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Last time Dromana won a premiership, football legend John Coleman ran the local hotel and the Mornington Peninsula really was the bush.
So far, it has been the year of the Cat, both at Geelong and also in the Goulburn Valley where Mooroopna tops the ladder.
Shane Robertson still loves a challenge, 20 years after playing on a Brownlow Medallist on Grand Final day at the MCG.
Big League footballers must not only possess skill and athleticism, they need to have an “inner drive” to keep going, no matter the obstacles. So says 1985 premiership Bomber Steve Carey, now in his second stint as coach of Warragul.
Merv Neagle kicked the last goal in one of the great Grand Final revivals, which saw Essendon mow down Hawthorn for the 1984 premiership.Twenty-five years on he still gets tingles down the back of his spine watching that replay.
Castlemaine’s Steven Oliver remains just about the ultimate Coodabeen champion. He four times kicked 100 goals in a season, including 22 in one open-age game, but he was never comfortable in Melbourne and was invariably hi-tailing it back home as fast as he could.
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