FRESH off of a SANFL Team of the Year appearance, former Port Adelaide draftee and Sturt premiership player Sam Colquhoun has signed on as player-coach for his hometown Tanunda Football Club.
TANUNDA premiership player-coach Dean Terlich has played his last game as a Magpie after signing on as player-coach for Uraidla Districts in the Hills Football League.
NEARLY 2000 fans made the trip to Freeling Oval on Saturday to witness the finale of the Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association season, with Gawler Central beating South Gawler to claim the A-grade flag in the day’s main event.
PLAYED in front of a surprisingly small crowd, the Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association’s A-grade preliminary final between the South Gawler Lions and the Angaston Panthers at Freeling Oval proved to be a hard-fought and entertaining encounter.
SOUTH Gawler and Gawler Central have only ever met once in a Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association A-grade grand final, when in 2014 the Tigers claimed the flag, but this Saturday the Lions get a chance to square the ledger.
FRESH faces may be seen umpiring some of the region’s biggest games in next year’s Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association (BLGFA) as the league’s umpiring association is set to promote the next crop of first-grade whistle-blowers.
IN a preview of this weekend’s Barossa Light & Gawler Football Association preliminary final, South Gawler travelled to Angaston and pulled away late to secure a 12.15 (87) to 9.10 (64) win to wrap up the home-and-away season.
LOCAL football finals will see “significantly lower” crowds this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, with the last games of the season set to be held at Freeling for the second consecutive year.
