Like just about everything in society there has been a significant delay to the event, which was planned for early in the 2021 season.
The Kyabram District League neighbours will clash on Sunday, April 3 — one of the only Sunday fixtures of any regional league that weekend — and the club is taking the opportunity to use the Saturday (April 2) as a centenary celebration.
Club president Matt Graetz said the Athol “Doc” McDonald inspired centerary book, They’re Campions You’ll Agree, would be launched on the day
It will be the debut of new coach Damien Cupido for the Kangaroos, with at least six new faces in the senior team from last year. The team will be without last season’s coach Billy Barnes, who has moved to Kyabram.
“We’ve lost a couple of Melbourne players and there’s been a couple of retirements. But it looks pretty good as far as improving our on-field performance goes,” Graetz said.
Saturday’s centenary celebration at Girgarre will start at 4.30pm, with the announcement of the football Team of the Century and a netball Team of the Ages.
“We will have a Front Bar segment, with a couple of past coaches and players, then we will induct our first Girgarre Football Netball Club legend,’’ Graetz said.
“It is the first time we have announced a club legend, but we will have more going forward.
“This person stood out for us.”
The Sunday match with Lancaster will also be a reunion of the 1991 premiership team — ironically a victory against Lancaster.
“We are expecting a big crowd. I think it’s the only Sunday game in the Goulburn Murray region,” he said.
Former Brisbane Lion and Essendon player Cupido will have John Wilson as his assistant coach.
Cupido was the captain coach of Rumbalara’s 2014 premiership team.
Wilson coached Shepparton Bears women’s team to a Northern Country Women’s League flag in 2018.
Mark Parsons, a former player who has also appeared with Stanhope and Lancaster, will coach the club’s under age team.
He married into Girgarre royalty when he wed wife Charmaine (nee Farrow), who is the daughter of club legend Gary “Scrapper” Farrow.
Rory Young will continue in the role as coach of the reserves team.
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