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Brown appointed to home club role

HEYFIELD-product Leigh Brown will return to his home club next season as Heyfield Football-Netball Club’s director of coaching. Brown played 246 AFL games across stints at Fremantle, North Melbourne and Collingwood between 2000 and 2011. The 39-year-old will assist Kangaroos coach Rick Galea on training nights and selected game days to help out with programs and set-ups. Brown has kept close tabs on his home club post his AFL days, playing the odd senior game here and there. Heyfield ended the abandoned North Gippsland Football-Netball League season in eighth position with four wins and six losses. The Kangaroos started the season ablaze, winning their first four games, but took a dramatic nosedive thereafter, losing the next six. That being said, three of those six losses were by under 18 points, and the inclusion of Brown might see Heyfield flip a number of those close results next season. In a quirky aside, Brown is also one half of the answer to the trivia question: ‘who are the only two AFL players to play 50 or more games at three different clubs?’ For the record, Brown played 63 matches at Fremantle, 118 at North Melbourne and 65 at Collingwood. The other is Glenn Coleman, who played 64 games with Fitzroy, 61 with Sydney and 69 with Footscray from 1980 to 1993. Heyfield has a proud history of producing AFL players. The small timber town boasts Brown, David Wojcinski (203 games for Geelong), Adrian Cox (54 games for Hawthorn), Mark Stevens (122 games for North Melbourne and Adelaide) and Matt Ferguson (12 games for St Kilda). Remarkably, three of those went on to win premierships. Brown won a flag with Collingwood in 2010, Stevens at Adelaide in 1998 and Wojcinski got three with Geelong in 2007, 2009, 2011.

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Goannas win season opener a gainst KWR

THE Gippsland Goannas Veterans Cricket Club returned to the field at the weekend. The Goannas welcomed Koo Wee Rup Over 60s to Maffra on Sunday for the first game of the 2021-22 season. Goannas captain for the day, Reno Metlikovec, won the toss and decided to bat. The wicket and outfield was in superb condition, despite the rain that had fallen during the week and overnight Saturday. Ray Smith and Fred Debono opened the innings steadily, but kept scoring consistently, until Smith retired for 43 from 40 balls in the 11th over. Debono was bowled by a ‘second bouncer’ in the 15th over for 15, as Col Carmody, then Rob Taylor kept the score moving. At the 20 over drinks break these two had taken the score to 1-99. Carmody retired for 41 from as many balls, and Taylor (18) was lbw to Ray ‘Pink’ Floyd, one of two Goannas who played with the KWR side. The score was then 2-127 in the 25th over. Neil Meredith and Murray Moore both came and went quickly, as the score went to 4-136 after 28 overs. Metlikovec, Ian Gibson, Peter Anton and Ian Southall all reached double figures and retired or were not out, as the Goannas reached 199 for the loss of five wickets from the allotted 40 overs. Again, due to COVID, players had to bring their own afternoon tea, with many not realising they also had to bring their own cup of tea. The breeze felt cooler after the break, as Southall and Gordon Cowling opened the attack for the Goannas. The pair managed to jeep KWR to 11 from the first 10 overs, with Cowling bowling one of the

The Gippsland Goannas Over 60s cricket team in action at Maffra on Sunday. Photo: supplied

batsmen in the 10th over. Southall had a rest (five overs for seven runs) and Anton came into the attack.

Briagolong’s Gordon Cowling attacks the Koo Wee Rup bowling for the Gippsland Goannas.

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Cowling bowled his eight overs straight, finishing with 1-11, while Anton had the number four batter well caught behind by Gibson. KWR was then 2-37 after 19 overs. Smith came on from the northern end, and his six overs of legspin yielded 1-14. He then took a nice catch in the slips from Anton’s bowling (2-22 from seven overs), and KWR was 4-48 after 22 overs. Goannas’ Garry Rose and Floyd batted for a while, till Floyd was well stumped by Gibson from the bowling of Moore (1-7 from five overs). Barrie Nunn bowled tidily (0-3 from four overs) and Debono and Taylor bowled the last five overs between them as KWR finished at 5-83 after the 40 overs. The Goannas performed well with bat and ball and in the field to earn a good win in the first game of the season. The Goannas Over 70 team was due to play against the Yarra Valley Over 70s this coming week, but Yarra Valley has forfeited the match. The Goannas Over 50 team will play this coming Sunday against reigning premier Geelong at Sale Oval, and the Over 60 team will travel to Elsternwick to take on the Australia Cricket Society’s Over 60s. The Over 70 team will play its first game of the season at Briagolong on Sunday, November 21 against the West Gippsland Over 70s, which will include players from each of the KWR, Iona and South Gippsland clubs. Training will continue at Glengarry on Wednesdays from 4.45pm. Interested players can phone Ian Gibson on 0427 376 776. The Over 70 team, in particular, is looking for extra players.

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