
2025 Premier Thirds Men’s Fixture
The Premier Thirds competition delivered arguably the biggest upset of the entire VAFA season, with St Kevin’s claiming the flag in a 5-point thriller over Old Xaverians, who had finished
This year’s U19 squad is full of talent and is keen to make amends for their loss to the best U19s from the Worksafe AFL Victoria Country players when the sides meet on Sunday 7th July.
The initial squad of 53 players contains players from 28 different clubs and they will assemble for training under coach David Gately at AJAX’s Gary Smorgon Reserve in Albert Park for the first time next Wednesday evening.
The team was well beaten by the country boys last year and Gately is keen to return the favour to the boys from the bush, “This group of players have a huge opportunity to make a name for themselves, not only in VAFA representative football, but there will be a lot of AFL and VFL recruiters there, so there should be a huge impetus to train well in order to make the 22” said Gately.
The U19 match against the Vic country will be played on the Junction Oval as the curtain raiser to the senior match against the country.
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