DONNYBROOK football club got the 2014 season off to a good start on Easter Sunday with a solid win over Augusta-Margaret River Hawks.
Celebrating club stalwart Shane Cristaldi’s 100th game, the Dons were never headed in a game they always controlled.
AMR hung on grimly for three quarters before being overrun in the fourth for the Mighty Dons superiority to be eventually fully reflected on the scoreboard.
Highlights for the Dons were the debut of local 16 year old Joel Parker and first game with the armband for new skipper John Hearman.
With five other players also making their debut for the league side, the new look Dons will be a force in the competition this year.
They have already upset the Bunbury-based tipsters who will need to re-write their season forecasts.
In an exciting and novel new game plan coaching supremo Shane Smith moved last years best and fairest, gun midfielder Curtis Gugliemana, into a forward role. This stroke of genius was rewarded with five majors from ‘Gugs’.
Smith said this would be just the first of many exciting new ideas and spectators should prepare themselves for an exciting season.
At the end Donnybrook ran out worthy winners 12.11 (83) to AMR’s 5.6 (360.
Goal kickers for the Dons were 5. C.Gugliemana, 2. Hayden King, Simon Parry, 1. Luke Dale, Jarrad Gugliemana and Jarrod Brennan.
Best players on the day were Simon Parry (also on debut), King, Gugliemana, Gugliemana and Brennan.