The Mininera and District Football League’s 2017 season came to a close with Lismore-Derrinallum taking the senior flag from Wickliffe-Lake Bolac by 15 points.
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The Reserves went to SMW Rovers after they put in a record season, winning 19 games straight and having a convincing win against Glenthompson-Dunkeld in the decider.
Penshurst obtained a victory for the under-16.5 flag with a one kick victory in a tense final quarter after a massive struggle against Hawkesdale-Macarthur.
Tatyoon is commended on the preparation for Grand Final day catering for the record breaking crowd of 2,600 witnessing three exciting finals of football and netball.
Ground facilities were surprising considering the weather in the district during the last month. The crowd numbers exceeded the previous record of the 1954 grand final.
The highlight of the senior match was the outstanding performance of Lewis Medallist Michael Lockyer who stamped his brilliance on the game in likeness to Richmond’s Dustin Martin type performances in the AFL.
His dominance and skill in the second half was the contributing factor in the Demons taking home the Premiership flag.
Lockyer also added to his trophy cabinet with the AFL medal voted as best on ground.
My BEST Players were three votes to Michael Lockyer, Demon teammate Tim Turner with two votes while Magpie Chris Thornton got my one vote.
One club has raised concerns about incidents of violence in matches and requesting action from the league in curbing such incidents.
There are two elements of the game that are overlooked by many supporters and they are infractions that create incidents and which the club concerned has one of the highest yellow card infringements coming second behind Lismore-Derrinallum in that department.
The second is unfortunately overlooked by most in the game it is duty of care to players and enforced by the umpires within the laws of the game for protecting players.
Community football depends on umpires, similarly clubs depend on recruiting players and the issues raised do not help both areas of local Community football.
The league must investigate issues with the salary cap to benefit community football towards the future.
A change required of the salary cap is the introduction of a rule for Interleague players representing the league having a point deducted from their points under the system.
It would encourage the top players to participate and raise the football standard.
Can the League obtain value for money and valued assistance to clubs with continuing participation with membership of the AFL hub?
