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BOMBERS, DIGGERS CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS
The Bendigo Football League and its affiliated Clubs, the Bendigo Diggers, Essendon Football Club and Football Victoria met this morning to discuss the possibility of a relationship between the Bendigo Diggers and Essendon Football Club. Talks were productive and revolved around finding an acceptable formula for interchange of players between BFL sides and the proposed new entity to be called “the Bendigo Bombers”.
The Bendigo Football League and its affiliated Clubs, the Bendigo Diggers, Essendon Football Club and Football Victoria met this morning to discuss the possibility of a relationship between the Bendigo Diggers and Essendon Football Club. Talks were productive and revolved around finding an acceptable formula for interchange of players between BFL sides and the proposed new entity to be called “the Bendigo Bombers”.
All parties have agreed there are benefits in retaining a Bendigo football team in the Football Victoria competition and are working towards establishing a basis to achieve this outcome. As part of the discussions the Essendon Football Club, Bendigo Diggers and Football Victoria have compromised their position to meet the request of the Bendigo Football League and its affiliate clubs that the new Bendigo entity will not field a reserve team in the Football Victoria competition to ensure the Bendigo Football League is in fact not weakened but strengthened.
The City of Greater Bendigo has been briefed and is comfortable with the progress of these discussions. The Essendon Football Club and Football Victoria have set a deadline of Wednesday October 9 to have formal documentation completed.
Essendon will train this Wednesday and Friday at Princess Park in preparation for its match against Richmond at the Oval in London on Saturday, October 12th. The match has been titled the - ""Clash of the Sash"" and Essendon coach Kevin Sheedy is using the match to trial some of the younger players. ""We have a game in London to play and that will give us an opportunity to have a look at a few kids and see if they will make it next year,"" Sheedy said.
