PRELIMINARY finalists Bears Lagoon Serpentine and Pyramid Hill meet in Saturday’s start to the Bendigo Bank Loddon Valley FNL senior footy action.<\/p>\n
The Bears have home-ground advantage at Gadsden Finance Reserve when the clash starts at 2.15pm.<\/p>\n
Recruits to the Bears den include playing coach Jake Wilkinson from Sandhurst and former Fremantle Dockers forward Josh Mellington.<\/p>\n
It’s a huge challenge for BLS against a team which defied expectations to finish within 16 points of Marong in last year’s grand final.<\/p>\n
Nathan Fitzpatrick is again in charge as non-playing coach of Pyramid Hill. The Bulldogs are bolstered by the return of talented forward Braidy Dickens, Mick Dundon and Brad Ladson.<\/p>\n
A Harding medallist as the Valley’s fairest and best in Calivil United’s premiership year of 2017, Ben Knight has left the North Bendigo Bulldogs to play for Pyramid Hill.<\/p>\n
After one of the most fruitful recruiting campaigns in country Victoria, Bridgewater starts its quest to not only climb higher than last year’s fourth placing to be number one.<\/p>\n
The Mean Machine is on home turf to play Newbridge.<\/p>\n
Coached by Rick Ladson, Bridgewater has gained two of the Bendigo FNL’s best of the past decade, Lachlan Sharp from Strathfieldsaye, and Lee Coghlan from Sandhurst.<\/p>\n
Both were premiership players for their clubs, Sharp a multiple winner, and both earned the Michelsen Medal as league fairest and best.<\/p>\n
Jointly coached by Sam Gale, playing, and Daniel Smith, non-playing, Newbridge also made some strong additions to its squad.<\/p>\n
Newcomers for the Maroons include Ed and Jono Aujard, Jackson Hufer and Matt McArthur. Ruckman Ricky Cathie is also back from Wandella.<\/p>\n
Unbeaten premiers in ’23, Marong is home at Malone Park to tackle a new-look Mitiamo.<\/p>\n
The Linton Jacobs-coached Panthers are likely to have too much firepower through midfield and attack for the Jon Varcoe-coached Superoos to stop.<\/p>\n
Maiden Gully YCW Eagles will aim to make a winning start when they play the Anthony Dennis-coached Calivil United at Marist College.<\/p>\n
The Eagles are jointly coached by Shawn Filo and former Essendon and Port Adelaide forward Angus Monfries who played 211 AFL games. Inglewood has the bye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PRELIMINARY finalists Bears Lagoon Serpentine and Pyramid Hill meet in Saturday’s start to the Bendigo Bank Loddon Valley FNL senior footy action. The Bears have home-ground advantage at Gadsden Finance Reserve when the clash starts at 2.15pm. Recruits to the Bears den include playing coach Jake Wilkinson from Sandhurst and former Fremantle Dockers forward Josh […]<\/p>\n