06/09/2026
❤️🖤 THIS IS WHAT MAKES ME PROUD TO BE A BARKER 🤍❤️
Just over a day since we opened our Summer Slam volunteer roster, and already members of our club have started putting their hands up and filling shifts.
Seeing that response makes me incredibly proud.
But we still have a lot of spots to fill, and this is one of those times when we need the whole Barkers community behind us.
The Red Earth Summer Slam is much more than another football tournament.
For eight weeks across October and November, it gives more than 600 young footballers another eight weeks of pure football — more touches, more games, more goals, more friendships and more memories made on the pitch.
But what many people may not realise is just how important Summer Slam is to Mooroolbark Soccer Club.
The funds generated through this tournament go straight back into our football program. They help us provide our players with a level of coaching, facilities, equipment, development and football opportunities that I genuinely believe is unrivalled by clubs in Melbourne's east — while keeping the cost of playing football at Mooroolbark at a fraction of what many clubs charge.
And we can only do that because of you.
Every person who cooks a snag, serves at the canteen, helps around the grounds or gives us a few hours of their weekend is contributing directly to what we can provide our players and families.
You don't need to give up your whole weekend.
Even one shift will make a difference.
If every family gives us just a little bit of their time, together we can run an incredible tournament, give hundreds of kids eight more weeks of football and continue building the football club we are all so proud to call ours.
To everyone who has already signed up — thank you. ❤️
To everyone else, we'd love you to join us.
👉 Choose a shift and sign up today:
https://signup.com/go/zsRqHNT
Many hands make light work — and together we can make the 2026 Red Earth Summer Slam our best one yet.
🔴⚪⚫ ONE CLUB. ONE COMMUNITY. THE BARKERS. 🔴⚪⚫
