The defenders have formed a new group called ‘Community Defence’, and aim to develop and implement positive community initiatives throughout 2011.
22 players in total - comprising the Community Defence group as well as all the first-year Magpies - visited Clunes (located in Victoria’s Central Goldfields region, just north of Ballarat) to view the devastation first hand that this small community has experienced.
The group was taken on a tour of the Clunes Football and Netball Club which was first hit by the floods in September, only to again be hit in the recent floods. The players then held a clinic at Clunes Primary School where more than 100 children participated whilst volunteers from Collingwood’s premier partner Westpac cooked up a storm providing a barbecue lunch for local kids and their parents.
Special thanks to Gilbert and Bernie Cabral, and also Westpac for their donations in making the lunch such a success.
Collingwood players and Westpac volunteers pose for a quick snap
Nick Maxwell welcomes everyone to the clinic
New draftee, Paul Seedsman, shows the kids a thing or two
Nathan Brown cops a belting on the tackle pads
Tom Hunter didn't mind signing something a little different
Scott Watters, Tarkyn Lockyer, Craig McRae and Westpac volunteers cook up a BBQ for the people of Clunes
