Weekly Advertiser | As the 2026 Horsham District Football Netball League season kicks off this weekend, onlookers will be united with a single question – who, if anyone, can stop Harrow-Balmoral?

The Roos are priming themselves for what they hope will be a fourth consecutive senior football premiership – a feat only matched in league history by Kalkee’s five-straight flags between 2008 and 2012.

But the team knows its premiership window will not remain open indefinitely, and it has been handed an intriguing first-up test against Kaniva-Leeor United in round one.

The Cougars were one of the league’s hottest teams in the back half of 2025, making a run to the finals after an uneven start to the season.

But despite the mid-season additions of midfielders Josh Clayton and Tyler Roos giving the team a boost, Kaniva-Leeor United was ousted by Laharum in the first week of the finals and remains, according to co-coach Jonno Hicks, a work in progress entering 2026.

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