Sports Talk (7/4/18)

Sports Talk

April 7 2018

Today was the start of the PDFNL season for the Rovers with the team playing host to Strathmerton.

Today in the Murray Football League and Murray Netball League was Round 2 and today’s action saw the Rams play host to Rumbalara.

Rams Football Results

Seniors lost 9.12 – 66 to 23.14 – 152
Reserves lost 0.0 – 0 to 25.16-166
Under 17’s won 14.12-96 to 4.5-29
Under 14’s won 16.20 – 116 to 0.0

Rams Netball Results

A Grade won 39 to 36
B Grade won 63 to 29
C Grade won 53 to 36
C Reserve won 65 to 22
Under 17’s won 76 to 9
Under 15’s won 52 to 12
Under 13’s won 42 to 12
Under 11’s won 13 to 3

Rovers Football Results

Seniors won 14.8 – 92 to 13.8 – 86
Reserves won 16.10 – 106 to 1.2 – 8
Under 14’s won 35.15 – 222 to 0.0 – 0

Rovers Netball Results

A Grade won 54 to 30
B Grade won 47 to 27
C Grade lost 26 to 35
C Reserve won 48 to 16
Under 17’s lost 55 to 25
Under 15’s won 45 to 6
Under 13’s won 22 to 11

Conclusion

The Rams are going fantastically well in Netball and they must be really happy with their clean sweep today.

Youth continue to the shining light for the Rams in Football as the Under 14’s and 17’s have won by impressive margins but fans will be starting to worry about the Seniors and Reserves.

The Rovers will be happy with their Netball sides efforts today with five wins from seven games today, there is no doubt that Sponsors Day was a great success for those businesses who put money into the club.

The football sides had a great day and the Seniors must be really happy with getting a win over an always strong Strathmerton side and we certainly hope it is the launching point for a return to finals football.

We’ll be back on Thursday with a look ahead to Round 2 (PDFNL) and Round 3 (MFL/MNL) action.

Sports Talk (5/4/18)

Sports Talk

April 5 2018

Sports Talk is back once again to talk about local Football and Netball.

This week is Round 1 in the PDFNL while it is Round 2 for the MFL and MNL.

Technical problems prevented us from covering Round 1 of the MFL and MNL action last week and so below you will find the results from all four Football and all five Netball matches.

As readers know, the PDFNL declined affiliation with AFL GM and are now an independent league, the PDFNL have scrapped divisions and now have a 13 team competition with 20 rounds and like the old system there will be byes.

The Rovers have Strathmerton up first at Memorial Park and entry to the ground for Adults is now $12.

The Rams host Rumbalara at Hardinge Street Oval with both senior football teams looking to win their first game of the 2018 season.

It is going to be an interesting PDFNL season whilst in the Murray League it will be interesting to see if the Rams can climb up the ladder after the struggles of 2017.

We’ll be back on Saturday with the results from all Rams and Rovers matches.

Rams Results

Football

Seniors lost 11.13-79 to 5.6-36
Reserves lost 13.15-93 to 3.1-19
Under 17’s won 14.6-90 to 6.2-38
Under 14’s won 10.14-74 to 1.3-9

Netball

A Grade won 52 to 38
B Grade won 43 to 36
C Reserve won 35 to 34
17 and Under won 44 to 10
15 and Under won 55 to 17

New call for KFC to return to town

News

April 1 2018

A new petition has gone up calling on anybody to end Deniliquin’s enduring lack of KFC (no joke).

This year is the eighth year that KFC has not operated in town and locals are still relying on others going to Echuca and bringing back the stuff that contains 11 secret herbs and spices.

Of course it is not just the Chicken, there is their range of Burgers, Chips, Potato and Gravy and many more delights that make peoples stomachs rumble for KFC.

Some would argue that a lack of sales caused KFC’s departure in 2010 but it can be argued back that Deniliquin has changed with kids then are now teenagers and teenagers back then are now adults.

It will also create jobs though some do worry that a return of KFC may have a negative impact on the shops that are not franchises  though the counter to that is that McDonald’s and Subway have not annihilated businesses since their arrivals.

Will this petition succeed? maybe and maybe not but it is always worth a try to state that you want something to come to town as that is how progress begins.

Deniliquin’s New Plan

Humour, News

Napier Street is set to look a whole lot different in the future thanks to a long standing plan to revitalize part of the street and to bring more tourists into town.

The new plan envisions Napier Street’s modern buildings be demolished or their facades modified to resemble building styles from no later than 1960 to tap into the historical market.

This plan has come about after many months of meticulous assessment and then coming to the conclusion that most of Deniliquin’s pre 1960 buildings or replicas of them are still intact in the top section of street making it the perfect place to try get more dollars from tourists.

The old Dublin Hotel is expected live again for the first time since it was closed down in the early 1920’s, future patrons can visit the recreated hotel safe in the knowledge that they won’t get caught and fined for taking away a drink on a Sunday or being on premises after hours like many locals did back in the day.

The Federal Hotel won’t need too much done on the outside as most of it is still looking like it was in the late 1920’s when it got its current day look though the arch (between ‘Hotel’ and ‘Deniliquin’ is now nice and flat.

Deniliquin’s thirst for motoring will be somewhat quenched with the old Deniliquin Motor Company building once again being a hub for cars this time it will be for museum that will showcase some of the makes that used to be sold from that location, the building paint will also be scrubbed off to give it that original look.

The Commonwealth Bank will be approached with hopes their modern signs will be replaced with ones from their past to fit in with the theme and avoid any costly moves to another street.

The town’s large collection of historical photographs will help developers and planners come up with the right mix of building looks to ensure a spectacular look that will please both locals and tourists.

The replacing or modifications to building facades may limit the amount of demolition needed which will save money and the saved money is expected to go towards filling in pot holes and other abnormalities in our roads and footpaths.

It is still unknown whether the section of road that in the buildings area will be closed to give the section a limit on modern technology.

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It is also yet to be seen if this idea will be enthusiastically received by the public as people are still pretty miffed about the costs of Christmas, the ERC’s $600,000 portable and leased office and the Visit Deni site whose large cost to make and promote gives tourists places to go that are long shut down.

The starting date for construction to start on this new tourist attraction is never as this is our April Fools Day effort for 2018, thank you very much for reading.

Waiting for rain

News

March 23 2018

Conflicting weather reports have been frustrating locals as the town waits for much needed rain to fall.

The weather services have frustrated locals over the years, it has rained when there is supposed to be little chance of it and then it doesn’t rain when there is a big chance of it and we’ve been made to look foolish when we report rainfall is on the cards and nothing falls.

Earlier this week there was hopes that there be up to 10mm of rain on Sunday, then it dropped to a maximum of 5mm then 1mm and then back up to 4mm and now sits at 3mm.

We need the rain, at this time last year we received 65.4mm of rain and so far this year we’ve received 19.2mm and most of that came in a single day.

It has not even rained 0.2mm on any day this month as of 11:45am on Friday March 23 and if it continues for the next week it will be the driest March since 0.2mm in 2003.

In 2010 Deniliquin received 139.6mm of rain which stands as the record according to Weatherzone, we would certainly love that 139.6mm.

74% of the Murray is on Drought Watch, 17.5% are OK, 7.9% is recovering and 0.4% is on drought onset.

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Deniliquin is part of the 74% that are on ‘Drought Watch’, more details can be found at the Department of Primary Industries’ ‘Combined Drought Indicator‘.

Aside from the rain, people want better weather indicators for locals want to plan for the best and prepare for the worst when it comes to rainfall.

Let us hope that it rains this weekend and more often down the track.