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Lamont is the Top Tiger

Lamont is the Top Tiger

The Werribee Football Club is pleased to announce that 1993 Werribee Premiership player John Lamont has signed on as Senior Coach of the club for the next two years.

For the last seven seasons John has been a Development Coach at the North Melbourne Football Club (Werribee’s AFL Affiliate) and for the past three years, part of John’s role was working directly with the Werribee coaching staff, especially on match days.

Originally from Benalla, John played under 19’s and reserves with Collingwood, played two years at Werribee, then was captain coach of Ringwood in the Eastern Football League.

John coached the Oakleigh Chargers (1998-2002) (Eastern Rangers (2003-2006) in the TAC Cup before joining the Kangaroos in 2007.

John replaces Scott West who will be pursuing other football opportunities.

Werribee CEO Mark Penalunasaid “The club sincerely thanks Scott West for his contribution to our club over the last two years, and we wish him well for his football future.

The club is thrilled to have John Lamont taking over the senior coaching role. 20 years after playing in our only senior premiership, it seems fitting to have John back at Avalon Airport Oval. We have seen how astute a football person he is, especially over the past three years. We already knew his qualities as a person.”

Lamont is equally pleased “I am excited. I am looking forward to the opportunity and I feel privileged to get the chance. I see myself as a club coach and I will involve everyone, all our stakeholders, in achieving that. This club has had a huge impact on my life. I got to play in a premiership team and got to know Donald McDonald.

After 1993 I commenced coaching and Donald and I continued to cross paths in our coaching, for instance we completed our Level Three coaching accreditation together, and a few years after that, he was instrumental in getting me to North Melbourne, where I had seven wonderful years.

During those years I always kept an eye on the ‘boys from Chirnside Park’, but the last three have been working closely with Werribee, where I have seen firsthand where this club is heading, and I am glad to be a part of a group of people looking to be driving positive outcomes for the club.”

Scott West has advised the Werribee Football Club he is keen to pursue his coaching career elsewhere and therefore will not be the Senior Coach of the club for season 2014. Scott has been Werribee coach for two seasons.
Werribee CEO Mark Penaluna said of the announcement “Scott showed he is a very knowledgeable football person with the coaching ability to take our club to two preliminary finals and that is a credit to his planning and preparation.The club is committed to people development on every level, whether it is the Senior Coach, a player like this year’s recruit Ben Brown, or one of our training staff. As our mission statement says, our aim is to develop excellence in people through sport.
The club wants to thank Scott for his contribution to the Werribee Football Club and we wish him well for his future endeavours in football.”

Nathan Abblett was the star signing for the tigers in the pre season.
Why has he not played a game?
Is he injured?
unfit?
unwilling?
never signed in the first place?

Can someone help out here.
The tigers web site is next to useless for any information such as this.

cheers

news from werribee football
Dom Gleeson moves on.

Dom Gleeson has advised the Club today that he has accepted an offer to join the Geelong Football Club as a player and assistant coach for their VFL side plus working in their AFL Development area.

On the Geelong website Dom had this to say ““I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at Werribee and I thank them for the opportunities they have provided me over the past 8 years”.

President John Nicol responded ” Dom has been our captain for the last three seasons and is a dual best and fairest winner, life member and games record holder . It is an understatement to say he is a very important part of this clubs history. While I am sad to see him move on, like others before him, I am proud of what our club has given to him and vice versa. In 2012 we will have a new coach and now a new captain. I want to thank Dom for his contribution to this club on and off the field and wish him well for the future”.

Werribee Football Club continues to be a pathway for players and coaches to achieve opportunities at the highest level. In recent years

James Podsiadly WFC to Geelong Premiership player

Michael Barlow WFC to Fremantle

Paul Satterley WFC to assistant coach Melbourne Football Club

Scott West has been appointed coach of Werribee Tigers

Any thoughts?

Fantastic news that he's has served his suspension and is now getting his life back on track.

But what ever happened to players making their way back from long term lay offs through the reserves? Sure, Travis has been out of footy for different reasons, and I'm not close enough to the situation to know what his attitude has been like, nor to know how he has been performing on the training track.

What I do know is that Werribee have a loyal group of players who have been around the club for a while, yet can't crack a senior game at the moment. They also have a group of fresh faces out of the TAC Cup - boys whose dreams got placed on hold when their names weren't called out by an AFL club late last year.

Travis signed with the Tigers on the eve of the VFL season, long after all the players mentioned above had sweated their guts out two or three nights a week during a gruelling pre-season.

He hasn't played a competitive game of footy since the practice matches in March. That's two months ago. There are plenty of suburban footy clubs in Melbourne who wouldn't even throw a player into the seniors after such a long break. Yet, we have a VFL club doing it.

I'm sorry, but handing Travis a senior game after such a long lay off appears to be nothing more than a cheap publicity stunt. I thought the Werribee Footy Club stood for more than that.

VFA wrote in another thread...

Shocking news regarding Michael Barlow's broken leg.
He would be almost be the outright leader in the brownlow.
Speedy recovery mate and I am sure you can bounce back in 2011.

Werribee will play the Northern Bullants under lights at Chirnside Park on Saturday 17 July, commencing at 7pm.

Hopefully a big crowd attend and support a night game in the middle of winter. Congratulations to Werribee for making the night footy a success so far, it is something which the VFL lacks compared to other states, and I'd like to see more of it in the future.