The results of the 2009 Provisional League 3 S/E Best and Fairest were published on the Football Federation of Victoria (FFV) website on Monday morning with some of the results raising some eyebrows amongst the Eltham playing squad.

Captain Daniel Oehme once again proved he is number 1 in the eyes of the referees by polling the most votes (10) for an Eltham player in the count. Oehme was closely followed by dynamic midfielder Leith Robertson (8), veteran goalkeeper Tony Dent (7) and live-wire striker Brendan Mulcahy (7). The big shock was in relation to the 2009 Eltham Senior Men’s  Player’s Player of the Year winner, James Murray. The defensive stalwart whose physical demeanour is very much lauded by his team mates isn’t seen in the same light by the referees and resulted in Murray only accumulating 3 votes in the count. Other players to receive votes in the count include Clubman of the Year Ryan “Pinky” Adams (3), injury prone striker Aaron McNaughton (2), comeback kid Craig Melville (2), wide man William Mulvey (2), the gentle giant Guy De Vos (1) and emerging star Mitchell Stewart (1).

Seaford United’s Nicholas Allen comfortably won the count with 23 votes, 7 votes ahead of equal second Alex King of University of Melbourne (16) and Bradley Staines of Meadow Park (16).

For a full list of vote-getters visit the FFV website.

Eltham Redbacks FC  Best and Fairest Votes

Three members of the Eltham Redbacks FC committee have met with the Football Federation of Victoria and other local clubs including the Bulleen Lions and the Doncaster Rovers to discuss the future of football.

President Cameron Lockhart, Equipment Manager Chris Mitrevski and Registrar (Senior Players) Ryan ‘Pinky’ Adams attended the game development meeting at the Veneto Club in Bulleen to discuss topics such as the Small-sided Football, women’s football and the the new Football Federation of Australia registration system that is to come online in Victoria for the 2010 season – MyFootballClub.

ERFC was able to put forward its experiences as well as discuss some additional items  such as referree attendence, volunteer workload and items of a similar nature.

The meeting was very open and all positive or negative feedback was well-received by the FFV for consideration and the ERFC committee attendees all felt like the FFV will take our feedback as well as the other club attendees feedback on board for their future plans.

Welcome to the new ERFC website!

At the 2009 Annual General Meeting the members voted over-whelmingly for changing the name of our club to Eltham Redbacks Football Club as part of a re-branding scheme to coincide with our new facilities.

As part of this re-branding James Farmer from the men, a website developer, has kindly created this great new website at no cost. Be sure to say “g’day” and thank James for this elegant site if you see him around the club! He’s the bald one Goal-keeper for the Thirds men.

Please bare with us while we transfer the online registration and generate some useful content, it’s still very much a work-in-progress!