SENIOR AND SENIOR COACHES ANNOUNCED
In what is a massive coup for the St. Mary's Salesian AFC, the President and committee are delighted to announce the appointment of Erwin Leyden as the Senior Coach and Jarryd Allen as Assistant Coach for season 2012.

Both Erwin and Jarryd come to St. Mary's Salesian AFC with impeccable playing and coaching records at the highest levels. In 2010 Erwin was the Senior A grade coach for the Old Melburnian FC, after being a Senior Co-Coach in their 2009 Premiership year in B grade. In 2001, Erwin also coached the same team to a B Grade Preliminary Final before winning the section a year later in 2002. He was also an Assistant Coach in the A Grade Premiership year of 1994, again for Old Melburnians.

Jarryd comes to the club as Assistant Coach having only recently played at AFL level. Jarryd debuted for St. Kilda in 2008 and was even a part of the 2008 Semi Final win against Collingwood. Unfortunately in that very game Jarryd fractured his left hip in a collision and despite enormous amounts of rehabilitation the amount of cartilage lost forced him to make the very difficult decision of hanging up his boots at only the age of 21.

In his ever so short 4 senior game careers, Jarryd's biggest moment other than his debut with the club was being a part of the Saints Pre-Season Premiership side in 2008.

We welcome both Erwin and Jarryd to the St. Mary's Salesian AFC.

At this time we would like to thank Aaron Bailey for the great job he has done with the Senior team over the past few seasons. Aaron took the team to the D3 Grand Final in 2009, which subsequently won the club promotion to D2.


RESERVES COACHES REAPPOINTED
We are pleased to announce the reappointment of Mark Purcell and Luke O’Shannessy as joint Reserves coaches for Season 2012. Mark and Luke have done a fantastic job this season and are excited with the prospect of guiding the Reserves to a successful year in 2012. Both are outstanding club men and have earned the respect of all at the club with their leadership, enthusiasm and passion.

NEW U19 COACH FOR 2012
The President and committee are delighted to announce the appointment of Damian Sutherland as Under 19’s coach for season 2012.

Damian has a proven track record as a successful coach at both senior and junior levels. He coached the Salesian Reserves team in 1995 and 1996, taking them to a Premiership and Preliminary Final. He was the Senior Assistant Coach in the Senior Premiership year of 1996.

Damian has coached for 6 years at Ashburton Redbacks in which his team made finals every year and played off in 4 Grand Finals with 1 Premiership. His most recent experience was coaching the Colts Premier side to a Grand Final in 2009. Damian brings a wealth of experience to St Mary’s Salesian; he is an excellent communicator and an extremely well organised individual.

At this time we would like to thank Michael Learmonth for the tremendous job he has done with the Under 19’s over the past 2 years. Leo has set the platform for the Under 19’s to be successful in the many years to come and we are indebted to him for the establishment of this team.