Dual Kyabram premiership skipper Josh Vick will join other former Kyabram flag-winning players in Sam and Tom Sheldon, Axel Child and Josh Pell at Moama where Sam Sheldon has taken over the senior coaching reins.
Josh Pell, a member of Kyabram’s 2019 flag-winning Goulburn Valley League side, has spent the past two seasons with the Murray League Magpies and Sam Sheldon appeared in some games last year. But it will be the first time Tom Sheldon, Child and Vick will strip for the club.
Vick was a long-serving Kyabram captain who was skipper for the Bombers in their 2016 and 2017 premiership wins. He missed Kyabram’s drought-breaking premiership side’s win in 2013 under coach Dave Williams as he was playing in Perth at the time.
A former Murray Bushranger in his junior days he went on to make two Victorian Country Football League representative sides in his prime.
Vick is nearing 38 years of age but keeps himself fit.
He expects to slot into a defensive role with his new club where his experience in this area will be invaluable.
The key defender, who played 200-plus senior games with the Bombers, said the bottom line of his comeback bid with Moama was ‘‘how the body holds up’’ and maybe limiting to spacing the games he plays.
‘‘I’ve attended a couple of their training sessions prior to Christmas and they are a good bunch of blokes with a lot of young players,’’ Vick said.
“I’ll just see how it works out. It’s going to be a lot easier for me as I live in Moama so I’ll now be looking to make more visits back to Ky to see family.”
Kyabram coach Paul Newman described Vick as an ‘‘unbelievable servant’’ of the Kyabram Football Club who had ‘‘done it all“.
‘‘He was great leader, a great clubman and a great bloke and will be sorely missed around the club and leaves us with our best wishes,’’ Newman said.
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