Gippsland Times | All five home teams recorded victory during round three of North Gippsland football on Saturday, including Heyfield, which broke away from Sale City in the second half.

Latrobe Valley Express | There was mass confusion in the thirds match between Glengarry and Yarram in round two of the North Gippsland Football-Netball League following a head count with around five minutes to go in the last quarter.

Gippsland Times | Five hundred and eighty-eight days after Lindenow and Stratford lifted the senior football and A grade netball premiership cups respectively, a new East Gippsland Football-Netball season will begin on Saturday.

Gippsland Times | Sale City and Rosedale played out a thrilling draw, the first of the North Gippsland football season, on Saturday.

The Age | Of everyone in the mammoth crowd at the Inverloch footy ground on Saturday, no one wore a bigger smile than Cheryl Roughead.

Warragul & Drouin Gazette | It may be the bye week for Ellinbank, but they’ll almost see this week off as a win after securing the prized signature of former junior Nathaniel Paredes for 2021.

Latrobe Valley Express | Morwell product Changkuoth Jiath is all the buzz in the AFL world at the moment following a fantastic start to the season off half-back for Hawthorn.

Round preview | They say, a week is a long time in football, the fact it has been eighty-two weeks since we last played a game, means the excitement and enthusiasm from all involved is about to hit a crescendo.

Pakenham Gazette | Saturday afternoon, into Saturday night at Garfield, into a Sunday showdown between the 2019 grand finalists at Cora Lynn – it doesn’t get much better than that.

Bairnsdale Advertiser | Football and netball returns to East Gippsland this weekend. After 12 months in the wilderness due to COVID-19, it’s back with action getting underway in the Omeo District Football Netball League on Saturday afternoon as well as Bairnsdale kicking off its Gippsland League campaign with a road trip to Warragul.