Liam Durkin
WHILE there are a number of high profile names coaching senior football teams across Gippsland this season, few people seem to give much limelight to those taking on the much harder job of coaching the team directly below them.
Like many others brave enough to put their hand up to coach the reserves in country football, Aaron Wilson, Jack Brincat and Jimmy Grant will be taking the reins of Moe, Newborough and Hill End in the grade affectionately known as the twos, magoos, scoobs and scooby-doos.
As far as football teams go, the reserves well and truly belong in a class of their own.
The Stanley Park Three
The names of Marriott, Morris, and Pickering might not instantly come to mind when mentioning former members of Everton Football Club but they played a major defensive role during their formative years on Stanley Park. The first of this trio to appear there was Thomas Marriott.
He was born on 4 February 1861 and was the third son of Mary and her husband, John, who worked as a cotton porter. The family were, at that time, living at 2 Duke Street but, by 1881, they were living in better surroundings at Gray Rock Street where Thomas was working as a clerk. He first played at full-back alongside Tom Evans, from whose experience all three were to benefit during the season of 1880-81, after which he was partnered by a man from the North-East of England.