While returning club president Peter Learmonth was disappointed with the attendance at the AGM, he explained the football netball club was in the “best position for 15 to 20 years’’.
“We now have four or five very large sponsors for next year and the recreation reserve will again be known as GV Creamery Oval.
“Our players will have GV Creamery on their shorts as well this season,” he said.
Mr Learmonth, who took over the presidency from Mark Schumann four years ago, said he was hoping to “tie up some loose ends’’ off-field before the start of the 2023 Goulburn Valley league season.
“The shire is promising the new netball court and the viewing shelter on the western side of the oval will be completed.
“But we are still in the dark on the development of the Wilf Cox Community Centre. The plans are finished, but we don’t have a timeline for those works,” he said.
Mr Learmonth, a premiership player with the Bombers, said he had been pushing for the redevelopment of the club’s facilities since he had returned to the club
“We would really like to know what is happening with the works. There seems to have been a slowdown at the ground,” he said.
Russell Morgan will continue as vice president of the club, while some “new blood’’ has arrived in the form of newly appointed secretary Paul Shortis.
Kyabram has operated without a club secretary for three years, Shortis taking on the role after filling a variety of roles at the club, including as a team manager for the juniors.
Kate Whitford has been appointed treasurer of the club, taking over from Brenton Sheppard.
“I was a bit disappointed in the AGM turnout, we only had 20 at the meeting,’’ Mr Learmonth said.
“We need to match the work we’ve been doing in recruiting with the interest in running the club,” he said.
Mr Learmonth said coach Paul Newman and his football department, who started training on Monday evening, was “going pretty well in a football sense’’.
He also announced that due to the fact he couldn’t find a reserves football coach he would be taking on the job himself for 2023.
On the netball scene, Mr Learmonth said there was a professional approach to the new season.
“They are starting to put things in place and recruiting,” he said.
“There are some very good juniors coming through and we hope to provide them with a pathway to the top level.’’
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