Colac district football clubs will receive a $2000 Christmas bonus on the back of a new league administration venture.Colac and District Football League has signed off on an agreement for Football Geelong officials to manage its administration, a move which will save the league $20,000 a year.Re-appointed Colac district football chairman Phil Cobbledick said clubs [...]
Alvie Football Club has gone with one of its most loved characters to lead the senior team next season.Respected big man Luke McLennan will swap his playing duties for football’s toughest job after accepting the Swans’ coaching position.McLennan’s appointment ends Alvie’s two-month search following the retirement of Michael Hickey.Swan officials say the choice of a [...]
Geelong Falcons’ regional manager Michael Turner has backed Colac’s Nathan Foley to become Richmond’s next football captainTurner said having watched the way a young Foley acquitted himself at under-age football, he was always destined to be a strong leader.Foley, a former Colac Tigers and Geelong Falcons player, is in the running to take on the [...]
New Apollo Bay football coach Sean Permezel intends to change people’s perceptions of his club.Permezel, 30, said his first priority was turning around the club’s poor on and off-field record by developing “local” players who had an interest in the club.Permezel, who grew up at Apollo Bay and plays with the club, said the Hawks [...]
Prized Apollo Bay football recruit Damian O’Connor has parted ways with the club.O’Connor will move back to Hampden Football League club Terang-Mortlake next year after one season with the Hawks.O’Connor is just one of the Bay’s recruits to leave the club, with new coach Sean Permezel committed to developing players from within the seaside town.Permezel [...]
Former Lorne football coach Brock Shiels will return to the Dolphins next season, forming a leadership alliance with current coach Lee Hollmer.Shiels signed with the club at the weekend as an assistant to Hollmer, three years after Lorne officials appointed Michael Coutts as his replacement.Shiels, 29, has played with Bellarine Football League club Anglesea for [...]
South Colac has snared the biggest recruit of Colac district football’s off-season trading period.Alvie captain Josh Goonan will play with South Colac next season, having accepted an assistant coaching role with the Roos.Goonan’s switch has stunned officials at Alvie, which ironically is still hunting a replacement for outgoing coach Mick Hickey.Hickey, who remains on the [...]
Former Colac district football star Paul Lynch says he has yet to commit to playing next season, let alone coaching a club.Lynch, 35, has laid to rest speculation he would return to his former home town and coach a Colac district league club next year.The former Geelong AFL star, who has played with Leopold in [...]
Former Colac AFL rookie Lachlan Veale will add sizeable weight to Colac Tigers’ 2009 premiership aspirations after signing with the club.Veale’s commitment to the Tigers is a major coup for the club and its big man department, and follows confirmation former big men Shane Theodore and Sam McGuane are likely to return to the team [...]
An AFL premiership medal, a Norm Smith medal, an All-Australian jumper, vice-captaincy and a new baby boy.Sounds like the lifelong wish-list of an aspiring youngster looking to carve out a career in football.Hawthorn’s Luke Hodge achieved all those things in less than six months. No wonder he rates 2008 as the best year of his [...]
