AFL Youth Girls News
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Match Report Macquarie U14YG Div1 v Marouba Saints U14YG Div1 @ ELS Park Sunday 26 June 2022
This week the team was led out onto the field by Sami Zahra, Eliza McLeod and Lizzie Yates, all celebrating their 50th game for the Lane Cove Cats/Macquarie. This is quite an achievement and whilst Sami actually played her 50th game some time ago it was...
Match Report Macquarie U16YG v s Miranda Bombers U16YG @ Blackman Park Sunday 26 June 2022
This week the Cats were led out onto the field by Tipsy (aka Eloise Halloran) for her 50th game. Despite a pre-game shoe blowout for Ash (quickly remedied by Mick’s awesome taping skills), the girls were united in their desire to do Tipsy proud and to keep the...
50th game for Eloise Halloran
Sunday 19 June 2022, marked the 50th game in the blue and white hoops for Eloise Halloran. "Tipsy" is not a parent’s first choice of nickname for an 11 year old daughter, but given it emerges from her tendency to trip over at training and, apparently, "Tripsy" is too...
Match Report Macquarie U16YG vs Penshurst Panthers U16YG @ Blackman Park Sunday 19 June 2022
This week we celebrated the awesome Elin Ladmore’s 100th game for the Lane Cove Cats, now Macquarie (soon to be Macquarie Maggots if no one else throws their hat in the ring for the naming comp). Whilst the game against the Panthers was not as challenging as...
Elin Ladmore – 100 Games
On the 19th June, 2022, Elin Bridget Ladmore runs on to Blackman Park against the Penshurst Panthers for game 100 in the Cats' colours. In the seventy year history of the Mowbray Public School, there have no doubt been many great stories, but the greatest of them all...
Match Report Mac U16YG vs Moore Park Tigers u16yg @ Bat and Ball Park Sunday 5 june 2022
Barry’s Juniors was a middling cricket team in the late ‘80s that played in the social competition on the Moore Park cricket fields. Named for the scribe’s eldest god daughter (now 32 and kicking goals in NYC, thanks for asking), the team’s habit of inviting the...
Match Report Mac U16YG vs Southern Power U16yg Sunday 29th May 2022
If you are of the numpty variety that regularly reviews the U16YGs table, you will have noted in the past week our old friends, the Pittwater Tigers, have been re-graded midseason and moved up to Div 2. Evidently, they have been doing well in Div 3, with their...
Match Report Mac U16YG vs Glebe U16yg White Sunday 15th May 2022
Note to readers: this week’s match report is brief…my brain is still stuck in a loop trying to process the innumerable horizontal and vertical stripes out on the field! This week’s match was proof that cats and dogs love a good fight! Our Cats met their toughest...
Match Report MAC U16YG vs Moore Park Tigers Sunday 8th May 2022
This week’s game was a historic moment for the Lane Cove Cats. We celebrated the dynamic duo of Emma Byrne reaching her 100 game milestone and her awesome, dedicated dad, Greg! After a few words, hugs and tears, Emma led the girls through the Cats banner and onto the...
Emma Byrne Plays 100 Games for Lane Cove Cats
Emma Byrne – 100 Games The Cats running onto the field on the 24th April, 2022, marked not only the start of the 2022 season, but the 100th game in the blue and white hoops for Emma Olivia Byrne - the first woman to achieve that mark. As a youngster, Emma flirted with...
Match Report Round 4: Lane Cove Cats U16YG vs Miranda Bombers @ Waratah Oval Sunday 1st May 2022
Match Report Lane Cove Cats U16YG Round 4 v Miranda Bombers, Waratah Oval 1st May, 2022 The drive from Lane Cove to Miranda at the midpoint of the federal election campaign takes us through the full political colour spectrum; from the pastels of the lower north shore,...
Match Report Lane Cove Cats U16YG Round 3 vs Miranda Bombers Sunday 14th April
It is three hundred and twenty-two days since a chorus of “see you next week’s” after the Tiger’s game. Since then, we locked down for Delta, but no football – discovered Omicron is a letter of the Greek alphabet, but no football – flew to Europe with 15 people in the...