THE region’s AFL Masters players will come together under a new identity — the Kerang Swan Hill Rams.
Local super rules players agreed to the name — and a new look uniform — a couple of weeks before the season started.
Various super rules teams around Victoria have monikers like the Bombers (Bendigo), the Eagles (Echuca) and the Miners (Ballarat).
Becoming the Rams gave the group a stronger sense of being a team, Swan Hill coordinator Brenten Hogan said.
“It’s incorporated with our sponsorship and we wanted to have an identity so we took that on,” he said.
“A lot of other clubs have got one and we wanted something that we could work with. Being in the Mallee, it was a good fit,” the Rams spokesman said.
The uniqueness of the Rams was also appealing, Hogan said.
“We sort of wanted to look at sticking away from another club, so it worked for that too,” he said.
Hogan said the local super rules had grown such that numbers were good at home games but getting people to travel was still a tough ask.
He said at the Rams’ most recent game, against Echuca Eagles, Kerang Swan Hill had welcomed a couple of new faces, including Kent Wooding and Paul O’Bree from Swan Hill while Murrabit player Travis Collier had also pulled on the boots for the first time.
But it was old hands Ash Meehan and Mathew Chamberlain from Kerang that had again starred for the Rams.
“We had some good numbers and it was good to get a couple of new faces in. We’re always looking for new blokes but at the moment it’s going alright [with numbers],” Hogan said.
The Rams’ next game will be in halfway town Blighty against Albury Wodonga.
“We’ve had a couple of blokes out with injury so we’ll be looking for new faces. If they want to come along it’ll be a good day,” Hogan said.
