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Season Reaches Halfway Mark

(By Shane O’Shea) North-Central football resumes tomorrow, when round 8 will mark the halfway point of the 2025 home-and-away season, which, unfortunately, has developed into one of the most uneven in the league’s long history. For the history...

Shane O'Shea

13 Jun 2025

Football

Percentage Playing Its Part

(By Shane O’Shea) Six rounds into North-Central football’s 2025 season, massive winning margins in games between teams in the top half of the ladder and the teams at the tail end have become a reality during a very uneven season of competition...

Shane O'Shea

30 May 2025

Football

Magpies Under the Microscope

(By Shane O’Shea) After a confidence-building start to its 2025 season, Boort finds itself in a third successive searching challenge of its footballing credentials when it welcomes Birchip-Watchem to Boort Park tomorrow. Having accounted for St...

Shane O'Shea

23 May 2025

Sport

Bulls Set the Standard

(By Shane O’Shea) Almost a third of the way through North-Central’s 2025 home-and-away series, the competition’s eight clubs take a break tomorrow to enable local junior hockey players to compete in the annual Junior Country Championship in...

Shane O'Shea

16 May 2025

Football

Magpies Soar as Tigers Tumble

(By Shane O’Shea) Is this the season Boort finally achieves the results it has desperately been striving for since its last finals appearance in 2017, and secures a berth in the North-Central football’s top echelon? Three consecutive lead-up...

Shane O'Shea

09 May 2025

Football

Opportunity Awaits Saints and Royal Blues

(By Shane O’Shea) It’s been a frustrating start to North-Central’s 2025 season for St. Arnaud and Donald, both remaining winless after three rounds. But all that can change for the better tomorrow, when the two arch rivals do battle at St...

Shane O'Shea

02 May 2025