VFLW
Former Collingwood and Western Bulldogs forward Travis Cloke has been named Essendon’s Victorian Football League Women’s coach for next year. The 35-year-old will also join the Bombers’ AFL men’s program as a specialist coach. Since retiring from playing Cloke has switched to coaching. He replaces VFLW premiership coach Brendan Major who has made the decision to step away from the VFLW program for 2023 and beyond. Football general manager Josh Mahoney thanked Major for his contribution to the club. “From building a program from scratch and recording only one win in our first season to five years later being undefeated premiers is an incredible achievement,” he said.
NWMCA
The North West Metropolitan Cricket Association has cancelled all matches for this weekend. While the competition kicked off last week despite heavy rain fall, significant rain on Friday together with poor conditions meant play was cancelled for both Saturday and Sunday. Round three in the men’s competition is scheduled for this weekend.
FV
Western Suburbs has appointed Harry Matkovic as head coach for next year’s FV state league season. Western Suburbs finished the 2022 north-west 2 season in 11th spot with five wins narrowly avoiding relegation. Matkovic, who played in the National Premier League for several years, most recently coached Strathmore. Marijan Cvitkovic has been appointed his senior assistant coach.
EDFL
Keilor has announced a raft of re-signings for next year’s Essendon District Football League premier division season. Christos Komas, Mitch Ellis, Joey Ciranna, James Bailey, Nick O’Kearney, Brad Xavier and Matthew Clark are among the re-sginings. They have previously announced the new signing of former AFL player Corey Ellis. The Blues finished fourth, knocked out in the first week of finals.
