This Sunday’s GOTAFE Goulburn Valley Football League match between rivals Benalla v Shepparton United will take on even greater meaning as the WorkSafe Game on the Month.
AFL Legend Peter Knights and Netball icon Sharelle McMahon will both be in attendance and speak 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.
McMahon is considered one of the all-time greats of her sport after more than 100 games for the Australian Diamonds. The Goal Attack also led the Melbourne Vixens to the National Championships in 2009 amid a highly decorated domestic career.
After entertaining the luncheon with stories of their time at the elite level, Knights and McMahon will 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 and netball 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 Benalla 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 26/05/2015 10:04