The clash of the Tigers will take centre stage on Anzac Day in the Riddell District Football Netball League.
Lancefield will host Kyneton in men’s and women’s football, along with netball on Thursday, the first time the club’s have faced off since Kyneton has returned to the RDFNL.
Lancefield will don a special Anzac jumper and netball dress to pay tribute to service men and women both past and present who served the nation, including 14 Lancefield players who went to war and never returned home.
As a tribute to those players and their sacrifice, the Lancefield’s senior football and A-grade netball sides, will carry those players names on a wattle inspired one off tribute jumper and dress.
The wattle is a significant symbol of Australia particularly through the war years.
The day promises to be one of the biggest in the club’s recent history.
A special Anzac Day ceremony will take place around 2.10pm before the senior men’s game.
The Romsey Lancefield Historical Society will be on hand during the day selling copies of, not just, the acclaimed Lancefield Football Club 150 year history book, but also the poignant book Anzac Letters that includes letters received by Lancefield families and friends from soldiers serving in WW1.
There will be special commemorative Anzac Day medals for each team in the seniors football, A-grade netball and women’s football.
It will be Lancefield’s women’s side first match at home after entering the competition this year.
In other matches on Anzac Day, Diggers Rest will play Macedon.
