INTER-LEAGUE footy’s on the agenda again so let’s look back at the genesis of the competition, way back to the mid-Fifties.

JUST when opposition defenders thought they didn’t have to worry about Eaglehawk’s Derrick Filo lining up onfield any time soon, there he was in the Two Blue guernsey lurking in a forward pocket.

THE silly season is always fertile ground for rumours about who’s leaving a club or a league, who’s coming in and what massive salary is being offered to a star player or incoming coach.

SEVENTY years ago as the world settled back down after six years of war Rochester rejoined the BFL and Elmore also became part of the league structure.

A NEW-LOOK Maryborough attack starred under lights at Princes Park in the opening round of the season 14 years ago.

PLAYING fast, clever and non-stop football Golden Square made Eaglehawk look like a second-rate team in the League grand final on Saturday.

A look back at previous Bendigo Football Netball League Michelsen Medal winners.

GISBORNE booked its 2006 grand final berth by grinding South Bendigo into the QEO turf on preliminary final day.

Golden Square and South Bendigo won top-notch semi-finals on the second weekend of the finals series in 2006.

EAGLEHAWK and Golden Square won the BFL semi-finals played in late August 1945 only days before General MacArthur’s U.S. occupying troops took over Tokyo.