VFL
Following its first Victorian Football League grand final berth in close to two decades Werribee has re-signed 23 players from last season’s squad. Football manager Mark Micallef said he is acutely aware of the significance of this. “Retention at any level of football is crucial to success. To have 23 of our players already commit to the 2024 season shows how much belief they have in the direction the club is heading. Not one of the 23 hesitated in putting pen to paper. They believe and want to go one step further next year. That is testament to the culture the club has developed,” he said. The club said negotiations with several other players are ongoing while exams, holidays and other personal business is addressed after a packed football program.
GDFL
Werribee Centrals has strengthened its playing list for the 2024 Geelong and District Football League season. The club has recruited both Zac O’Halloran and Keegan Gilbert from St Bernards in the Victorian Amateur Football Association. O’Halloran has played 150 games with the VAFA club, where he won a team best and fairest and is a part of its team of decade playing as a ruckman-forward. Gilbert played for Altona in the Western Region Football League before making the move across to St Bernards.
WRFL
Point Cook and Point Cook Centrals will both keep their coaches for the 2024 Western Region Football League season. Following a division one grand final berth the Bulldogs reappointed Clay Smith to lead them. “I can’t wait for 2024, building on a very successful 2023 and working with our young boys coming through the ranks. The boys have tasted finals and a grand final and we are hungry for more,” Smith said. The Sharks will again be led by Dean Chambers who guided the club to a division 2 premiership in 2022.
