Echuca is exploring a move to the Bendigo Football League, which it was part of from 1925 to 1939 and 1949 to 1974.
Murray Bombers president Justin Hatfield said a meeting last week of GVL club delegates had helped clear the air on issues his club was concerned with and which generally had got a positive response from member clubs.
‘‘Some clubs weren’t even familiar with the player points situation until we told them,’’ Hatfield said.
Hatfield also said consultation with Goulburn Valley League Umpires president Andrew Moore had also been positive.
Echuca has expressed concerns over some reserves games being officiated by home club umpires.
‘‘We had positive talks with Andrew and the general feedback from the meeting was mainly positive for our club,’’ Hatfield said.
He said his club would not be rushing into making a decision on its future at this stage, emphasising the final decision on a possible move to the Bendigo League was ‘‘a fair way off’’ and the ultimate decision was in the hands of the club’s members.
• Meanwhile another GVL club, Rochester, has rejected exploring a possible move to the Bendigo League.
Tigers president Justin Cleary has said his club was ‘‘really firm’’ it would remain in the GVL.
‘‘There was a good reason why Rochester left the Bendigo League and we don’t want to revisit it,’’ Cleary has been quoted as saying.
Clearly said Rochester was happy with the GVL administration and would be staying put in the GVL.
Rochester was formerly in the Bendigo League and sat out a season when the Bendigo League and Victorian Country Football League knocked back a transfer bid to join the GVL.
That was in 1973 and the next year it was cleared to the GVL. Since then it has won four flags and been runner-up seven times, the latest last year when beaten by Kyabram.
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Former AFL players, including Shepparton premiership player Rod MacPherson, have launched legal action against 10 new AFL clubs over concussion-related injuries.
MacPherson played with Footscray and the Brisbane Bears in the Victorian Football League.
After his VFL days he was a member of the Kevin McGill-coached Shepparton 1994 premiership side that beat Echuca by 53 points.
Retired Geelong player Max Rooke, 44, has been spearheading the landmark concussion class action against the AFL and his former club ever since he launched the multimillion-dollar lawsuit three years ago.
Hawthorn is the only Melbourne-based team not to be named in the writ, filed with the Supreme Court on Tuesday of last week.
More than 100 players have registered to be part of the class action.
Players claim that they suffered “permanent, life-altering injuries” as a result of concussions due to the negligence of the AFL, which is defending the class action alongside Geelong, and the other clubs.
“The AFL can no longer turn a blind eye to what went on under its watch,” MacPherson said.
Lawyers for the players say permanent injuries suffered by the players include various neurological impairments such as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, traumatic brain injury and dementia.
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Trots trainer and owner Ken Covington has had two ‘droughts’ broken in two weeks.
Three weeks again a trotter he trains and part owns, Montana Muscle, broke a run of 26 starts without a win when she saluted at an Echuca meeting.
Last week, another trotter he bred and owns, Kamaran, broke through for his second career win after a winless 20-race streak when he streeted his rivals by nearly 34 metres at an Ararat meeting.
Kamaran is now being trained by legendary horseman and trail blazer Peter Manning.
Yes, life good’s for the Kyabram Trotting Club president at the moment.
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Eastern Hill Cricket Club has pulled off both the A and B grade premierships in the Gisborne Cricket Association.
The Seymour-based club proved too good for Diggers Rest Bulla Village in the Johnstone Shield to complete an unbeaten season, wiping away the disappointment of a loss in the season decider last year.
In the Seymour Association, in which Easter Hill formerly competed, Tallarook made it four successive premierships wins when it mustered 3/171 in reply to Seymour’s 159.
