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26 August 2013 |
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John Bradbury |
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Three major developments characterised the club’s progress through the 1960s: the move to the new Memorial Park, the building of the first football club gymnasium in Wellington in 1967, and the emergence of a strong Junior Management Committee which was to have a very significant impact on the club through to today.
Moving from just one grou...
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26 August 2013 |
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John Bradbury |
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The 1970s were the years in which we really emerged as a stable, well-managed club with the best facilities in Wellington. But those qualities didn’t just happen – they resulted from determined efforts to entice, encourage and empower people to manage and lead the club and to shape its future. It is no coincidence that all of our current life m...
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27 August 2013 |
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John Bradbury |
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It should not come as a surprise to any readers that this season we have had four players gracing our 1st team with the surname of Blair. Three brothers: Jono, Cameron and Morgan; and their cousin: Mitchell. We have had sets of two and three brothers selected in the same 1st team before, we’ve had five Ryan brothers (Tom, John – a centurion, Jo...
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11 September 2013 |
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Jeff Bell |
| Junior News |
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Over the weekend of 7 & 8 September, 13 Petone FC teams took part in the Western Suburbs Football Fling 2013, held at Endeavour Park in Whitby. The tournament attracted over 900 children from around the Wellington region, with grades 7-10 playing on Saturday and grades 11 and 12 on Sunday.
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The weekend’s weather managed to play its p...
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1 September 2013 |
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Jeff Bell |
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A big thank you to all who joined us on Saturday night for the 2013 Petone FC Prizegiving. It was a fantastic night with a few laughs, great music and Special thanks must go out to Chris Greenacre for coming along, giving us all an insight into what it is like to be a professional footballer, handing out awards and putting himself in harms way.
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8 September 2013 |
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Jeff Bell |
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Congratulations to the following people who picked up the team awards at Prizegiving last week.
Women
2nd TeamMost Improved Player
Samantha Hathaway
2nd TeamPlayer's Player of the Year
Michelle Lewis
2nd TeamSmith Trophy for Player of the Year
Sophie Badland
1st TeamLes Pickering Cup...
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5 October 2013 |
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Dominion Post |
| Player News |
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A former Lower Hutt schoolgirl is eyeing a professional football career after making the Serbian under-19 team.
Jana Radosavljevic, 16, went to Waterloo School for five years before returning to her native Serbia with her family in February 2006.
While living in Lower Hutt she played for the Petone Pioneers.
"I would li...
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24 November 2013 |
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Patrick Phegan |
| Junior News |
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Each year on the last weekend of the October school holidays, the Taupo Football Club hosts the McCartney Tournament. Footballers from all over the North Island play in it, with 8-15th grade teams all playing lots of great football over two days. This year two teams from Petone Football Club - one from the 10th grade, and the 12th grade Settlers, t...
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20 August 2011 |
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John Bradbury |
| Life Members |
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Elected 1956 Passed Away 1974
Andy McVean's association with Petone was an unusual but very long-standing one. Unusual in the sense that rather than being a player, he was a youthful trainer of the 1928 and 1930 Chatham Cup winning teams, which both included his much more well-known brother Peter McVean. Peter was the teams’ goalkeeper and indee...
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16 April 2011 |
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John Bradbury |
| Life Members |
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Elected 1945 Passed Away 1964
Andy Leslie has been a household name in Petone since the 1970s, as Petone’s home-grown All Black captain. But the name was also very prominent from 1928 through to 1945, when Andy Leslie snr was an outstanding player for what was our very successful1st team.
Andy Leslie was in fact the first person to be appoi...