The winds of change are signalling a new era for one of Brimbank’s battling football clubs.
Albion Football Club has taken a major step into the electronic age with a new scoreboard and is hoping the popularity of girls’ footy will help bolster it’s numbers.
The club welcomed its first girls’ team this season, an under 15 side, and hopes to field an under-18 team next year.
The new scoreboard, funded by a $10,000 donation from Holden, will replace the club’s ageing manual scoreboard at JR Parsons Reserve.
It’s expected to be installed in time for the start of the 2017 season and is being eagerly awaited by the club’s juniors who are regularly drenched while using the old scoreboard.
Committee member Kelly Leon said the club often struggled to maintain its ageing facilities.
“We try to keep our junior fees among the lowest in the WRFL but it’s tough when the general running costs of the club continue to increase as our facilities grow older,” she said.
“This new scoreboard will make an enormous difference.”
Albion Football Club is more than 55 years old and has about 150 football loving families involved.
A recent Western Metropolitan Region Football Facilities study found JR Parsons Reserve was among Brimbank’s worst sporting facilities.
