The Rangers AGM kicked off proceeding last night with master of Ceremonies Tony “The Pres” Smith getting down to formal business. The meeting was opened at 6:10pm and was all done by 6:21pm. A new record perhaps? Meetings are easy with willing dedicated volunteers willing to put their hands up to fill positions. The Pres’s new executive includes for 2016

Nathan Pool-Vice President

Scott Jenkins – Treasurer

Cam Scott – Secretary

     Big special thank you to Dylan Cowan for his past two years as secretary, Kelsey “Burderonthedancefloor” Burder as Vice President and of course Kevin “The Legend” Pool for all his work he has done in the treasurers role. Every member of the club should be proud of their efforts this year. The thing that stands out for this writer is the willingness of club members to put their hand up and chip in and help out. Makes things much easier throughout the season.

Now to the award winners.

Best & Fairest for Rangers Orange Brendon French and Jason Jonker

Runner up Ian Dinsdale

Most improved Jack Bradburn

Best performed in the Semi Final Daniel McCullough

Best Performed in the Grand Final Jason Jonker

Best & Fairest for Rangers Black Tetsuya Kamiyama

Runner up Cam Scott

Most improved Steve Peruzzo

Best performed in a Semi Final Cam Scott

Best performed in a Grand Final Nathan Pool

Club-man of the Year: Scott Jenkins

Thanks to all our sponsors of awards Kevin and Joan Pool, Carmel Seymour, The Lewis family and Di Parker. Also to our sponsors for 2015 STY Metals, Plumbforce, Reflex Glass, Pave Crete, Action Smash Repairs, Shanley Signs, Rea & O’Keefe, Winsec, Elect Solar, Insite Real Estate, Whitty Produce, Ref-Ridgetech, Your Everyday Gourmet, Cafe Martini and Wangaratta Motor Group. Your support is greatly appreciated.

It was interesting to see the winners for the other two awards give out on the night. Firstly it is the award that no one wants. The award for showing how many times you swung and missed. In baseball speak it is called fanning or more basically….Striking out. Kyle “Thrillmore” Gilmore took this award home. Nathan Pool did comment that the weather worked in his favor this year as his number could have been higher if not for washouts. Think of the positives Thrillmore, you get the money back on the trip and this writer knows from first hand experience that onwards and upwards. You will get the swing back.

     The other award was for the highest number of flyballs. Tetsu was happy to hand over the award to good mate and ultimate gamer Rob “Butts” Seymour who had an impressive number of catches. Nice work Gentlemen.

Over the weekend, few of the Ranger faithful ventured over the Ovens and King grand final to watch King Valley and Ranger favorite Angus “The Spaniard” Young try and win his second flag for the year. However at times he was confused with the number sixteen for King Valley who looked much like a second Spaniard. However after initial confusion and consultation with the footy critic we looked up to see 13 having a shot for goal from the pocket. Man of beard Scott Jenkins remarked to The Soaks Cam Scott and Lauren Grenfell that he will not kick this. The kick was perfectly weighted swung on the breeze and split the uprights to seal the win for The Valley. Congratulations to Gus and all of King Valley on their wins over the weekend. Enjoy your week!

     The boys are having a bit of banter on-line before their annual end of season trip. You see there are the regular contributors and then there are the watchers. There is also a third group or really just one person in the group. Last time Gus checked his in-box there was 96 messages. He asked was there anything worth reading? Probably not. This time around 110 messages and anything worth reading? Maybe a few congrats on winning a flag maybe? If you read banter well then probably not Gus.

     The trip is booked, All is paid up. The bus is hired. The driver has been found. Now to organize the costumes for Ranger ramble 2015. This years theme is religion based. Will be interesting to see what the gentlemen come up with this year. Can Dan “The Griff” Griffin go back to back on best costume? Or will a bolter come from the cloud in the form of Rob “Beaker” Barbour? One thing for sure it will be interesting if those coming from Melbourne on the train will be in costume on the way up?  Now if they do then there is definitely points there. Get organised gents. Like past years will not be a trip to be missed. How goes the fines tin Griff?

     At presentation a framed team photo was presented to the club by photographer Marc Bongers. It had the winning team with both score sheets and a place for the medallion in the middle. And of course was in Rangers colors. The writers pretty sure that Marc will have eleven confirmed orders for this print. As was said a good use of the medal. Question is who’s meal was in the copy for the clubrooms? Maybe Dylan Cowan’s? Thanks to Marc for all his work throughout the year taking photos. It is greatly appreciated by all.

     Many of the boys at Wangaratta have been in the paper from time to time this year. However some more than others. Number 18 Chopper McCullough has coughed up plenty of dollars for random things such as guess where the footy is. One person who continues to find Chopper in the paper is one and only Kelsey Burder. Maybe if Burder keeps such a close eye on Chopper’s appearances he should pay some of the dollars too!

Don’t be a strange Ranger guys and girls. Make sure you keep updated on what is going on by looking at Facebook or follow @WangRangers on Twitter or even find us on Team app Wangaratta Rangers. One thing about The Rangers we have difficulty keeping quiet. And I for one think that is not such a bad thing. Good luck to those boys who are playing cricket amongst other sports over the summer time. This scribe hopes there will be a few golf games in here and there hopefully not in Wangaratta eh Dyaln Cowan? Maybe even some Australian Baseball League games too.

That’s about all this writer has to say about that! Now for the club stuff

Committee meetings to held monthly. Dates will be confirmed by The Pres.

Relay for life Rangers have a team 26th and 27th of September. Donate or join the team all are welcome

Orders of prints to Brendon French. Nice work Frenchy

Ranger Ramble AFL grand Final weekend. Bus leaves when Fernando says so! Bendigo is the destination Religious figures is the theme

Cods time is coming….

Never know where Line Drive may pop up next.

Till next time

Go Rangers