Football

Box Hill Hawks double header returns to Wonthaggi

THE Hawks are heading back to Bass Coast next month, and to kick things off, AFLW star midfielder Emily Bates was in town on Friday taking the 2024 McClelland Trophy on tour with a visit to the iconic Kilcunda Trestle Bridge. A premiership player...

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Chloe Kent

8 hours ago

News

Demons remain ‘hopeful’ despite Xavier Lindsay injury

INVERLOCH’S Xavier Lindsay has already made a significant impact in his first season with the Melbourne Demons but early in Saturday’s match against the Gold Coast Suns at the MCG, Lindsay came up after a contest clutching his knee The Number 11...

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Sentinel-Times

15 hours ago

Football

Improvements celebrated at Korumburra Showgrounds

UPGRADED facilities for footy and netball were officially opened at the Korumburra Showgrounds on Saturday, representatives of the various organisations involved in the project there to mark the occasion. Korumburra-Bena netballers and their...

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Andrew Paloczi

27 Mar 2025

Football

Slashing debut by new Demon Lindsay

IF THEY didn’t know who Xavier Lindsay was last week, the 200,000 people who play AFL Supercoach will all be scrambling to add the Inverloch dynamo to their teams this week after he collected 22 possessions and 86 Supercoach points on debut. The...

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Sentinel-Times

18 Mar 2025

Football

Junior girls footy to kick off at Nyora this season

NYORA is looking forward to fielding at least one girls footy side this season under the guidance of coach Adam Tagliaferro, whose daughter Aaylah inspired the move. She didn’t enjoy mixed footy but expressed a desire to play in a girls team after...

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Sentinel-Times

15 Mar 2025

Football

Friends and family fly in to welcome a new Swan

LEONGATHA’S Tom Hanily made his debut in AFL football last Friday night, in one of the biggest games of the year, the season opener against Hawthorn at the time-honored SCG. And they came from everywhere to witness the special occasion. A carload...

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Sentinel-Times

12 Mar 2025

Football

Leongatha’s football factory turns out another AFL player

THE Leongatha Football Netball Club has further enhanced its reputation as a ‘football factory’ for the AFL with another of their favourite sons, Tom Hanily, being named to make his debut for the Sydney Swans in Friday night’s opening match of...

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Michael Giles

07 Mar 2025

Football

$250,000 for Wonthaggi Power ground upgrades

GREAT news, just prior to the start of the football-netball season for the Wonthaggi Power Football Netball Club. The club’s oval at Wonthaggi has received a $250,000 grant for various works to be undertaken as part of $1.4 million round of...

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Courtney O'Brien

04 Mar 2025

Football

How Isaac Chugg will split his time between Tassie and Wonthaggi

IT WOULD have dumbfounded good judges of the Gippsland League to hear that Wonthaggi Power’s star recruit of 2024, the pacey winger from Collingwood, Isaac Chugg, received umpires’ votes in only one match last season. Chugg played 20 games for...

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Michael Giles

21 Feb 2025

Football

Wonthaggi looks local for power boost in 2025

AS CLUBS kick their new season preparations into top gear, inbound recruitment is usually all the talk. And on that score, Wonthaggi was hoping to sign experienced Port Melbourne campaigner Anthony Anastasio before he tragically damaged his anterior...

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Sentinel-Times

14 Feb 2025

Football

Sharks lure in the kids

SMILES, laughter and frustration at times filled Tarwin Recreation Reserve on Saturday, February 1, as kids of all ages took to the field and courts for the Tarwin Sharks Family Day. Not only was the event the perfect opportunity for families to...

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Sentinel-Times

07 Feb 2025

Football

Wonthaggi eyes homegrown power boost in 2025

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Michael Giles

07 Feb 2025

Football

Drop punt down memory lane

FOOTBALL legends do not get any larger than the six-foot-plus (185 cm) North Melbourne ruckman and former young Wonthaggi footballer Ron Fletcher. Born April 1927 Ron played twenty-one games in the Victorian Football League from 1950 to 1951...

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Sentinel-Times

13 Dec 2024