Myrtleford

And I've gone with Defiant.

So let's have a listen to where we had Myrtleford finishing in 2026 on our pre-season podcast when we caught up with Funky in February.

So you think they're top three potentially then?

I don't think they're top three.

The Wang Magpies and North Albury.

Correct.

And I really think Myrtleford's off-season last year, they lost all of those...

Midfielders.

For me, their best result, Panda, was Mert at Mert in round nine.

That's when Myrtleford still had the fortress tag at the McNamara Reserve.

Myrtleford at the start of the season, incredibly well, Panda.

They were six and one.

and they just started.

I think they might have got to 7-2 coming into that game.

Wodonga went there as heavy underdogs.

Jared Twitt joined us on the all-rounders that morning and said, I know we're playing some decent footy, but I've played inside to Wodonga that have gone to Myrtleford Absolutely stacked.

So it's at that junction where you can either go to Beechworth or...

Keep going through to Myrtleford.

But yeah, it had its own footy team and cricket team there growing up.

Had its own golf course.

Busy day for you.

Yeah, well, as we speak, I've just played at the Myrtleford Show and I've got a gig in Wodonga that I'm heading into set up for now.

So it's actually, I don't often get two gigs in a day, but it's happened today, so it's good.

And they're both close by.

So I live in Yakondanda and Myrtleford's just like 25 minutes down the road and Wodonga's about the same the other way, so...

Beautiful.

Now, we've got another song of yours, which you've just put out last month, which we're going to play in a moment.

So it's a worldwide phenomenon, but, um, i've just driven i'm just coming into yak and danda now

And then missed half the year as a flow-on effect.

Whooper Irvine did his MCL, didn't play after round 13 against Myrtleford.

Well on the theme of

knees, Dan Howes.

So they won round one and round two against the Dogs and North Albury.

They then had a nine-point loss to Yarrawonga, a 17-point loss to Myrtleford, a 23-point loss to the Rovers where they led at 27 points at quarter time, and then a 10-point loss to the Wangaratta Magpies the week after that, despite the fact they led by 40 points midway through quarterfinal.

The third term, all of a sudden they're two and four, a third of the way through the season.

And as you said, after round six, bye-bye finals.

They beat Coro at the John Ford Oval in Round 1.

They were red-hot favourites, and to be brutally honest, Wodonga should have won on that day, but Lavington found a way to win.

And then their Myrtleford win during the season.

Panda was a remarkable one, and it's probably a knock on the Saints that we'll touch on a little bit later on.

And it was a mixed bag for the Swan Hill Flyers in the Country Basketball League on the weekend.

The men's side were defeated by the Myrtleford Saints on Saturday, going down by 14 points, 83-69.

It didn't get any better on Sunday, with the Seymour Blasters beating the home team 110-57.

Meanwhile, the women's side beat the Woland Panthers by three points, 60-57, and thrashed the Blasters by 28 points, 91-63.

Yeah, right.

And we, we did actually record it with a wonderful, um, sound engineer in Myrtleford.

Yeah.

So, and, and we're regular artists on the Blues Train down in Queenscliff, which is heaps of fun.

They lost by 25 points to Aubrey on Anzac Day.

They lost by one point to Myrtleford in a game.

You have a look at the stats out, Gussie.

They should never have lost.

Panda, the best results for mine.

Now, this is going to sound really weird.

I've got the five-point loss in round 17 to the Wangaratta Magpies as their best result of the year, closely followed by the win against Myrtleford at Myrtleford.

But the reason why I've got this result for the Wangaratta Magpies beating the North Aubrey Hoppers is they were the best team in the competition at that point.