From the Herald Sun
THEY say winners are grinners, but you couldn't wipe the smile from Ardmona president Dwayne Young's face despite his club's 125-point thrashing. Football's greatest underdogs, winless in last year's disastrous season by an average 237 points, were collared by battle-hardened rivals Stanhope in yesterday's Kyabram District season-opener.

TEARS are not common in the Victoria's tough country football leagues, but last year's Ardmona Football Club captain Kye Hardie admitted to having retreated to a dark corner of the change rooms and wept openly.

From the Herald Sun
IT'S the club that helped rebuild a community from the scorched earth up. Gutsy footballers who proved there was more to life than their game. But the players who rolled their sleeves up and helped breathe life back into Kinglake have become few and far between.