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In the meantime, a succession of home grown champions - McKellar, Huppatz and Blight - went off across the border in search of the mythological VFL pot of gold. In 1990, with the imminent entry of the South Australian-based Adelaide Crows into the national Australian Football League (formerly the VFL), it was decided to amalgamate Woodville with neighbouring West Torrens Football Club. ( Flashback to Rd.7 1968 Norwood vs Woodville at Norwood Oval Game Details pretty please!! . By 2018, the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club officially surpassed Woodville's total existence as it entered its 28th SANFL season, and interestingly, the club's on-field record read very similar to that of West Torrens prior to Woodville entering the competition in 1964. The archetypal nuggety, terrier-like rover, Ray Huppatz was without doubt one of the greatest players ever produced by, or to represent, the Woodville Football Club. I was born in 1959 and have memories of the early days of Woodville. Jim Crichton was also Assistant General Manager of the S.A. Housing Trust up until his death in around 1990 or 1991. However, given that the merged entity took only three seasons to etch its name on the SANFL roll of honour by winning a senior flag, such negativity soon appeared to be misplaced. just past the Arkaba Hotel! To see player spotlights please become a Dave Campbells Texas Football Insider. This was a splinter group of dissatisfied members of the Port Adelaide Football Club, who, in 1894, broke from that Club when unable to get games with Port, and formed their own team known as the Port Natives. On returning to South Australia, Ray Huppatz played initially with his former club Woodville, adding 17 SANFL games to his tally in 1981. FA Cup 4th Round -- Champs League Rd of 16 -- Europa - Rd of 16 -- Europa Conf - Rd of 16. In 1991, the club merged with neighbouring Woodville Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. He was probably more suited to a ruck-roving role or full-forward than ruck. Also, I looked in the Round 20 1990 Budget I got from "At the Toss of a Coin" store and noticed that Sewer had played 380 matches (plus one) so that would make 381, opposed to 382 you have. In 1968, Woodville avoided another wooden spoon by just half a game, but the following year, under the energetic coaching of former North Melbourne stalwart Noel Teasdale, the side seemed to be at last on the verge of establishing itself. I walked into a room where they were preparing the North Adelaide banner. I happened to mention it a guy at school the next day and it turned out he was in the Port Adelaide Cheer Squad. The club's lack of success was unparalleled in the VFL or WAFL with the club receiving 9 wooden spoons, including 6 times in succession 1980-1985, in 27 years whilst only making the finals 3 times without a grand final appearance. In hindsight it is possible to suggest that Blight expected such success. Tip round 1 in Tipping - Weekly Platinum Membership prize. Woodville's most successful player was Malcolm Blight, who won the SANFL's Magarey Medal and gained selection in the All Australian team in 1972. Round 18 Woodville South vs SMOSH 10.15am C Grade start 12.15pm B Grade start 2.15pm A Grade start Catstodians Day. 3rd Test - India v Australia - 1-5 Mar, Indore. Player Stats - Woodville-West Torrens Football Club. Yes, I saw Trevor Hoffman play, He was a little short and skinny to match it with the likes of Wedding, Darley, etc, but he had pretty good skills for memory. Not even a change of emblem in 1982 from the admittedly whimpish 'Woodpeckers' to the ostensibly more macho Warriors could arrest the decline; after all, it is "the men inside the guernseys that count". It may not display this or other websites correctly. Of a total of 575 matches played during that period the side managed just 160 wins and 4 draws. Join a tipping comp - lots to choose from. Discounting grand final curtain raisers played by reserves sides. The new team trained in a yard behind the Land of Promise Hotel but this was soon found to be inadequate so the players used Port Road as their training track. South Australian National Football League, "Full Points Footy: Max Parker (Footscray, Woodville, North Adelaide)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Max_Parker_(footballer)&oldid=1105238095, This page was last edited on 19 August 2022, at 07:37. I think you will find that they are two distinct blokes. Woodville remain one of only two SAAFL clubs to have won successive A2 and A1 premierships (allowing for the four year break for the war in Woodville's case). to reflect uponThe player I will discuss ( I am positive) has not been mentioned before in the previous thread. Major Partner. Players since 1991 Categories Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Like Log in to remove this ad. [4], A three time South Australian interstate representative, Parker retired with 280 SANFL games and a total of 285 games in elite Australian rules football, and also played a further 21 pre-season/night series matches.[4]. We are also fortunate to have one of the strongest networks of past players and supporters in the amateur league, many of whom also sponsor our club. Moreover, and without at all wanting to seem unkind, it is hard to imagine any alternative set of circumstances which would have given rise to the word 'Woodville' being engraved on the Thomas Seymour Hill Trophy. Indeed, 1986 was to prove to be the single most successful season in the entire history of the Woodville Football Club. Frank Eder went to Findon High and was a strapping size of a bloke. You are so correct - talking of the 60's, 70's & early 80's SANFL has been great. Robert Muir (no. Prior to the start of the season he observed: "I'm comfortable, but there are a lot of reasons for that. Women's Major Partner. His first season back in Adelaide was unsuccessful, with the club finishing with the wooden spoon. (You included Robert Mammone, David Crisanti and Rohan McGrath who to my knowledge never played a league for Woodville). For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. B 75500/43: Sturt v Woodville, players Richard Champion and Michael Friebel. The 38-year-old Sewer who was playing his 382nd and last game of SANFL football. sturt's senior squad . The new club proved immediately competitive, and won their first premiership in 1993. I recall McAlmanac posting that Jim was heavily involved with the Woodville District Cricket Club also! The club would play their home games at Woodville's home ground, Woodville Oval, and use the West Torrens Eagle emblem. Unfortunately the League team were dealt with 3 major season ending injuries in their 2nd semi-final victory, ripping out their engine room including Magarey Medal Runner-up and eventual 2015 Club Champion Angus Rowntree, as well as number 1 ruckman Marc Borholm and former Reserves Magarey Medalist Angus Poole. Both matches took place at Woodville Oval. In 2011, a study commissioned by the AFL identified Woodville-West Torrens as the most effective developer of AFL talent in the country. Home; Leagues; Clubs; Players; Coaches; Grounds; Articles; Community. For the first few years the Club was an itinerant side, playing at other sides home grounds and contesting a fair number of their matches at the Jubilee Oval just near the Adelaide Zoo. A four-decade player. There's been a lot more planning and preparation this year so I'm not hoping as much this time because I know things are going to be better." Rucci then proceeded to sit fairly and squarely on the fence when analysing Woodville's prospects: Woodville, which has qualified for the finals for the second time since it was re-admitted (sic.) John Carr subsequently succeeded him. Photographer possibly Ashley Hornsey, dated 20 May 1989 B 75500/44: Torrens player Damien Christensen marks the ball, other player is Michael Long. | Facebook Woodville south football club past players. [2] However, Walkerville were too strong in the final, winning 13.13 (91) to 8.11 (59) at SANFL club North Adelaide's home ground of Prospect Oval. Ralph Sewer: Debuting in 1969 and playing his final match in 1990 aged 38, Sewer became not only the only man to have played in the SANFL in four different decades, but also the only grandfather. B 75500/128: Player action shot, showing Garry Haylock, Woodville West Torrens, and another player. Since entering the league together the two clubs had enjoyed an intense and unique rivalry; it hardly seemed to matter what the respective positions of the sides on the ladder were, their confrontations over a season almost invariably tended to be closely fought. MALCOLM BLIGHT. 32), seen here playing for St Kilda in 1978, was regarded as one of the VFL's most talented players. A longtime Norwood Cheer Squad stalwart, Peter Nanotti, showed us at Woodville how to make them properly. "Woodville's Acid Test" ran the headline to Mike Rucci's story in the prefinals issue of South Australia's weekly football newspaper 'Football Times'. This is a list of the 63 players you missed. News Football Matches . 00:00. 3rd Test - India v Australia - 1-5 Mar, Indore, Australian Football Championships (1979-86) - Budget Team Lists Required. Woodville Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL) from 1964 to 1990, when it merged in 1991 with the West Torrens Football Club to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles. The SAAFL still operated a challenge system of playing finals at this point. Photographer Martin Jacka, not dated B 75500/46: Torrens v Woodville at Thebarton. One painted green and the other gold. Always thought those Findon boys were suss. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. This Club was accepted into the Adelaide and Suburban Association and won two Premierships in a row. Well, there's an interesting story! The turning point came in round eleven against Centrals, again at Football Park. Maxwell Sam Parker (born 29 October 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Woodville in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Your TidyHQ Account includes the email address and password you use to log in, as well as all the contact, payment and security details that you will use for this organisation and across all TidyHQ services. You are using an out of date browser. The new team trained in a yard behind the Land of Promise Hotel but this was soon found to be inadequate so the players used Port Road . Mr. Texas Football Player of the Year Award. 5. That is Woodville's penalty for starting the season so poorly. Woodville - and the tactics of Blight and assistant coach John Reid - can beat Norwood. He would sign autographs to kids walking by. Woodville had also won the Coca-Cola Cup series in 1972, a competition between clubs which did not make the final four. The U/18s also lost their decider. + Score at the end of extra time. Adelaide Crows Women's Team: 3 x AFLW premiers! 00:00. In its 27 seasons in the SANFL, Woodville reached the finals only three times: in 1979, 1986 and 1987; its best result was 3rd position in 1986. The Hindmarsh Council spent a lot of pounds in an effort to improve the situation over the years and the Club used the Oval until 1922 when it moved its head quarters to Thebarton Oval. Adelaide . All rights reserved. This proved to be a false dawn, however, as the side recorded only 2 further wins for the year - one of which was against Central District - to finish in a position which was to become familiar: last. Based in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, Woodville derived its name from the suburb it was located in. AustralianFootball.com Celebrating the history of the great Australian game, Affiliation (Historical)South Australian National Football league (SANFL) 19641990, Most Games325 by Ralph Sewer 1969-1980 , 1984-1990, League Top Goalkickers G.Hewitt (83) 1979; M.Blight (126) 1985; S.Nichols (103) 1986 & (103) 1988 (4 total), Magarey MedalistsMalcolm Blight 1972 (1 total). In 1985, his final season as a player, Blight was named as an All Australian for the second time (the first had been 'way back in 1972) and topped the SANFL goalkicking list with 126 goals for the year. Presented by The Golden Ticket - For Medallion Club tickets and Corporate Box tickets at the MCG and Marvel. Such confidence appeared grossly misplaced early on as the side won only 2 out of 5 Escort Cup pre-season games. * Premiership Captain (Justin Cicolella was acting captain for the 2006 Premiership), Presented to best on ground for South Australia in a State match, Presented to best on ground in an SANFL Grand Final, Presented to best on ground in an SANFL Reserves Grand Final, Presented to best on ground in an SANFL U/18's Grand Final, Presented to best on ground in an SANFL U/16's Grand Final, Presented to best on ground in an ANZAC Day match (Grand Final replay), Presented to best SANFL player as voted by League coaches, The highest individual honour that is bestowed by the club. 4. It took 27 years, but order was finally restored for SANFL clubs in the western suburbs in 1991. In 1992 the new club moved permanently to the Woodville Oval (former home of the Woodville Warriors). It was certainly in the Woodville area. They also play two or three games per season at their pre-season base of Thebarton Oval, a ground which has six light towers that the club has upgraded in 2012 to allow night games at the ground for the first time since the 1983 Escort Cup Grand Final (a game won by West Torrens). [4], He played his final league season with North Adelaide, having left Woodville in acrimonious circumstances. The merger effectively marked the death knell of the Woodville Football Club as an autonomous organisation, and from that point of view was probably regarded in a negative light by many of the club's supporters, at least initially. As far as the serious business of winning league matches was concerned, however, the club went steadily backwards, winning 9 of its 22 games in 1988 for seventh position, 8 in 1989 (eighth), and 7 in 1990 (eighth again). West Adelaide United, in 1935-6, were the only other club to achieve the feat. Presented by The Golden Ticket - For Medallion Club tickets and Corporate Box tickets at the MCG and Marvel. [4] Playing mostly as a defender, Parker appeared in 266 games for Woodville over 14 seasons and was club captain in 1982, 1986 and 1987. You are using an out of date browser. Woodville-West Torrens Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). Does anyone on here have a Woodville peckers guernsey? He had kicked 430 goals (I'm assuming that takes night games out) plus another one he kicked that day, bringing the total to 431. Full forward Stephen Nichols booted 5 goals, with Templeton and Taylor bagging 3 apiece, while Kevin Harris, with 21 possessions, was best on ground. He was always around the Woodville suburbs singing the Woody Wood Pecker song. Get exclusive insight from the best team of reporters in the Lone Star State! The Eagle logo of the West Torrens Football Club was adopted as the official emblem of Woodville West Torrens. In 2011, the Eagles became the only club since the turn of the century to defeat Central District in two grand finals, with a thrilling 3-point win 81 to 78 on 9 October 2011. Wonder what his stripping alias was maybe " Frank the Flasher" or " Fabulous Frank" ..LOL!! Due to Woodville Oval also being the home of the Woodville Cricket Club who play in the South Australian Grade Cricket League, the Eagles use West Torrens' former home ground Thebarton Oval as their pre-season training base. I just told him he could see it for himself the next day just before the Roosters ran onto the Adelaide Oval. "At the moment, it hasn't got an obvious one for any length of time. With the introduction of district football in 1897, the Club changed its name to West Torrens as it realised that a major number of its players resided in that area. Well this will get me a bit closer to that 331, while comparing lists with the one on SAFooty I have found these names. Woodville's first win against a club other than Centrals came in the opening round of the 1965 season against Norwood. In 1938, a new Woodville Football Club was formed and admitted to the Port Adelaide District Football Association in which, wearing red and white playing uniforms, it competed without success for the final two seasons of that competition's existence. Sound the Siren, turn us loose Tip round 1 in Tipping - Weekly Platinum Membership prize. Hey everyone, Don't have birthdates available on many of the legendary Woodville League players from 1964- to the late 1970s but can post birthdays for most of the 1980s onward Peckers/Warrior champs and dare I say it ( but only the minority..LOL) "chumps"! The challenge final was a dour affair, played at SANFL side Port Adelaide's home ground of Alberton Oval, but Woodville, with Skelley, Hickman and Burns especially to the fore, did just enough to triumph. [3] Parker was a ruckman when he arrived at Footscray from Welshpool. Well curiousity has got the better of me and I went through all of the posts and got just about every league player I could find! B Barrie Barbary Bob Beecroft Malcolm Blight David Bolton (Australian footballer) Ray Boyanich Greg Brehaut C Richard Champion Phil Cronan F Peter Fitzpatrick (footballer) G Barry Goodingham He was high among North's best players in the losing 1978 grand final against Hawthorn. The third term had the huge crowd at fever pitch as the two sides went goal for goal with the Magpies hanging on to a 6 point advantage at the final change. Woodville's captain in their last game was popular veteran Ralph Sewer (regular captain Romano Negri was in the team but stepped aside for the last game to give Sewer the honor). The Woodville South Football Club was establish in 1890 as the Carlton Football Club and is one of the oldest and most respected clubs in the South Australian Amateur Football League. and come up with some " new " stuff for us devotees of the W.F.C. In 1887 the Club joined with West Adelaide and with the addition of blue to its colours played under the name of West Adelaide, but the team dissolved after only one season. West Torrens had competed in the SANFL since the 1895 SAFA season, when it was originally known as the Port Natives[1] (who wore Blue and Gold) and renamed to West Torrens for the 1897 SAFA season,[2] while Woodville entered the competition for 1964 SANFL season. Inexplicably, however - or should that be predictably? Woodvillle Football Club History Track from the 1971 SANFL Amoco Promotion. Woodville's only premiership successes came in the 1972 Coca Cola Cup, in which not all SANFL clubs competed, and the 1988 Escort Cup. with debts of $1.1 million, and while Woodville was financially viable, club officials realised that it would be difficult, if not impossible, for the club to be competitive in the foreseeable future. - the players effectively 'froze', putting in a woeful performance to lose by 15 points and slump to fourth, which meant an elimination final meeting with finals-hardened Norwood. He then moved on to Port Adelaide where he finished his career with a further 38 games over the ensuing four seasons. Thus was born the West Torrens Football Club. I remember walking past Singer Edwards place and he had a pair of footy boots on his front gate. . [3]. In 1940 it changed its colours to purple and white and was admitted to section A2 of the South Australian Amateur Football League. He took over Geroge Roache's No.26 jumper. I never knew that. A total of 8 wins from 20 starts earned the comparative respectability of seventh place on the ladder and over the final few games of the season in particular, inspired by Teasdale, and with players like carnival ruckman Craig McKellar, experienced stalwarts Simunsen and Barrie Barbary, and exciting youngsters such as Ray Huppatz, Colin MacVicar, Malcolm Blight and Ralph Sewer, all of whom would be automatic inclusions in any Woodville 'Hall of Fame', they looked capable of matching it with the very best. In an apt moment, Woodville and West Torrens were drawn to play each other in their respective final games, with Woodville emerging victorious by 50 points, 24.10 (154) to 15.19 (104) at the Adelaide Oval. Our rankings may not reflect individual tiebreaker scenarios. That would explain it, 12 games and 25 goals for Panagaris' career suggests he wasnt a complete dud. He resigned the position after making a point of principle at the SAFA meeting while being abused by fellow delegates. SANFL Under 17's: 5 - 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1973, Most Games: 325 by Ralph Sewer (196980, 198490), First player to kick 100 goals in an SANFL season: Trevor Pierson (1982 - 104 goals). The team was then known as the "Woodville Woodpeckers". As a junior, he was a very good athlete. In Gold and Green and Blue, italics current coach In 1990, the imminent admission of the Adelaide Crows into the AFL placed both club's futures as separate entities in serious doubt: West Torrens was technically insolvent, They had reckoned without the Warriors' intense desperation and desire, however,coupled with the pace of players like Colin McDonald, Ron Fuller and Kevin Harris, and the aerial ability of Michael Templeton and Andrew Taylor. FA Cup 4th Round -- Champs League Rd of 16 -- Europa - Rd of 16 -- Europa Conf - Rd of 16. *Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on. Malcolm Blight left at the end of the 1987 season and was replaced as coach by another South Australian football legend in the shape of the only four time Magarey Medallist, Russell Ebert. We're the mighty flying Eagles Major Partner. *Behinds for the pre-1965 era are for selected matches only 6. Whether it does win is in the hands of the 20 men Blight chooses to determine his destiny. For instance, I have no idea why Rodney Allen was credited with 23 games in 1967, but that is how many is recorded in the SANFL Year Book, and it is commensurate with his official total of games. In 1946 the Woodville Football Club managed something which they would never achieve in twenty-seven seasons as a member of the SANFL: earned the right to call themselves the best team in an entire competition. [7] Blight's charges refused to lie down, however, and by half time, incredibly, they had closed to within just 5 points. 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