After a huge pre-season, eighteen rounds of home and away footy and three weeks of finals we find ourselves back where we were this time last year, a Grand Final between Foster and Fish Creek. Unlike this time last year however it is Foster, the team that dropped only a single game all season, that go into the decider as favourites. With a near on full list to choose from the Tigers have had a Bart Cummings like preparation with everything seemingly timed for the side to

The 2026 Mid Gippsland Football Netball League Senior footy Grand Final will be a replay of last year’s premiership decider after Fish Creek overcame a spirited Yinnar to prevail 12-10-82 to 7-9-51 in Saturday’s Preliminary Final. With just three points separating the two sides at the last break Fishy banged home four final term goals while keeping Yinnar off the score sheet to win by thirty-one points. Wet, windy, and predominately heavy conditions were the order of the da

The last chance saloon that is the Preliminary Final is played this week at Foster. With the hosts, Foster, already safe and secure in the last game of the year the league’s second and third best teams will battle it out on their turf for the right to take on the Tigers in the last, and most important, game of the year the week after at Meeniyan. Yinnar limp into the Prelim on the back of a comprehensive defeat the week before when Foster took them to the cleaners by the be

Foster VS Yinnar Foster steamrolled their way into the MGFNL Senior Footy Gand Final in two weeks’ time with a huge win over a listless Yinnar at Tarwin on Saturday. The reigning Premiers had the game parcelled up at the long break where their lead was just a single point shy of ten goals before running out winners 16-12-108 to 4-5-29. Where it not for a Nixon Hall master class in the last term where the gun on baller went forward for the Magpies and kicked three late goals

Week two of the Mid Gippy senior footy finals sees the big guns roll out on Saturday afternoon when first placed Foster and second placed Yinnar kick off their post season campaigns. On the line is a spot in the following fortnights premiership decider and another week off to freshen up and prepare for the big game. Sunday will see week one’s two winners, Fish Creek and MDU go head-to-head. The scenario here is just as simple as last week for these two teams, win and you st

Fish Creek vs Tarwin After over-coming a slow start and a spirited Tarwin last quarter come-back Fish Creek got the win they needed to keep their season alive on Saturday at Mirboo North running out winners 13-10-88 to 7-8-50. Coming into the cut-throat final on the back of a surprise loss to MDU in Round Eighteen Fish Creek made seven changes to their line-up. Tarwin made just two changes from their winning Round Eighteen side, one of which was reversed on match day when Dyl

With ten clubs represented in the post season when it comes to footy it truly is an exciting time of the year to be involved in the MGFNL. It would be fair to say there appears to be three stand outs in the senior competition, two in the Reserves and thirds while the fourths appear to have a clear cut favourite. But we don’t have to search too far or too wide to see sides, even in the senior competition, coming from outside the top few spots on the ladder to secure the ultima

They, whomever they might be, say a week is a long time in footy. Well after eighteen rounds, sixteen games per side and a full calendar year not a lot has actually changed when it comes to the MGFNL Senior Footy ladder. In terms of sides playing finals, it is Tarwin stepping up from seventh last year to replace Boolarra who finished sixth last season and Yinnar and Fish Creek switching between second and third with other things staying as they were. So how precisely did ro

Round Eighteen, the final home and away round, of the MGFNL sees a return to six games of footy, with only one team having the bye, and as luck would have it five of them can shape the finals. As we have done over the last two weeks rather than discuss the games, the match ups, the players, the coaches and everything else that comes with the analysis of a footy match we will continue to focus on the finals fall out from each game. So, starting with the easiest of the lot:

The ladder again proved the best predictor of results for Round Seventeen of the MGFNL with all teams positioned highest winning their clashes. The results solidified he spots at the top end while leaving the door ajar for any of four sides still in the fight for the last two finals positions heading into the last round. Yinnar were the big winners of the round taking Hill End to the cleaners, while Tarwin also registered a near on three figure win over Toora. MDU saluted i