Tyler McNamara in action for the Mounts last season.
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JORDAN TOWNROW
Girgarre Football Club will have a strong Mt Pleasant flavour to it in the coming Kyabram and District Football League season.
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New coach Tyler McNamara claims up to a dozen of his Mt Pleasant teammates, most of whom played in its premiership side in the Heathcote League last year, will line-up with the Roos, and finals are firmly in his focus.
Girgarre has made only one finals appearance in the Kyabram League in the last quarter of a century.
That was when former Essendon player Damian Cupido got the Roos into a semi-final in 2022, a season in which he kicked 100 goals.
McNamara, 28, is well aware of the huge challenge in front of him but believes his coaching apprenticeship with the Mt Pleasant reserves for the past three seasons — they have been runners-up for the past two years — in the Heathcote League will hold him in good stead for his first senior coaching appointment.
McNamara believes all the Mt Pleasant recruits will prove to be up to Kyabram League standard, with several of them potential matchwinners.
Tyler McNamara.
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JORDAN TOWNROW
The cream of the recruits includes his brother Ryley, Reardon McIvor and Fraser Cole, all versatile midfielders, defender Connor Moore and small and skilful goalkicking forward Jack McKenzie.
McNamara will also add experience to Girgarre’s defence.
“I know we have plenty of work to do to get where we want to be but it won’t be for the lack of trying,” he said.
In its pre-season training, Girgarre has added an extra Saturday morning training session at Kyabram to its regular weekly hit-outs at Girgarre, which have drawn pleasing numbers.
The club currently has training sessions on Monday and Wednesday nights but will revert to the traditional Tuesday and Thursday nights once the cricket season ends.
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