TRUGO - The Bendigo Club. Join up today!

You all know how I come up with crazy ideas! (don't agree that quickly). Well here's another ripper. You'll need to concentrate for a bit cause there's  a bit of history here and you might nod off.

Ever heard of Trugo? Call yourself an Oorstaaalian. Born in the Newport Workshops in Melbourne by the train and tram builders during smoko. Pretty simple concept. Take a puck off the workbench and a big wooden mallet. Place it on the ground and stand over the top of it with the goals behind you at the 50 metre mark. Hit the crap out of it and hope to blazes it goes through the goals.

 If you miss you can fine tune your aim with quick mouthful of your beer. The requirements for the sport were based on what the railway workers could find: the length of the pitch was the length of a carriage, the goalpost width was the distance between seats, the mallet was a sledge hammer, and the black rings were an internal component of buffers.

Over the years it's been played around old Melbourne clubs on a green similar to lawn bowl. see Trugo on the ABC



Coffee Select are proud to announce the launch of Australia's first and to this date only indoor Trugo Club, to be based in Bendigo, Australia.  As many of the classic W class Melbourne trams were made in Bendigo and can still be seen running up Pall Mall we see it as a fitting tribute to the cities manufacturing heritage. The pitch will run the length of our shop at 236 Hargreaves Street in the middle of the city. The hit off will be at the pizza oven end, run through the kitchen bar then the bar, roasthouse with the goals at the front door which will have a purpose built net to protect pedestrians from being hit by flying pucks. Hit off will be at 3pm every Sunday afternoon with preparatory drinks commencing at midday. Teams will be made of four people each. Every week the winning team will share a meat platter (is there a better prize).

Any team found to be practicing in any form before the day will be penalised.