Give A Little Back For Greenie

David (Greenie) has been the Taradale AFC first team manager for 35 years in a row. This has encompassed approximately 600+ games. He epitomises everything Taradale AFC is all about. David doesn’t have any brothers, sisters or children playing at the club but is considered family by us all.

David had childhood leukemia, which many who have this don't make it to adulthood. He has never let this get in the way of what he does for the club and merely considers his treatments as “something he does”.

In early 2021, it was discovered that David had a brain tumour. After surgery, 6 weeks of radiation and chemotherapy, followed by 6 monthly cycles of chemotherapy, David passed the initial 12 month prognosis he was given. In June 2022, at his 3 monthly check up, the oncologist noticed a significant increase in the size of the tumour. As surgery and more radiation was no longer an option for treatment, chemotherapy was suggested. However this alone was not going to prove effective. In order to try and improve his prognosis, the oncologist suggested an anti angiogenic therapy known as 'Avastin'. David is due to have six cycles of this every fortnight (he has already had two treatments) at a cost of $9,093.35 each time. This is not funded by our health care system so it’s at David’s expense.

It has got to a stage now where this treatment is becoming a financial burden. As a club, we would like to do everything we can in order to support David, as he has done so for us for so many years.