Ottawa Swans announce new head coach for 2009

The Ottawa Swans football club announced last week that Corey Bowen will take the helm as head coach for 2009 replacing Rich Keane who held the position in '07 and '08. Swans president Ray Kaduck commented on their website "Mr Bowen was selected on the basis of his experience playing in Australia, his performance as assistant coach in 2008 and his overall knowledge of the playing group. We believe that he will be able to build on the foundations created in 2008 and take the team to a new level in 2009"

2008 saw the Swans finish in last position, finishing a difficult first year without a win, 0-13, and with a percentage of 26.21.

The Québec Saints will in partnership with the Swans in '09 be acting as their 'farm' team and many of our players will be working closely with Corey throughout the year.

The Saints congratulate Corey Bowen on his appointment as head coach and wish the Swans the best of luck for the upcoming 2009 season.

Saints Macumber appointed as Toronto Central Blues Head Coach for 2009

Québec Saint star Jaye Macumber has been appointed head coach of the Toronto 'Central Blues' in the Ontario Australian Football League for the 2009 season, The talented on-baller from Québec City will join the squad full time next year as the Blues continue their push towards a premiership after surprising the league coming from last in 2006 and 2007 then finishing 4th in 2008 after a fantastic finals series under previous Blues coach Jason Cain.
You can read more on Jaye Macumbers appointment at the Central Blues website here

Saints covered on Worldfootynews.com

The Quebec Saints have been featured on the International forum of Aussie Rules the Worldfootynews.com check it out here

Daniel Barker and Jeff Lavoie take top honours for the Saints in inaugural season

The Québec Saints held their inaugural awards night in Montréal at the Irish Embassy on Saturday the 22nd November after a very promising first season. In the category of Best and Fairest Australian it was Aussie Rules rookie Daniel Barker who took out top honours polling 46 votes in his first year playing organized footy, Runner-up went to veteran Sam Heath who polled 38 votes a mere 1 vote ahead of the underrated workhorse of the Saints Fred Frost who finished on 37. In the Canadian/Non-Australian section it was Québec City's own Jeff Lavoie who ran away with top honours finishing with 46 votes, Second place and Runner-up the London based Brit Tim Adisa in his first venture into Aussie Rules with 39 votes, Ronan Rouxell who was handed the tough position of ruckman at the start of the season showed his class in the position by coming in third in the voting with 37 votes.

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Saints Captain Vincent Pottier took out the 2008 'Most Promising Player' award while the Coach's award was given to Alexandre Rochette who made huge progress throughout the year developing into one of the teams top Canadians. The top goalkicker for 2008 was Saints coach Superboot Anthony Williams. The Saints 2008 Season has now officially come to an end with many exciting times ahead for 2009...

Saints Awards night 22nd November 7:00pm

The Québec Saints will hold their inaugral Awards night at The Irish Embassy Pub 1234 Rue Bishop, 22nd November at 7:00pm, it is located below St Catherine. Metro's Lucien Lallier or Guy Concordia.

Saints take time to reflect on a year of hard work while looking forward to 2009

Saints v Bombers match Best on Ground Jeff Lavoie and Jaye Macumber

After the hugely successful launch of the E.C.A.F.L in Quebec, plans are in place for an expansion of the league in 2009 with a fixture to be announced early March 2009 and the possibilty of teams from Quebec City and Ottawa taking up invitations to participate in the league.

AFL Canada has also announced plans to host the first ever club 'Nationals' in Calgary in July of 2009, although the Saints are still very much in the development stages all efforts will be made to see Quebec is represented at the carnival.

Stay tuned for news on the Saints awards night which is currently be organized...

The Saints Blog Spot now up and running...

The Saints now have a forum for all the latest news and views on footy in Québec, We will be posting all Schedules, Match Reports and Team Functions aswell as News here on a regular basis so check back frequently!