PARTLY inspired by last year's similar Golden Rivers Football League fixture, the Cohuna Kangas are planning to book a heritage match date with either Kerang or Koondrook/Barham in 2012.
Kanga club president Ross Pascoe said on Wednesday that the stand-alone Central Murray league game would be played on either June 23 against the Blues or a fortnight later against the Raiders, with a decision likely to be made by tonight.
It was decided that Kerang or Koondrook/Barham would make ideal opponents as both had been rivals in the old Northern and Echuca League prior to joining the Central Murray competition.
"That's when those teams would be more recognised [from]," said Pascoe.
"There's no milestones - [it's] just to get people back to the footy."
Pascoe was impressed with the staging of the Wakool-Moulamein match in round 17 of the Golden Rivers competition, and it easily caught the imagination alongside club supporter Clark Fehring's proposal for a heritage jumper to be produced for posterity purposes.
"It hasn't been a long-term plan, but something that Clark's done," Pascoe said.
"He wanted a jumper made up for himself, got onto Ian Robe [the Kangas' football operations manager], then I approached Ian, not knowing Clark was doing this, so we've gone on from there. We've had it professionally upgraded and we're very close to what we're wanting to do."
The Fehring jumper idea - fusing the old Cohuna and Union strips by splitting the white and yellow V of each respective former club - then became a proposal for an actual on-field recognition of the town's footy history.
The Cohuna Kangas have participated in the Central Murray league since amalgamation in 1996.
"It's half a white V and half yellow - cutting a jumper in half," Pascoe said.
Only the 22 senior players on the day of the heritage match will wear the alternative strip, but the memory of the day will remain at Island Road.
Central Murray Football/Netball League chairman Frank Curran said he had no problems with the match going ahead, according to Pascoe, and neither did Victorian Country Football League north-west and central area manager Bruce Petering, provided that the VCFL logo was included on any heritage guernsey.