This Sunday’s South East Football Netball League match between rivals Tooradin-Dalmore and ROC will take on even greater meaning this weekend as a WorkSafe Game on the Month.
With both teams desperate to record their first win of the season, a highly competitive clash is expected to unfold in front of Hawthorn legend Peter Knights, who will be the special guest speaker at a special pre-match function.
Knights is a Team of the Century member at Hawthorn, winning the club’s Best & Fairest in 1975 and 1978. He played 264 matches in a golden era that yielded premierships in 1976, 1978 and 1983.
After entertaining the luncheon with stories of playing under some of the game’s greatest coaches, Knights will stay to hand out the WorkSafe Most valuable Player awards for both the A-Grade netball and senior football match.
The events, facilitated by AFL Victoria Country, allow WorkSafe to develop better relationships with local businesses and people, which in turn provides them an avenue to communicate their important message of workplace safety.
These games also help increase the exposure of country football throughout rural and regional Victoria, and highlight the importance of country football to their local communities.
AFL Victoria Country’s naming rights partner has now been visiting football and netball clubs in every corner of the state and across the border into Southern NSW for 13 years.
WorkSafe’s partnership with AFL Victoria Country, and these events in particular, provide a platform to highlight the dangers that too often are taken for granted in the workplace.
It also reminds supporters, volunteers, players and coaches of the impact a workplace injury or death would have on the local football community.
Think about how your football club would cope without you?
More than 75 clubs, just as Tooradin-Dalmore will do this weekend, have now hosted one of these fantastic events and the tradition will continue at another seven destinations this season.
Last Modified on 22/05/2015 12:23