Chris Febvre • January 20, 2021
Tallangatta & District FL 2021 Fixture
Tallangatta & District FL 2021 Fixture
The Dunn’s Twin City Cranes Tallangatta & District Football League (TDFL) are pleased to release the 2021 season fixture. As is usually the case, compiling the TDFL Draw has its challenges around the allocation of games for Wodonga Saints who share the Martin Park Venue with the Wodonga Bulldogs. The Wahgunyah FNC, who also share their recreation reserve with the Wahgunyah Speedway, have two weekends that they cannot be scheduled at home in season 2021.
This year’s focus in compiling the fixture has been to provide as many club requests as possible and in doing so ignoring the usual focus of evening out the draw with the top 6 playing each other twice, etc.
The Wodonga Saints will this year play one scheduled home game at Sandy Creek, being Round 2 V Wahgunyah due to Martin Park being unavailable for this scheduled home game. Rounds 14 and 15 have also been swapped to allow Wodonga Saints home and away games to work so the order of opponents will change from the first seven rounds for Rounds 14 & 15.
Fixture Highlights
• The season will commence with Round 1 on March 27th, 2021.
• Round 1 will see 2019 Senior Premiers Thurgoona unveil the 2019 Premiership flag at home when they take on Kiewa SC.
• Yackandandah will unveil their 2019 Reserves Premiership flag V Dederang MB and Tallangatta will unveil both the 2019 Under 17’s and Under 14’s Premiership flags at home V Mitta United.
• Chiltern host Barnawartha and Wahgunyah host Rutherglen, both games that will hold plenty of interest for old rivals.
• Beechworth host Wodonga Saints at Beechworth and this game will be moved to the 22nd of May Bye round if Beechworth make the Wangaratta Cricket Association Grand Final played on this day.
• A Bye round has been scheduled for the Easter weekend after Round 1.
• Round 2 sees Kiewa Sandy Creek host a night game versus Tallangatta FNC under lights at Kiewa SC’s home ground at Tangambalanga.
• Wodonga Saints will host Wahgunyah at Sandy Creek due to Martin Park being unavailable.
• ANZAC Day falls on the Sunday this year and Round 4 will be played on Saturday April 24th with Rutherglen hosting Kiewa SC for the traditional ANZAC shield game.
• Two General Bye’s are also scheduled for the traditional Interleague round on 22nd May to allow our Juniors to play in the Wangaratta Junior Carnival and the 3rd July 2021 in the Victorian School holidays.
• Kiewa Sandy Creek will play a second twilight/night game in Round 9 when hosting old rival Mitta United.
The Tallangatta & District Football League Clubs should be mostly satisfied with the draw outcome as the majority of club requests have been able to be satisfied in compiling the TDFL 2021 Fixture.
This pre season Nines is coming to the OKFNL. A great opportunity for OKFNL clubs to connect with local junior footballers and introduce them to their club ahead of the 2026 season. Local OKFNL clubs can enter teams of 9-12 players, with prizes and giveaways for clubs who attract the most junior footballers, most registrations across teams and team spirit on the day! When - Sunday 16th of November Where - Wareena Park, Wangaratta Time - 10am to 4pm Cost - $350 per team (approx $35 per player) Ages - 16+ For more information on Nines you can check out all the details here - https://play.afl/play/afl-nines To enter a team or find out more please contact Daniel Saville (OKFNL Ops Manager) - okfnloperations@gmail.com
The 2025 North East Border V Line Cup teams have been selected, with Division One and Two boys teams and the girls teams preparing to compete in Ballarat. AFL North East Border would like to thank all the coaches and support staff who have been working tirelessly over the past two months preparing the squads to compete at the carnival in Ballarat on the 23rd and 24th of September. The NEB teams will compete against the Goulburn Murray teams on Tuesday the 23rd at Mars Stadium, before taking on the Greater Western Victoria teams on Wednesday 24th at City Oval. Please check out the AFLNEB Facebook and Instagram pages to follow the action!
Ben has been involved with the local Wangaratta Auskick centre for five years and the coordinator for four of those, the exciting announcement was announced at the allocation night for Auskickers graduating to the Wangaratta and District Junior Football League in front of local Auskickers, parents and local WDJFL Clubs. The prize for the award is a grand final weekend experience including three nights' accommodation in Melbourne, a ticket to the Welcome to Melbourne function, attendance at the grand final parade, and a reserve seat ticket to the 27 September grand final. Over his time, Ben has secured significant sponsorship for the program; has initiated the all-girls' group; provides a support network for smaller centres across Wangaratta and surrounding regions; contributes to community events like allocation night and puts in a heap of extra work with the allocation process; organises half-time Auskick games at local football league matches; and, of course, the countless hours spent organising jumpers, certificates, equipment and everything in between, year after year. Wangaratta is regularly one of the biggest centres in the state, if not the nation, and this year was the biggest in Victoria. That, as you can imagine, makes it almost a full-time commitment, year-round. A huge congratulations to Ben from everyone at AFLNEB!
