2024 Division 2 Men’s Team of the Year
Division 2 Men’s was, without question, one of the most interesting sections in all of the VAFA throughout 2024. Brunswick set the early pace, winning 14 of their first 15,
At Wednesday night’s VAFA Sportscover Season Launch, former Board Member, Justin Toohey, delivered the traditional VAFA toast to all in attendance.
Touching on the history of our Association and the values of all who make it the standard it is today, Toohey’s speech resonated with all in the room.
Read his transcript below:
Thank you to President Tim Nelson and CEO Michael Sholly for bestowing on me the honour and opportunity to propose the traditional toast to the VAFA for this Season Launch.
The Victorian Amateur Football Association is a Melbourne institution. It has been since 1892, which makes it Launch 124. Hundreds of thousands of Melburnians people have widespread respect and affection for this organisation, and our extended family touches on the lives of more people than we know.
This season some 2200 football matches will be conducted under VAFA auspices across the length and breadth of metropolitan Melbourne, so as we gather tonight at this place, this shrine to Aussie Rules football, in preparation for the upcoming contests in the year ahead, I wanted to pause and reflect on the intrinsic ties that bind us as participants to this great amateur football competition.
These are the ties that bind us – the ties which give the VAFA a soul to which no other community football league can lay claim. They are built on core values of playing as amateurs, fair play, generosity of spirit and mutual respect for all involved in and around the game.
To the President, the Board, life members, special guests, staff, all players, clubs, officials and supporters present here tonight – we are all custodians of these values as we launch into Season 124. I wish you well in your endeavours this season – may your road trips be mercifully short, may your injuries and suspensions be few, may you kick with the wind, may your matches be close, and may the umpires wear your team’s socks.
Could I ask that all please be upstanding and drink a toast to the Victorian Amateur Football Association as we launch Season 124.
Division 2 Men’s was, without question, one of the most interesting sections in all of the VAFA throughout 2024. Brunswick set the early pace, winning 14 of their first 15,
The 2025 VAFA Football Season will commence on Saturday 5th April for all competitions, with every section playing two rounds before the Easter long-weekend bye on 19th April. The VAFA
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