More than 1,000 days after a win appeared beside their name, the Nhill Tigers senior football side has finally tasted success with help from former Collingwood premiership player Dale Thomas.
On Saturday, 1,029 days after their last win, the Nhill Tigers senior football side won a match in the Wimmera Football League.
At the same time, the ground at which Saturday's match was played, Davis Park, missed out on much-needed funding for a new grandstand for the third time. The Coalition promised $1.64 million for the project but was voted out at last month's federal election. "We've now got large numbers coming to training here and we'll stand up within our right from here on. Most of the lads out there were 16 to 21 years of age.
Dale Thomas was one of eight ex-AFL footballers allocated to play a match with a struggling regional Victorian club to boost their gate takings post-COVID."I just wanted to contribute, to be honest," he said. "The input he's had to the group will flow on for a couple of years. The advice he's given to players and the way he dropped back into the back line to help save that game," he said."It's massive. We're not just the Nhill football club, we're the Nhill and District Sporting Club, so we have netball, hockey and cricket," he said.
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