EFL 2019: Scoresby searching to replace leading goalkickers Dale Hehir and Nathan Hicks

There remains some uncertainty as to how Scoresby will replace its two leading goalkickers on the eve of the Eastern Football League season.

Dale Hehir attempts at spoil during his time at Scoresby. Picture: Steve Tanner

There remains some uncertainty as to how Scoresby will replace its two leading goalkickers on the eve of the Eastern Football League season.

Spearhead Dale Hehir topped last year’s Division 3 goalkicking charts with 71 goals but has joined Premier division club Rowville, while Nathan Hicks has signed with VAFA club Canterbury after booting 42 majors in 2018.

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The Magpies scored their first finals win in seven years last season but the absence of Hehir and Hicks will leave significant holes in the forward line.

Scoresby president David Renkin said the club was still working to fill the losses just weeks out from its Round 1 clash against Mitcham.

“It will take a little while longer before we start to look at who’s going to slot into what position,” Renkin said.

“I’m not sure what the coach (Scott Goldsworthy) is thinking to be brutally in honest in regards to which players he’s looking at to fill some of those positions.

“He’s experimenting at the moment so that will all come out in the wash I dare say in the next couple of weeks. But, right at the moment, it’s probably still a little bit undecided.”

Renkin said the club was working through negotiations with potential recruits and was buoyed by the side’s practice match form.

“We’re hopeful through a couple of pick ups we’ll be able to put them into a couple of those positions,” he said.

“There’s a number that have come and started to train with us but we’re just working through the finer details and possibly signing a number of those people up at the moment.

“Until they’re actually signed on the bottom line, it probably wouldn’t be right for me to make comment.”

Nathan Hicks chases the ball for Scoresby. Picture: James Ross/AAP

The experienced group of Paul and Owen Chadwick, Jesse Owen, Marc Williams, David Evans-Marcius, Jarrod and Ryan Hicks, Matthew Krawczyk, Brenton Legg, Wade and Cal McConnon and Goldsworthy have all recommitted for this year.

“There’s been a number of the stalwarts that have been around the club for a while that are continuing to play with us and a number of the young guys have come on board, too,” Renkin said.

“There’ll certainly be a lot of leadership in the group that can provide that for the younger guys coming into the team.”

Scoresby opens it Division 2 campaign on April 6.