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November update 2024

Pre-season has commenced for several of our squads, with our senior men, senior women, U18 boys, U14 boys and U16 girls all having completed one or more sessions to prepare for 2025. Our senior men’s squad has seen a bit of turnover from last season. Several of our older and/or established players have moved to other clubs, mostly other leagues in the Geelong area but in some cases to clubs outside the Barwon region. We are particularly encouraged by the new faces in our squad, with around 18

Sat 30 Nov 2024

October update 2024

LSC Football Section held our Annual General Meeting on the 22nd of October in the club’s netball pavilion. Our Chairman, Treasurer and Manager of Junior Programs all provided summary reports for the year, with the highlights being a small operating profit for the 2024 season after taking into account a couple of extraordinary items, and a 15 percent YoY rise in junior participation excluding Auskick, which sees us approach but not yet return to Pre-COVID numbers.

Thu 31 Oct 2024

August update 2024

Saturday 31 August sees us move closer to the end of 2024 season.

Fri 25 Oct 2024

September update 2024

The season is now done and dusted, with all grades decided for 2024. Unfortunately for our Lara U18 boys, Grovedale proved too strong in the Div 2 GF, pulling away throughout the game to take the flag. Nevertheless,our young blokes fought it out to the end, showcasing the talent we have coming through into the senior program in the next couple of years. And congratulations to Leopold FNC and Grovedale FNC for winning the senior men’s and Div 1 senior women’s premierships respectively.

Mon 30 Sep 2024

July update 2024

This month has seen our annual Ladies Day been held with 140 ladies attending. Such a fun filled day with much needed funds raised for the BCNA. Congratulations to all of those involved in organising a great day and we look forward to next years already

Wed 31 Jul 2024

June update 2024

Last Saturday night saw the Football and Netball Sections hold our joint Winter Ball in the Captain’s Room at GMHBA Stadium. We’re sure everyone who came along had a fabulous night of wining, dining and dancing. Ticket sales were very strong with over 170 people attending, proving that holding events in town seems to be a popular move. The room had a great view over the ground, just to top it off. And our short but sharp auction of 4 items, along with the raffle, raised nearly $7,000

Sun 30 Jun 2024

May update 2024

This week will see LSC and Sections conduct an inspection of the Oval 3 pavilion with CoGG representatives. Like us, we’re sure many of you will have seen the ongoing progress with the building since mid-2023 with a mix of interest and anticipation. The wait is almost over, with the handover due incoming days. This initiative will provide the Football section with an unrivalled capability for the Barwon region, providing three competition ovals at the one facility.

Fri 31 May 2024

April update 2024

All sides are now engaged in the 2024 season. Our senior women are 3 games in, our senior men 2 games in, and our junior boys and girls also having played 1 or 2 grading rounds. We’ve seen some great results so far, with many sides recording wins along the way.

Tue 30 Apr 2024

March update 2024

Auskick will start on May 3rd. Scan the code to register

Sun 31 Mar 2024

February Update 2024

With the 2024 season looming even closer, we have seen most teams across the club return to training during February. Numbers are looking quite healthy in most junior age groups, which is both encouraging and exciting with our new Oval 3 facility due for completion soon Many of our members will have noticed the Oval 3 pavilion progressing since works began in the middle of 2023. Club representatives had a guided tour a few weeks ago and we can say it is an impressive buildin

Thu 29 Feb 2024

January update 2024

We hope all LSC Football members,supporters, players, coaches, staff and volunteers had a great Christmas and new year season. Your football club senior and junior committees continue preparations for 2024. As usual, this is among our busiest times, organising players, coaches and volunteers for the many teams we expect to field across boys and girls, and men’s and women’s competitions, along with the planning that goes into the season. We expect to have good numbers again this year, but alw

Wed 31 Jan 2024

December update 2023

Since our last newsletter, your Club committee and volunteers have been busy attending to important off-season tasks. Our first round will be here before we know it! While our club strategy is to build a sustainable and successful future through our junior programs, we must also periodically recruit players into our senior squad to add necessary capabilities we cannot fill immediately from within. Our senior coaching and management panel have been busy identifying suitable talent and have su

Sun 31 Dec 2023

November update 2023

COACHING ANNOUNCEMENTS The LFNC is excited to announce the appointment of Eliza Wilson-McDonald as playing/coach for our Senior Women’s football team in 2024. Her passion in football has seen her play over 100 games stemming from her Junior years at Mount Martha, Mornington Football Netball Club, VFLW Coates Talent League U18 - Dandenong Stingrays, Lara Senior Womens & Geelong Cats VFLW just to name a few. Eliza is super excited to be a part of a bright future here at Lara for our senior wome

Thu 30 Nov 2023

October update 2023

With the end of season 2023, we are busy off field with recruiting and re-signing of players Our senior presentation night was held on Thursday 28th September with a full house of players, committee members and supporters. A wonderful night was held at the Sporting Club and some very well deserved award winners. Matt Trethowan was awarded the Bernie Walker Most Exemplary person award. Matt has committed so much time over the years looking after our players and making sure they get on the fiel

Tue 31 Oct 2023

September update 2023

The Football Section hosted the junior boys grand finals for U/16 and U/14 age groups at Bisinella Oval on the weekend of 2-3 September. It was a huge couple of days with massive crowds and a carnival atmosphere, and saw our hospitality areas remain busy from the first game to the last. Everything ran smoothly thanks to the planning by the preparation sub-committee along with a healthy sized group of volunteers who rotated through across the weekend.Congratulations to our sub-committee for their

Sat 30 Sep 2023

August Update 2023

The home and away season is done for all age groups and divisions.

Thu 31 Aug 2023

July update 2023

We are now well and truly into the back end of the home and away season, with a handful of games left in the junior and senior female competitions, and 5 games left for the senior and reserve men. In terrific news for the club, over the last few days we announced that we have re-signed our senior co-coaches, Devon Smith and Shayne Stone, to stay at the helm for 2024. It is a significant show of faith by both of them in the club and playing group. Congratulations and thanks to both of them.

Mon 31 Jul 2023

June update 2023

Our senior men’s side remains on 2 wins so far this season as the GFL heads into this week’s bye. We’ve played some good sides over the last few weeks and have seen the standard we need to reach to climb the ladder. Our reserves side is also battling away in search of their next win. We have had some bright news with milestones among senior and reserves players in recent weeks, including Dylan Jose (100 games), Daniel Weigl (100 games) and Sam Purdy (50 games).

Fri 30 Jun 2023