PINES CLUB NOTES. Round 7. Pines v Seaford. 31 May 2014
A bad day for Steve Ryan’s Peninsula Interleague team last Sat v Geelong and all we can say is better luck next year. Your scribe was handballed a question recently. How many games of footy has Steve Ryan played (all time). You’ve come to the right place for the answer but it all depends on what is relevant. Firstly, Steve has played 377 senior games (seven club’s first 18) to date. He has also played 60 AFL reserves games and 52 AFL thirds games and you can add 6 Pines reserves games to that. It is not known if he has played any reserves games elsewhere. Adding these all together we get 495. Do I hear the magic number 500 mentioned? Interleague games cannot be added in as they are not considered to be club games. Some clubs think otherwise. It is archived that Gary Evans (Drom, Rose, Rye, Sorr and others) played 536 games (1964-89). This also was at mixed levels and grades. Seniors received a reality check v Bonbeach last round going from 10pts down at qtr time to 88pts down at the end. Young Josh Wilcox got his first snr game and teamed well with his bro Nick. Best; Matt Goodman, Harley Parker and Steve Taylor. Reserves couldn’t assert enough strength in another rugged game and flopped by 30pts. Best; Jean Bezzene, Matt Dyer and Gord Hendry. Another 20 goal defeat for our Thirds (10th) and it wasn’t by a highly placed team either but by ninth placed Bonbeach. Once again we had the team struggling to field a full side. Thank you to the u’16 lads who come along each week to help out. Best; Majok Puok (bro of Chotnyang (u’14) and Kuok (u’16), Bailey Burt (son of Ken) and Dean Berry (bro of Jake). Welcome to our neighbours Seaford for what some are calling ‘a rivalry round’ which is a link to the ‘rivalry luncheon’ being held today. Terry Daniher will talk. The Last Bud.