Tara Murray
It’s full steam ahead for Riddell as it aims to field a women’s football team in the Riddell District Football League in 2025.
With the growth of female football in the region, the Bombers are the latest team to decide to put a team together.
Bombers secretary Lauren Nolan said it was an exciting time for the club and they were looking for people to get involved.
“We’ve been getting our strategic business plan together and we’re going to have an upgrade of the lights and potential for the Riddell Creek Recreation Reserve masterplan to be included in next year’s budget,” she said.
“We thought we would start aligning football and netball and we wanted to make it more a sporting club and decided to look at women’s football.
“We want to do this properly and we have a budget and the support from the committee, so we’re working out the best way to do it.”
Nolan said initial interest had been strong and they’d been surprised how many people were keen to get involved. She said there had been junior girls football at the club previously before Covid.
She said several of their netballers wanted to get out and have a kick as well.
“The interest has been amazing,” she said. “I think it is great having teams playing after the senior sides.
“We stay and watch the women’s games as well. It’s a great atmosphere. A heap of netballers want to play and it should work well on the same day and you can transition from one sport to the other.”
The Bombers have already put a call out for a coach and had a couple of people get in touch to see where things are at.
Nolan said they were hoping to appoint a coach in the next few weeks and have a come and meet the coach not long afterwards.
She said the RDFL had been really supportive in helping them get things in place and with some of the start up costs.
Nolan said anyone who wanted to play no matter their ability was welcome to get in touch.
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