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17 November, 2022
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MITIAMO will look closer to home as it recruits players for the 2023 Loddon Valley football league. Re-elected Superoos’ president Mick Draper said the club was committed to a sustainable future. Draper said players from Queensland, Melbourne and...
MITIAMO will look closer to home as it recruits players for the 2023 Loddon Valley football league.
Re-elected Superoos’ president Mick Draper said the club was committed to a sustainable future.
Draper said players from Queensland, Melbourne and Geelong this season had made it difficult for the side to gel.
“All of a sudden there was no one out on the training track,” said Draper who was re-elected Superoos’ president at last week’s annual meeting.
Among the interstate contingent had been ruckman Michael I’Anson, star on-baller Lee Dale and midfielder Carl Nicholson.
“Everyone wants the club to survive,” Draper said. “We are financially healthy and have been interviewing a prospective coach.
“We are short of players (at the moment) but with a number of potential recruits and looking closer to home around Bendigo and Echuca, we are confident of keeping the club sustainable and we can built up over the next few years.”
Draper said the annual meeting had been attended by 35 people with a strong representation from the local community.
“Everyone is committed to the future,” he said.
The Superoos were premiers in 2019 and went through the shortened and aborted 2020 season undefeated.
The departure of premiership coaches Andy Grant and Tyrone Downie saw Marcus McKern appointed this season.
Despite finishing third after the home and away season, the Superoos were bundled out of the 2022 finals race in straight matches, suffering huge losses to Pyramid Hill and Bridgewater.
Draper said the club expected to announce a new coach within weeks.
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