Gisborne Football Netball Club
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Footy, netball favourites
Premierships expectations for 2024 soared in Gisborne Football Netball Club ranks on Saturday as the club’s number one footy and netball sides rocketed straight into Bendigo League grand finals. There’s a strong feeling around Gardiner Reserve that the club’s history-making dual football and netball triumphs from 2023 can be repeated. Bendigo-based clubs must be becoming…
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Near perfection finals football
After winning the 2022 grand final, then missing finals last season, Gisborne senior footballers are on a mission in the Bendigo League’s 2024 finals series. The Bulldogs outclassed Strathfieldsaye by 55 points in the qualifying final at the Queen Elizabeth Oval on Saturday. The performance was spearheaded by five goals apiece to the classy Pat…
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One-sided at Gardiner
Wet conditions prevailed at Gardiner Reserve on Saturday, as Gisborne had some big wins against Castlemaine. In seven of the eight matches (three football, five netball) the Bulldogs were never in danger. The one exception was the thrilling 17&Under netball match where scores were tied 37-37 at siren time. With this result, Castlemaine’s young side…
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Tom Waters to retire
For almost two decades, Tom Waters has been recognised as one of the preeminent ruckmen across the Riddell and Bendigo football leagues. This Saturday, Waters will retire after playing his 300th career game in the Lancefield versus Riddell match at Tigerland. Waters reads the game to perfection. A giant leap, clever tap work and a…
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Gisborne pulls out all stops
Gisborne senior footballers had to pull out all stops to keep a resolute Golden Square at bay on Saturday. Earlier in the season the Bulldogs won by eight goals but this time the match was at Square’s home ground in Wade Street. Coming off a runaway margin of 127 points against Golden Square, Gisborne soon…
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Chasing extra players
Gisborne Football Netball Club needs some additional players to ensure it fields a strong women’s team at the top level in the Essendon District Football League next season. Highly credentialed coach Bernadette ‘Bernie’ Marantelli has been working for several weeks with a core group to build up numbers. “We need to make sure we have…
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Bulldogs hold off late surge
For three quarters Gisborne senior footballers were clearly superior to their top-of-the-ladder Sandhurst opposition on Saturday, then the match developed into an absolute thriller. The unbeaten Dragons suddenly found their best form, ramming home 6.4 to 3.1 in the last term at Gardiner Reserve.The Bulldogs hung on to win by six points. Proven big occasion…
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Magpies and Bulldogs go head to head
The Castlemaine Magpies hosted Gisborne in round eight Bendigo Football Netball League action at the Camp Reserve on Saturday. The Magpies came into the match fresh off their Indigenous Round Shield win over Kangaroo Flat and Gisborne from a 28-point victory over fellow top-four contender Strathfieldsaye Storm. It was a huge day for the Magpie…
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Gisborne on a roll
A devastating first quarter of football paved the way for Gisborne to defeat reigning Bendigo League premiers Golden Square by 46 points on Saturday. It was a big day at Gardiner Reserve for the ‘Battle of the Bulldogs’, with Gisborne honouring former captain and on and off the field stalwart Jarrad Lynch as he played…
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Gisborne by 258 points
A precision demolition performance by Gisborne senior footballers against an outclassed Maryborough shattered several records on Saturday. The 42.21 (273) to 2.3 (15) carnage at Gardiner Reserve was the Bulldogs highest winning score ever since joining the Bendigo League in 2000, and the highest score by any club in the league this century. But it…
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Shannon’s journey continues
Victorian AFLW legend and Gisborne local, Shannon McFerran, is preparing for yet another season to follow on from her best and fairest wins in the Bulldog senior women’s football team in 2022 and 2023.
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Gisborne’s netball glory
An almost unbelievable fightback late in the last quarter gave Gisborne the A-grade netball premiership against Bendigo League powerhouse Sandhurst. The 40-39 victory on Saturday highlighted one of the greatest grand final days in the Gisborne club’s proud history. In fact the Bulldogs came away from the Queen Elizabeth Oval with three premierships to celebrate.…