Gisborne Football Netball Club
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Gisborne supreme
Gisborne senior footballers reigned supreme at Gardiner Reserve on Saturday, demolishing Castlemaine by a mammoth 223 points. After the Magpies’ 52-point victory over Maryborough in the previous round, the talented Bulldogs were prepared for some strong opposition. To Castlemaine’s credit, players battled hard and kept up their efforts in the face of a scoring blitz…
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Rampant Bulldogs
Six goals apiece in the first quarter at the Showgrounds on Saturday indicated the Kyneton versus Gisborne senior match would be a high-scoring, closely fought affair. Then a dramatic change came over the match, with the Bulldogs systematically taking control in most positions, snuffling out the Tigers’ forward advances, and ramming home 15-7 to 1.5…
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Gisborne’s $104,700 MND record breaker
Against the odds, Gisborne Football and Netball Community, and importantly its sponsors and partners, has raised a huge amount to go to the Fight MND charity in the ongoing battle to try and find a cure for motor neurone disease. The $104,700 record breaking tally for the 2021 season campaign selling thousands of special beanies…
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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…