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Abby Pettifer to lead Girgarre

THE cancelled Kyabram District League season is only a small bump in the road for Girgarre’s dream of an A grade premiership, according to coach Abby Pettifer. Supporters of the club believed Pettifer had the team building towards something...

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DES Campbell is recognised as one of the Goulburn Valley’s greatest ever sportsman. And it’s an assessment no-one can refute. Whether it was football or cricket, Des, a muscular powerhouse in his heyday who was given the perfect nickname...

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Cricket to return in November

CRICKET in northern Victoria could start earlier than expected, as COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed.

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Old football photo stirs curiosity

A football team picture from more than a century ago has stirred curiosity in the region. The photo — of the Barmah Redgummers in 1905 — was submitted to The Shepparton News by Goulburn Valley resident Don Phillips. Phillips, who was...

Tyler Maher
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Stanhope Recreation Reserve getting makeover

Stanhope Cricket Club is making the best of a bad situation and tackling a project firmly on the overdue list. With no football being played at Stanhope Recreation Reserve this season, club members decided to seize the opportunity and rip up the...

Alex Mitchell
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Hawes takes whistle, heads north

KYABRAM’s Connor Hawes is currently cooling his heels in quarantine in hot Darwin, awaiting his chance to officiate as a central umpire in the Northern Territory Football League this season.

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WHILE Peter Lyon gets most of the credit for ensuring the Kyabram Football Netball Club still had a future in the tough times of the early 2000s, Dave Williams has been awarded most of the plaudits for restoring a winning culture to the club. When...

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Denahy joins Bombers’ flag tilt

KYABRAM Football Netball Club has added a classy midfielder-flanker to its ranks for the 2021 Goulburn Valley League season. The Bombers have snared Nic Denahy, who won Echuca United Football Club’s best and fairest award in 2018 and was...

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Ky legend Bob Vick dies

KYABRAM Football Club lost the final link of its 1948 premiership-winning side and a town stalwart with the death of Bob Vick at the weekend.

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Kyabram prepared to manage cap in 2021

KYABRAM Football Netball Club coach Brad Edwards has been buoyed by the response of Kyabram players to the heavy AFL Goulburn Murray player salary cap reductions. The Goulburn Valley League’s salary cap has been slashed from $175,000 a year to...

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CHRIS Salter was a fiercely determined rover in the true rover mould over a 13-year playing career with the Kyabram Football Club from the mid 1960s through to the 1970s. Fearless and relentless he never took a backward step and revelled when the...

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Vale David Fox - The definition of a ‘football personality’

COUNTRY footy has this week lost one of its great champions – and will be the poorer for it. Because David Fox’s impact on the country football community – and in particular the Goulburn Valley League – wasn’t one of just...

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Changes to cricket protocols

MATCH-day protocols at all levels of cricket will change significantly for the 2020-21 season in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of changes will be introduced by Cricket Australia to attempt to keep players as safe as they can during the...

Andrew Johnston
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O’Brien claims Fred Hoysted Medal

KYABRAM’S Danny O’Brien has crowned the best season of his racing career with the prestigious Fred Hoysted Medal for Victoria’s most outstanding trainer of the 2019/20 season. It was a season of massive firsts for the...

Andrew Mole
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Melbourne Cup to return to Kyabram

Australia’s most prized racing silverware — the Melbourne Cup — is to make a third appearance in five years in Kyabram. Promotors of the famous two-mile race on the first Tuesday in November announced they had included Kyabram...

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AFL Goulburn Murray announces 2021 salary caps

RELATIONSHIPS between players and clubs could be significantly tested in 2021 after AFL Goulburn Murray announced significant cuts to salary caps for next season. The Goulburn Valley and Murray leagues have both had its Allowable Player Payments...

Brayden May
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GMC seeking youth girls expressions of interest

GOULBURN Murray Cricket is currently seeking expressions of interests for the upcoming youth girls season. Although a start date is officially yet to be confirmed, GMC wants to make season 2020-21 the biggest yet. Last season saw four teams...

Brayden May
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Goulburn Murray Cricket identify new start date

GOULBURN Murray Cricket has confirmed it has a new target date for the first ball to be bowled in the 2020-21 season. Competition officials had originally been hoping to get play under way on October 10 but were forced to change their plans when...

Brayden May

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Man killed in Yambuna car crash

A MAN has been killed and two people injured after a car rolled north of Tongala this morning. The vehicle with three occupants was travelling along Curr Rd, in Yambuna, when it ran off the road and overturned about 9.30am. The male driver was...

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COVID-19 restrictions loosen from next Sunday for regional Victoria

Gatherings of up to five people will be allowed in outdoor public places while single parents and people living alone will be able to nominate a friend or family member to visit them, as part of eased restrictions.

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NSW-Victoria border restrictions to be eased on Friday

THE easing of restrictions on the NSW-Victoria border are set to come into effect on Friday, September 4. NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian will be in Albury today where she is expected to announce the finer details of the border zone extension from...

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Skipping COVID roadmap step a possibility, says premier

Regional Victorians could skip a step in the COVID roadmap if active case remain low, meaning patrons could also return to sit-down meals rather than the current takeaway and delivery options.

James Bennett