James - Kersbrook A Grade
Port Adelaide: Richard Horgan - Tumby Bay A Grade
South Adelaide: Damien Smith - Myponga Sellicks Senior Colts
Sturt: Tony Martin - Tailem Bend U17's
West Adelaide: Steve Smith - Loxton A Grade
Woodville West Torrens: David Gameau - Two Wells U14's

METRO ZONE COACH OF THE YEAR AWARDS

Central: Eugene Warrior - Salisbury North U18's
Glenelg: Paul Sandercock - SHOC Div 1 A Grade
North Adelaide: Scott Leal - Broadview A Grade
Norwood: Garry McIntosh - Payneham Norwood Union A Grade & U14's
Port Adelaide: Sean Nolan - Port Districts U18's
South Adelaide: Adam McKay - Port Noarlunga U16's
Sturt: Luke Norman - Sturt League SANFL
West Adelaide: Trent Mills - Goodwood Saints A Grade
Woodville West Torrens: Craig Smith - Woodville West Torrens U16's

AUSKICK COACH OF THE YEAR

Metro

Terry Taylor - Flagstaff Hill FC

Country

Steve Inglis - Loxton North

SAFSA PRIMARY COACH OF THE YEAR

Mark Janssan - Highbury Primary School Yr 4/5

ISSA COACH OF THE YEAR

Open Age

Paul Hoare - Westminster

Primary

Mark Kozned - St Peteres Wodlands Yr 4/5

FEMALE COACH OF THE YEAR

Wendy Russo - Salisbury North U11

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE COACH OF THE YEAR

Ian Cox - Glenelg

U16 Talent Coach

David Oatey - Norwood

Development Squad

Andrew Nitschke - Glenelg (Millicent)

SANFL LEAGUE COACH OF THE YEAR

Mark Mickan

SERVICE TO COACHING / EDUCATION

David Earl & Ron Fuller

SJABC wrote:AUSKICK COACH OF THE YEAR

Metro

Terry Taylor - Flagstaff Hill FC

Thanks for posting Jab. Some interesting names there.

Great to see Terry get some recognition, my son has been at Flaggy for Auskick the last 2 years and Terry is like the pied piper out there, the kids love him

Congrats to all the winners, well done...

I would have thought that the SANFL coach of the year would be the Premiership coach, but well done to Rubbers nonetheless...

Dutchy wrote:

SJABC wrote:AUSKICK COACH OF THE YEAR

Metro

Terry Taylor - Flagstaff Hill FC

Thanks for posting Jab. Some interesting names there.

Great to see Terry get some recognition, my son has been at Flaggy for Auskick the last 2 years and Terry is like the pied piper out there, the kids love him

Quote from FHFC President in this weeks email newsletter:
"Terry Taylor is our current Auskick Coaordinator and has been for several years. Prior to that though he has been the father of 4 Flaggies footballers and coached at almost every level inside and outside the Club over an outstanding 20 plus years footy career.

Congratulations Terry...anyone who knows you understands that you truly deserve this recognition. Another Falcon high achiever."

I too rate Terry as one of my favourite people. He's a Fantastic Clubman and bloke

Big Phil wrote:I would have thought that the SANFL coach of the year would be the Premiership coach, but well done to Rubbers nonetheless...

It's voted by the other SANFL coached for the minor season. Trust me the way Rubbers spoke he felt very uneasy in accepting the award.

SJABC wrote:

Big Phil wrote:I would have thought that the SANFL coach of the year would be the Premiership coach, but well done to Rubbers nonetheless...

It's voted by the other SANFL coached for the minor season. Trust me the way Rubbers spoke he felt very uneasy in accepting the award.

Fair enough Jabber, on both points...

Congrats to all Coaches that won an award

mickan coach of the year you got to be kidding he couldnt coach a dog to piss on a tree,in reality the dogs made him sh*t his pants all those awards should be voted for when the season has finished.

You forgot to mention the coach of the decade Roy Laird, 6 time premiership coach

All jokes a side and no disrespect to Mark Mickan but the SANFL LEAGUE COACH OF THE YEAR at this level must be the premiership coach. It saves some embarrassing moments when someone like Mark has to accept an award, which he knows his team fell over at the most critical time of the year and didn’t even get to the big dance.

what about the metropolitan coach of the year
Every league club nominated suburban heroes apart from sturt who nominated norman

May be they didnt quite understand the concept

Yeah, bit sad Sturt just nominated their bloke. Good on the 7 clubs who nominated someone from outside their club. Sturt and WWT should be embarassed they used this for a bit of self promotion.

Grahaml wrote:Yeah, bit sad Sturt just nominated their bloke. Good on the 7 clubs who nominated someone from outside their club. Sturt and WWT should be embarassed they used this for a bit of self promotion.

The irony is that Mark is in the minority of SANFL coaches who actually voted for Roy Laird.

cje wrote:mickan coach of the year you got to be kidding he couldnt coach a dog to piss on a tree,in reality the dogs made him sh*t his pants all those awards should be voted for when the season has finished.

oh dear!

Grahaml wrote:Yeah, bit sad Sturt just nominated their bloke. Good on the 7 clubs who nominated someone from outside their club. Sturt and WWT should be embarassed they used this for a bit of self promotion.

In Sturts defence I think they only have three clubs in their metro zone IIRC, Scotch OC, Unley and Mitcham so a lack of coaches to give awards to really. Mind you perhaps the Mitcham coach deserved it given they avoided the drop straight out of Div 3 which is what usually happens to Div 4 sides coming up.

However given the number of clubs I can't for the life of me work out how the Eagles couldn't find a coach in their zone worthy of recognition other than one of their own.

am Bays wrote:

Grahaml wrote:Yeah, bit sad Sturt just nominated their bloke. Good on the 7 clubs who nominated someone from outside their club. Sturt and WWT should be embarassed they used this for a bit of self promotion.

The irony is that Mark is in the minority of SANFL coaches who actually voted for Roy Laird.

Fair enough as well, of course he wouldn't have voted for himself...

Now knowing the award was voted on by the peers of the coaches and only done for the minor round, I can understand how Rubbers was the winner. Minor Premier is deserving of having their coach awarded, at the end of the day I can see why other coaches voted for him and not Roy Laird as a majority.

I think you'll find Mitcham Hawks are in West Adelaide zone.

EAGLES wrote:what about the metropolitan coach of the year
Every league club nominated suburban heroes apart from sturt who nominated norman

May be they didnt quite understand the concept

You may want to take another look because your mob has done exactly the same thing. So under your thinking maybe they didnt grasp the concept either.

How long has this awards night been going on for? I had a look on here and on the SANFL website for previous results and couldn't find anything.

Musn't be that important either considering it's not on the SANFL website. (Watch it be announced on there tomorrow)

spell_check wrote:How long has this awards night been going on for? I had a look on here and on the SANFL website for previous results and couldn't find anything.

Musn't be that important either considering it's not on the SANFL website. (Watch it be announced on there tomorrow)

Over fifteen years
Is a big night for state football
All clubs well represented by players and coaches

The a f l clubs are there as well

Ok, thanks for that.