Setting Up
The first meeting was in one of their lounge rooms and there the executive committee was formed with Les Owen as President, Ken Burchell, Secretary, John Overton, Treasurer and Ray Turvey, Vice president. Each man was well suited to his role. Endless hours of interviews, contacts and enquires followed. A three-year plan was set-up and they agreed to each "kick-in" a quarter of the money required to start the Club.
They immediately began working on getting a home ground organised, a constitution drawn up and the Club's Standing Rules written. They managed to get Local Council to grant them use of Orange Street Park (as it was known then). The park was at this time just a "dirt mound" with a set of goal posts on it. The remainder was a wilderness of blackberry bushes and the northern end contained the remains of a chicken farm. The scrub was so dense that it was well into the first season before the children discovered an old truck hidden in it.
A bank account was opened and registration fees set - $1.00 per player and match fee 20c. The first registration day bought in enough money that their "kick-in" wasn't needed. Kind suppliers allowed the Club to order shirts and other equipment on credit. The GDSFA President and Secretary were most helpful in enabling twelve teams to be fielded in Greystanes Soccer Club's first season (1971).
