The Banora Point and Tweed Heads Football Clubs have banded together to form a new entity.
The new club is to be known as Tweed United Football Club, or the Marlins, and will play in the Gold Coast competition this year.
“We have around 500 seniors and juniors,” club co-president Mark Thelwall said. Thelwall, formerly from the Tweed Club will share the role with Banora’s David DeClosey. Both men are well-known in soccer circles and have been long term members of their old clubs.
“We decided it was better for the Tweed community if we formed one club. We can offer a better quality of coaching and be a more community-based club.”
The new club has been in the works for a couple of years but with uniforms now ordered, colours now decided and a senior coach, things are set to go. Former Gold Coast Knight’s Premier League coach Dennis Dodd will take on the role of men’s first division coach.
They will play out of Arkinstall Park at Tweed.
As part of the launch of the new club (after junior coach Paul Aspery won a radio competition), Tweed United played host to former AFL footballer turned radio announcer Peter “Spida” Everitt.
Spida, now doing breakfast on Gold FM, turned up at the club’s sign-on event and swapped his considerable AFL skills for slightly dodgy soccer skills!
But while you can take the boy out of the AFL it was hard to take the AFL away from the boy – or Spida in this case!!
