Balmain Australian Football Club

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**Balmain**

Full name	Balmain Australian Football Club
Nickname	Dockers
Strip	Similar to Fremantle Football Club)
Founded	1903
Sport	Australian rules football
League	Sydney AFL
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Ground	Drummoyne Oval
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President/Chair	Paul Feain
Coach	Damien Hall
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Balmain Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Sydney AFL league and based out of the Sydney suburb of Balmain.

The club recently did a deal with the Fremantle Dockers, and are now known as the Balmain Dockers. In the 2007 season, they will wear a Fremantle-style guernsey, replacing the black with a yellow sash strip that went with their previous nickname, the Tigers.

[edit] History

The club formed in 1903 as the Balmain Football Club, a founding member of the Sydney Football League.

[edit] Famous Players

Sydney Swans player Troy Luff played for Balmain after retiring from AFL football in 2002. Charles Brown played for Collingwood from 1916-1923. Rugby league player Wally Messenger (the brother of Dally Messenger) played for the club in its early days.

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Clubs in the Sydney AFL
Premier Division	Balmain \| Campbelltown \| East Coast \| North Shore \| Pennant Hills \| St George \| UNSW-Eastern Suburbs \| Western Suburbs \| Wollongong
Sydney Football Association	Holroyd-Parramatta \| Macquarie University \| Manly-Warringah \|Penrith \| South-West Sydney \| Southern \| Sydney University \| University of Technology Sydney \| St Clair