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OSCA DONALD MCDONALD first since 1952. Mark will lead a strong senior coaching team which is now being finalised. The club is also delighted to announce that Donald McDonald has been appointed as the club’s Football Director. Donald will oversee our men’s and women’s football programs, with eight teams expected to be playing in 2020. Donald comes to our club with a wealth of playing, coaching and administrative football experience at AFL, VFL and community level. He played 155 AFL/VFL games for North Melbourne from 1982-92, and became captain-coach of Werribee in the VFL, taking the club to a premiership in 1993, and coaching them from 1993-99. From 2000-02 he was non-playing coach of the Box Hill Hawks in the VFL, taking the club to a premiership in 2001. In 2004, Donald took over as senior coach at the Hawthorn Football Club late in the season, being succeeded by Alastair Clarkson in 2005. Donald became assistant coach at North Melbourne in 2005 and has since worked in a number of key roles at the club, including as Football Manager. He has recently been the senior coach of the Avondale Heights Football Club in the premier division of the Essendon Football League. Donald will lead a strong football department. He says: ‘It is a fantastic opportunity to support our newly appointed Senior Coach, Mark Gnatt, and help support all of the teams who represent the Old Scotch Football Club. I have been very fortunate to have been involved with some great people over my football journey, and it was a tough decision to leave Avondale Heights where my family made so many lasting friendships; however my role at North Melbourne Football Club limits my capacity to coach senior football at the premier league level. ‘The opportunity to come to Old Scotch in the role of Football Director is very compelling, and it is a terrific challenge to help guide our football teams in a very competitive environment.’ If you’re interested in playing or volunteering at the club in season 2020 please contact OSFC General Manager Peter Simpson by email at peter.simpson@scotch. vic.edu.au TIM SHEARER (’85) – PRESIDENT, OLD SCOTCH FOOTBALL CLUB Bushwalking WINE AND WALKING ON THE PENINSULA ABOVE: BEE MOIGNARD WITH HER PURCHASES OF MYRTACAEA WINES, ACCOMPANIED BY IAN MARCHMENT (‘64). ABOVE RIGHT: NEIL HART- SMITH (‘60) AND DAVID (‘65) AND MICKY ASHTON AT MYRTACAEA WINERY. 74 Great Scot Issue 158 – December 2019 It was a fine, cool day – just right for any bushwalk, and certainly most suitable for the Old Scotch Bushwalking Club’s traditional winery walk on Sunday 13 October, which included visits to two Mornington Peninsula wineries and a 4.5km walk in Greens Bush. Twenty-one members boarded the bus in Glenferrie Road outside Scotch and set off for Myrtacaea Winery at Red Hill, a small winery set in beautiful and very well-kept gardens. We had been notified that our Myrtacaea hosts, John and Julie, at late notice had had to travel to a family event, so their neighbour, Lee, kindly stood in to supervise tastings and tell us very knowledgeably about the wines. Wines tasted and some purchases made, we returned to the bus for a 10-minute trip to Baldrys Crossing and our enjoyable 4.5km stroll. Surrounded by farmland, Greens Bush is the largest area of remnant bushland on the peninsula. It’s a beautiful and peaceful island of native forest, and a wildlife haven. We reached Greens Road, then hiked about 2km to the end of the road, where the bus was waiting to take us to Blue Range Estate for more tastings and then a magnificent lunch, which included an antipasto tasting plate, arancini balls, calamari, pasta and chicken, all scrumptious. Our outdoor dining setting offered magnificent views of the bay, Bass Strait, the Otways and the distant You Yangs. After lunch we headed back to Scotch, with many of us enjoying a quiet snooze in the bus. It was an excellent day, very well organised by Micky Ashton. For information about the Old Scotch Bushwalking Club: David Ashton – [email protected] / 0419 894 340. DAVID ASHTON (‘65) – PRESIDENT, OLD SCOTCH BUSHWALKING CLUB