Most important plus to come out of the draw for the Hoes is we don't have to go to Kinglake in winter.Ivanhoe play Lalor, HW, Reservoir twice. Kinglake only get Lalor, reservoir and HW once and Laurimar only get Lalor and HW once.
For a team that played in a prelim and would be the second best team remaining in division 3 aside from watsonia dropping down from division 2, without taking recruiting into account you’d think the double ups for ivanhoe wouldn’t include 3 of the bottom 4 teams from 2025. Laurimar and Stars, even Mernda had much tougher draws in the positions that finished in following the 2024 season.





