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U16 YOUTH GIRLS GRAND FINAL – 4 September 2022
This is different. Six years ago, five girls played a game of AFL. Four years ago, the better part of Saturdays was spent calling around trying to get the numbers to avoid the forfeit. Two years ago, these Cats making it to the grand final in 3rd...
LANE cOVE CATS GRAND FINAL TEAMS
U12 Junior Girls v Willoughby Wildcats – 9.00amU16 Youth Girls v Glebe Greyhounds – 10.00am Sunday, 4 September 2022 GO CATS! Macquarie University FieldsCulloden RdNorth Ryde
LANE COVE CATS PRESENTATION DAY – 18 September 2022
10.30am - 12.00pm Sunday 18th September At The Diddy - Longueville Sporting Club, cnr Kenneth St &, River Rd W, Longueville NSW 2066 The Cats are celebrating the end of a great season and recognising players' achievements. Some great new developments with Blackman...
U16 YOUTH GIRLS PRELIMINARY FINAL – 28 AUGUST 2022
It is often noted that life is a matter of perspective and so, on Preliminary Final day, the scribe digs the deck chair out of the garage and positions with the great unwashed on the hill at Gore Hill Oval to take in the punter’s perspective of the game. It’s a...
U12 GIRLS PRELIMINARY FINAL – 28 AUGUST 2022
Prelim finals are said to be the toughest and best to watch and this contest between Manly and Cats U12 girls did not disappoint. Not long before the game, in fact a bit too close to the start, my son badgered me for a sausage from the renowned Pennant...
SCARLETT MOLITERNO – 50 GAMES!
This Sunday, the 28th August, 2022, Scarlett Moliterno will play her 50th game of AFL, wearing the famed blue and white hoops of the Cats. Scarlett started her sporting career on the square football pitches, but after a couple of years, the obsessive love of AFL of...
LANE COVE CATS PRESENTATION DAY
At The Diddy10.30amSunday 18th September The Cats are celebrating the end of a great season and recognising some of our players achievements. Some great new developments with Blackman to share on the day too.
MATCH REPORT MACQUARIE U16 YOUTH GIRLS – MAJOR SEMI-FINAL – SUNDAY 21 AUGUST 2022
The finals have arrived on a magnificent late winter Sydney day. Rounds 1 to 16 now irrelevant, four teams in it and all capable of a win. The Cats have earned second spot on the ladder, beaten more often by the rain than any opposition team this season...
U12 Youth Girls through to the Preliminary Final
Lane Cove Cats Youth Girls U12 team full of smiles after an impressive result yesterday against North West Lightening in the first finals game. Playing Manly next week. Wish us luck. Lane Cove Cats victorious U12 Youth Girls' team.
LEXI WHOWELL – 50 GAMES!
Sunday 1st May, marked the 50th AFL junior game for Alexandra Whowell, properly considered a founding sister of the blue and white hoops. It is entirely appropriate that Mayday marked the 50th for one of the best organised and hardest working members of the Lane Cove...
ISSY BATE – 50 GAMES!
It was a cold winter morning at Auskick back in 2017 when the head coach asked if any girls were interested in playing with the older u10 girls team. I almost choked on my second sausage when Isabel was the only player who raised a hand. It was a moment of reckoning,...
LAST ROUND DONE AND DUSTED – WHAT’S NEXT?
Hi all, That’s the last game of the season completed and now there are more games to be played and volunteers needed at various fund-raising events. Finals for a some of our Lane Cove Cats teamsFundraising events for the club for which we need many volunteers:Hosted...
MATCH REPORT MACQUARIE U16 YOUTH GIRLS – SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2022
Sunday 14 August 2022 was a celebration of the 50th AFL game for our much loved Charlotte Armstrong, aka ‘ARMO’. It was much more than a celebration of footy. Thanks to the poetic genius of our favourite team scribe ‘Micko’, with the ‘Ode to Armo’ in mind, we gathered...
MATCH REPORT LANE COVE CATS BOYS U10 HAWKINS – SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2022
That is it folks. As we come to the end of another successful AFL season it’s time to reflect on the performance that was for Team Hawkins U10. While the early rounds were marred by the incessant rain, the anticipated Covid related disruptions thankfully didn’t...
MATCH REPORT LANE COVE CATS BOYS U11 DIV 1 – SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2022
As luck would have it our last game of the season was the earliest and longest way. The drive along Wakehurst Parkway allowed for some time for team reflection on what an amazing season the boys have had. We still needed to take care of business one more time to...
MATCH REPORT LANE COVE CATS BOYS U11 DUNCAN – SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2022
Lane Cove U11 Duncan Vs Manly Bombers U11 Div 3 Wow! What a way to finish the season, with a big win over the Manly Bombers at North Curl Curl. It was just desserts for the toil and hard work our boys have been putting in training and playing some pretty tough...
MATCH REPORT MACQUARIE U14 YOUTH GIRLS DIV 3 – SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2022
Our girls are strong, determined and willing to give everything a crack! After receiving some helpful pointers from Leon Cameron today, the girls dug deep to match the Pittwater Tigers level!Decked out in the Canada Bay Cannons jerseys for today’s game (to...
MATCH REPORT LANE COVE CATS BOYS U12 DIV 3 – SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2022
U12-3 Manly Bombers 11.7.73 def LCC 0.4.4 After an impressive 2022 campaign, our Lane Cove Cats finished the season with a much-improved six wins, challenging for the top 4 but just missing finals in fifth place. Whilst “mathematically possible” to reach fourth spot,...
MATCH REPORT LANE COVE CATS BOYS U9 DUNCAN – SUNDAY 14 AUGUST 2022
Wow, what a season, hard to believe it's finished already! The progression and growth of the team over the year has been great to see, we've got a really good bunch of kids in the team, and they have been a joy to coach. We came up against a really good opponent...
THE MONTH AHEAD
This Sunday is the last competition round before the finals. Good luck to all the teams vying for the finals and thanks to all players, coaches and parents for the season so far. We have a couple of events coming up that for which we need volunteers to make...
MATCH REPORT LANE COVE CATS BOYS U11 DIV 1 – SUNDAY 7 AUGUST 2022
A week is a long time in football and today’s ‘Leafy Suburb Cup’ between Lane Cove and St Ives at Acron Oval was widely anticipated. After some unfortunate last minute changes to the team, the Cats won the toss and kicked with a slight breeze that would have made...
GOOD FOR FOOTY RAFFLE – FUNDRAISER
Hi All, In 2022, we are getting close to see which team will raise the most money via ticket sales in the Toyota Good for Footy Raffle. We have set up individual links that will track the sales for each team. Please send these around to your team and promote them as...
MATCH REPORT LANE COVE CATS BOYS U12 DIV 2 – SUNDAY 7 AUGUST 2022
The U12 Div2 Cats’ season continues from strength to strength as the team ground out a 3 point victory over the Balgowlah Suns. The Cats needed a win to stay in touch with the top 4, with the fifth placed Suns determined to take our place in the top four. The first...
CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG (ARMO) – 50 GAMES!
Ode to Armo Where the South West slopes meet the RiverinaThere’s a little place named HentyEach generation sends their brightest offSo the family may have plentyOne young woman to study at WaggaThe model student incarnateShe meets a boy of the Armstrong clanThe...