Editor's note - What happens next

I had intended to bring the blog to a halt here. For me, this is when the 'early years' stop. A couple of reasons:

1) The end of our sponsorship with Derrick Newman & co. - their generous investment helped to get us off the ground.

2) The make-up of the team starts to change here. As the 'early intake' got older and their priorities changed with families and work, we needed more than friends, friends of friends, former teammates and colleagues to flesh out and improve the squad. The net had to trawl wider and some players came in that didn't have that Kylie ethic (which was, effectively, 'no tossers'.)

There's another reason that, you might remember, will become clear in a few months.

However, due to popular demand* I'm going to carry on for a bit. There will be some posts about what happened over the summer of 2000 and team line-ups from the aborted 2000/2001 season. As that season was expunged from the records there will be no stats from those games.

When that's done I'll publish the overall club stats and the player profiles of those I haven't yet covered during the previous seasons.

I'll be back with you in late July I reckon.

We go again!

* Thanks Gary and Rich!

1999/2000 - MVP and Spoons

	MVP	Spoons
Ausden	1	1
Beasant		1
Carpenter		1
Cook	3	1
Garratt		2
Gould	1
Hales	2	3
Harries		2
Hobbs	3
Humphries	2	4
Merry	2	2
Payne G.	2	1
Powell		2
Rees	2
Smedley	1	1
Swatridge	2	1
Warr B.	2
Watling	2
Winters	2	2

Joint MVPs this season - Cook and Hobbs. (They sound like the main characters in a restaurant-based detective series!)  It would suggest we had a lot of defending to do.

Andy 'The Eagle' Humphries was our overall spoon winner this year, just seeing off the challenge from Steve Hales.

1999/2000 - Goalscorers

League Cup Total Goals Goals Goals Ausden 12 1 13 Cook 1 1 Cox 4 4 Gould 1 1 Gunning 1 1 Hales 3 3 Merry 3 3 Payne G. 4 4 Powell 3 3 Rees 2 1 3 Smedley 1 1 Swatridge 1 1 Watling 16 16

Watty taking the Golden Boot again with an incredible sixteen goals in just 12 league appearances. Dollar the only other player in double figures this season.

1999/2000 - Appearances

	League			Cup			Total
	Apps	Sub		Apps	Sub		Apps	Sub
Astley	2	4					2	4
Ausden	14	2		2			16	2
Beasant	5	3					5	3
Carpenter	5	3		3			8	3
Cook	14			2			16	0
Cox	6	3		2			8	3
Garratt		4		1			1	4
Gould	10	3					10	3
Gunning	2			1			3	0
Hales	20			3			23	0
Harries	5	1			1		5	2
Hobbs	18			2			20	0
Humphries	17	3		3			20	3
Merry	16			2			18	0
Payne G.	16						16	0
Powell	9	9		2	1		11	10
Rees	13			2			15	0
Sharp		2					0	2
Smedley	8	2		2			10	2
Swatridge	5			2			7	0
Warr B.	4	3					4	3
Watling	12			1			13	0
Winters	18	1		3			21	1

Steve Hales the only ever-present this season. Powelly the super-sub with 10 appearances from the bench this season.