THE young Tigers are on the prowl at Kyneton.
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Three years after its senior team was forced into a one year recess as they battled for numbers, the situation with the club's juniors could not be any rosier.
Kyneton will this season field the second highest number of teams in the Bendigo Junior Football League competition behind Strathfieldsaye.
More than 240 young Tigers will see action in under 12,14, 16 and youth girl leagues.
Kyneton Junior Football Club director Ron Rutledge it was a remarkable turnaround for the once struggling club.
"We have got 20 kids in the Bendigo-AFL Central Victoria junior academies from a football club that was nothing four years ago," he said.
"We have come a long way.
"We've now got 200-odd kids who have the potential one day to go on and play senior football."
Rutledge said the club had lacked a real junior structure until about four years ago.
"We had our little entity football clubs that have been going for 50 years or more like South Kyneton, North Kyneton, Trentham, Malmsbury and Tylden.
"We had to merge these single entity clubs into one club, the Kyneton Football Club.
"Five years ago there was no Kyneton Junior Football Club, it's been a lot of hard work by a lot of people."
The Tigers will have 11 teams in the BJFL competition this season.
Last season, four of its teams played finals in 2015, with the under 12As starting the season as reigning premiers.
It’s a source of pride for all those involved at the club.
Four Kyneton teams will play A Division football.
The Tigers were given another boost this week with the selection of Alicia Rooth in the Victorian Country Youth Girls squad to play in next month's national championships.
