Well the really silly season is fast approaching, despite their best (or worst) efforts the VCFL will have to put up with four former B&DFNL football / netball teams playing this year. All four teams have been accepted into the O&KFNL, it will be a real step up for all but a few players, but if all players train and practice as hard and as best they can then they should enjoy their season.
This season above all else is the season to show the VCFL just how narrow minded and backward they are, but that will only happen through hard work, both on and off the fields/courts.
The B&DFNL allowed players to play at their own level and enjoy the experience, most players, male & female have friends in all the other clubs, will it continue with the new clubs? lets hope so!
Through this blog I will try to add photos of matches that Swanpool & Tatong play in week bye week, so keep an eye out.
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Travelers towing caravans around Australia should think twice about going to Benalla with their caravan. For more than ten years my partner and I fought to have the town allocate caravan parking areas for tourists, in the end there were two such spaces allotted, 'in a busy car-park'. It was pointed out to the relevant authorities that the spots are to small and to hard to park all but the smallest caravans. The caravan spots are some 300 plus meters from the present 'tourist information' building, never ideal for the elderly or in-firmed.
Another major problem facing caravaners is the fact that the council does not police the two caravan spots, but allows 'all and sundry' to park in these two spaces. It would appear that touists are not encouraged, in fact I have heard 'from the horses mouth' that the council didn't deem Benalla to be a tourist destination, and so didn't need to put in place any tourist infrastructure.
We have also tried for many years to have a tourist bike path put into place to join up those already in place,and being built, in other areas of the North East of Victoria. And the answer has consistently been 'we are not a tourist destination' or we haven't got the money. The Victorian Government has, over the past years, poured millions of dollars into other areas of the state for the very same type of bike paths as we have been wanting for Benalla.
So whilst there is a wonderful man-made lake in Benalla and other splendid tourist destinations in the area, think twice if you have a caravan or wish to cycle around the area.
Caravaners are generally a very astute group of people, and if the are not made welcome they 'go somewhere else' to spend their money. Benalla is missing out on an enormous amount of tourist dollars, and rightly so. So as I said, think twice before making Benalla a stop over.