Some of her former teammates are here, and I know some of her former teammates would love to be here today, but can’t.

Others have family representatives here as a show of support.

I first met Stephanie in early 2009 when I received an email saying that she wanted to organise a club for some CSU female students to have a game of soccer with.

This was the first sign of Stephanie’s leadership qualities.

My first meeting with Stephanie was at McDonalds, Glenfield, an appropriate place seeing uni students love Maccas.

After approaching Steve Wait to help with the side, it turned out I ended up the coaching coordinator and Steve the social coordinator, as we know how uni students love to party.

We ventured out to CSU to meet Stephanie and the girls, and we had our first training session at Peter Hastie Oval not knowing what to expect.

However, after enlisting some of the Tolland Junior girls to mix with the uni girls Tolland Women’s team, Mark 2 was formed, as Tolland had been without a women’s team for a number of years.

And what a team that turned out to be.

In the first year of 2009 we won the Madden Shield, then after being put up into the Leonard Cup for 2010 we again won that competition, all be it with 35 seconds to spare, and again making the grand final of the Leonard in 2011 only to lose to Henwood Park.

None of this would have been possible without the devotion, commitment, enthusiasm and loyalty of one Stephanie Scott.

The way she brought that team together was amazing and it showed with the results.

She was a leader, not a follower, and this is true in all aspects of her life as being a teacher takes lots of patience and dedication.

Plenty of stories could be told about those three years, most of them not fit for young human ears, however I get the feeling that Stephanie right at this moment is saying “Dave come on stop talking there is a game to play and we are going to win”.

Stephanie is with us today in spirit as her number 10 jumper has been retired for the day and is sitting on the bench.

So in tribute to Stephanie Scott’s contribution to The Tolland Football Club, in particular the women’s team, could you all be upstanding, remove any headwear and observe one minute silence.

YOUR correspondent, John Westman, is entirely right in his assertion that government and other “official” scientists will do anything to avoid debate on the issue of whether human-related carbon dioxide emissions cause dangerous anthropogenic global warming (DAGW).

This, the DAGW hypothesis, is simply stated, and it is equally simple to test it against factual information. For instance, all the main measures of global temperature now indicate that there has been no warming since about 1997, ie. for the last 17 years.

Over that same period almost 35 per cent of all post-industrial human-related emissions have occurred, as represented by an increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide of about 10 per cent.

Those facts represent just one of several empirical tests of the DAGW hypothesis, which they invalidate, as do several other simple factual tests described in my recent book Taxing Air (page 108).

The reason that government-appointed official scientists won't debate the DAGW hypothesis in public is obvious - if they debate, they lose.