One of the true giants of the local game it is Welcome to the team John.
It is both a pleasure and an honour to announce that the latest player to nominate his GrassRoots Football club is '74 WC man John Watkiss. John not only played at club & national level with Johnny Warren, but he is also a Botany Methodists man. Botany played out of Booralee Park in the Protestant Churches Assoc., which was the biggest association in the southern hemisphere in its time. John was a member of both our first team to have a crack at the world Cup & a member of side that made it to Germany in 1974.
One of the true giants of the local game it is Welcome to the team John.
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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. |