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Battle of the Century?

(By Shane O’Shea) The 2025 season brings up the hundredth year that the name North-Central has been in use to identify the local football playing area in north west Victoria. Only two of the original members of that competition, Donald and St...

Shane O'Shea

17 hours ago

Football

North-Central Turns for Home

(By Shane O’Shea) With eight games remaining in North-Central football’s home-and-away season, the undefeated Birchip-Watchem leads the way and is looming as the team to beat for the 2025 premiership. Tomorrow’s round 9 match of the day sees...

Shane O'Shea

20 Jun 2025

Football

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