BALLARAT Football Club is experiencing a renaissance as they enter the 2019 Ballarat Football League season.<\/p>\n
The Swans have a fresh leadership group and coaching panel, have recruited some new, but experienced players, and the club holds a desire to embrace different ideas and playing styles.<\/p>\n
Senior Assistant Coach, Andrew Hooper said recruiting varying \u201cstatures\u201d of experience has been important.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a club, we\u2019ve probably only won eight games in the last four years, so it\u2019s important that we\u2019ve started fresh with this new coach, Joe Carmody, and myself jumping on board,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBringing in those fresh ideas and all these new guys, we\u2019re really working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The season goal is to be competitive against the BFL\u2019s top sides and play finals footy.<\/p>\n
The senior team hoping to do this includes captains Daniel Kennedy and Nick O\u2019Farrell, with five vice-captains for support, Keegan Mellington, Ben Hobbs, Mitch Martin, Sam Jones and Will Garner.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expect every player is a leader in some way,\u201d Mr Hooper said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BALLARAT Football Club is experiencing a renaissance as they enter the 2019 Ballarat Football League season. The Swans have a fresh leadership group and coaching panel, have recruited some new, but experienced players, and the club holds a desire to embrace different ideas and playing styles. Senior Assistant Coach, Andrew Hooper said recruiting varying \u201cstatures\u201d […]<\/p>\n