Calder Cannons
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| Full name | Calder Cannons Football Club |
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| Strip | Navy Blue guernsey with orange and white trim, navy blue and white shorts, navy blue and orange socks |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Sport | Australian rules football |
| League | TAC Cup |
| First season | 1995 |
| Ground | Coburg City Oval - Coburg |
| Club song | "See the Cannons Fire Up" |
| President | Andrew Johnston |
| Coach | Andrew Jago |
| Captain | Matthew Merlo |
| 2013 | 4th of 12 |
The Calder Cannons are an Australian rules football club from Melbourne, Australia.
The club competes in the TAC Cup and fields squads in the U15, 16 and most importantly the U18s. The club was formed in 1995 after the need for two more metropolitan clubs. The geographic catchment area for the club is the north western suburbs of Melbourne extending to cover the Macedon Ranges area.
Performances
The club has been a strong competitor since its inception, and in 2006 lost in the final to eventual premiers the Oakleigh Chargers at the MCG. They won the competition in 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2007, and have appeared in 6 out of the last 7 grand finals.
In the 2007 TAC Cup Final, Calder beat the Murray Bushrangers, with Ashley Arrowsmith the winner of the TAC Medal for best on ground. Victorian representatives for Calder at the U18 Championships included Addam Maric, James Polkinghorne, captain Mitchell Farmer and Arrowsmith.
Club Information
The club train and play home matches at the Highgate Recreation Reserve in the Suburb of Craigieburn.
Former Collingwood footballer and Copeland Trophy winner, Robert Hyde, coached the Cannons from 1996 to 2006. The club's best and fairest award is called the Robert Hyde medal, in honour of Hyde.[1]
The Calder Cannons have had the largest number of players from its club drafted onto an AFL teams senior list via the AFL draft, having a total of 81 players drafted.[2]
They are informally know in the media as the Calder Cannons footy factory, due to the high number of AFL players drafted from the club.
Brian Taylor is often spotted lurking the clubrooms and told by players to give them shoutouts during his channel 7 commentary. Boy oh boy, wowee!
Players drafted from Calder Cannons
AFL players drafted from the Calder Cannons include:
- Dane Swan (2001)
- Paul Chapman
- Jude Bolton
- Ryan O'Keefe
- Darren Milburn
- Brent Reilly
- Andrew Welsh
- David Rodan (2001)
- Brock McLean
- James Kelly
- Ryan Crowley
- Addam Maric
- Eddie Betts
- Shaun McKernan
- Mitch Wallis
- Tom Liberatore
- Cameron Guthrie
- Daniel Talia (2009)
- Joe Daniher (2012)
- Matthew Watson
- Jordan Schroder
- Jake Melksham
- Dion Prestia
- Luke Mitchell
- Tom Sheridan (footballer)
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