Thanks to Michael from Menai for allowing me into the shrine. Their Menai side also contained NSL & A-League player Paul Kohler (arrowed) from Sydney Olympic & Newcastle Jets, no wonder they were state champs. Don't know who the interloper in the white tracksuit is.
A unique place in our national footballing history is held by today's noms. Adam & Joel Griffiths, Socceroos #507 & #486, came all the way through the ranks of the Menai Hawks from Sydney's Sutherland Shire. The boys from Buckle Reserve are the only twins to have pulled on the Green & Gold with Joel making his debut in London against Jamaica in 2005 & Adam completing the set off the bench as one of 9 debs against Singapore in 2008. Ryan, the youngest of the 3 splitting the pair, but as he's not a twin he gets a spot on his own.
Thanks to Michael from Menai for allowing me into the shrine. Their Menai side also contained NSL & A-League player Paul Kohler (arrowed) from Sydney Olympic & Newcastle Jets, no wonder they were state champs. Don't know who the interloper in the white tracksuit is.
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the authorGreg Werner began playing in 1965, with the GrassRoots club of Socceroo skipper Murray Barnes, a change of suburb at age 6 and a new club, one that would become the GrassRoots club of Rob Wheatley & after a 27 year hiatus came back to playing with the GrassRoots club of Socceroos Steve Perry, Richie Bell, Chris Iconomidis & Matilda, Justine Fisher, one could say that the links with the NT are ingrained.
At age 55, when his body gave up on playing, he took up the whistle to stay actively involved. In November of 2014 he created the GFP on Facebook to fill the void left by those in control of the game & in January 2016 launched this website. |