Bendigo Football Netball League
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Tigers call meeting to discuss future
Kyneton Football Netball Club will hold public meeting this week after the AFL Central Vic Commission floated the possibility of a promotion and relegation system with a second division of the Bendigo Football Netball League next season. Kyneton’s committee has labelled what the commission has put forward as “surprising announcements regarding the change in the…
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Waters back to coach Bulldogs
Rob Waters coached Gisborne senior footballers to the 2022 Bendigo League premiership, breaking a long drought for the Bulldogs. Yesterday the club announced it was very happy to have Waters returning as the men’s senior coach next season. He will also be in charge for the three remaining matches of this season, starting with the…
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Square too good for Gisborne
Golden Square came to Gardiner Reserve on Saturday intent collecting four points, and proved too powerful despite the best efforts of the local Bulldogs. The final margin was 40 points after the visitors rammed home 6.3 to a solitary goal in the last quarter. An analysis of the match shows Gisborne only managed one scoring…
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Tigers stun Gisborne
In front of a huge and parochial Showgrounds crowd, a seemingly rejuvenated Kyneton senior football side kicked six goals straight in the last quarter to upset Gisborne by three points. The Tigers lifted their intensity and work rate in the final term, sending their supporters into raptures after Gisborne had looked set to make a…
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Square outclass Tigers
Missing up to seven regulars, a very depleted Kyneton senior team struggled from the onset against a rampaging Golden Square on Saturday. The dominance of the visitors was such that Kyneton FNC president Hayden Evans suggested the visitors seem to be in premiership winning form at the halfway mark of the season. On April 15,…
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Agony, ecstasy as Tigers win
A nail-biting Kyneton victory by two points at Gisborne on Saturday brings various ramifications for the Bendigo League’s football season. When the final siren blew it was a mixture of emotions both on and off the field; agony for the reigning premiers who want Gardiner Reserve to be a fortress, and jubilation as Kyneton stays…
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Bulldogs shake off Pies
The Castlemaine Magpies played host to Gisborne in Bendigo Football Netball League round two action at Camp Reserve last Saturday. The Magpies, led by new coach Brendan Shepherd, came into their first home match of the season off back of a win over fellow Magpies Maryborough at Princes Park in round one. The Bulldogs were…
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Bulldogs chase six flags
Gisborne Football Netball Club has six teams in Bendigo League grand finals at the Queen Elizabeth Oval this Saturday. To have all three football teams and three netball sides with premiership chances is a remarkable performance by the southern-most club in the BFNL. Gisborne A-grade netballers went down 52-49 to Kangaroo Flat in the preliminary…
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Over until next year
Diminishing hopes that there would be a Bendigo Football Netball League finals series in 2021 were finally snuffed out on Friday. The season has been cancelled, with no team or individual awards whatsoever in senior ranks. In a media release, the BFNL’s board of management in conjunction with affiliated clubs, regrettably announced a finals series…
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Riddell League pulls the pin
The Riddell District Football Netball League has cancelled its 2021 season, but it has not yet been decided if premierships will be awarded. After weeks and months of competition changes and plans being altered to keep football and netball alive across the RDFNL, the death knell arrived with the state government’s announcement regarding a further…
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Bendigo FNL season update
BFNL football and netball competition will not resume this weekend, July 31, with a season reboot for all grades set for round 16 on August 7.Following the recent announcements by the Victorian Government regarding a slight easing of current COVID restrictions specific to community sport, and after extensive consultation with all affiliated clubs, the Bendigo…
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The game must go on …
Where there’s a will there’s a way! This is how a ‘no spectators’ Bendigo League fixture between Gisborne and Kyneton was staged at Gardiner Reserve on Saturday.Gisborne teams proved too strong in both football and netball right across the board against the Tigers, with the decision to rejig the fixture and stage the matches there…