Emmett, a 290-game veteran of the Lions, played in a 2001 under-17 premiership as a 15-year-old and later was a member of the 2008 winning senior grand final team.
He has been skipper of the club for the past two years, playing all but one home and away game off half-back.
Emmett and elder brother, Marcus — a former under-17 league best-and-fairest winner — are among several Stanhope players to graduate from junior grades and become senior premiership players with the Lions.
Twenty-nine-year-old Vick is one of three footballing brothers, all sons of hard nosed utility Ashley, and has been captain for the last two seasons at Wombat-land.
Cooper, 21, is a star with Kyabram and Sam, 25, plays alongside Adam at Lancaster. The three brothers have never played together.
Adam Vick is the team’s full-back and earlier this season played his 50th game with the Wombats. He crossed to Lancaster after debuting with Kyabram in the Goulburn Valley league as a teenager a decade ago, then spending a season at Rushworth and joining Lancaster in 2018.
Today’s eight-page lift out takes a closer look at the seasons of Murray league team Tongala, along with Kyabram district league teams Merrigum, Girgarre, Stanhope and Lancaster. It also features a series of footy flash backs from finals action of 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002.
