Frankston Dolphins

This afternoon Frankston Football Club announced a 4 year sponsorship with Kinetic a bus company that owns SkyBus (who have been ground naming rights sponsor since 2018).

The Ground from tonight’s AFLW game will now be known as Kinetic Stadium

Frankston captain Josh Newman has left to coach Mornington in the MPNFL, Tom Murphy has joined Somerville full-time, Liam Hiscock signed with Edi-Asp and Bill Mackay is headed to Old Haileybury, while Sam Fletcher is undecided and might go travelling.

“I’ll tell you how I view that — opportunity,” Ryan said of the “outs”.

“People move on for all different reasons.

“Newie has gone to coach Mornington for a significant pay cheque that we can’t match. It’s something he wants to do, we fully support him, absolutely.

“So some people are saying they don’t want to play VFL anymore. It’s just simple choices.

“You can’t do much about it.

“And we know there’s a turnover every year anyway. You’ve just got to see it as opportunity for others to come in and changes to happen and see where you go.”

Frankston won six games for the second successive season under Ryan, looming as a finals hopeful before fading in the last month of the season.

Ryan said the Dolphins would target experienced players, “with AFL capabilities”.

“The players that we need to take us from six wins to 12 wins are men to start with because we’re very young,” he said.

“All stand alones will be all scrapping over the same (delisted AFL) players and we’ll all get one or two each I suppose.

“And at the moment they’re all freshly delisted so first off all they’re sour with the world, there’s no point talking to them, you just say ‘g’day’.

“The hard stuff happens in a month or so after the draft, they’re all hoping for that second chance. We just have to bide our time.”

Ryan said Frankston would also add new coaches and some new staff for the 2023 season.

“We’re already planning around next year, being bigger and better and trying to increase the fun capacity of it, just to make it a bit more enjoyable,” Ryan said.

“We want to try and get Friday night footy regularly if we can.

“We are really in a transition, it’s what I call growing pains.

“The club’s gone from winning one game to winning two games to winning six games and we won another six this year.

“All our indicators had us in the top 10 but we just didn’t get the wins. We had six losses by a goal or less, three of them post 32 minutes in the last quarter.

The way the season ended, with heartbreak after a very good performance against Richmond, kind of summed up the year for the Dolphs.



From 18 games, 6 wins, 8 losses by less than five goals, 4 losses by a kick. The club was not far off challenging for finals this year, just a few moments here and there.



Wins over Essendon, North Melb, Carlton and Geelong meant a 4-5 record against AFL reserve teams, but 0-3 against aligned clubs and particularly 2-4 against stand alone clubs really hurt. The losses to Coburg and Port were low points.



While 6-12 is a bit disappointing, I don't think it reflects the level of footy the team played. A percentage of 92.6 tells a better story, the club's best over a full season since 2008, backing up last year's 103.8 in 11 games.



The playing group obviously needs more time together to better grasp the decision-making needed in their game style, but I think when they have got it right it looks effective.The challenge is always keeping the core group together, fingers crossed the majority will stay.

Frankston captain Josh Newman has announced his retirement from VFL footy

he got an badly broken leg and ankle during Saturday’s game at Port Melbourne and is out of action for 12 months.

Wish Josh well for the future

Tonight  AFLW have announced that season opener between St Kilda and Richmond will be at Frankston's SkyBus Stadium on Friday January 7 at 7:15pm. Just 37 days from now.

just a fantastic effort from CEO Adrian Lloyd, President David Friend and the committee.

As a long time volunteer and life member of the club I am proud of how far the club has come to make it a destination club and venue. The hard work is starting to pay off.

The game will be telecast nationally on Channel 7 and Fox Footy and Internationally on WatchAFL.

This will also be the first time the full lights (1000lux) will be used.

I understand SkyBus Stadium will host another game in Early February also.

Full AFLW Fixture is due to be released at 1pm tomorrow.

Announced at 6:30pm tonight

Wonderful news.  Looks like Frankston have laid the ground work for some success in the coming years.

While we wait for a decision on 2020 season, works are continuing at a great rate at SkyBus Stadium.

a new cable has been installed between scoreboard and the computer for better connection.

At Kars St end of the ground there is going to be a new fence behind the goals installed

Biggest project is the installing of the brand new floodlights having gone past the ground today you can now see the 4 distinct holes where the light towers will be placed around the ground. Looking at completion in mid-Late July hopefully about the time of the season starting.

No one knows if and when season will start but tonight Frankston had their season launch via zoom app.

well done to President Peter Geddes for putting it together.  All the players were introduced plus they could let us supporters and members know about where they came from. The coaches were also introduced. 

 

it went for around 95 mins and plenty logged on.

also part of the night 2 new No.1 ticket holders were announced. 

Paul Kennedy from ABC News Breakfast

Sharni Layton from Fox Footy