Field of dreams

By Jarrod Potter
IT might only look like a pile of dirt, but to the Timbarra Tornadoes Football Club, the patch of land behind the Timbarra P-9 College represents so much more.
The Tornadoes only have one more season of wandering left to go before the ground at Timbarra is ready for footy.
The $750,000 facility at Timbarra, on top of the canteen and changeroom facilities as part of the Timbarra P-9 College, will be ready for the 2013 football season and potentially for the 2012/13 cricket season.
The Timbarra Tornadoes Football Club has been a nomadic club for its first four years in existence, but with a new ground on the horizon, everyone at the club is excited to see the facility finished for the 2013 football season.
Timbarra under-12s coach and committee member Wayne Scott said while it’s been a long time waiting for the ground to be built, they’re excited to finally see an end date and get the kids out onto the ground to play and train.
“The club has been around since 2009 and we originally started training at the Timbarra Primary School,” Scott said. “But due to the construction of the facilities here, we had to be relocated and have been training at other schools in the area like Maramba Primary and Berwick Lodge and playing our home games in the Doveton area.”
“It’s very exciting to see the development coming along.
“We’ve been saying to families for quite some time that there will be an oval here and clubroom facilities, but to now see it under construction there’s an end in sight and we’ll be playing football on the home ground here in 2013 which is great.”
“It’s an asset to the club, to the community and an asset to the school and to have facilities like this on their doorstep, which they haven’t had for 13-14 years that the (Timbarra estate) development has been here, so it’s nice to have this facility for everyone to use.
The club was started with the aim of getting kids off long waiting lists at other junior football clubs around the here.
“It was started up due to a lot of kids on waiting lists looking to play a game of footy,” Scott said. “That’s something we’ll still stand by – there are still a lot of kids on waiting lists at the big clubs, so there’s no reason to wait on a waiting list when you can come down and get a game here.”
Timbarra Tornadoes Football Club is looking to fill an under-9s team and also has under-10s, under-11s and under-12s as part of a sequential growth and hopes eventually to field a team in every age group.
Timbarra Tornadoes registration day is on 12 February between 11-2 at the Timbarra P-9 College. Current registered players can reregister online at www.timbarratornados.com.au. For more information, contact Timbarra Tornadoes registrar Dean Olsson on 0423 825 593.