(By Shane O’Shea)
Birchip-Watchem ended North-Central football’s longest running premiership drought and exorcised the demons of three consecutive failed attempts to win the league’s Holy Grail, the Halfhide Cup, when it stormed home with a powerful second half against Donald, to win the 2022 grand final by 21 points at Wycheproof on Saturday.

Twenty-one years in the making, Saturday’s success almost didn’t eventuate,