Hume Eagles Rugby League Club Inc. was established after the Hume City Bulldogs ‘vanished without a trace’. We (Morgan and Keryse Munro) decided to start Hume Eagles Rugby League Club, to ensure our children could continue to play rugby league.

 

Some people from NRL Victoria enquired with us as to whether we’d start a franchise so we decided we would start a club together and hand pick a committee who were as passionate as we were.

 

We were all set to go, we formed the committee, had a jumper designed, we were successful in being awarded use of Hothlyn Drive Reserve in Craigieburn and met all our compliance for the reserve. However, the same week the club was supposed to collect the keys for its new home, the first lot of COVID-19 restrictions, stopped the club in its tracks.

 

While we originally planned to have teams in seven or eight age groups, after the first restrictions were introduced, the club decided to field at least one side. The club had also planned to merge some teams with Mernda Dragons to make sure as many children as possible had a chance to play.

 

The club wanted to focus on creating a culture through its juniors before thinking about fielding senior sides and creating opportunities for girls to play rugby league.

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If you start off with seniors they can already have attitudes and habits, but if you start off with juniors, you can create the right environment and culture, we want to show them the right way and for them to show others later. I have two daughters and I want them to have the same opportunities as my son has.

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Rather than focus on the Craigieburn area, the club is hoping to recruit juniors from further north and even tap into Assumption College’s sporting pipeline.

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If we stick to the same area of Craigieburn, we can end up the same. We need more diversification, we’re definitely looking in Beveridge, Wallan and Kilmore, maybe even Broadford. We’re also looking for good people with good fabric to join our ranks. We need coaches, trainers and volunteers, we need a lot of things.

 

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