PLAYER CHANGES
INS: Tom Holman (Kyabram), Liam Barrett (Golden Square), Danny Brewster (Undera)
OUTS: Liam Ritchie, Callum Doyle (Banks), Jye Smith (Oak Park), Fraser Buchanan (Leitchville-Gunbower), Stuart Taylor (Lockington-Bamawm United)
There is plenty to be optimistic about at Moama Recreation Reserve ahead of the 2024 season.
The 2023 season ended in disappointing circumstances, falling in the preliminary final to eventual premier Mulwala for the second straight year, only this time they were defeated by seven points after leading at every change.
But 2024 is a new year, and the Magpies are now armed with premiership winning experience in Kyabram pair Tom Holman and Liam Barrett, the latter set to assume a playing-assistant coach role having won a flag with Golden Square last season.
Co-coach Jye Warren is optimistic that the pair, along with a number of other recruits, will finally help his side advance to the last weekend of the season.
“Obviously we've gone out and recruited some key position players that we feel that we sort of needed to get over that line of getting past the prelim and essentially getting to the grand final,” he said.
“We sort of just went to the drawing board and said 'what do we need?', and we've found our key position spots needed a bit more of a boost.”
Warren knows that despite two preliminary final appearances in the past two years, nothing is guaranteed, a message which has been drummed into the side in the preseason.
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