The Curra Swans Australian Football Club is seeking expressions of interest for the Senior Coaching position for season 2013. The Club also requires coaches for the following grades, Reserves, Colts, U16, U14, U12 and U10.
The Curra Swans outscored the Hawks by 31 points in the second half to record a hard fough 14 point win in their Round 1 AFL Townsville RMS Premiership clash on Saturday.
The Clubs Jumper Presentation
The Club’s Jumper Presentation day this Sunday has been postpone until further notice.
Congratulations to John Macanash in being selected in the final 25 of the Gold Coast SUNS under 18s Academy side to play the Brisbane Lions Academy side this coming Sunday in Brisbane.
Curra Swans Football Club Sign On Day, Muldoon Oval, Sunday 5th February, starting at 10am
The Curra Swans Football Club has launched a 100 Club for 2012. One hundred tickets available, $100 a ticket.
Any business interested in buying a ticket can contact Peter Busch on 0408 923756
Thursday's training for the Senior playing group will be at Rowes Bay.
Meeting point is the first carpark over the bridge near the caravan park at 5.30pm
Curra Swans senior training has began in preparation for the 2012 season.
Under the guidance of new coach Mark Chambers the Swans have had good numbers on the paddock so far.
ANTONY STEWART | December 28th, 2011
AN admission of a "huge learning curve" ahead hasn't stopped Mark Chambers from predicting big things for Curra in 2012.
The Curra Swans Football Club is excited to announce the appointment of Mark Chambers (Chinny) to the Senior coaching role for the 2012 season.
Curra Swans ruckman Josh Hall was today drafted with the Gold Coast Suns by way of the 2011 AFL Rookie Draft.
ANTONY STEWART | December 13th, 2011
HE'S trained with idol Karmichael Hunt and shopped with Gary Ablett, but today Josh Hall will find out if his dream has come true.
AFL 9s will be starting on Sunday 27th November at 1pm at Curra Swans Football Club.
The Curra Swans Football Club AGM is set down for Saturday 26th November. The meeting will be held at the Clubhouse at Muldoon Oval from 11am.
Come and celebrate the onset of the festive season at Muldoon Oval with our Xmas and end of year celebration culminating with a Family Trivia Night.
This years Poker Night at the Mad Cow Tavern is on Saturday 12th November.
Adam McDonald capped off a remarkable season for the Swans by easily winning the Clubs highest award at the clubhouse on Saturday night
The Curra Swans Colts side have won the Farley Cup with a hard fought 22 point win over the Bulldogs in the 2011 decider.
Curra Swans rover Adam McDonald capped off a remarkable day on Sunday by taking out the W. J. Williams Medal for the Leagues Best & Fairest Player.
ULTRA-TALENTED Townsville athlete Josh Hall has turned his back on his Olympic dream to chase the AFL big time.
Adam McDonald has taken out the 2011 Darren Hoare Players Player Award after all the votes were counted at the Swans clubhouse on Sunday.
The Curra Swans 2011 season came to a heartbreaking end with a 6 point loss to Hermit Park in the Preliminary Final at Tony Ireland Stadium on Saturday.
Who ever was there on Sept, 3rd at TIS for the big one witnessed one of the best games seen in Townsville,
ANDREW ALOIA | September 3rd, 2011
TOWNSVILLE BULLETIN
IT is the big example set by the smallest of Swans that Curra captain Blair Hill says must be followed in today's preliminary final against Hermit Park.
The Curra Swans will head into next Saturday’s Preliminary final showdown with Hermit Park full of confidence.
Wayward kicking again cost the Swans any chance of winning in a disappointing 16 point loss to the Tigers at Neil French Oval on Saturday.
The Curra Swans Colts overcame a determined Bulldogs outfit in the first half to book a place in the Grand final and a weeks rest with a scintillating second half in the Farley Cup 2nd Semi final at Tony Ireland Stadium on Wednesday night.
The Swans returned to the winners list this week with their first win since round 14.
The Curra Swans lost the A grade but won the Eric Johns Cup,such was the mixed emotions at Muldoon Oval on Saturday.
It has taken 7 attempts but the Cup is finally in the Swans Clubhouse.
Due to the rescheduling of the Colts game to Wednesday night there has been some changes to the starting times of this weeks games at Muldoon Oval.
Rivals Prepare For Annual Clash Swans V Tigers. Eric Johns Cup Its Eric Johns cup day this weekend where the Swans and Tigers square off in all age groups to battle it out for the Eric Johns Cup.
The Curra Swans gave up a 3 goal three quarter time lead against competition frontrunners, the Thuringowa Bulldogs to lose by 23 points at Tony Ireland Stadium on Saturday.
Sunday 31st July and the Bear came out of hibernation
The Curra Swans Football Club would like to encourage all players and supporters to wear something yellow to the football this weekend in support of the Bulldogs hosting of Call To Arms Day at Tony Ireland Stadium.
The Curra Swans gave up a 3 goal lead early in the last quarter to be pipped at the post by the barest of margins by arch rivals Hermit Park at Neil French Oval last Saturday.
ANDREW ALOIA | July 23rd, 2011
GET to the grand final and I'll be there. That is the impassioned message from Curra captain Steven Taylor as he faces a lengthy recovery from a shoulder injury.
Saturday’s AFL match in Cairns between Gold Coast and Richmond severely depleted the Swans playing stocks for the clash with ladder leaders Thuringowa Bulldogs on Saturday.
Former Swans player and Hermit Park key forward Keith Roberts vowed to rain goals upon his former club in the recent round 14 clash between the Swans and the Tigers. Rain goals it did but unfortunately for Roberts the rain was coming the other way.
The Curra Swans Football Club fully support AFL Townsville's Social Networking Policy. Any Curra Swans member brought before the AFL Townsville Tribunual may also face action from the Club.
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ANTONY STEWART | July 4th, 2011
HOT prospect Josh Hall once again proved why the AFL world is buzzing about his emergence on Saturday.
Swans midfielder Maslin Braun showed his versatility by kicking 5 majors when moved up forward to inspire the Swans to a comfortable 37 point win over the university Hawks on Saturday.
The Swans only managed 2 behinds in the third quarter to gift hermit Park another 40 point victory.
For the first time in many seasons the Curra Swans have secured back to back wins after easily accounting for the University Hawks at Muldoon Oval on Saturday.
The Bear who has been in hibernation came out for the big netball challenge
ANTONY STEWART | May 27th, 2011
Townsville Bulletin
OLYMPIC hopeful Josh Hall may soon be readying for the biggest leap of his career - and there's not a high jump mat in sight.
Sixteen hundred dollars will up for grabs in this years Reverse Raffle.
For all the details click on social calendar
ANTONY STEWART | May 23rd, 2011
THE Curra Swans have officially stamped themselves as the real deal in 2011.
After smashing defending AFL Townsville champions.......
From Club President, Peter Johnson
It doesn’t seem that long ago when we wondered when we would see some footy. Three weeks in and its full steam ahead.
Round 8 of the AFL Premiership on the week end of the 13th to the 15th of May has been ear marked as the “THANKS UMP” Round
The Curra Swans got off to a flying start with a 5 goal to 1 first quarter on their way to their first ever Seniors win at Tony Ireland Stadium.
The Swans downed the Hawks to record their first ever win at Tony Ireland Stadium on the weekend.
Read the Bear's match report for more details.
The Bear squatted down on his furry behind to watch the first game of the season.
A new season, new hopes, you beauty. So what happened?
Match Report from "The Bear"
Footy is finally back on the agenda this weekend with the Troy Williams “ Thee Good Guys” Blitz at Tony Ireland Stadium.
The Curra Swans senior playing group including the Under 18 squad have a team meeting on Saturday 26th March in the function room at Tony Ireland Stadium.
This years jumper presentation was held at Rydges Southbank and was a great success. A great venue and a full house set the perfect setting for a well organised and ran function.
The venue and the professionalism in which the function was ran sent out a clear message things have changed at the Swans.
Seniors and Under 18 training this Thursday will be at the touch football fields in North Ward.
Under 16 training will be at Sheriifs Park
The Curra Swans Football club would like to invite all players, partners, family and friends to attend the 2011 Jumper Presentation on the 20th of March.
The working bee, trial game and bbq for Saturday 212th March has been cancelled.
Training for seniors and Under 18 returns to Muldoon Oval this week on Tuesday and Thursday
Training for all Senior and Under 18 players this week will be at Riverways outside oval on Wednesday night 5.30pm and The Strand rockpooll on Friday night at 5.30pm
Players are asked to bring boots, runners and towels to both sessions.
Some footy was played along with some water polo, swimming and skiing.
The Curra Swans took the 4 hour drive north to Cairns on Saturday and returned home with a gutsy victory in their bags.
In a match played in atrocious conditions the Swans shoed some real fight to outgun their northern hosts.
Junior News from Vice President, Bob Hillier
Welcome to 2011 season.
The year has started wet. Now nobody needs to be told that, but you can see why we mention it with the length of the grass and the water lying around.
Coaches report from Senior Coach, Peter Young
This year’s training is going very well at the moment. Currently the boys are training two nights per week at Muldoon Oval
It’s been a long hot and very wet summer and for footy tragics like myself the season can’t start soon enough.
Due to the condition of Muldoon Oval the Seniors, Reserves and Under 18 training has been moved for next week
Curra Swans upcoming trial game against South Cairns has been shifted to the Cutters home ground Fretwell Park.
Due to unforseen cicumstance there has had to be some changes to the Curra swans Auskick program.
click on the Auskick tab for full details
The South Cairns Cutters will travel to Townsville to take on the Swans in a practice match on 26th Feb
Due to the effects of cyclone Yasi the Club has rescheduled the sign on day for this Sunday
Masters sign on and first training run is this Sunday at Strand Park 10am
Training will return to Muldoon Oval as of Thursday 27th January.
Due to the saturation of Muldoon Oval thanks to Townsvilles extended wet season training has been moved to Snellham St Rosslea untill further notice.
Sign on day for all grades is on Sunday 6th February at Muldoon Oval starting at 11.00am
Training resumes for Curra Swans the seniors, reseres and under 18 squads on Tuesday 18th of January.
Two training sessions into the pre Christmas training period and things are looking positive out at Muldoon Oval.
Training for the Swans has been switched to Tuesday nights starting at 5.30pm
On Sunday Aug 9th one of Curra Swans favourite sons lost his life prematurely. Darren Hoare played in the Swans premiership sides of ’97 and ’98
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