A new look for the Southern Mounties

ON those dark cold winter days that Ballarat excels at so well, it was hard to tell the Southern Mounties players when competing against the Devils and the Roosters.

There was a big clash with Mt Clear’s jumpers with those two teams, Chris Martin, Mt Clear Junior Football Netball Club President said.

“They both wear black and white and although we are blue and white, from a distance it was hard to tell the teams apart,” he said.

Before the season started the Club made the decision to rectify the problem.

It undertook a program to give the Southern Mounties teams new colours, brand and logo.

The idea was to do a re-brand and modernise not only the football jumpers but to also correct the issue of the jumpers and netball uniforms not being identical in colour.

“The blue and the teal in both kits never matched up, they were different shades,” Mr Martin said.

“We took a two-pronged attack we wanted an updated uniform that was consistent through the club but also we needed to remove the clash with the other two teams.”

The particular blue to represent as the Mt Clear colour was chosen by Peter Humphreys co-editor of the club’s newsletter and website.

The Club’s logo still has the stars, which signifies the southern cross, and the mountain ranges and the netball kit is now the same colours as the footy jumpers.

“What Pete did is kept our history and modernised the look and changed the colours,” he said.

While the look of the Club was being updated and standardised the grounds and facilities were also having a face lift

Funding from State government has paid for drainage and irrigation on the main ground.

The next stage of spending will be for new lights on the back oval which will give the players access to two well-lit playing fields.

The clubrooms, built and opened a couple of years ago, are being refurbished with a new canteen and better change facilities.

The funding for the changes which will be utilised for the netballers was approved before the past State election but is has taken a while with council to get it off the ground.