Glenorchy Football Club

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Glenorchy Magpies

Full name	Glenorchy District Football Club
Nickname	Magpies
Strip
Founded	1919
Sport	Australian Rules football
League	Southern Football League (Tasmania)
First season	{{{firstseason}}}
Ground	KGV Oval
Club song	We're Glenorchy Boys, The Magpies!
President/Chair	Steve Allie
Coach	David Newett
Captain	To Be Announced
2006	Losing Grand Finalist.

The Glenorchy District Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently playing in the Southern Football League (Tasmania) in Tasmania, Australia.

Contents 1 Origins 2 Entry to Southern Football League 3 Glenorchy District Football Club Team Of The Century: 1921-2005. 4 External links

[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 SFL Regional League, which resulted in Glenorchy being granted the return of its black & white strip, and the Magpie emblem.

TFL Premierships
1935, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956
1958, 1965, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1999

TFL Runners Up
1923, 1926, 1946, 1950, 1954, 1957, 1961
1966, 1967, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980
1982, 1984, 1987, 1988

SFL Premiers
Nil

SFL Runner 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 Trevor Sprigg
1978 Peter Hudson
1979 Peter Hudson
1980 Gary Linton
1988 Adrian Fletcher
1999 Ben Atkin
2005 David Newitt
2006

George Watt Medalists
(Best & Fairest Player - TFL Reserves Football)
1963 Dal Johnson
1968 W.Hayes
1973 P.Lynsky (Tied)
1981 Wayne Olding
1987 Mark Horner (Three Way Tie)
1988 Steven Hay

V.A Geard Medalists
(Best & Fairest Player - TFL Thirds Football)
1950 J.Chick
1956 D.Cransfield
1974 L.Berwick
1981 N.Jeffrey

D.R Plaister Medalists
(Best & Fairest - TFL Fourths Football)
1978 Jamie Woolley
1991 Craig Grace

Lefroy Medalists
(Best & Fairest - Tasmanian State Team)
1965 M.McMahon (Tied)
1979 Darryl Sutton
1986 David Pearce

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 King George V Oval 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.

[edit] External links

• AFL Southern Tasmania