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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Natasha May and Christopher Knaus

Hunter Valley bus crash: football club’s home ground becomes shrine to victims as premier pledges $100,000 support

A miniature football sits among the floral tributes to victims of the Hunter Valley bus crash at the Singleton Roosters AFL home ground
A miniature football sits among the floral tributes to victims of the Hunter Valley bus crash at the Singleton Roosters AFL home ground. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

Flowers spill over the centre circle at Rose Point Park, the home ground where so many of the Singleton Roosters’ games are played.

Lying amid the bouquets of roses and sunflowers, a small football bears not the signature of stars but the handwritten names Nadine, Kyah, Kane, Lynan, Andrew, Zach, Angus. The Roosters who won’t play on the pitch again.

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