Moonee Valley's big welcome back to Big Rex

Moonee Valley Cricket Club has gone "back to the future" in the appointment of Rex Bennett as our senior coach for the 2013/14 season.

Rex previously coached Moonee Valley for three seasons commencing from 2001/02, and has had a high-level coaching career before coming back to us.
In his first appointment as our coach he encouraged Moonee Valley to transfer its turf teams from the old Moreland Moonee Valley Cricket Association to the Victorian Turf Cricket Association, then coached us into a Grand Final in the North B Division in our first season in VTCA.
We were promoted to the North A Division, and Rex coached us through that season.
When he left Moonee Valley be became bowling coach for Premier club North Melbourne, then took over as senior coach at North Melbourne.

Above: Rex Bennett (centre) is welcomed/welcomed back to Moonee Valley by committee members (from left)
Peter Golding, Stephen Tassos, Jesse Nankivell-Sandor and Allan Cumming. 

Rex then coached St Bernards in the VTCA, taking them from the North A Division through to the top-grade Senior Division. Last season he coached Sunshine in the Victorian Sub District Cricket Association.
In his earlier career, Rex played in Footscray's only premiership team in the old Victorian Cricket Association. He has maintained his connection with Moonee Valley in the years since he coached us, attending a number of club functions including our 40th anniversary.
Rex has firm ideas on how he can improve the playing group, and we look forward to working with him. Rex is firmly of the view that the club doesn't have a recruiting committee - every member of our Club should be an ambassador, and encouraging friends, acquaintances, relatives and former teammates to come and join us.
If every one of our members can bring someone else along to the Club this year, we'll have plenty of strength.
Welcome back, Rex!