Era 5 saw Football Park come into its prime. Not dated, B 75522/13: Junior West Adelaide players. Also written on back 'Football Times' [a Messenger Press publication. The club has won nine SANFL premierships, the most recent coming in 2015 breaking a thirty-two-year premiership drought dating back to 1983; the second longest in the SANFL. } A collection of photographs from the Messenger Press relating to the West Adelaide Football Club, featuring action shots from games, player portraits, training sessions and other club related activities. Written on back: From left to right. Doug was a voting member of the panel and his experience made his contributions invaluable during many robust discussions on players for the final make-up of the team. Doug Thomas is written on the back of one photo and all are initialled I.P. Not dated, B 75522/8: West Adelaide player Grantley Fielke in a shoe shop at Westfield Arndale. Updated: 27 May 2019Source(s): Playing list, Coaching staff. Photographer Ian Parrish, not dated, B 75522/58: West Adelaide player Mark Mickan, not dated, B 75522/59: West Adelaide's Peter Milsom, not dated, B 75522/61: Mark Mickan being chaired off by West players. Cassandra also has a passion for all things sports and outdoors & plays footy (AFL) with both the West Adelaide Women's SANFLW team and Pulteney Football Club. The Finks Motorcycle Club is an Australian outlaw motorcycle club that was formed in Adelaide,South Australia in 1969. No date given, initials I.P. Eddie Hocking (born 6 January 1970) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).. A progressive club with a small but loyal band of supporters, West Adelaide has contributed 82 National and Rookie drafted players to the AFL since 1986. } Paperwork [removed] indicates photos published in Football Times, but no date, B 75522/65: West Adelaide Players and administrators celebrating a win as the siren goes and as they receive the trophy. Goals: Green 3, Beech & Webb 2, Fielke, Stevens, Tuck & Wasley-Black 1. { The Crows also signed former Bloods Bruce Lindner (Geelong) and Mark Mickan (Brisbane) who under the rules of the time, were automatically allocated back to their former SANFL club. We wish Ago all the best in the future. SANFLW Team Selections - Round 2 v North Adelaide 4 days ago Upcoming Events View All. 57 Milner Road, Richmond SA 5033. Founded in 1923, they are the oldest club in the league. Richmond Oval was opened by long-serving member of the South Australian Legislative Council Sir Lyell McEwin on 26 April 1958. } The Magarey Medal was won by Club Captain Ian McKay - the first full back to achieve this honour - the ninth Magarey Medal to have been awarded to North Adelaide players. History of the Glenelg Football Club affiliated South Australian National Football League . In a major development for the club, lights for night games were installed at Richmond Oval (now called City Mazda Stadium under a sponsorship deal) in 2010 and Friday night games became a success with 6,133 fans attending The Bloods first ever home game under lights against North Adelaide on 26 March. Venue: Football Park Port came back to trail by only two points going into the last quarter of the game and snatched victory by three points. West Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). To celebrate these milestones, the WAFC waited for the completion of our 125th year of competition and selected a Team of the Centuries. See also "West Adelaide Football Rally" (?date) by Reginald A A Stoneham (18951942) [6]. . CEO Kym Russell also ended his association with the club while Coach Andrew Collins won a job at Williamstown Football Club. FA Cup 4th Round -- Champs League Rd of 16 -- Europa - Rd of 16 -- Europa Conf - Rd of 16 NRL Round 1 - Thursday Join Tipping for season '23 Tip round 1 in Tipping - Weekly Platinum Membership prize. A club season overview is included and portraits and photographs (where available) of all players are presented. During 2013, the club won its first competition since winning the 1987 Foundation Cup (SANFL pre-season) when they won the 2013 Foxtel Cup, defeating WAFL side East Fremantle 4.8 (32) to 2.16 (28) at Football Park, a win worth A$100,000 in prizemoney to the club. However, Norwood again ended their run when they thumped the Bloods at Norwood Oval consigning West to a 6th-place finish. Many players joined the forces and again careers were interrupted, and this had to be taken into consideration by panellists. In 1991, the formation of the Adelaide Football Club, South Australia's first team in the Australian Football League (formerly the VFL) saw a number of Wests players signed by the new team. ], Messenger Press, c. 1983-1996, Photograph, B75522/46, West Adelaide player Mark Ricciuto, dated 4/3/91. Bob was a volunteer in the property room for 5 years and part of the 2015 premiership year, operated the scoreboard at times and was on the history committee. The club often struggled to field a full team in its early years as clubs were then controlled by wealthy businessmen and it was no secret that players were regularly poached from less wealthy clubs. Also written on back 'Football Times' [a Messenger Press publication. As a voting member of the panel, his assessment of players and especially their ability not only to dominate key positions, but have the durability to be versatile in other positions helped enormously with our problem of choosing a balanced interchange and list of emergencies. History. 1876 - 1878: 3: 20/05/1876: Victorian - Rd 1: 2: . start = (start - 1) * 25; Games and goals totals refer to premiership matches (home-and-away and finals matches) only. function do_pagination_start() West Adelaide was one of the "poor" clubs and consequently won only one of its first 31 matches. Since 2014 Adelaide have played home matches at the Adelaide Oval, a 53,500-seat stadium located a few hundred metres north of the Adelaide CBD. We thank him for his contribution and wish him the best of luck in the future. if (agt.indexOf("gecko") != -1 && agt.indexOf("win") != -1) positions. No date given, initials I.P. Yet another WAFC Hall of Fame Club Legend and now giving his name to a medal for club champions, Grant has played the most games for West Adelaide. Includes Magarey Medalists, SANFLW Best & Fairest, Ken Farmer Medalists, Jack Oatley Medalists, Fos Williams Medalists & Neil Kerley Medalists. Copyright 2023 West Adelaide Football Club. You also add some talented local footballers to our training squad for 2021 and we have been able to get a few quality footballers that have been able to dominate in their teams and leagues this year as we look to unearth another Mitch Duval. We are still finalising a couple more exciting recruits that hopefully we can announce over the coming weeks to further add depth to our League side for 2021. Despite West Adelaide playing their 400th game at Richmond Oval when they faced Sturt on 7 April 2006, neither season would bring any joy for The Bloods or their supporters as they finished with the wooden spoon in each season. This was a reaction to a heavy but legal clash prior to the end of the half between Wests captain Brian Faehse and Ports Dave Boyd in which Boyd had come off second best. start = (isNaN(start) || start < 0 ) ? Kennedy would go on to play 236 games for the club between 1970 and 1982 before playing the last two seasons of his career with Port Adelaide. After finishing 2nd in 1962 the club lost amongst others Kerley, Eustice, Jeff Bray and Don Roach from their playing ranks leading to a lean spell for the club. He regularly reminded panellists that a great football team needed players with integrity and lived WAFC values as well as having outstanding football ability. alert(message); . Thanks to the tireless efforts of people like club captain Brian Faeshe (who ironically never got to play on the ground having retired in 1956), Cliff Semmler, Roy Charles, Cliff Todd and City of West Torrens Mayor Steve Hamra, The Bloods finally had a home ground to call their own. console.info( message ); We will be saying goodbye to Jack Agostino who has decided to go back to Renmark to give back to the club that gave him his opportunity as a young boy. on back of photo, B 75522/69: West Adelaide player, Smith, cops an injury and is carried from the ground. Former Norwood premiership player and Crows assistant coach Michael Taylor replaced Morris in 1996 and West would reach a best of third in 1998 before losing to Port Adelaide in the Preliminary final. { if ( display == true ) National Service and the Vietnam War also interfered with playing careers. Photographer Richard Walker, dated 30/4/92, B 75522/11: Doug Thomas sitting at an office desk which bears the sign "winning is not everything, but wanting to is." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. West Adelaide Football Club. excessHeight = 20; South Australian Best and Fairest and Player of the Year. Beech (Ex West Adelaide), Lovell (Ex Hawthorn/Kingborough Tigers), Maguire (Canberra), Redfern (Coolamon Rovers), J.Johnson (Coburg) & C.Allan (Sturt), Chamberlain (1 League game in 2020), Sinderberry (1 League game in 2020), Couroupis (played Reserves football in 2020), Sherlock (played Reserves football in 2020), Gilbert (played Reserves football in 2020), Kelly (played Reserves football in 2020), Laudato (played Reserves football in 2020), Bock, Van Den Berg, Boughen, Faulkner, Heitmann, Venning & De Cesare, Some local players listed below have been invited to train with the club over the pre-season, Ben Adams, Adam Carroll, Oliver Chesseman, Nick Cottrell, Hamish Gordon, Nick Jones, Issac McCormick, Levi Proude, Cameron Rankine, Luke Wilson & Jordon Wilson-King. Dated 27 September, 1983, B 75522/18: West Adelaide player on an exercise bike. It was the first ground purpose built for Australian Rules Football in Australia, pre-dating the VFL's Waverley Park by twelve years. West then went back to the Adelaide Oval for its home games from 1940 until 1957, sharing the ground with South Adelaide. After finishing fourth in 1960, West Adelaide, captain-coached by Neil Kerley, won their seventh premiership in 1961, when they defeated Norwood by six goals in the Grand Final. Football in South Australia at this stage was yet to be organised and there were several sets of rules in use across the state. start = (start > 5) ? A life member and key recruiting officer of the club and foundation member of the WAFC Hall of Fame, Davids breadth of knowledge of early footballers up to those in the current era was unparalleled as a voting member of this panel. 2 (reserves) for training purposes with Westies often having to train in the Adelaide Park Lands until Richmond became available for training from 1955. No date given, initials I.P. State football was slowly being killed off and the days of Carnivals where players could often rack up as many as five state appearances in a year dwindled. Not dated, Messenger Press, c. 1983-1996, Photograph, B75522/49, Romano Negri training with the Crows. Hanna Patterson Psychology Student and Behaviour Therapist Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 70 followers 70 connections Join to connect Flinders University Flinders University Activity The. Not dated, B 75522/14: Junior West Adelaide players. Following the 1991 grand final Kevin Morris joined a long list of coaches sacked by the club after a dispute with the club's board. At the time of selection their were 1405 known players to represent West Adelaide in an official Home and Away season game, a criterion was set such that a player had to have played 50 league games for our club. Goals: Lindner 5, Luders & Grosser 4, Meuret 3, Morris 2, Conlen, Smith & Borchard 1, West Adelaide 11.12 (78) defeated Woodville West Torrens 7.6 (48) Neil states to this day that the greatest team he coached was the 1983 side, with many players missing selection by the smallest of margins. Item 3: West Adelaide badge from a Milo promotion of 1963. Dated 27 September, 1983, B 75522/17: Twins and West Adelaide players, Roger and Peter Winter, using exercise equipment during training. Written on back: Dean Wodsnam and Chris Mitsch (Swans), West Adelaide Lawnmowing and Gardening Service. West bounced back a week later to record a 13.10 (88) to 10.7 (67) win over North Adelaide in the Preliminary Final to book a place in their seventeenth SANFL Grand Final, and their first against Norwood since the Bloods 1961 premiership. Copyright 2023 West Adelaide Football Club. Prior to the 2010 SANFL season West Adelaide installed lights at Richmond Oval for night games. The half-time melee was the main topic of discussion at an SANFL meeting following the game which prompted the building of the underground dressing rooms at the Adelaide Oval during the summer of 1954/55 while leaving the rooms in the stands to the cricketers. Jack played in our under 18s winning grand final as well 52 league games. Attendance: 25,625 At the time of selection Neil Kerley said, Its only a great team if champion players miss out. and this is certainly the case with the side selected. One of Wests leading players during this time was future SANFL legend Fos Williams who played 54 games for the club between 1946 and 1949 before moving on to captain-coach Port Adelaide in 1950, a move that would haunt West Adelaide for the next thirteen seasons as Wests would lose five Grand Finals, all by less than three goals, to the Williams-coached Port Adelaide between 1954 and 1962. In the week leading up to the match there were rumours around Adelaide that Westies were going to "go the biff" in a bid to unsettle the Roosters and in front of 39,276, the smallest SANFL Grand Final crowd since the 1950s, the game became a spiteful affair with many brawls erupting between opposing players following Norths Steven Sims knocking out Wests Matthew Simpson early in the second quarter (it was alleged after the game that Sims had hit Simpson, not to knock him out but to stop his overly close tagging of North's Darel Hart). element = document.createElement("div"); function msg(message) Photographer Denys Finney, dated 2 and 6 July, 1994. See 'contents' for details of individual images. West Adelaide / Every Player In the early 1970s, West Adelaide declined to their lowest ebb for a third of a century, finishing last in 1972 for the first time since 1936, and repeating this ignominy in 1973 and 1974. [7], Despite the SANFL being a localised league, West Adelaide have some high-profile Adelaide personalities as supporters of the club. Not dated, B 75522/20: John O'Donohue and Bill Rawlings. ], B 75522/46: West Adelaide player Mark Ricciuto, dated 4/3/91. Photographer Tony Lewis, dated 16/11/87. No date given, initials I.P. 22 Framed Limited Edition Print were made available for purchase, Each print is signed by 14 living members of the team, You will be contacted by the club to organise print number, and framing after purchase, 122 Framed Limited Edition Print were made available for purchase, Official Team of the Centuries Souvenir Book, Includes player profiles for all 22 players and 4 emergency players, Includes statistics on the top 50 selected squad. The club played its first game against a side called 'The Young Australians' in 1870 at Glanville hall Estate. Borchard led the Bloods back to the finals in 2001 and 2002, but they lost the Elimination Final each time. Paperwork [removed] indicates photos published in Football Times, but no date, B 75522/64: West Adelaide Players and administrators celebrating a win as the siren goes and as they receive the trophy. Jaxon Crabb. } element.style.visibility = "hidden"; Ken Eustice would become the club's tenth Magarey Medalist in 1962. The West Adelaide Football Club and Past Players and Officials are sad to announce the passing of 1961 Premiership Player and Life Member Leon Lovegrove. This list may not reflect recent changes. Wests won the Adelaide and Suburban Association premierships in 1895 and 1896 and following the club's annual general meeting on 30 March 1897, the club applied to join the South Australian Football Association (SAFA) which was approved by 6 votes to 4 against at a meeting held on 5 April 1897. Early in the 2011 season coach Andrew Collins had his contract extended for a further two years tying him to the club until 2013. The club won its fourth premiership in five years in 1912 after again defeating Port Adelaide in the grand final before finishing their Golden Era with a third placing in 1913. Between 1942 and 1945 West Adelaide joined forced with Glenelg in a wartime competition, finishing second, third and fourth in a four-team competition. In 1954 the club's search for a permanent home ground was solved with the founding of Richmond Oval. The club won two parklands premierships prior to 1897 and has since collected nine SANFL League premierships. The Following week Sturt defeated Norwood in the Preliminary to earn the other Grand Final berth. After missing the finals in 1999 and 2000, for 2001 West Adelaide hired former premiership captain and best and fairest winner Ian Borchard as coach. var start = document.go_page.start.value; x = overFlowX > 0 ? In the former year a late kick for goal by ruckman Jack Richardson which would have given West the lead with only ninety seconds remaining hit the post allowing Port to hold on. The football club played its first match against a team called the "Young Australians" on 30 July 1870 at North Park Lands. The photos are not dated. Issacs dad Simon McCormick played for the club and won the 2007 Best & Fairest. Written on back: Dean Wodsnam and Chris Mitsch (Swans), West Adelaide Lawnmowing and Gardening Service. 2 full size reproductions were made, one which will be kept by the club and displayed in the players area, and the other which was successfully auctioned by the Club during the Team of the Centuries dinner on Friday the 20th of April. (Error Code: 100013) List Categories Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Kerley continued on as a player in 1963 honouring his contract, but the following season he left to become captain-coach of South Adelaide, taking the Panthers from bottom in 1963 to their last SANFL Premiership to date in 1964. Joint major partners. West Adelaide players Mark Dreher, Ian Borchard, Neil Kerley, Leon Grosser, Dirk de Yong. renderedElement.style.top = (y + 15) + "px"; Call the Family Violence Information Line 0800 456 450. . originalFirstChild = document.body.firstChild; [4] Attendance: 47,129 The publication contains a description of Port Adelaide-West Torrens 1942 premiership season. During his career Luders was known as one of the most spectacular high marking full-forwards in the SANFL. . renderedElement.style.visibility = "visible"; An unexpected 112-point thrashing of North Adelaide in their last game of 1940, however, proved a true omen of what was to come in 1941. His perspectives helped panellists break deadlocks over players who were vying for the same position and his vast experience and football knowledge of players over three decades, as well as his VFL/AFL experiences, proved invaluable. Nonetheless, the club still struggled and had won only twenty and drawn two of 127 games by the end of 1907, including a second winless season in 1906. (event.clientX + de.scrollLeft) : x; } Australian Football. During the mid-1950s, West Adelaide, under the coaching of Laurie Cahill and with strong players such as Neil Kerley, Brian Faehse, Doug Thomas, Ken Eustice, Ken McGregor and 1957 Magarey Madalist Ron Benton, became regular finals visitors and finished as beaten grand finalists in 1954, losing the grand final to the Fos Williams led Port Adelaide Phone 8352 4022. According to brief notes attached to the photographs (now removed), some of the photographs were published in the West-Side Messenger, or Football Times. Facing a red-hot Central District team aiming for their third premiership in four years, West went down 17.9 (111) to 11.11 (77) in front of 28,199 at AAMI Stadium in the Grand Final. Each week the club's official photographer Kurt Donsberg will upload images from each round of league games and post them here. Photographer Stuart Hannagan, B 75522/62: Grand Final 1983. on back of photo, B 75522/81: Action shot, West Adelaide v Norwood. West Adelaide not only became SANFL premiers for the first time defeating Norwood in the Grand Final at the Adelaide Oval but they also became Champions of Australia when they defeated powerful Victorian Football League team Carlton by five goals at the Adelaide Oval. Will Mead has decided to go back and play local football. on back of photo. Initials I.P. BEST FROM THE WEST 1) JOSH CARR If you could have one claim to fame, how is this: 10 Showdowns, 10 victories (plus the bonus win at the Ramsgate Hotel). Membership available from November 01 Home Buy Memberships Ticketing Home Memberships Membership Club Memberships Metro Jets Regional Membership Ticketed Memberships These memberships provide game day access Concession Past Players & Officials Junior & Youth x - overFlowX : x; Jarrod Cotton. Presented by The Golden Ticket - For Medallion Club tickets and Corporate Box tickets at the MCG and Marvel. Courageous, caring, team man, role model. 1: 1-5-1897: BISHOP, Enoch John Thomas: 2: 1-5-1897: MESECKE, Adolphus Charles: 3: 1-5-1897: BAIRD, Gabriel - 4: 1-5-1897: DAY, George - 5: 1-5-1897: DEAN, G: 6: . The first key part of your list is always the players you already have, to get commitments from your existing players is always a great sign of the direction you are going. They then defeated a determined South Adelaide by 21 points in the Preliminary Final and would then come up against North Adelaide, a team they had not beaten since Round 17 of the 1985 season. Not dated, Messenger Press, c. 1983-1996, Photograph, B75522/48, West Adelaide player Mike Rennie. His unique playing knowledge of players in this era helped the panel understand more about champions in this era and refined the panels views on various candidates. Added to these highlights are two Champions of Australia titles against Essendon and Carlton, 2 SANFL Cup Premierships 1985 & 1987 and the first SANFL club to win the National Foxtel Cup premiership in 2013. On top of this we have already seen the arrivals of 5 key signing already for 2021 that will no doubt bring experience from high level football and strengthen our league side. Photograph not dated, B 75522/2: Women on an oval dressed in cheerleaders costume. Mid Western Football Association . Dated 4/9/90, B 75522/5: Two men pictured with lawnmowers and a van behind them. Players; Coaches; Grounds; Articles; Community. In one of the photos a woman is walking behind him across the oval. 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