Australian rules football: 2010 VCFL Country Championship - Bendigo vs. Gippsland

May 24, 2010

The Gippsland Football League's (officially Gippsland League) representative team traveled to to play the  as part of the  Country Championships over the weekend. The match was part of a double header with Murray Football League playing Bellarine Football League in the curtain raiser.

The VCFL's Country Championships is an interleague competition where each of the sixteen major leagues as well as the, , and  leagues are ranked from one to twenty. A league is promoted if they win, demoted if they lose.

,  and   were called into the Gippsland team after injuries and illness to Sale forward,  coach  and Traralgon's.

Scores are quoted as goals-behinds (total). Goals are worth six points, behinds are worth one.

Inaccurate goal kicking from Gippsland cost the visitors the match as Bendigo won 15–11 (101) to Gippsland's 12–20 (92). Had three of Gippsland's behinds gone through the goals, they would have won by one goal (six points).

with five goals and with two goals were the only multiple goal kickers for the visitors. For Bendigo, with four goals and Grant Weeks and  with two goals each were the multiple goal kickers.