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Mean Machine quick to lock in existing players

LADDER-leading Bridgewater has got in early with a swag of key re-signings for 2026, weeks before the finals have begun. The most important is the re-appointment of Lachlan Sharp as coach after his impressive season, as the Mean Machine pushes for...

14 hours ago

LEGITIMACY TEST Magpies go into Derby with just one big scalp

BY GARY WALSH BOORT’S finals credibility is on the line when the Magpies host fierce rivals Wedderburn in North Central senior football this Saturday. More than local bragging rights are up for grabs, with the Redbacks making a late bid for the...

14 hours ago

Bears come close against top side

BEARS Lagoon Serpentine’s bid to make the A Grade netball finals is all but over. A narrow defeat to unbeaten Mitiamo has the Bears two games behind Marong and with an inferior percentage with just two rounds left to play. Serp’s battle with the...

15 hours ago

Slapstick in the goal square as Sharp nears century

By GARY WALSH AT THREE-QUARTER time against Newbridge on Saturday, Bridgewater coach Lachlan Sharp – sitting on 97 goals for the season – told his players, “If it comes, it comes”, encouraging them not to focus on his looming milestone. For...

01 Aug 2025

Nevins, Cotchett add to Demons’ dreary day

CALIVIL was kept goalless in a 104-point defeat at a sodden Inglewood Community Sports Centre on Saturday in a match that sealed the Woodies’ finals spot. The highway end goal square was like a kids’ wading pool, and the interchange area was...

Midfielder had a ball in the wet

BOOTS heavy and caked with mud, waterlogged socks weighed down around the ankles, a ball like a piece of soap – wet-weather footy is not for the faint-hearted. However, for Inglewood midfielder Damien Polack, it’s actually welcome. “As a small...

Dominant Redbacks play one for the history book

FOR JUST the second time in North Central senior football history a team has been held scoreless in a game, with Wedderburn crushing Donald by 121 points last Saturday. The hapless Royal Blues joined the Birchip Watchem side from round nine in 1981...

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Loddon Herald 31 July 2025

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