Gisborne Football Netball Club
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Lakey’s Morrish Medal
There was plenty of elation in the Gisborne area last week as teenage star Flynn Lakey won the NAB League’s Morrish Medal. Lakey played nine matches with the Calder Cannons this season in between some senior matches with Gisborne. The ball-winning midfielder was best afield three times with the Cannons, and finished with 12 votes…
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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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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…
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Epic comeback by Bulldogs
A remarkable turnaround by Gisborne senior footballers produced five crucial last quarter goals and a four-point victory over Eaglehawk on Saturday. It may well be a season defining victory for the Bulldogs, who find themselves in third position on the ladder, with a home and away games round break this Saturday, then very winnable matches…
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Major community and sports pavilion
Across several generations, Assumption College at Kilmore has drawn students from the Macedon Ranges area, and continues to do so. The renowned Catholic co-educational secondary day and boarding college in the Marist Brothers tradition has a long and proud history, and later this year a significant building will get underway. The new state-of-the-art Neale Daniher…
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Beanies make Gisborne No. 1
Gisborne Football Netball Club and its affiliates have raised $88,880 this year for FightMND Big Freeze 6, by far the largest amount by any community fundraising group. “As a club, as a community, we are only too pleased to support FightMND and the battle against the deadly disease,” Gisborne FNC president John Wood said at…
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Gisborne withdraws from 2020 competition
Gisborne Football Netball Club has announced its decision to withdraw its football and netball teams from the 2020 Bendigo Football Netball League competition. In a statement issued to club members on Tuesday night, Bulldogs president John Wood said the difficult decision had been made in response to concerns for the health, safety and wellbeing of…
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Football-netball clubs in doubt on match play
What are the prospects of football and netball taking place across the Bendigo and Riddell leagues this season? “We just don’t know” is the current condensed summation from Gisborne Football Netball Club president John Wood (pictured). While he was speaking to the Express following a BFL club presidents’ meeting last week, and a follow-up get-together of the…
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Bulldogs back Beanies
Gisborne Football Netball Club has launched a strong campaign to sell large numbers of special beanies with all proceeds to go to the FightMND program. Last season the Bulldogs ran activities over several weeks and a massive $42,000 was raised; this year’s major plans have been put on hold as a direct consequence of the…
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Bulldogs picked up in draft
Two former Gisborne footballers are beginning to live the dream. Sam Ramsay and Harrison Jones, who until this season just gone played with the Calder Cannons, were picked up last week in the AFL draft. Ramsay, who was number 47 in the draft has been snared by Carlton. Jones was pick 30 and is now…
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Gisborne’s Gardiner Reserve upgrades given go ahead
A major cost blowout will not stop two pavilion upgrade projects for Gisborne’s Gardiner Reserve from getting underway before the 2020 game season. Macedon Ranges Council agreed to allocate $20,000 from its Public Open Space Financial Reserve and to run a $462,099 short-term budget deficit to fund the project. Reserve user groups have spent years…
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Cost blowout – Gardiner Reserve upgrades face setback
A major cost blowout for upgrades at Gardiner Reserve threatens to disrupt Gisborne’s 2020 winter sports season or delay the project by 12 months. The $462,099 shortfall for two pavilion upgrade projects is expected to push back works to game season: a scenario that has been described as “a nightmare” for five tenant clubs and…