BEAUFORT keeps trotting out the new signings, with the latest expected to be one of its best in 2015.
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Michael Foster has arrived to add further grunt to the Crows’ engine room next season.
The former Beaufort junior returns to the club from Newtown and Chilwell, where he played the past two years in the Geelong Football League.
Foster started his early football with the Crows before moving into the North Ballarat Rebels system, where he won a best and fairest in 2003, finishing ahead of the likes of draftees Jed Adcock (Brisbane Lions), Troy Chaplin (Port Adelaide/Richmond) and Brad Sewell (Hawthorn).
He played a handful of VFL senior games with the Roosters during the next few seasons before returning to Beaufort for a full year as assistant to coach Leo Fitzpatrick in 2007.
Foster was then off to Lake Wendouree, where he played in its breakthrough senior premiership in 2010.
He lands back at the Central Highlands Football League club, where his father and uncle have both served as president and grandparents are life members.
The midfielder joins a handy list of new faces at the Graintech Crows, which have had a successful recruiting campaign thus far.
Among the pick-ups are ex-North Ballarat City duo Josh McDermott and Joseph Mason, former Old Camberwell pair Jack Duke and Jake Hart, and Rohan Brown, who arrives from Waubra as an assistant to senior coach Dale Power, who is preparing for his second season at the helm.
Young Zac Marrow is another to confirm his move to the club, joining as a handy half-back/half-forward from Stawell Warriors in the Wimmera league.
Beaufort looks well placed to improve on its 12th-placed finish to 2014.