Essendon Royals and Brunswick Zebras join Provisional League 2 in the North-West division for season 2012, while Middle Park continue their impressive rise into the Provisional league 2 South-East. Joining Middle Park in the South-East for season 2012 is Collingwood City who will be keen to start their season with a victory when they host their fellow promoted club from Kevin Bartlett Reserve in Round 1

Given the 1-0 reversal suffered by Collingwood at home on the final day of last season, a game in which MPFC clinched the Provvie 3 flag, it’ll surely be game on come March 31st.

Checkout links to the complete fixture lists for the 1s and ressies below:

• Firsts
• Reserves

Thirds and Masters fixtures to be released in due course…

We’ll be kicking off the evening from 7.30PM, bring some booze.

Level 1
141 Victoria Avenue
Albert Park
(above Melbourne Pathology)

Looking forward to seeing ya all there!

• Tuesday, February 14 @7 pm (Fields 10/12)
• Thursday, February 16 @7 pm (Fields 10/12)

February 21 – March 31*

• Tuesday evenings @6:30 pm (Field 4/5)
• Thursday evenings @ 7 pm (Field 7/8)

*training times for Grand Prix week (March 12-18) TBA

And what are we aiming to achieve with all this visual bling, well, a bunch of things, including but not limited to:

• Helping to increase MPFC’s profile out there, attracting sponsors, more respect and all that jazz
• Making posting to, and participating in, the site a heap easier
• Making useful (and interesting) information a bunch easier to get to

So, we’re hoping that this new setup will achieve just that.

And, even if it doesn’t, the aim is also to have a site that we can easily edit and update – which moving to WordPress and a widgetized design like this – should hopefully do.

So, here’s to a better site, helping the club take a step forward in 2012!

Welllllllllllll it’s a grand ole team to play for,
It’s a grand ole team to see,
And if … you know … your history,
It’s enough to make your heart’s go whoa-o-o-o,
We don’t care what the other teams say,
What the hell do we care?
Coz you always know,
That there’s gonna be a show,
And the Middle Parkers will be there.
Was it one-ah? NO!
Was it two-ah? NO!
Was it three-ah? YES!
Was it easy? YES!!!

The plan is that this’ll allow folk to live tweet from matches, and elsewhere, just think of the excitement.

Here’s how I imagine it’ll work:

1. We’ll all share the same Twitter account login, for this account
2. When you post something just add your initials at the end, for example “Double penalty save from Trainor! And another half! JF”
3. And that’s about it

Will be setting up a sidebar thing, and maybe a special page here, to show all the latest tweets.

Might work, might not, either way it’ll be fun.

Tuesday from 7.00 PM – 9.00 PM

Thursday from 7.00 PM – 9.00 PM

Please be sure to meet at the club rooms 30 minutes before the start of each session… so that’s getting there at 6.30

And make sure you subscribe to MPFC to find about changes in times, location and special training events!

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