What you can’t miss in local footy this weekend
Emotional returns and AFL stars coaching for the first time are among the biggest local footy talking points heading into the weekend. Here’s what you need to know.
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Where you can watch local footy on Good Friday
There’s set to be several local footy blockbusters on Good Friday. Here’s every fixture you can watch across Victoria.
Premier Riddell ’always the hunted’
Riddell begins it’s premiership defence in a Good Friday blockbuster but Bombers coach Justin Belleville says nothing changes for his club.
Woodend-Hesket coach: time to start pulling our weight
Woodend-Hesket coach Josh Pound says its time the Hawks’ football department “started pulling its weight” as it eyes a drought-breaking campaign.
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Sleight steps down from Woodend-Hesket
WOODEND-HESKET is looking for a new senior coach after Ross Sleight stepped down.
Bombers in seventh heaven
RIDDELL coach Jamie Elliott says his side cannot afford a mistake if it is to make finals, despite riding the momentum of a seven-match undefeated run.
One-sided junior games given the boot
A MELBOURNE football league has made a mid-season move to cap winning margins and stop recording best players and goalkickers as it tries to stop young players leaving the game.
RDFL title up for grabs
THE Riddell District Football League is “as close as it has been for a long, long time” according to one coach.
Romsey Park to host deciders
ROMSEY will host the Riddell District Football Netball League grand final for the fourth year in succession in 2017.
Bombers extend winning run to five
A FIVE-MATCH winning run has resuscitated Riddell’s campaign and given the youthful outfit a good shot at a finals berth.
Relentless Rupo keeps pace with contenders
AN IN-FORM Rupertswood moved a game clear in third spot on the Riddell District Football League ladder after a 138-point win on Saturday.
System sidelines juniors, says Sims
THE player points system has again raised contention among RDFL clubs after it prevented three junior players from being given senior games at the weekend.
Healthy Magpies flying and eyeing finals
REGULARLY attracting more than 70 players on to the training track, Wallan hopes its depth will hold it in good stead as it eyes an RDFL finals berth.
‘AFL Victoria need to reassess’
IT WAS designed to stop clubs paying juniors to recruit them, but suburban coaches in Melbourne’s northwest are not happy with some of the player points allocation system and they want it changed.
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