EVERY Loddon Valley club is represented in the league’s Team of the Year, with Bridgewater’s Lachlan Sharp named as coach and Inglewood star Bregon Cotchett as captain.
Grand finalists Bridgey and Marong each had four players chosen in the team, announced at the league’s gala dinner.
Joining Sharp for the Mean Machine were Joe Mayes, Luke Ellings and Jack Neylon, while the Panthers were represented by veteran coach Kain Robins, Ryley Taylor, Brodie Hartland and Jimmy Gadsden.
The front six is remarkably potent, with full-forward Sharp (119 goals) alongside Bears Lagoon Serpentine’s Josh Mellington (99) and Seb Erharter from Inglewood (65).
Half-forwards are Taylor (45) and Robins (54), with Pyramid Hill’s Ben Bisset (74) at centre half-forward.
Bulldog veteran Gavin James, who notched up his 300th club game this season, was named in a back pocket, along with Mitiamo coach Luke Lougoon, with Hartland at full back.
Calivil’s Riley Walsh was picked as a back flank on a line with Mayes and Serp’s Tyler Miles.
Ellings, Cotchett and Maiden Gully’s only representative, Mitch Hill, make up the centre line.
Bears stalwart Nathan Twigg is ruck, with Inglewood’s Harry Veitch and Gadsden as the onballers, while Newbridge’s Will Copland, Woodie Liam Marciano, Pyramid Hill’s Kai Daniels and Neylon are named on the bench.
Inglewood’s three representatives contrast with last season, when the Woodies had no players chosen.
Nine players also made the 2024 team: Sharp, Mellington, Robins, Taylor, Twigg, Neylon, Lougoon, Miles and Mayes.