football
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Lakey, Stewart, Gisborne’s best
Bill West Gisborne’s highest football award, the Gardiner Medal, has been won by 19-year-old dynamo Flynn Lakey. And not unexpectedly, star netballer Maddy Stewart – twice a Bendigo League Betty Thompson Medal winner – took out Gisborne A-grade netball’s best player award. The club’s awards night on Thursday was at the Starlight Room at Taylor…
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New coach for Tigers
Bill West Gisborne resident Tim Bannan is really looking forward to being the new senior football coach at Lancefield next season. His appointment was confirmed last week, and the 43-year-old comes to Tigerland having had a long involvement at a playing and coaching level in both football and cricket. Last year Bannan coached a youthful…
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Masters still getting a kick out of footy
They are grey, they are bald and they say they’re too old, but Woodend-Hesket Masters still get a kick out of footy… so says their club song. Masters football is for men aged from 35 years old with an emphasis on “footy for fun”, with games in the Victorian AFL Masters League more social than…
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Gisborne footy girls excel
With the Gisborne Under 13 Junior Girls having a bye this round, the Gisborne Under 15 Youth Girls were first up in Round 5, taking on Darley at Darley Park. In relatively cool, yet fine conditions, the girls continued their good form from last week, linking well across the ground, but couldn’t quite convert on…
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Bomber invasion
The Macedon Ranges were invaded by Bombers last week – Bombers of the football variety that is. Hundreds of young school children had the chance to catch up with Essendon’s finest from the field as they came to local footy clubs and Hanging Rock (pictured) to mix with the kids, run them through training sessions…
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Kyneton U18 coach needed…VFL players set to assist
Kyneton Football Netball Club is widening its net in its search for an Under 18s coach for the 2019 Season. The yet -to-be-appointed coach will have excellent support from two of the club’s senior VFL players. Patrick McCarthy is listed with the North Melbourne Football Club’s VFL department and Max O’Sullivan is training with Carlton’s…
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Tigers kick off year with upgrade
Kyneton Football Netball Club will kick start the year with a $13,636 upgrade to its pavilion kitchen. Federal Member for Bendigo Lisa Chesters announced a Stronger Communities grant for the refurbishment at the Kyneton Showgrounds last week. “The refurbishment will not only benefit KFNC in terms of revenue and service to members and the public,…
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Tigers need your help
Kyneton Football Netball Club is calling on the community for support as it struggles under the weight of financial burden. A five-year-old legacy debt from when the club went into recession, combined with accumulating new costs, has left it with a current debt of about $200,000. Club president Karen O’Sullivan said the new executive committee…
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Strong second half downs Magpies
Kyneton produced a strong second half to defeat a plucky Castlemaine by 58 points on Saturday. The match started in some of the toughest conditions seen all season, with heavy rain and hail thumping down for the first five minutes of play and then steady rain persisting for much of the first half, enough to…
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Comedy for the club
*Change of venue* Kyneton Football Netball Club’s comedy night fundraiser on Saturday will now be held at the KFNC Social Clubrooms! No joke! Stay after the Kyneton V Maryborough game for some laughs. Comedy for a Cause will feature comedians from the Sydney and Melbourne International Comedy Festivals, including Xavier Michelides, James Masters, Beau Stegmann…
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Hawks stay alive!
Woodend-Hesket’s season was on the line in a do-or-die match against an in-form Romsey on Saturday, and the Hawks came through with flying colours with a runaway 56 points margin at Gilbert Gordon Oval. Second placed Riddell, on a 11-game winning streak, play both Romsey and Woodend-Hesket in the next two rounds, and both will…
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Match 500 for a sport master
If, when he began playing junior footy for Macedon in 1981, Ray Tadd had listened to people who told him that he was “not much chop” then he wouldn’t have run out with the Woodend-Hesket Masters last Sunday afternoon through a banner congratulating him on his 500th game playing football. Ray, who has been playing…