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LEARNING THE HOOPS: South East Melbourne Phoenix basketballer Mitch Creek returned to his home town of Horsham at the weekend and hosted a series of basketball clinics for young Wimmera players. Creek took players, and their parents, through skills and the development process of basketball, with four sessions dedicated to different age groups. Story, page 43. Picture: PAUL CARRACHER
Future-proof footy A
BY JESSICA GRIMBLE
highly-credentialed Wimmera footballer says local footy is ‘broken’ and has called for an urgent, drastic review of winter sport in the region.
Tim Inkster, a 1996 Ballarat Rebels and 2006 Woodville West Torrens premiership player in the South Australian National Football League, has called on officials to scrap the Wim-
for supporters and the surrounding district. He said netball was an unfortunate casualty, along with football’s demanding pre-season and playing-season schedule, money and salary cap restrictions, and shrinking volunteer and junior numbers – but measures such as multiple netball teams could be enacted to maximise participation. “History has shown that leagues and
mera and Horsham District leagues and instead, consider a 12-team, oneleague competition for the future prosperity of the game. Inkster, who has also played and coached Wimmera clubs Southern Mallee Giants, Warrack Eagles and Jeparit-Rainbow, said a season could consist of 12 teams playing each other once, increasing the importance of each game and offering ‘an event’
clubs have always merged or folded,” he said. “Many clubs are talking about their future, they just need a push. “Proactive clubs will sort themselves out; others need to be sorted out. Geographically or an alignment of values, we need a new competition.” AFL Wimmera-Mallee published a future directions report most recently in 2018, which proposed to retain two
leagues but merge governance of AFL Wimmera-Mallee, Horsham District and Wimmera leagues into one entity. Other recommendations included methods to increase junior participation, a region-wide club audit to bridge the gap between some clubs, considering ways the commission could assist clubs with administration, and a regional training base in Horsham. Continued page 3
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