Rowan Peck, 30, and Riley Flanagan, 19, appeared in Warrnambool Magistrates Court and were committed to stand trial charged with attempted armed robbery and assault-related offences.

They have entered not guilty pleas and will face the County Court at a later date. 

Police allege the Warrnambool pair were involved in an incident on March 5 about 6.30pm at a McGregors Road address which involved Mr Peck and Mr Flanagan assaulting a man with a wooden object.

The man escaped by smashing and then jumping through a window.

He was then chased down and the assault resumed before the alleged victim flagged down a driver, who helped him. 

The alleged victim admitted in a committal hearing he had been selling ice to fund his own methylamphetamine habit this year after he started using ice last year.

In cross-examination he said in the first three months of this year, he used up to two or three points of a gram of ice a day at a cost of about $80 a point. 

Another time he bought "one or two, maybe three grams a week" which subsidised his use by making up to $300 a gram.

"There was a couple of hundred for me," he said.

The man said he was invited to a woman’s home on March 5. He had previously smoked ice there. 

The pair sat on a couch and talked for a couple of minutes before Mr Peck and Mr Flanagan came into the lounge room from a bedroom.

He said Mr Peck had a wooden bat, about a one metre long and said, "Where's my money?" before he approached the victim and started hitting him to the head, arms and legs with the bat.

"I didn't see how thick it was, I was getting hit with it," he said, describing how he was hit about 10 times in two to four minutes while trying to protect himself.

The man said he got off the couch, went to a corner and grabbed a curtain rod which he used to smash a window.

He then jumped through the window to escape.

"I started running, they caught up to me and started bashing me again," he told the court.

"They were hitting and kicking me on the ground with hands and the bat. I could feel blows at the same time on different parts of my body."

The man said he was able to get off the ground and flagged down a driver who took him to the police station and hospital..

He said he owed between $300 and $400.

The man suffered a range of injuries and said he still had problems with an elbow.