North Adelaide Roosters

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**North Adelaide**

Full name	North Adelaide Football Club
Nickname	The Roosters
Strip	Red and White
Founded	1888 (as Medindie)
Sport	Australian rules football
League	South Australian National Football League
First season	1893
Ground	Prospect Oval
Club song	It's a great, great club
President/Chair	Bohdan Jaworskyj
Coach	Andrew Jarman
Captain	Darryl Wintle
2006	3rd of 9

North Adelaide is an Australian rules football club, who play in the South Australian National Football League.

1 History
2 Premierships
3 Other premierships
4 Magarey Medallists
5 All-Australians
6 League top goalkickers
7 Club song
8 External links

[edit] History

Formed in 1888 as Medindie, in 1893 the club renamed itself to North Adelaide. It is the fourth oldest club still in operation in the SANFL. Although several other early clubs used the name of "North Adelaide", none of them bore ties to the current club[1].

North Adelaide started playing at Prospect Oval in 1922 and it has remained their home ground ever since.

Ken Farmer - "The Bradman of Goalkickers" kicked 105 goals in 1930 to become the first SA League player to kick 100 goals in a league state. He was a prolific goalkicker, kicking 100 goals in a season in 11 consecutive seasons (1930 – 1940). Farmer also holds the record for the most goals in an SANFL match - 23 against West Torrens at Prospect on July 6, 1940. Farmer scored ten or more goals in thirty-seven matches, and 1,419 goals in total over his career, at an astounding average of 6.3 per match.

North Adelaide’s other iconic player[2], Barrie Robran, played 201 League games for the Roosters and 10 State games. He won 3 Magarey Medals (1968, 1970 and 1973) and is the only SANFL "Legend" in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

North Adelaide competed in the first match played at Football Park (now known as AAMI Stadium) in round 5, 1974. Their opponent was Central District.

The longest serving coach for the club is Michael Nunan - 12 seasons from 1981 to 1992.

The Captain’s record is held by Ian McKay, captaining the team for 8 years from 1948 – 1955.

[edit] Premierships

The club has won 13 Senior premierships in total: 1900, 1902, 1905, 1920, 1930-31, 1949, 1952, 1960, 1971-72, 1987, 1991

[edit] Other premierships

The club has also won premierships in:

Seconds/Reserves (from 1919) - 1925, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1964-65, 2005-6 (8 total)
Thirds/Under 19s (from 1936) - 1937, 1942, 1948-49, 1954, 1961, 1966, 2005 (8 total)
Colts/Under 17s (from 1939) - 1939-40, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1969-70, 1987, 1997, 2005 (11 total)
Championship of Australia 1972
Stanley H. Lewis Memorial Trophy 1966-67, 1971-72, 2005-6
SANFL Night/Knock-out/Pre-season Series 1968

[edit] Magarey Medallists

Phil Sandland 1901
Tom Mackenzie 1905 & 1906
Tom Leahy 1913
Harold 'Dribbler' Hawke 1937
Jeff Pash 1939
H.Ron Phillips 1948 & 1949
Ian McKay 1950
Barrie Barbary 1960
Don Lindner 1967^
Barrie Robran 1968, 1970 & 1973
Tony Antrobus 1983
Andrew Jarman 1987
Brenton Phillips 1993
Josh Francou 1996

^ - awarded retrospecctively

[edit] All-Australians

Haydn Bunton 1956
Don Lindner 1961
Andrew Jarman 1986 & 1987

[edit] League top goalkickers

A.Daly (54) 1903 & (30) 1905
P.Lewis (58) 1923
K.Farmer (105) 1930, (126) 1931, (102) 1932, (112) 1933, (106) 1934, (128) 1935, (134) 1936, (108) 1937, (112) 1938, (113) 1939 & (123) 1940
W.McKenzie (67) 1954
D.Sachse (90) 1967
J.Roberts (111) 1987
D.Hargreaves (68) 2002

[edit] Club song

North Adelaide have had many versions of their clubsong in the past. All contain the same lyrics, but have been changed rhythm wise to keep up with the times. The most recent version was brought in during the early 2000s, but all versions can still be found on the clubsong CD.

It's a great, great club,
And the club we love,
We're the good old red and whites!
The mighty Roosters we're called,
All for one, one for all,
If we're down we fight, fight, fight!
We always play as a team,
And we play it clean,
We're never out of sight,
Bet it wet, be it dry,
We try, try, try,
We're the good old red and whites!