Quick Kicks: The explosive local footy exchange among all the local footy goss

A local footy club coach’s testy relationship with his president reached boiling point, while a legendary forward’s hot form ended with a bang — the wrong sort. It’s all in the latest Quick Kicks column...

Quick Kicks is a look at the lighter side of local footy. (Photo by Josh Chadwick)

The tension is building.

It’s the time to recruit, re-sign, celebrate season’s end and — for one coach — head to the carpark.

Here at Quick Kicks we look at the lighter side of local footy.

Whether it be a funny exchange, a good stat or an action that’s laughed about after the game — it’s all here.

CARPARK?

We knew things weren’t going well between a country club president and coach before the coach’s recent resignation.

But a text exchange between the pair (read to us this week) underlines the animosity between them, with each accusing the other of being awful at their jobs and bringing the club down.

It got so heated that the coach offered to meet the prez in the carpark after a Tuesday night training session to “sort out this bullshit once and for all’’.

The president declined the invitation, but he did take another little jab at the coach, saying if his fighting was as bad as his coaching, there would need to be an ambulance on standby.

We’ve been told things kicked off badly between them when the president stuck his nose into selection and persisted in trying to have one of his mate’s sons picked in the ones. Trouble is, the lad isn’t much of a player. Footy clubs, hey?

Mornington legend Simon Goosey. Picture: Colleen Petch.

OUCH!

Simon Goosey’s blazing form has come to a painful end. The legendary full-forward ruptured his achilles tendon playing for Peninsula Raiders in superules Over 50s last Sunday. The Goose had kicked bags of 7, 10, 9 and 8 in a stunning return to footy this season. How’d he do it? The great man was walking backwards to the goal square when it went “bang’’, and he hit the deck. First on the scene was the goal umpire who declared: “I heard that. Don’t move.’’ He was booked in for surgery on Wednesday.

LOCKED IN

Funny story from a footy club’s end-of-season function last week. They’re still baffled how a club stalwart managed to lock himself in the men’s toilets, given that the padlock was on the outside of the door. A search party eventually freed him.

‘CAN’T, SORRY MATE’

There was a bit of lip-service delivered in a Southern league match last weekend. But the loudest talker, a forward, was put back in his place quickly. He asked a defender “why don’t you come play on me?” to which the defender replied “can’t, sorry mate, coach tells me to play on the best forward”.

YOU BURIED THE STORY, COACH!

We spotted one country coach contributing to his local paper as an author during the week. We don’t want to be too harsh because it’s great to see that kind of connection between clubs and the media — but we do have a tip. When a player kicks 10, don’t kick off the story talking about the weather!

Clowning around.

CLOWNING AROUND

Spectators had to readjust their peepers when a bunch of clowns ran onto the ground at the Emerald-Berwick Springs match in Outer East league on Saturday. It was Emerald’s reserves players, enjoying “Silly Saturday’’ dress ups.

And there were plenty of giggles when the clowns — led by ressies captain Kieren Burns — followed the Bombers senior side onto the ground after half-time and got into their own tight circle at the far end of the ground.

‘ARE YOU TRULY RETIRED?’

A coach embarking on his final few matches as a senior coach fielded a call the other day. He was posed a question by one club, which was very disappointed with its latest performance. They asked “are you truly retired?”, wanting to know whether there was a chance to replace their own coach who has only just re-committed. The answer was a firm no.

Scoresby's Adam Amin.

IT ALL COMES DOWN TO THIS

As if the pressure of a grand final wasn’t enough. Scoresby’s Adam Amin is a big chance to kick his 100th goal of the season in his side’s Eastern Division 4 decider in a fortnight’s time. Amin is on 98 goals after a barnstorming past few weeks, which included 13 majors against Forest Hill in Round 19 and six against Chirnside Park in the weekend’s semi-final. The occasion marks Scoresby’s first grand final since 2011 when it competed in the league’s top division. And it’ll be out to break an 18-year drought, having last raised a senior cup in Division 2 in ‘06.

UNTIMELY INJURY

Rotten luck for talented sporting youngster Sam Gove, who injured himself while playing footy for Red Hill’s under-19s last week. The word is he’ll miss the start of the cricket season — bad news not only for Sam but also for Frankston Peninsula which was relying on the gun batsman to bolster its top-order.