The Northern Regions Football Council have again held a very successful Colts Carnival for the 2019 season. Whilst there were some changes to the previous years format, with the exclusion of the Great Northern Football League, the committee managed to band together and still provide a great weekend of football for the leagues who stayed committed.
The venue was altered this year, from Wongan Hills to Moora, when the CMCFL put their hand up to host the carnival. The Moora Shire have a fantastic facility at Moora, and it was certainly well utilised on the weekend.
Being only 4 teams in the carnival, and some leagues concerned with the lack of numbers they had available, we opted to play a 16 per side comp for leagues short and a normal 18 a side of the teams who had the numbers.
The competition this year was the most even that I have seen in a long time, every team had at least 1 win and Mortlock Football League came home the winners after a nail biting 4-point victory over Avon in the Grand Final.
Thomas Moore from the Mortlock Football League was named player of the carnival.
Fantastic to see the boys enjoy the competition and ever greater to see a new league named on the Bert McClements Shield. Thanks to Don and Val McClements who came up on the weekend and presented the shield to the Mortlock team.
The only downside to the weekend was the injuries that were sustained by players over the weekend, hopefully all the recoveries will go well and the lads will be back playing better than ever in no time at all.
For all the results please click here.
The weekend culminated in the selection of a squad for the 2019 Colts Country Week to be held in July. Tom Orford has been named as coach and the squad will be made up of the following players:
AVON
Connor Anderson
Declan Bell
Lachlan Gelim
Damien Gidyup
Jake Manning
Mason Sullivan
Alex Linto
Jordan Kickett
Harley Corbet
Kane Donnelly
CMCFL
Levi Butcher
Matt Dermanich
Ben Watson
Riley Boyle
MORTLOCK
Regan Flaherty
Thomas Moore
Mitchell Lord
Kelly Jones
Charlie Harding
Bryce Watson
Kaleb Siegert
Scott Smith
Tristan Pearson
NMFL
Zane Chivers
Lachy Frazer
Regan Jefferies
Dan McGuinness
Brendan Cockman
Matt Vanderschuit
Tyler Carter
Mortlock Football League was the 2019 Northern Regions Colts Champions
Thomas Moore - Mortlock Football League - Player of the Carival for 2019
CMCFL v NMFL
MFL v NMFL