Mallacoota has been successful in sport for a long time and it is due, not just to the standard of the teams, but the support given to them.

In the last half of a close soccer game, the Mallacoota crowd can lift its players to that little-bit-extra level of desperation and skill.

Everyone cheers and shouts when you’re in front or close to the op­position, but Mallacoota has got a few supporters who are there every week, in all weathers, no matter how the team is going. Dutch Marty and Podge are the old stayers of the cheer squad and when a visiting i* mu is handing out a hiding to us, the most inspiring thing of all is to hem INulge yell out, “come on, get in to ’em”.