Aaron Clark

30/06/2008 | NORTH CITY coach Aaron Clark has called for the Ballarat Football League to increase the size of the bench after his team ran out of reinforcements against Bacchus Marsh on Saturday.

North City coach Aaron Clark was equally keen to play down any rivalry between the two clubs, dead-batting questions about that factor.

"We have only played them once so far, so it's hardly a rivalry from a player's point of view," he said.

Clark calls for bigger bench

Clark calls for bigger bench

30/06/2008 11:42:00 PMNORTH CITY coach Aaron Clark has called for the Ballarat Football League to increase the size of the bench after his team ran out of reinforcements against Bacchus Marsh on Saturday.

Clark said the RegionalOne BFL should follow the lead of AFL and VFL in having four players on the interchange bench to improve the spectacle and protect player welfare.
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Every other grade of football has four: the AFL, the VFL, even our (Ballarat Football League) reserves have four on the bench," Clark said.

Balben North City playing coach Aaron Clark said, while it was just one win, the club and the players deserved to celebrate it.

"It was very emotional.I think more so for the people around the club than the players themselves," Clark said.

"This has been a nine year work in progress for the (North Ballarat) junior club and that shouldn't be forgotten.A lot of hard work has happened for us to get to this point and it was against a very good team, so why not enjoy it?"

Just as remarkable was that the win came after a five-day break, with North City forced to make six changes due to injury and unavailability.

"(The recovery) was a credit to the group's professionalism," Clark said.

"We have seven out of our best 21 sitting on the boundary line," North City coach Aaron Clark said.

"Against Ballarat there was some positive things we took out of it to learn from, but (yesterday) was just a shocker," North City playing coach Aaron Clark said.

27/06/2008 | THE Courier's BFL reporter Gavin McGrath talks to North City coach, Aaron Clark.