Disappointed at continual heavy rain forcing the cancellation of games, the under-six Huntley Rhinos football team members have spent weeks looking forward to their first home game of the season on Saturday.
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Instead, they have again been left crestfallen, after their Unanderra field was torn to shreds by car hoons taking a joyride on the grass.
Club members found Lindsay Mayne Oval churned up on Tuesday, with deep scars carved into the grass and thick trenches of mud left behind.
"Someone has come on and done burnouts on the field. It looks pretty bad. The holes are quite deep," Huntley Rhinos club president Michelle Ford said.
"We're going to try and fill it with dirt on Friday, but we won't be playing on that field this weekend."
She said the boys had been itching to run onto their home ground for the first time in 2015, but she would have to break the bad news that they would have to wait a little longer.
"There are no words to describe what was discovered at Lindsay Mayne today. So many people have worked hard so we can finally get a home game," the club posted on Facebook.
Ms Ford said another makeshift field would have to be set out on another part of the oval, and the club would push for better fencing to be placed around the complex. "We want to get a fence put around, there's a gap that cars can get through and drive onto the field," she said.
"We've seen cars driving through the gap," she said.