Day: June 7, 2016

CRIB POINT FNC By Jared Newton CRIB Point’s season continued in pretty familiar circumstances in an 84 point loss to Rosebud at Crib Point. The Pies were pretty competitive early but fell away badly as Rosebud piled on 12 goals to 2 in the second half. Positives were pretty thin for the Pies on Saturday as it was a really flat performance. Zack Condick gave a lot up forward and Tyler Wilton was a real positive in the ruck after Zak Dekleuver went off injured but aside from that it was a dirty, dirty day for the Pies and one…

HASTINGS FNC ON Saturday the Hastings Football/Netball club travelled to Rye in what was going to be a very testing encounter against a fired up Rye FNC. They had been ridiculed by the one and only Toe Punt, so our club knew we had to be on our game. Unfortunately after quarter time the senior boys were unable to play the type of football required. We ended up going down by five goals on a wet miserable day. The shining light for the day was our Under 19s who are going from strength to strength recording their second win on…

THE Victorian Farmers’ Federation is backing the CFA in its row with the United Firefighters Union. It has called on CFA members and all Victorians “to put their names to a petition calling on the state government and CFA to stand their ground and not sign the draft 2015 enterprise agreement with the firefighters’ union in its current form”. The VFF described the union’s demands as “absurd”. “They risk seeing 60,000 volunteers walk away from the CFA and would lead to a massive blowout in the fire services property levy that all farmers, country households and businesses pay on their…