Glenorchy Football Club
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| Glenorchy District Football Club | |
|---|---|
| Glenorchy District Football Club logo | |
| Names | |
| Nickname(s) | The Magpies, Pies |
| Motto | Fortis ad finem |
| 2011 season | |
| After finals | 4th |
| Home-and-away season | 5th (10 wins, 8 losses, 0 draws) |
| Best and fairest | TBC |
| Club details | |
| Founded | 1919 (as New Town) |
| Colours | Black and White |
| President | Steve Allie |
| Coach | Kim Excell |
| Captain(s) | Jaye Bowden & Jonathan Bowring |
| Premierships | 16 (1935, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1965, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1999, 2007, 2008) |
| Ground(s) | KGV Oval Glenorchy, Tasmania (capacity: 18,000+ capacity) |
| Other information | |
| Official website | www.glenorchymagpies.org.au |
| Guernsey: File:Collingwood Magpies Jumper.svg | |
The Glenorchy District Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Tasmanian State League and the Southern Football League in Tasmania, Australia.
Origins
The club is nicknamed The Magpies after its black & white playing strip, and was originally known as New Town Football Club (wearing a green & white strip) when it started out as a member of the Tasmanian Football League in 1921.
New Town changed its name to Glenorchy in 1957 after absorbing the already established club Glenorchy Rovers and relocated its headquarters to KGV Oval at Glenorchy in Hobart's northern suburbs in the same year, playing its first match at the venue on 4 May 1957 against Hobart. It remains there to this day. After the death of the Tasmanian Football League in December 2000, the club was temporarily without a league to play in.
Entry to Southern Football League
After some political maneuvering within football circles, Glenorchy were admitted to the Southern Football League, but at a high price, with the club being forced, as a condition of entry to the League, to give up its black & white playing strip, and its Magpies emblem as it clashed with former Southern Amateur club Claremont Magpies, who were already a member of the SFL.
Glenorchy announced in early 2001 that they would adopt a new green, black & white playing uniform, and be known as the "Glenorchy Storm".
This was not popular with fans who drifted away from the club, and its membership and support base decreased rapidly.
There was to be considerable rejoicing amongst its fans in 2004, after persistent pressure from the club, and the fact that Claremont were now playing in the SFL Regional League, which resulted in Glenorchy being granted the return of its black & white strip, and the Magpie emblem.
TANFL/TFL Statewide League/TSL Premierships
- 1935, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1999
TANFL/TFL Statewide League/TSL Runners Up
- 1923, 1926, 1946, 1950, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 2009
SFL Premier League Premiers
- 2007, 2008
SFL Premier League Runners Up
- 2001, 2006
State Premierships
- 1948, 1953, 1956, 1965, 1975
William Leitch Medalists
(Best & Fairest Player – TFL & SFL Premier Senior Football)
- 1951
– Rex Garwood
- 1975
- 1978
- 1979
- 1980
- 1988
- 1999
- 2005
- 2006
- 2008
George Watt Medalists
(Best & Fairest Player – TFL Reserves Football)
- 1963
- 1968
- 1973
- 1981
- 1987
- 1988
- 2006
V.A Geard Medalists
(Best & Fairest Player – TFL Thirds Football)
- 1950
- 1956
- 1974
- 1981
D.R Plaister Medalists
(Best & Fairest – TFL Fourths Football)
- 1978
- 1991
Lefroy Medalists
(Best & Fairest – Tasmanian State Team)
- 1965
- 1979
- 1986
- 2009
Horrie Gorringe Medalists
(Best on field in the Premier League Grand Final)
- 2007
- 2008
Club record attendance
24,968: 1979 TFL Grand Final vs Clarence Roos at North Hobart Oval.
Club record score
TFL 34.21.225 vs Hobart 18.14.122 at KGV Oval Round 22 1983.
Glenorchy District Football Club Team of the Century: 1921–2000.
Backline:, Roland Curley, Roy Witzerman, Alan Leitch.
Half-back line: Trevor Sprigg, Barry Strange, Robbie Dykes.
Centre line: Michael Styles (Capt), Neil Conlan, Ben Atkin.
Half-forward line: John Klug, Max Griffiths, David Pearce.
Forward line: Danny Ling, Peter Hudson, Gary Linton.
Ruck: Jack Rough, Rex Garwood, Ron Marney.
Interchange: John Chick, Matthew Mansfield, Kevin Morgan, Denis Lester, Kevin Baker, Adrian Fletcher, Max McMahon.
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