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This is an appeal to ask families to volunteer for one of the many roles needed to run a successful season and club. We currently have two key office bearer roles which need to be filled urgently. One is for the President and another is for the Secretary. These two Office Bearer roles are critical...

2020 Members Survey We all know that 2020 was an unusual year however that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t take the time to reflect to see what, if anything, could have been handled better or be improved upon for next year. Your feedback about the season is really important for the club’s planning for season...

BJFC Face Masks We are very excited to be able to offer our BJFC family face masks in our club colours.   There are two options available. The first option is being locally manufactured especially for our club. They are triple layer masks and and sport our BJFC dragon logo. They are available in multiple sizes...

BJFC footie teams are finally back to training! The kids are super excited to be finally outside playing some footie together.   Due to Covid-19 restrictions on numbers of people  allowed  to gather outdoors we need to relocate some of our training sessions, which are now limited to groups of 20 kids with 1 trainer. Please...

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The Brunswick Junior Football Club has great pleasure in announcing the appointment for 2 new coaches for our U17 Boys (Colts) team for 2020. Steve Sinn will take on the Senior Coaching role with Andrew Light as his Assistant Coach.  Steve has had 3 previous years in the Assistant Coach role including 2019 with The...

Sunday 24 Nov is Girls Get Around Footy Day with the Brunswick Dragons! If you're curious about girls footy or would like to have a go, we’d love to see you! Come along to Clifton Park West at 10:00am and try out some drills with AFLW players, meet current Brunswick junior and senior players, and...

Following our earlier announcement about coaches for the girls teams, we’d like to thank  all those who submitted EOI forms for coaching positions.  Led by Director of Football, the Football Operations Manager and the Director of Coaching the EOIs were reviewed back on September 10. Apologies, but follow ups and holidays have delayed announcements since...

BJFC has a strong commitment to increasing the number of female coaches, particularly for girls’ teams. We had a wonderful response for volunteers to coach our girls’ teams for 2020 and this is a sign of exciting things ahead. We are pleased to announce that in 2020 we will have the following teams and coaches;...

It was a big night last Tuesday for our Dragons players invited to the YJFL Awards Presentation. Invited players had polled in the top ten for their age and division (voted by YJFL umpires), which is a significant achievement. Well done to you all, we are very proud of you!  The top ten players for each age/division...

Congratulations to all of our Dragons teams for a wonderful 2019 season! We hope everyone enjoyed a great final round of the regular season, and our U10s had fun at the Lightning Premiership. Fun, friends and footy is what it’s all about. And well done to our six Dragons teams that have made the finals and...

This week was our Towards Zero Round, joining with the AFL and Transport Accident Commission to highlight the importance of road safety and work towards a zero road toll. Our U8s wore their Towards Zero TAC socks well! The Towards Zero program also has grant opportunities for clubs so we are working on an application...

So lovely to see many teams ‘clicking’ at this point in the season, working together well and supporting each other. Fun, friends and footy are what it’s all about! Around the grounds Owen reports that U9W had a great game against Banyule, with Harry, Sam and Euan making great contributions. Clancy won a well-deserved medal,...

I remember that time a couple of weeks ago when I thought it was pretty muddy. As Crocodile Dundee would have said if he played junior footy, ’That’s not muddy. THIS is muddy.’ Hope everyone did well with their guernsey washing after this week… Around the grounds Tom Vernal reports that U9W continued this season’s...

Welcome back from school holidays! It was a four seasons, one day kind of footy day on Sunday - I know in our U12s game we had pouring rain in one quarter and sunshine the next! Hope everyone enjoyed being back out on the ground and getting into the second part of the season. Milestone Games Well...

Wow, that went fast, we’re back already after the mid-season break!  So many achievements from our players and volunteers so far this season. I can't wait to see what we can achieve as a club next!  It's really been a wonderful year for footy at BJFC so far and plenty to be proud of. By...

Exciting times at the Reclink Community Cup game at Victoria Park last Sunday, with U12G parent Kulja Coulston as one of the goal umpires for the game! The annual Reclink game pits the Megahertz team (community radio Triple R and PBS) against the ESPY Rockdogs (musos), and raises funds to support Reclink Australia’s work with...

What a misty Sunday! Well done to all our teams playing in the cold, especially those playing early who may have sturggled to make out the opposite end goalposts in the fog! Enjoy your 2 weeks off now for school holidays, and be sure to check Team App for messages from your team manager about when your team will...

Luke is our Dragons Coaching Director, and his key priority is to support and develop our coaching staff to ensure the best learning and development environment for our players. He attends our home games and training sessions periodically, and meets with the coaches a couple of times a season in a group as well as...

Great to be back to footy this week after the Queen’s Birthday break! Another round to play next Sunday 23 June and then we’ll be taking another couple of weeks off for school holidays.  Milestone Games Huge congratulations to Gabriel Banova on 100 games with the Brunswick Dragons! And a good win to the Under 15s to...

Earlier this year the club changed from player-owned jumpers to club-owned team sets. Part of the driver for this was to reduce the consumption and disposal of plastic into landfill. We are also lobbying our suppliers and the league to move to recycled plastic content in player uniforms. But there’s a long way to go!...

Looks like some games were more muddy than others this week! Here’s the news from last weekend, hope everyone enjoys a break for the coming Queens Birthday long weekend! Milestone Games It was a big round for milestone games! Congratulation to Frank and Fred Burton (U11W), Luke and Nathaniel Bertram (U13P), Carla Perrone (U15G) and...

What a great Indigenous round we had celebrating the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people to Australian football! Fantastic to see all the kids wearing their Aboriginal flag tattoos and the flag flying high at Gillon Oval. Many thanks to Eddie Petrovic for his enormous efforts organizing this event!  Milestone Games Congratulations to...

What a beautiful day it was for footy! The balmy sunshine from Sunday will be one to remember in late July… Congratulations to everyone who has been nominated so far for the Carlton Respects Awards, and remember there are still opportunities to be nominated each week until Round 10! All the information is here: https://brunswickjfc.org.au/news/carlton-respects-awards/ Milestone...