THE Bendigo Bank Pioneers outgunned Calder Cannons in Saturday’s ninth round of the AFL Victoria TAC Cup under-18s season.

Strathfieldsaye Storm midfielder Sam Heavyside marked one of his best matches of the year as he racked up more than 40 possessions in a best-on-ground peformance at the QEO.more

Every year thousands of fans flock to Melbourne for some of the world's biggest sporting events including the AFL season, the Australian Open, the Formula 1 Grand Prix and the Spring Racing Carnival. Known as the sporting capital of Australia, the city is also home to a number of world class arenas.

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AS Oliver Wines continues to stake a claim for the AFL’s NAB Rising Star honour, spare a thought for Sam Heavyside.

Heavyside and Wines were once teammates, they came through the Bendigo Pioneers program together.more

EASTERN Ranges were too strong for the Bendigo Pioneers in the TAC Cup round eight clash on Saturday at Box Hill.

See your ad hereAlthough the Pioneers dictated long periods of play and matched Ranges in many contests, Eastern capitalised on forward 50m entries so much better.more

A CAREER-BEST performance in Adelaide’s stunning fightback to beat North Melbourne has put Sam Kerridge in the running for the AFL’s Rising Star awardmore

THE Bendigo Pioneers kept the heat on the unbeaten Geelong Falcons in Saturday’s TAC Cup contest at Craigieburn’s Highgate Reserve.

Although the Pioneers did not win, there were many positives to take from the club’s seventh hit-out of the season.more

A BROKEN nose won’t stop Bendigo Pioneer Jaden McGrath playing in the national under-18 championships.more

THEY carried underdog status before last year’s upset victory and Catholic College Bendigo is happy to do so in today’s Premier League football clash with Bendigo Senior Secondary College at the QEO.more

INSPIRED by the play of captain Jacob Chisari, Sam Heavyside and ruckman Jordan Mangan, the Bendigo Bank Pioneers ...more

THE Bendigo Pioneers crashed to a hat-trick of defeats in the TAC Cup under-18s action as Northern Knights won Saturday’s match at Preston by 21 points.more

THERE’S a mantra about the lengths players will go to get a game, but Josh Cakitaki took it to new levels earlier this season.more

Gippsland Power has sent an ominous warning to the competition with 105-point victory over the Bendigo Pioneers on Saturday, as David O'Neill and Darren Edmondston.more

ACTIONS more so than words will be the way Jacob Chisari tackles captaincy of the Bendigo Pioneers in this year’s AFL Victoria TAC Cup under-18s competition.

See your ad hereChisari marked his first match as the club’s on-field leader with a seven-goal victory in the Easter Saturday match against North Ballarat Rebelsmore

THE Bendigo Bank Pioneers kicked off their season by beating North Ballarat Rebels in the AFL TAC Cup under-18s football clash at Craigieburn on Easter Saturday.more

Last season’s Bendigo Pioneers skipper Oliver Wines has spoken glowingly about the TAC Cup club’s professionalism helping his transition to AFL ranks.more

The Bendigo Pioneers are asking the community to help them support a good cause.

See your ad hereThe TAC Cup club has raised more than $7500 towards the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave, but want to reach $10,000 by next week.more

Five new names from the SFNL will be on the Bendigo Pioneers’ list for the 2013 TAC Cup season.

See your ad hereNearly a quarter of the Pioneers’ 40-man squad – eight – will be SFNL players.more

Last Saturday following an invitation from the very progressive TAC CUP coach David Newett. I made the trip to Swan Hill to work with the Bendigo Pioneers squad around the process of giving and receiving feedback from and to their peers.more

FOR the first time since 2003 the Bendigo Pioneers could have two players selected in the top 10 of the AFL National Draft.more

OLIVER Wines has become used to fitting a lot into his days.

The 17-year-old, considered one of the best midfielders available at this year's NAB AFL Draft, lives in Echuca, the Victorian town on the New South Wales border.more

MILDURA’S Jacob Chisari yesterday joined an elite group to have won the Neville Strauch Memorial Trophy as the Bendigo Bank Pioneers Football Club’s champion player for the 2012 season.

Chisari’s consistency in his 17 matches was a highlight in his debut season in the AFL Victoria TAC Cup under-18s competition.more

After a year of greater team success, a number of Bendigo Bank Pioneers players are beginning to receive recognition for outstanding individual seasons.more

Oakleigh charged to a 76 point victory against the Bendigo Bank Pioneers in Saturdays TAC Cup Under 18 Football Match at the QEO.more

Moama’s Christian Burgess and Echuca’s Oliver Wines will be staying home, rather than travelling across the country side.

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THE Bendigo Bank Pioneers scored five of the last six goals to beat Northern Knights in Saturday’s TAC Cup match at Huntly.
Northern led 40-25 in the fifth minute of the final quarter, but the Pioneers refused to give up.
A goal by Eaglehawk’s Jake Stringer on the run kick-started Bendigo’s brilliant fightback.more

BRETT WORTHINGTON
16 Jul, 2012 08:31 AM
A REGIONAL man whose son died in a car crash hopes sharing his story will prompt young drivers to act responsibly behind the wheel.
Norm Robinson’s 19-year-old son, Luke, died in an early-morning car crash in 2010.more

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As the Official Hotel Group of the Australian Football League (AFL), Holiday
Inn hotels in Melbourne are pleased to announce their support of young
regional players through its newly established partnership with the Bendigo
Pioneers Football Club.more

BENDIGO Pioneers captain Oliver Wines has joined an elite club.
Wines, 17, capped an outstanding AFL national under-18 championships by being named in the centre for the All-Australian team.more

NATHAN DOLE
09 Jul, 2012 04:00 AM
A 10-MINUTE burst in which a 10-point lead became an 18-point deficit cost the Bendigo Bank Pioneers in Saturday’s TAC Cup clash with Geelong Falcons at Strathfieldsaye.
Playing at the Tannery Lane for premiership points for the first time, Bendigo led by five points at half-time.more

Gun Bendigo Bank Pioneers midfielder Oliver Wines could make the step up to playing AFL next season, according to his TAC Cup coach David Newett.
Wines is considered a certainty to be drafted and could follow in the footsteps of last season’s Pioneers skipper, Sam Kerridge, who debuted for Adelaide against Hawthorn in round three.more

It’s 10am on June 17 at the Queen Elizabeth Oval and many of the Bendigo Pioneers players are already in the changerooms – two hours before a clash with the Dandenong Stingrays.

It’s a big game for the Pioneers. Last start they were disappointing in a 28-point loss to bottom-team Eastern Ranges in a game almost everyone expected them to win.more

NATHAN DOLE
30 May, 2012 04:00 AM
TEAM-MATES one Saturday, opponents the next.
That’s the scenario for Bendigo Pioneers clubmates Sam Heavyside, Sam Clyne and Christian Burgess in this Saturday’s AFL national under-18 championships clash between Victoria Country and NSW-ACT at Blacktown.more

A GOAL from a free kick awarded in the final second denied the Bendigo Pioneers victory in the TAC Cup under-18s football clash with Queensland on Saturday at Collingwood’s Victoria Park.more

NATHAN DOLE
25 May, 2012 04:00 AM
FOR the second time in as many weeks, Bendigo Pioneers wingman Nick Mee will tomorrow grace the field where Collingwood Football Legends legends such as Peter Daicos, the Coventrys, Bob Rose and many more made their mark at Victoria Park.more

TRAVIS KING
22 May, 2012 04:00 AM
Bendigo Pioneers star Liam Byrne will have season-ending surgery on his wrist today.
Byrne, 17, had carried the injury throughout the TAC Cup under-18s season, but it became increasingly painful and he was told it needed to be operated on.more

NATHAN DOLE
23 May, 2012 04:00 AM
BENDIGO Pioneers clubmates Oliver Wines, Sam Heavyside and Jake Stringer have earned selection in Victoria Country’s squad for the AFL national under-18 championships.more

Jacob Chisari’s after the siren match-winning goal has capped a best on ground performance in BSSC Lions’ clash with Essendon-Keilor at the QEO yesterday.

Chisari received a free-kick for a trip 30m out from goal on a slight angle moments before the final siren, and he calmly slotted the shot to hand his school a two-point victory 11.5 (71) to 10.9 (69).more

SEVEN young guns from the Bendigo Pioneers squad are in the running to represent Victoria Country at this year’s AFL national under-18 championships.
Key forward Jake Stringer, onballers Oliver Wines and Sam Heavyside, midfielder Harry O’Meara, ruckman Zac May, key defender Isaiah Miller and half-back flanker Liam Byrne are in the 50-player squad.more

NATHAN DOLE
14 May, 2012 04:00 AM
A FIRST-QUARTER ambush by the Murray Bushrangers played a big part in Saturday’s 45-point victory against Bendigo Pioneers in round seven of the TAC Cup under-18s football competition.more

NATHAN DOLE
12 May, 2012 04:00 AM
LEAving family and friends in Mildura to pursue his footballing goals was a tough call for Bendigo Pioneers rover Jacob Chisari to make over summer.more

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CALDER Cannons outgunned the Bendigo Bank Pioneers in the last quarter as they won Saturday's TAC Cup under-18s football match at Moama by 34 points.
The Pioneers marked their first match on the border for several years by being 15 points up with a quarter to play.more

NATHAN DOLE
04 May, 2012 04:00 AM
ECHUCA’S Christian Burgess will be aiming to continue his goalkicking run when the Bendigo Bank Pioneers take on Calder Cannons in tomorrow’s TAC Cup under-18s football match at Moama.more

NATHAN DOLE
30 Apr, 2012 04:00 AM
JAKE Stringer marked his first TAC Cup match for the Bendigo Bank Pioneers in 391 days by kicking 10 goals in the AFL Victoria under-18s clash with Northern Knights on Saturday.more

ADAM BOURKE
21 Apr, 2012 04:00 AM
THIS time last year Jake Stringer was pondering where his football future lay.
The Bendigo Pioneers star had suffered a badly broken leg which would sideline him for the AIS-AFL Academy tour of Europe and the remainder of the TAC Cup season.

A heartbreaking scenario for a 16-year-old who had the footy world at his feet.more

AAP
18 Apr, 2012 04:00 AM
FORMER Bendigo Pioneers star Scott Selwood has signalled his intention to be an Eagle for life after signing a three-year deal with West Coast yesterday.
Selwood, 22, established himself as one of the competition’s best shutdown players last season, but has taken his game to even greater heights in 2012 as a more attacking midfielder.more

NATHAN DOLE
09 Apr, 2012 04:00 AM
A GREAT fightback by the Bendigo Bank Pioneers was capped with a three-point victory in the AFL Victoria TAC Cup under-18 football match on Easter Saturday against Oakleigh Chargers.more

TRAVIS KING
31 Mar, 2012 03:00 AM
It’s been little more than five months since the appointment of the Bendigo Pioneers’ full-time coach David Newett and the TAC Cup team will be looking to begin a new era when they take on the Geelong Falcons in Ballarat today.more

TRAVIS KING
31 Mar, 2012 03:00 AM
When the Bendigo Pioneers run out onto Eureka Stadium in Ballarat this afternoon, five of the TAC Cup under-18 team will have come from Bendigo’s newest senior men’s football club – the Strathfieldsaye Storm.more

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The camp is being held on the 20-21st at Harry Trott oval b/w 9am- 4.30pm, with talented Under 13 players from the Bendigo Region participating...

 

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Youngsters meet Carlton stars

Thursday 8th July, a group of Central Victorian children toured Visy Park, the home of the Carlton Football Club. Even more exciting for the youngsters will be the chance to meet and greet some of the Blues, including Senior Coach Brett Ratten, and some of their star players. Please view our photo gallery by clicking the tab on the right hand side of this page...more

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On behalf of the local Bendigo Australian Football Coaches Association (AFCA) branch I have great pleasure in announcing the winners of Coach of the Year.

Coaches came from the Bendigo Football League, Loddon Valley Football League, Heathcote and District Football League, Bendigo Junior Football League, Castlemaine Junior Football League and Kynton and District Junior Football Leaguemore

Bendigo AFCA presents a FREE meet the
Essendon Football Club Assistant Coaches

Two big nights, two assistant coaches each night

Golden Square Football Oval (Bendigo Pioneers Rooms)
5.30pm Skills session with Bendigo Pioneers players
6.30pm Information and question time
Light refreshments providedmore

Click here to view a list of questions potential draftees might want to ask of their prospective player manager.more