Glenorchy Football Club
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The Glenorchy District Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Australian Football League Southern Football League (Tasmania), also known as the Southern Football League, in Tasmania, Australia.
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[edit] 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 and relocated its headquarters to King George V Football Park at Glenorchy in Hobart's Northern Suburbs in the same year, where it remains to this day. After the death of the Tasmanian Football League in December 2000, the club were temporarily without a league to play in.
[edit] 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 AFLST Regional League, which resulted in Glenorchy being granted the return of its black & white strip, and the Magpie emblem.
[edit] TFL Premierships
1935-1948-1949-1951-1953-1955-1956-1958-1965-1975-1983-1985-1986-1999.
[edit] TFL Runners Up
1923-1926-1946-1950-1954-1957-1961-1966-1967-1976-1977-1978-1979-1980-1982-1984-1987-1988.
[edit] SFL Premiers
Nil
[edit] SFL Runner Up
2001 & 2006
[edit] State Premierships
1948-1953-1956-1965-1975
[edit] William Leitch Medallists:
- Rex Garwood (1951),
- Trevor Sprigg (1975),
- Peter Hudson (1978 & 1979),
- Gary Linton (1980),
- Adrian Fletcher (1988),
- Ben Atkin (1999),
- David Newitt (2005)
[edit] Club Record Attendance:
24,968: 1979 TFL Grand Final vs Clarence Roos at North Hobart Oval.
[edit] Club Record Score:
34.21.225: vs Hobart 18.14.122 at KGV Football Park, Round 22 1983.
[edit] Glenorchy District Football Club Team Of The Century: 1921-2005.
Backline:, Roland Curley, Roy Witzerman, Alan Leitch.
Half-back line: Jamie Hales, Barry Strange, Robbie Dykes.
Centre line: Michael Styles (Capt), Bill Roach, Ben Atkin.
Half-forward line: John Klug, Max Griffiths, Chris Rowbottom.
Forward line: David Cox, Peter Hudson, Gary Linton.
Ruck: Jack Rough, Matthew Fielding, Ron Harwood.
Interchange: John Chick, Matthew Mansfield, Kevin Morgan, Denis Lester, Kevin Baker, Adrian Fletcher, Dominic Chan.
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