Presidents Message
Welcome to the 2012 season, we hope you all had a great break and are ready and raring to go for another year.
While many of you have been away pursuing other sports and interests we have had a change of committee and welcome aboard Daryl Stout as Treasurer and Scott Prickett as Junior Chairman, Keith has changed roles and is now Vice President and he will assist Scott in finding his feet. Liz Austin has taken a non committee role as Club Registrar and will oversee all registrations and Results Vault.
We are encouraging each chairman to have a sub committee to assist with the workload so if you are able to volunteer some time during the year please contact the relevant chair or the secretary Fiona. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our current volunteers (committee included) and all of our future volunteers because without you we could not run this wonderful club of ours.
On the field news
In the off season we have been busy preparing for the future, we putting together an application for the new Premier Club Competition in 2013. If successful this will mean lots of hard work behind the scenes but hopefully it will produce some entertaining and quality football on the field.
Late last year Football Brisbane announced Redlands United would be a part of the new competition the Diamond and Sapphire league replacing the old Premier League Women's comp. We are looking forward to more quality football from our ladies so try and get down to the club sometime and watch some of their games through the season.
We also welcome back our Tiny Tots/Squirts program for the under fives as well as our SSF teams U6 to U11 and the junior boys and girls including the JPL boys in competitions from U12 to U17. The juniors certainly set some high bench marks last year with Premierships and Grand Final wins so I'm sure every team will be striving to match this as well as having fun.
Redlands would like to introduce our second full time coach Matt Chandler. Matt and his family have moved from NZ to join our team and we welcome them to Redlands Untied and Australia.
Matt has coached at the highest levels in USA, New Zealand national league and in the UK with such teams as Wigan and Reading FC.
Matt's credentials include UFEA A level coaching license and UFEA Goalkeeping license. He has coached at national and world cup development team levels and his experience and wealth of knowledge will bring to Redlands a new enthusiasm and vision to our club in developing not only a top class premier squad but developing all of the talented youth who wish to progress onto a potential professional career.
Matt in his full time position will not only be head coach of the premier league side but also oversee the development of the reserve and premier youth teams. His commitment to developing young players has seen many of his players go on to represent at national and professional levels.
With Matt and Graham working hard we are sure you will see the club go from strength to strength over the next few years.
Around the Grounds
As most of you will have already experienced it our new lighting system is in place thanks to grants from the State Government and Redland City Council. We have also received additional funding for some smaller projects around the grounds:
- a new shed for all of our ground equipment
- an electronic scoreboard
- covers for some of our grandstands
- finally what was to be a deck in front of the clubhouse (red tape and cost blow outs) will now be a raised grassed viewing area. You will be able to sit back and enjoy a bite to eat and a drink while enjoying a great view of the game.
We hope you enjoy the season ahead and if you have any problems, ideas or comments please don’t hesitate to see us.
Yours in Football
Brett Austin
President
