Short Hands!

By admin on January 24th, 2009

Mitiamo have received a boost with the return of talented forward Alex Chapman to Windy Flats after four seasons away from the club. While much of the talk surrounding the Super Roos was that they could be set to slide since bowing out of the 2008 finals race in straight sets the addition of Chapman in attack to compliment the competitions Premier forward in Ryan Haythorpe promises to provide valuable scoring power.

The athletic Joel Whybird from Mallee league club Beulah is another likely recruit. It will be Bill Grant’s 4^thseason as Senior Coach with their best season under his reign coming in 2007 when the Super Roos achieved a Preliminary Final finish. Mitiamo won their last LVFL Premiership in the season of 1999 which is remembered as one of the classic Grand Finals in the history of the competition with Mitiamo coming from 33 points down at the last change to defeat YCW.

Elmore came up with a novel way of training this week with their Wednesday night session involving hay carting. The Bloods players carted over 2000 small bales on a property at Goornong as a fundraiser for the club with a B.B.Q and refreshments enjoyed following their work out.

The Bloods have been training Monday and Friday nights at Spring Gully soccer oval while the Wednesday night session has been at Elmore. 2007 Premiership defender Jake Smythe who has stepped into the role of Assistant Coach this season under new leader Andy Grant has been leading much of the training.

While the club hasn’t made any big announcements in regards to recruits they are still working hard behind the scenes to build their list. Tom Longford the brother of loyal servant Bill Longford will join the Bloods after coming up through the ranks with the South Bendigo Football Club.