Return to Football
Michael Thomas
Good morning Suns!
I trust you and your family have all been well, and have made it through COVID 19 relatively unscathed.
Well, it looks as if we might be gearing up to a return to Footy.
The Andrews Government announced on Sunday that Junior Sport could commence contact training from Monday 22nd June. This is one announcement that AFL Barwon has been waiting on, as they prepare to move towards announcing a scheduled season of Junior Football in our region. The other thing that needs to happen from their point of view, is relating to spectator numbers on, and around the grounds.
As it currently stands, and should all go well, AFL Barwon are aiming towards a start date of August 1st and a season that will run through until late September. Due to Senior Football being cancelled for 2020, there is now more ground availability and therefore more opportunity for our kids to build a season that would run later than in other years.
Obviously this is beyond the control of any of us at Surf Coast Suns, but what is within our control is announcing a return to training for our youngsters.
We deliberately didn’t kick things off too quickly as there is a constant flow of information being fed to us, that we all need to get our heads around particularly in relation to safety of our players and volunteers. We need to have a COVID 19 officer, a player attendance register set up for each and every training session, as well as strict sanitation protocol before and after each training session. Protocols that we at the Surf Coast Suns cannot take too lightly.
We are aware that other clubs have commenced training already, but we thought it best to give families a chance to settle back in to the school year, and our new routines before throwing footy in to the mix. Also we wanted to collect as much information as is available to us from AFL Barwon rather than send out small amounts of potentially conflicting and confusing information to our Suns Community.
We will send out a further email shortly that is specific to each age group relating to start dates for training.
Looking forward to seeing you all soon.
Go Suns!