Can Brodie Montague and Bailey White help The Mounts lift their 21st senior football flag? Photos: Jordan Townrow.
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JORDAN TOWNROW
Mt Pleasant had one of the most successful club-wide home-and-away 2025 seasons across football and netball in the Heathcote District Football Netball League, with eight of its teams reaching the finals.
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The only teams not to feature in finals for Mt Pleasant are the under-13s and under-15s netball teams, with all but the under-18s footballers banking a spot in their respective qualifying finals and a double chance in the postseason.
The Mounts will look to continue their storied HDFL history, with the senior football side finishing second with a record of 13-3 and in prime position to bring home the club’s 21st senior football premiership, the most in the competition’s history.
Mt Pleasant’s A-grade netball side finished third on the ladder after the home-and-away season with a record of 11-5, behind Colbinabbin and White Hills.
“It has been an excellent season on the field and on court, we’ve got three football and five netball teams competing in finals, so it’s been a great year,” club president Phil Whiting said.
“Part of our recruitment was getting a lot of past players back, which has given us experience, especially in our senior football side, with guys returning from our 2023 premiership side.
“I think there’s a level of nervous excitement from both football and netball heading into finals, it’s so exciting to see that we have five netball sides finishing in the top three, so they’ll definitely be in the mix for a deep finals run.
Mt Pleasant’s A-grade is one of five netball teams from the club to feature in finals.
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JORDAN TOWNROW
“We are confident and excited, we’ve had some pretty even games late in the season so its more of a quiet confidence. I think across the club we are just keen to give it a crack and have some fun.
“It’s been a very successful home-and-away season, but now the real season begins.”
Whiting also reflected on the strong support the club had been shown both this year and throughout its long history.
“It’s only a small town with a pub and a church, but we’ve had a massive supporter base over the years, we’ve been around for nearly 140 years,” he said.
“In my first year as president we won our first wooden spoon, so we’ve slowly been building since then and developing our juniors up to bring the club success now and in the future.
“Socially it’s been great, plenty of functions out in Toolleen, the community really gets behind us.
“It’s a strong farming community that congregates at Toolleen on a Saturday and last year it was our record crowd attendance for home games and this year we’ve increased that by 10 per cent, so there’s a great following.”
