Beldon Thistles pre-season schedule will be starting on Thursday 3rd February 06:30pm. Training will be held at Beldon Park, Cnr of Marmion Ave and Gunter Drive, Beldon. The format for the first training session will be a friendly kick-about followed by a barbecue. Proper pre-season training will then be held at 6:30pm every Tuesday and Thursday at Beldon Park. New players are most welcome. Please click on the contact us link if you require more information.
Olympic Kingsway are the 2008 Soccer Pools Amateur Cup winners after beating Beldon in a dramatic penalty shootout at E&D Litis Stadium.
The match was level at 1-1 after normal time, thanks to Graeme Reid rescuing Beldon with an 89th minute equaliser to cancel out Ryan Newhill’s early opener for Kingsway.
The ‘David and Goliath’ comparison with Premier side Kingsway pitted against third division’s Beldon, did not phase the underdogs who beat Premier teams Spearwood Dalmatinac and Murdoch on their way to the final.
For much of the first half, Kingsway were well in control by dominating possession.
Beldon could only muster half-chances which were let down by poor finishing in the final third.
The match was marred by a horrific leg break for Beldon’s Talent Machakaike, who stayed on the ground after a 50-50 challenge two minutes after half time.
The game had to be stopped for in excess of 30 minutes, until the Ambulance services safely took Machakaike to hospital.
Kingsway resumed with Sota Iwasaki and man of the match Aaron Lickiss playing well to still create more opportunities.
With the match headed for a Kingsway victory, Beldon fans were jumping in their seats after Reid’s late equaliser after an audacious 30 yard effort bounced off the cross bar, leaving Read to smash home the loose ball.
Beldon were now a transformed team looking to score more. Jamieson Quick’s pass across the face of goal found the unmarked Ashley Peat who hit over the crossbar, when he had more time to place his shot than he knew.
Peat’s miss early into extra time was responded with a 98th minute goal from Kingsway’s Derrick Cooke who shot low into the left corner of the net to leave Beldon’s ‘keeper Liam McNally beat.
Cooke nearly added another moments later but his left-foot effort was wide of the near post.
The second period of extra time saw more hard running to try and seal a result from both sides, but it was Quick who was beneficiary when his close-range effort found the back of the net to bring the crowd into a frenzy.
His equaliser took the match to the eventual shootout, which finished under lights following the long injury delay – with Olympic Kingsway, the 2008 Soccer Pools Cup winners.
Beldon Thistle have claimed some early silverware ahead of the 2009 season, comfortably winning the Couger Cup in its inaugural year.
After topping the four team group with 5-1 and 3-0 wins over Carramar and Wanneroo respectively and a 1-1 draw with 2nd division Balga, Beldon met its 3rd division rivals Wanneroo again in the final. The Beldon lads saved the best performance for last running out comfortable winners in a 7-1 victory and the signs are good for the up-coming season with all areas of the team looking strong.
Thanks have to go out to Carramar Cougers for an extremely well organised tournament and Beldon will look forward to defending the trophy again next year!
Beldon captain Brian Gray collects the Couger Cup
Napier named WA's Hardest
(Just some of the qoutes heard around WA football grounds last year)
Sean Napier has to sleep with the light on. Not because he's afraid of the dark, but because the dark is afraid of him.
Guns don't kill people. Sean Napier kills People
Sean Napier can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.
Sean Napier can set ants on fire with a magnifying glass. At night.
Sean Napier's action figure has slept with more women than most men.
God wanted ten days to create earth....Sean gave him 6.
Police label anyone attacking Sean Napier as a Code 45-11.... a suicide.
There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Sean Napier allows to live.
Sean Napier’s tears cure cancer. Too bad he’s never cried, ever.
Sean Napier can drown a fish.
Sean Napier does not sleep. He waits.
When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night, he checks his closet for Sean Napier.
Sean Napier counted to infinity - twice.
When Sean Napier does a pushup, he isn’t lifting himself up, he’s pushing the Earth down.
Sean Napier doesn’t wear a watch, HE decides what time it is.
Sean Napier can slam a revolving door.
Sean Napier has two speeds. Walk, and Kill.
The quickest way to a man's heart is with Sean Napier' fist.
A Handicapped parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Sean Napier and that you will be handicapped if you park there.
Someone once tried to tell Sean Napier that roundhouse kicks aren't the best way to kick someone. This has been recorded by historians as the worst mistake anyone has ever made.
Sean Napier lost his virginity before his dad did.
Since 1960, the year Sean Napier was born, roundhouse kick related deaths have increased 13,000 percent.
Sean Napier isn’t hung like a horse - Horses are hung like Sean Napier.
Supermans only weakness is kryptonite. Sean Napier laughs at superman for having a weakness.
We live in an expanding universe, all of it trying to get away from Sean Napier.
Sean Napier doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
Sean Napier is the reason why Wally is hiding.
Sean Napier is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.
Sean Napier writes only in the first person because thats the only person that matters to him.
If you ask Sean Napier what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds 'til." After you ask, "Two seconds 'til what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.
Sean Napier only needs one to tango.
Sean Napier ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.
Sean Napier is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
Sean Napier once ate three 72oz steaks in one hour. He spent the first 45 minutes having sex with the waitress.
Sean Napier can read lips with his eyes closed.
When Sean Napier sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. Sean Napier doesn’t pay taxes, ever.
When Sean Napier goes to donate blood, he declines the syringe, and instead requests a hand gun and a bucket.
Sean Napier = One Hard Bastard