VNL
The City West Falcons are bringing back most of their Victorian Netball League championship squad. Eleven players have been confirmed for the Falcons squad for next year so far, 10 who were part of the title winning team. The other addition is Maddie Romios, nee Gray, who missed this year due to pregnancy. Romios is a multiple premiership player at the club and former captain.
EDFL
St Albans has lost three key players from its squad for next year’s Essendon District Football League division 1 season. Victor Micallef, Ade Akintola and Brodie Lyons-Jones have signed at Wallan, PEGS and Parkside respectively. All three were part of the Saints preliminary final run this year. The Saints though has announced a number of re-signings in recent days including Ben McManus, Ayden Murphy, Andrew Papazoglou, Patrick Taban and Mason Dipetta.
Draft combine
Keilor’s Lucca Grego and Keighton Matofai-Forbes were among the standouts at the AFL draft state combines. Grego finished second in the agility test, while Matofai-Forbes finished fourth in the standing vertical jump. The pair were two of the three Western Jets to test at the state combines, with Lucas Impey also testing after a strong season.
EDFL
Taylors Lakes has continued to add new signings for the Essendon District Football League division 1 season. Marc Lock, who played on AFL game, joins the club from Old Carey in the Victorian Amatuer Football Association. He has played more than 100 Victorian Football League games and also played at East Keilor where he was an assistant coach. Damien Petrone also joins the Lions. He comes from East Keilor and before that Pascoe Vale but has had a terrible run of injuries in recent years.
