Woodville-West Torrens Football Club is an Australian rules football club playing in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). 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 Not dated B 75500/45: Players in action. The club has a strong proactive committee and an excellent football department led by our football director Peter Johnson and our Senior Club Wayne Knowles. The club is also famous for having a fantastic social scene and you can be assured that your partnersand families will really feel apart of the club andenjoy the atmosphere at our club. However it prevailed and finished in 6 th position out of 7 teams in the inaugural season. And there lies the tragedy of the 'form' side of the competition missing the double chance. Woodvillle Football Club History Track from the 1971 SANFL Amoco Promotion. The SAAFL still operated a challenge system of playing finals at this point. On returning to South Australia, Ray Huppatz played initially with his former club Woodville, adding 17 SANFL games to his tally in 1981. Woodville-West Torrens entered a team in the SANFL Women's League in 2019 and, as of 2021 SANFL season, are the only club to have never won a wooden spoon. All matches are played on Saturdays. 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. West Torrens Football Club History I happened to mention it a guy at school the next day and it turned out he was in the Port Adelaide Cheer Squad. I know most of these did play League for Woodville, but just to make sure, I'd like to see the AH brand of microscope placed over them. ?A famous Pecker in more respects than he may know!! Straight away, it performed with greater credibility, reaching a premiership play off in its debut season after winning 15 out of 18 minor round matches and overcoming YMCA by 15 points in a semi final. [5], Unable to register a senior game in 1972, Parker returned to country football and played briefly at Gippsland club Leongatha. 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. You are so correct - talking of the 60's, 70's & early 80's SANFL has been great. Between 1980 and 1985 Woodville collected an unenviable six successive wooden spoons to create a new SANFL record (subsequently surpassed by Sturt). 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. The mighty flying Eagles 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"! [4]. Get the latest news and information about the Woodville Eagles football from Dave Campbell's Texas Football. Fair to say probably 6,000 of those would have been Magpie supporters. Neil Balme is named as Senior Coach and Peter Schwarz is named as the inaugural Captain. One painted green and the other gold. Ah thanks again! (and hopefully the image will work!!) [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]. 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, Women's Major Partner. Used to have female and male strippers " doing their thing" and after they were finished their acts on would come the DJ spinning all the big ti.. er I mean hits!! Major Partner. 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.) West Torrens Football Club was an Australian rules football club that competed in the South Australian National Football League from 1897 to 1990. It was decided at the end of the season to merge the two sides to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles, effectively returning to how things were prior to 1964. + Score at the end of extra time. [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. You guys in Cheer Squads were fanatics. This list may not reflect recent changes . Such confidence appeared grossly misplaced early on as the side won only 2 out of 5 Escort Cup pre-season games. Does anyone on here have a Woodville peckers guernsey? [6], The rest of his career was spent in the SANFL. 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). Not so this time. On the individual front, it did provide a Magarey Medallist in the shape of Malcolm Blight in 1972, while Woodville players topped the season's goalkicking on no fewer than four occasions. I think you will find that they are two distinct blokes. 25 April 2022 2:00pm Maughan Thiem Kia Oval - Woodville Naming Rights Partner. "Zip Zap" as he was known, made his league debut with Woodville in 1969 and was playing his 325th game for the club. West Adelaide United, in 1935-6, were the only other club to achieve the feat. A Woodville Football Club, about which hardly anything is known, also existed as late as 1910 but thereafter references cease for more than two decades. Things deteriorated still further in 1971 as the 'Peckers plummeted to the wooden spoon, and although this particular indignity was avoided during the rest of the 1970s it was only towards the end of the decade that the club began to give serious on field indications that it could be anything other than an also ran. I know where a Des Batt lived until about May last year. The 'Peckers managed only 4 wins for the year and sustained some of the biggest hidings in their history to slump to the bottom of the ladder once more. Tip round 1 in Tipping - Weekly Platinum Membership prize. The clubrooms have been recently renovated and our oval is superbly maintained by the Charles Sturt Council. [7] Blight's charges refused to lie down, however, and by half time, incredibly, they had closed to within just 5 points. 3rd Test - India v Australia - 1-5 Mar, Indore. 00:00. haha. Based in the north western suburb of Woodville, the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club was formed in 1991 when Woodville and West Torrens amalgamated. 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. This was the first premiership against North Adelaide. Because of the exigencies of war the number of clubs in A2 of the SAAFL was reduced from ten to six in 1941. The team won 3 games, drew 1 (abandoned after quarter time) and lost 13, which included a forfeit. [6]. Despite winning 5 of its first its first 10 games to be in with an outside chance of finals contention it wilted during the second half of the season, managing just 1 further win to finish in ninth place. Initials I.P. 'Football Times', volume 11, number 28, 25/9/86, page 6. Thus was born the West Torrens Football Club. The Kreig Dynasty at the Woodville Football Club Can recall Larry, but not Curly & Mo!!! Presented by The Golden Ticket - For Medallion Club tickets and Corporate Box tickets at the MCG and Marvel. Heritage Game Lunch Interview with Des O' Dwyer. Hi everybody and hope we are all having a highly enjoyable 2009 thus far! Adelaide Crows Women's Team: 3 x AFLW premiers! At quarter time their confidence appeared to be seriously mis-placed. Trevor Ettridge (Woodville) played 27 games, 11 goals from 1972 to 1975. Godden became the third coach to win a Premiership for Woodville-West Torrens, following Bruce Winter (1993) and Ron Fuller (2006). 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. 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 . Pages in category "Woodville Football Club players" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. It contested the finals just three times, with third place in 1986 being its best ever effort. [4] Off the ground things have certainly sharpened up at Woodville. Plenty of old days at Oval Ave, but too few of the good!! League. 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. Woodville South is developing itself as the football from everyone. Thus was born the West Torrens Football Club. 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. AFL. Mr. Texas Football Player of the Year Award. Any reflections on this classic victory are welcome. West Torrens had previously played North Adelaide in the 1949 SANFL Grand Final. Before the start of the 2020 SANFL season, the club hired a new coach: former Sturt premiership player and Magarey Medalist Jade Sheedy. After having merged only 3 years prior, Woodville-West Torrens claimed the Holy Grail of SANFL footy, The Thomas Seymour Hill Trophy, with a convincing 73-point victory over Norwood. Blight stood down at the end of 1987 and was replaced by Port Adelaide Football Club legend and four time Magarey Medallist Russell Ebert. For most of this three year period it was clear that the club was living on borrowed time, and while the formation of the Adelaide Crows at the end of the 1990 season may have precipitated matters, the merger with West Torrens which produced the WoodvilleWest Torrens Eagles in 1991 may, in hindsight, be viewed as having been almost inevitable. Photographer possibly Ashley Hornsey, dated 20 May 1989 B 75500/44: Torrens player Damien Christensen marks the ball, other player is Michael Long. The 'Football Times' tipsters had changed their tune prior to Woodville's first semi final meeting with Port Adelaide, with four of the five favouring the Warriors. [4] He made five appearances for Footscray in the 1971 VFL season, aged only 17. To read the 2022 season preview please become a Dave Campbells Texas Football Insider. In doing so, the club went back-to-back for the first time in their history. Given the nature of their brief, the five official tipsters in 'Football Times' had no choice but to be less non-committal: all predicted a narrow win to the Redlegs. (You included Robert Mammone, David Crisanti and Rohan McGrath who to my knowledge never played a league for Woodville). Public group Join group This setback only served to spark the Warriors into renewed resolve. After 125 league games for Woodville, which elicited club best and fairest awards in 1969-70-71 and 1973, Huppatz joined Footscray in the VFL where he soon earned a reputation as a tigerish, classy, determined customer. 6. 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". They defeated Glenelg in the 2021 SANFL Grand Final by a margin of 67 points to claim their 5th premiership and became only the second team all year to defeat Glenelg. And we always battle through The next seven minor round matches represented one of the pinnacles of Woodville's twenty-seven season involvement in the SANFL at senior level, with victories over Sturt (31 points), Norwood (21 points), West Adelaide (23 points), Port Adelaide (6 points), West Torrens (45 points), Central District (22 points) and North Adelaide (18 points). Home; Leagues; Clubs; Players; Coaches; Grounds; Articles; Community. 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. *Record tiebreakers are determined by each district through District Executive Committees. It will jog their memory for sure! (Also, in 1972 they won the Coca-Cola cup, a competition between teams which did not make the final four). Past Seasons. It appears that the Club went by the somewhat strange pseudonym of The Butchers, and perhaps this was because the team contained a number of slaughtermen and it seems to have played matches near the West Park slaughterhouse that was situated behind the Adelaide Gaol. 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. Woodville-West Torrens Football Club. Now he becomes eligible for the "Worst Recruit" category, and would possibly be in the first few lines of the betting. South Australian National Football league. You are using an out of date browser. I worked at the Trust, as did his sons Paul (Porky) and Rick Crichton. 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. He also had stints at Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and with North Adelaide. John Carr subsequently succeeded him. 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. He would walk into the bank, a barber's shop the butchers and would start up "Come on the Peckers, Come on the Peckers . it's the Woody Woody Peckers Song". Although this is the last day of January, I will kick off with the birthdays that occurred in the first month of the year. It was formed in 1990 from an amalgamation of the neighbouring Woodville and West Torrens football clubs and played its inaugural game in 1991. AustralianFootball.com Celebrating the history of the great Australian game . Final scores were Woodville 8.13 (61); University 9.5 (59). Discounting grand final curtain raisers played by reserves sides. 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. List of West Torrens players Edit Edit source History Talk (0) List [] PLAYER GAMES GOALS CAREER SPAN CLUBS (SANFL) WEIGHT Filsell, Edwin 112 18 1897-1906 WTOR . The West Torrens Club, as the fans knew it, had its beginnings from a group of players known as the Port Natives. Full forward Stephen Nichols booted 5 goals, with Templeton and Taylor bagging 3 apiece, while Kevin Harris, with 21 possessions, was best on ground. Blight returned to Woodville in 1983 as Captain-Coach, leading the club through its most successful period. He also had stints at Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and with North Adelaide. On this occasion, the scoreboard clearly showed the green and golds as winners. 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. [3]. And you'll see what we can do, We're the mighty flying Eagles [8]. It was also agreed that blue would be the primary colour of the merged club. In the event, after a hard fought first half, the Bays proved to be just a little too accomplished for Blight's men and won by 21 points in front of another big finals crowd of 30,744. Past Players support day. Join a tipping comp - lots to choose from. Woodville's preliminary final opponents Glenelg, by contrast, were looking distinctly out of sorts, having lost badly to North Adelaide in the second semi final. In 1992 the new club moved permanently to the Woodville Oval (former home of the Woodville Warriors). I think he also spent some time as a male stripper. Woodville-West Torrens. I remember going to Prospect Oval the Thursday night before the 1971 GF. Similarly, the return to the Woodville fold as playing coach a year later of 'favourite son' Malcolm Blight did not immediately succeed in turning things 'round. Then, after commencing the season proper promisingly with a hard fought 5 point win over West Torrens at Football Park, old habits promptly resurfaced and 7 of the next 9 matches were lost. FA Cup 4th Round -- Champs League Rd of 16 -- Europa - Rd of 16 -- Europa Conf - Rd of 16. Also, what is the first name of J Partridge? I'm sure Fatty, TBW, McAlmanac et al will have a few stories to tell about some of those players! JavaScript is disabled. Its inaugural season was an indicator of its success (or lack thereof) for the remainder of its existence. 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. Wonder what his stripping alias was maybe " Frank the Flasher" or " Fabulous Frank" ..LOL!! How many other players' careers have transcended four decades (60s, 70s, 80s, 90s)? 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. Trevor Ettridge for Woodville was a rangy, dark head defender, taller and leaner than his Torrens counterpart. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. The club won just three matches, all against Central Districts. 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. O old pecker Draftee May 22, 2007 4 0 The records you've got are of course not perfect, but I thought I might point that out. After 67 games for the Bulldogs he crossed to North Melbourne and added a further 19 games in 1978 and 1980, being forced to miss the whole of the 1979 season with a knee injury. Major Partner. [4], He played his final league season with North Adelaide, having left Woodville in acrimonious circumstances. Woodville and West Torrens join forces to become the Woodville West Torrens Football Club, known as The Eagles. and played many fine games mainly at FB for the Mighty Warriors. Moreso in this thread as Woodville takes a lead, instead of being amongst the "small print". He was high among North's best players in the losing 1978 grand final against Hawthorn. By 1884 the Club had joined the Adelaide and Suburban Association and had some success in this competition playing in the Red and White uniform. Frank Eder went to Findon High and was a strapping size of a bloke. A TidyHQ Account is the personal account you use to access organisations that use TidyHQ to run their back office. After finishing the minor round in second place behind University they had to overturn Semaphore Central (12.18 to 10.15) in a semi final and Colonel Light Gardens (13.15 to 11.9) in the final before responding to the challenge which University, as minor premiers, had the right to throw down. 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. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. It would be the last trophy the Woodville Football Club would win in the SANFL. A four-decade player. Finally, is there anybody out there perchance who knew ( or knows..) DES " The Battster " Batt? There are newspaper references to a Woodville Football Club dating back to the 19th century, when Woodville and Adelaide were the only teams,[1] but the modern club was formed in 1938 to play in local amateur competitions. Having a TidyHQ Account lets us remember who you are so we can keep everything in one place for you ready to access and update at any time. Observation made at the time of the emblem switch by Whimpress, op cit, p.202. "At the moment, it hasn't got an obvious one for any length of time. I recall McAlmanac posting that Jim was heavily involved with the Woodville District Cricket Club also! Dave Campbell's Texas Football reveals its 2023 6-Year TXHSFB Program Rankings, a comprehensive measure of every UIL Texas high school football program. Junior football club support day. West Torrens were also dragged down to this level by the 1970s. *Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on. He was probably more suited to a ruck-roving role or full-forward than ruck. The Warriors simply overwhelmed their opposition to win with consummate ease, 27.20 (182) to 11.15 (81). [5]. Knew those old Footy Times yearbooks, might come in handysome of these names will test the memory of any Woody diehard!! The reason for this rejection was never explained, however J H Sinclair was chosen to replace him. 2. from 1964-66 inclusive. Games: 164 Woodville, 178 North Melbourne Goals: 359 Woodville, 444 North Melbourne Captain Coach: 1983-85 Premierships: North Melbourne 1975, 77 Best and fairest: Woodville 1972 . [3] Parker was a ruckman when he arrived at Footscray from Welshpool. 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. 2014 AFL Season; 2013 AFL Season; 2012 AFL Season; 2011 AFL Season; 2010 AFL Season; . Our rankings may not reflect individual tiebreaker scenarios. I think they all played league, but feel free to let me know if they didn't. 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