POWERFUL full-forward Dwayne Weetra will return to the region this season with Hume League club Lockhart.
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New Lockhart coach Mitch Carroll has lured Weetra to the Demons, where he is expected to play around 10 games for the season.
Weetra proved a big hit in the Farrer League in 2019, when kicking 34 goals from 15 games, including a couple of hauls of five.
The talented indigenous forward has since moved to Mildura and has committed to 10 games given it is about a 900 kilometre round trip.
Carroll coached Weetra at Coleambally and is pleased to have him on board at Lockhart.
"He won't be committing to every game but he should play about 10 games," Carroll said.
"It's good to have a full-forward, rather than trying to rotate on-ballers through there."
Weetra will join Graham O'Connell and Carroll in making the shift from Coleambaly to Lockhart.
The Demons will also welcome back a number of Albury-based recruits, who had planned to have last year off, and have also landed some players through the RAAF.
With last season's Hume League competition not going ahead due to COVID-19, Carroll has pencilled three trial games in for Lockhart to help prepare his team for round one.
The Demons will play Turvey Park, Temora and The Rock-Yerong Creek before round one of the Hume League on April 10.
"That was the plan, to try and play a few more pre-season games to try and get that match fitness going," Carroll said.
"Obviously Osborne played (in the AFL Riverina Championship) but everyone else is likely to be a bit slugging and start the year slowly. I don't think there will be any real decent football until about round five."
Lockhart open the season at home against CDHBU and are happy with the draw they have been given as they look to return to Hume League finals.
Carroll, who had signed for his first season in charge at Lockhart last year, is looking forward to finally getting started at his new club.
"It's going pretty good," he said.
"We've been training for a couple of weeks and we're starting to get more and more numbers. I think a lot of blokes are out of routine after last year but once February comes around, I think everyone will get back into the swing of it."
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