Canberra Malayalees Reporter

Dear All,
Chaver Thomson scores the
only grand final goal, but chavers werent in luck and an
accidental self deflection ended up in their box and the match was
drawn. Samoothiris win the Inaugral 9 match Winter Series 3-2
(4 draws ). Rituals to follow at 'Toddy Nite'.

Thanks
.
Wrap up video (with sound):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzTcZ66FaTs

Although a lot of hands went
behind organising this, would like to especially thank

By sheer
coincidence although chavers had a better team on paper, the number of players
who could commit to 9 weeks wasnt looking good
after injuries. Thanks to Cicil
for his excellent coordination and ensuring that a full team was always
there which helped us a lot in travelling this far.Its going to be a great loss
to us when he leaves us. Also to Roshan for continuing
the team management job like a fish taking to water.


Santhosh for looking after the commuting arrangements of the sizeable 'Braddon
Boys' which again was vital in ensuring our
viability.


Stats

41
Goals

36 players played in
All played atleast 1 match.

5 wins , 4 draws
, 4 penalties


Awards

* Golden Boot -
Robin (12
goals in series)
* And by popular
nominations
o Best Player -
Rohith
o Best Defender - Anil
fernandez

* Awards will be presented at the onam community function this year.


Community
Soccer , Future
We would like to hand over the next years
soccer organising to Anil K, Anil F and Sagar. As we have seen with
cricket ,Rotation of organising and
captaincy responsibilities would ensure we gain wider acceptability in the years
to come.

As much as its important we rotate its equally important we
preserve the basic concepts behind our community events like kappa trophy ,
sports day,coconut trophy,winter series etc and use our creativity on making it
better as concepts only gain acceptability over years.


Accounts
Deficit : $70.00
TOtal Income :
$600.00 (30 x $20).
Total expense : $670.00

Casual Players only: If
you havent paid yet, pls let
me know if you are willing to pay $5
per game (max $10, meaning if u have played 3
games its still $10) and if you have taken jerseys pls pay addtional $10 for that so that we can
cover the deficit before closing accounts.


Whats Next
in concept creation...

* 2008-2009 Summer Beach Volley ball 7 match + final series
* Starts in December
* 3 teams
o Thrissur (Thrissur,Palakkad,Ernakulam
)
o Kollam (Idukki,Kottayam,Pathanamthitta, Kollam,Trivandrum
,Allapuzha)
o Kannur (Kasargod,Kannur,Wayanad,Kozhikode,
Malapuram).

* Star
Players to be balanced between teams irrespective of the team
guide.
* AFL type jerseys
* Season cost : $15-$20 includes jersey.


* Let Joshan
or Bijoy know if you would like to join organising
this.


Lessons we learnt..


Take a 2 week
break in between and publish dates early so that players can organise
family commitments around that.


One of our
biggest shortcomming has been not
being able to have drills and warm up
session and probably the reason why we had plenty of injuries.


Future
Suggestion: The ones who are interested can come 30 minutes earlier and go
through the joint drill +warm up run by someone senior like
Radhakrishnan Uncle etc
or technically sound generation next (Danny Williams
comes to mind) ..

We should try to avoid playing on the smaller fields as injuries rise while playing
here. A mistake on our part not to make all the 9 bookings together on field
8.

We landed upon the jersey colors blue and maroon by popular opinion,
but the good thing is these are also the colors that are easy to procure on demand as and whe n new players join, due to rugby season
being on at this time of the year. Pls try to preserve these colors for future
series jerseys.

We should
have published playing code which could have avoided some onfield
arguments eg: When foot rises about knee level to reach ball is it foul ? What
constitutes handball ? what is a foul throw ?



Finally a request to all non cricket playing members of the
playing group, pls try to come to the Annual AGM
next year so that we can elect organisers and discuss items and hear
views thats reflective of our broader sporting activities