Collingullie members to vote on proposed name change for club

COLLINGULLIE-Ashmont-Kapooka will vote on a change of name at its annual general meeting (AGM) on Sunday week.

A motion will be put to members at the AGM as to whether the name, Collingullie-Ashmont-Kapooka Football Netball Club, should be changed or remain.

If members vote yes to change the name, the Demons have two options to choose from, either Collingullie-West Wagga or Collingullie-Glenfield Park, Football Netball Club.

Collingullie-Ashmont-Kapooka treasurer Terry Fuller explained there were combinations of reasons behind the proposal.

"When we moved to the RFL, one of the stipulations at the time was that we become one club ... that the juniors and seniors be run as one club," Fuller said.

"Now with the move of location of our junior club, to Glenfield Park, just behind South City there, and the move of The Rock into Kapooka, we don't have the distinct association, as such, anymore.

"Ashmont-Kapooka is not as appropriate as it used to be."

The club has been known as Collingullie-Ashmont-Kapooka, as it is now, since 1999.

It came about as a merger between Collingullie-Ashmont and Uranquinty-Kapooka.

Collingullie seniors previously merged with Ashmont juniors in 1982.

Fuller believes there will be support for the change at the AGM.

"Certainly at junior level there will be support for the change," Fuller said.

"At senior level, I imagine it will be ambivalence, as long as Collingullie is still at the head of the name."

The AGM will get under way at 11am at Collingullie Community Hall.