Sterling effort yields club silverware

It's not a good look for any club anytime when members turn up on the sideline swigging beer on game days.
"That's not on and you've got to have more respect for the game," according to Signature Homes Port Hill United premier soccer team coach Tim Claudatos.
Since his club's adopted such a stringent policy the outlook for prosperity has undergone a dramatic change.
At the end of this winter the Napier club, traditionally wearing the tag of a bunch of roughies, came away with an enviable record not only in sportsmanship but with silverware to show for in several divisions.
"Having women's teams also helps because you have to stay focused in front of them.
"You can't afford to play up because parents will take them straight out of the club if you do," Claudatos says of the club that boasts two women's teams - the Sarah Doyle-captained team and the Paul Weaver-coached development team comprising of 14 to 15-year-olds.
Doyle's team won the Jackson Cup league title and the knockout plate this winter while Weaver's girls were league runners up - both sides have earned the right to first division promotion next year.
Claudatos' men have clinched the Homeworx Pacific Premiership title (the Sachs-Johnson Shield) with two players claiming the top rung of the golden boot ladder - Matt Single scored 27 goals and Patrick Pilz claimed 18.
However, Claudatos, who is stepping down as coach to assume the mantle of player/coach development officer, banishes any thoughts of graduating to the revamped Lotto Federation League next year.
"We have only won the title once and haven't proven ourselves."
He feels investing about $40,000 - about what is required to foot it at the Fed level - into youth development is a better option.
"Some of the teams in the Fed League didn't impress me much and there are no cash prizes although Maycenvale deserved to win this year," he says, sceptical about the standard of the competition.
The step up to Central League, for Maycenvale, he suspects will be sizeable.
Nevertheless, Claudatos concedes there's a danger of losing his premier players if the club doesn't provide a pathway to higher glory, now that Vale will join Bluewater Napier City Rovers as Central League flagbearers from Hawke's Bay.
"If Port Hill don't go up we'll lose players so we'll be discussing that at committee soon."
The Dan Adams-captained men's division two team, comprising predominantly Westshore Surf Life Saving Club members, etched their name on the Callinicos Trophy this year.
The Ben Quane-captained men's first divisioners are frustratingly on a runners-up roll. In 2008 they were third division runners-up but earned promotion to division two last year where they won the Holt Cup, the symbol of lower-grade knockout supremacy, although they were again runners-up in the league.
The Pete Provines-captained fourth division men have nothing to brag about but the "oldies" immensely enjoyed training and playing at a social level.
"We don't have a striker who can pop the goals in but we have a good laugh," Provines says.
Doyle says both her team and Weaver's are itching to play in the top division.
"We're basically a good team and also good friends outside playing football so we do the best for each other.
"The young girls on our heels motivated us to do better too."
The 120-member club, was established in 1975. It won the premier league for three consecutive years from 1981 and again in 2000. They also won the Knockout Cup from 1982-84.