New name for clubrooms

A LOCAL football netball club has renamed its clubrooms, in honour of a club stalwart.

The Bacchus Marsh Football Netball Club recently renamed its rooms to the ‘Graham Dawson Clubrooms’, after the premiership player and former coach and President of the same name.

Mr Dawson, who is in his 90s, played for the Maddingley Spiders back when he was a teenager.

The club would merge with the Bacchus Marsh Tigers to form Maddingley-Bacchus Marsh Football Club in 1979, which was renamed the Bacchus Marsh Football Club in 1983.

Cobras President Ian McClure said Mr Dawson was a “patriarch” of the club, and had been a father figure to countless young footballers since his involvement began.

“Graham’s one of the people who’s always there, he’s been a premiership player, a coach, and a President for two separate terms, once many years ago and another time when the club needed him,” Mr McClure said.

“He’s been a Life Member, and we’ve elevated him to the Hall of Fame recently, and in doing so we’ve recognised him by renaming the clubrooms.

“He’s very unassuming, a lot of the things he does, nobody would ever see. He epitomises what our footy club is about, really.

“People like Graham Dawson are the lifeblood of local footy clubs, and without him we wouldn’t be where we are today.”

The new name of the clubrooms was unveiled at the Cobras’ first home game for the season, against Ballarat.