Remembering the 1990 Cat Attack

Back, left to right are then, 3HA football commentator, Dan Lonergan, Damian Gill, Neale Guthrie, Bryan McKenzie, Brian Burns, Darren Carlin, Neil Shannon, Buddy Gartlan, Matthew Murphy, Geoff Mitchell, Andrew Kerr, Ian Robertson, Betty Sanders, Graeme Rees, Chris Young, Mick Murrell and Ross Astbury and front, left to right, Lonergan’s partner-in-crime, Leo O’Brien, Gary Brooker, Chris Foran, Mick Foster, Glenn Carroll, Tony Lithgow and Noel McDonald. Photo: JAMES THOMPSON

By Kristy McDonald

July 29, 2022 | 10:00 AM

OLD friends and football family came together at the weekend in an emotion-charged celebration of the Casterton Football Club’s 1990 Western Border Football League senior premiership.

While not everyone could make it - including the late Ian Willersdorf, whose contribution and place on the team was remembered and celebrated - those players, committee members and selectors who did, were relieved to finally be able to gather after Covid-19 restrictions saw the reunion cancelled, two years in a row.