Major Partner. Like Log in to remove this ad. The third term had the huge crowd at fever pitch as the two sides went goal for goal with the Magpies hanging on to a 6 point advantage at the final change. The team was then known as the "Woodville Woodpeckers". in Adelaide for work or looking for more senior footy than was available in the star studded Shark line up of the mid 80's? Join FREE and support Australia's favourite footy community. Woodville South is developing itself as the football from everyone. We are also fortunate to have one of the strongest networks of past players and supporters in the amateur league, many of whom also sponsor our club. * Premiership Captain (Justin Cicolella was acting captain for the 2006 Premiership), Presented to best on ground for South Australia in a State match, Presented to best on ground in an SANFL Grand Final, Presented to best on ground in an SANFL Reserves Grand Final, Presented to best on ground in an SANFL U/18's Grand Final, Presented to best on ground in an SANFL U/16's Grand Final, Presented to best on ground in an ANZAC Day match (Grand Final replay), Presented to best SANFL player as voted by League coaches, The highest individual honour that is bestowed by the club. Ahhh, those Powerful Pressurising Peckers for Premiers. He had kicked 430 goals (I'm assuming that takes night games out) plus another one he kicked that day, bringing the total to 431. Thought I better post some Woody info. This page was last edited on 17 July 2022, at 19:48. You must log in or register to reply here. Your TidyHQ Account includes the email address and password you use to log in, as well as all the contact, payment and security details that you will use for this organisation and across all TidyHQ services. [8]. In 1946 the Woodville Football Club managed something which they would never achieve in twenty-seven seasons as a member of the SANFL: earned the right to call themselves the best team in an entire competition. The turning point came in round eleven against Centrals, again at Football Park. On returning to South Australia, Ray Huppatz played initially with his former club Woodville, adding 17 SANFL games to his tally in 1981. A TidyHQ Account is the personal account you use to access organisations that use TidyHQ to run their back office. He was Woodville's leading goal kicker in 1975, and had won the club's best & Fairest award in 1978, the same year he was awarded with Life Membership from the club and Player Life Membership from the SANFL. That would explain it, 12 games and 25 goals for Panagaris' career suggests he wasnt a complete dud. It was not until 1902 that the Hindmarsh Council realising the need of a local Oval started to redevelop an irregular shaped paddock known as Lindsays Circus which was opened in 1905 as Hindmarsh Oval and the home ground of West Torrens Football Club. I remember Craig McKellar used to live on Trimmer Pde at Bus Stop 27 and would be seen on Sunday arvo, dressed in an old Pecker lace up jumper and footy shorts mowing the front lawn. 2023. Join a tipping comp - lots to choose from. Massive thanks to Keith Leicester for posting this audio track on his website.htt. The 1967 performance was especially noteworthy in that, besides the draw, the Peckers managed only a solitary win for the year en route to their second wooden spoon. On entry to the SANFL, Woodville were known as "The Woodpeckers" but changed to "The Warriors" in 1983. During the 2021 SANFL season, the Eagles finished 2nd behind minor premiers Glenelg who had lost only one game all season. I'm sure Fatty, TBW, McAlmanac et al will have a few stories to tell about some of those players! Had the young Woodville players been given the chance to play in a final - just to get the feel of playing in the big time - they would be a better proposition for the grand final. "At the moment, it hasn't got an obvious one for any length of time. just past the Arkaba Hotel! Heading into 1964, West Torrens had won four premierships in the previous forty seasons, and were a highly competitive club, regular finalists, and played off in 8 Grand Finals - the last one being the 1953 victory over Port Adelaide. Jim Crichton was as you said Secretary of the mighty W.F.C. and played many fine games mainly at FB for the Mighty Warriors. He was always around the Woodville suburbs singing the Woody Wood Pecker song. The 2023 Texas State 7-on-7 Tournament will return to College Station this summer. It took 27 years, but order was finally restored for SANFL clubs in the western suburbs in 1991. * Premiership Coach, italics current captain Observation made at the time of the emblem switch by Whimpress, op cit, p.202. [4], He played his final league season with North Adelaide, having left Woodville in acrimonious circumstances. Well curiousity has got the better of me and I went through all of the posts and got just about every league player I could find! ?A famous Pecker in more respects than he may know!! Quoted in Football Times Yearbook 1986, pages 6-7. Based in the western suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia, Woodville derived its name from the suburb it was located in. On the individual front, it did provide a Magarey Medallist in the shape of Malcolm Blight in 1972, while Woodville players topped the season's goalkicking on no fewer than four occasions. In its 27 seasons in the SANFL, Woodville reached the finals only three times: in 1979, 1986 and 1987; its best result was 3rd position in 1986. I never knew that. And there lies the tragedy of the 'form' side of the competition missing the double chance. He then moved on to Port Adelaide where he finished his career with a further 38 games over the ensuing four seasons. Each club progressed straight through to their respective Grand Finals, and the Reserves completed a remarkable undefeated season (first team to do so since West Torrens in 1919) to take out their 8th flag. Wonder what his stripping alias was maybe " Frank the Flasher" or " Fabulous Frank" ..LOL!! The team won 3 games, drew 1 (abandoned after quarter time) and lost 13, which included a forfeit. The 38-year-old Sewer who was playing his 382nd and last game of SANFL football. Fair to say probably 6,000 of those would have been Magpie supporters. Maxwell Sam Parker (born 29 October 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Woodville in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL). He took over Geroge Roache's No.26 jumper. The fourth quarter was just as thrilling, but gradually it was the Warriors who appeared to be getting on top. 25 April 2022 2:00pm Maughan Thiem Kia Oval - Woodville Naming Rights Partner. On returning to South Australia, Ray Huppatz played initially with his former club Woodville, adding 17 SANFL games to his tally in 1981. A total of 8 wins from 20 starts earned the comparative respectability of seventh place on the ladder and over the final few games of the season in particular, inspired by Teasdale, and with players like carnival ruckman Craig McKellar, experienced stalwarts Simunsen and Barrie Barbary, and exciting youngsters such as Ray Huppatz, Colin MacVicar, Malcolm Blight and Ralph Sewer, all of whom would be automatic inclusions in any Woodville 'Hall of Fame', they looked capable of matching it with the very best. Plenty of old days at Oval Ave, but too few of the good!! [1] Further sporadic references to Woodville followed up to and including 1877 when a club bearing that name participated in the debut season of the South Australian Football Association, finishing fifth out of eight. The archetypal nuggety, terrier-like rover, Ray Huppatz was without doubt one of the greatest players ever produced by, or to represent, the Woodville Football Club. Our club is based at Ledger Reserve, 108 Ledger Road, Woodville South and is incorporated with the Woodville South Sports and Community club where we have established our own extensive clubrooms, training and social facilities. John Carr subsequently succeeded him. Not even a change of emblem in 1982 from the admittedly whimpish 'Woodpeckers' to the ostensibly more macho Warriors could arrest the decline; after all, it is "the men inside the guernseys that count". West Torrens Football Club History However it prevailed and finished in 6 th position out of 7 teams in the inaugural season. In 1887 the Club joined with West Adelaide and with the addition of blue to its colours played under the name of West Adelaide, but the team dissolved after only one season. Believe he may be the father or uncle of a former popular ' 80s trainer at Oval Avenue: Paul aka "Porky" Crichton, someone may be able to verify this?? Obviously he had to do until guys like McKellar came along. As far as the serious business of winning league matches was concerned, however, the club went steadily backwards, winning 9 of its 22 games in 1988 for seventh position, 8 in 1989 (eighth), and 7 in 1990 (eighth again). In 1968, Woodville avoided another wooden spoon by just half a game, but the following year, under the energetic coaching of former North Melbourne stalwart Noel Teasdale, the side seemed to be at last on the verge of establishing itself. Thereafter, however, the 'old' Woodville inexplicably resurfaced: the Warriors lost every one of their last five minor round matches before being consummately bundled out of the premiership race by Glenelg to the embarrassing tune of 102 points. . *Record tiebreakers are determined by each district through District Executive Committees. I recall McAlmanac posting that Jim was heavily involved with the Woodville District Cricket Club also! Past Players & Officials. Trevor Ettridge (Woodville) played 27 games, 11 goals from 1972 to 1975. Once the season proper got underway the side continued much as it had left off in 1986 and by the time it downed South Adelaide by a couple of goals in round seventeen finals participation was virtually assured. Woodville-West Torrens. FA Cup 4th Round -- Champs League Rd of 16 -- Europa - Rd of 16 -- Europa Conf - Rd of 16. The Natives Club first secretary was John Carr, a member of the Legislative Council and the colours that the Club adopted were Blue and Gold. [4] As his new club already had established ruckmen in Gary Dempsey and Barry Round, Parker was tried as a key forward. He was not happy. Except that, as so often appears to be the case, 'next season' after a season of apparent promise proved to be an enormous disappointment. The club has a strong proactive committee and an excellent football department led by our football director Peter Johnson and our Senior Club Wayne Knowles. In newspaper reports on the games the first captain appears to be Fanning but later in the season he was replaced by J Collins. Games: 164 Woodville, 178 North Melbourne Goals: 359 Woodville, 444 North Melbourne Captain Coach: 1983-85 Premierships: North Melbourne 1975, 77 Best and fairest: Woodville 1972 . The league team with a 162 record from their 18 games. Not a patch on the model citizens attending Henley High - despite us having quite possibly the worst guernsy in SA schoolboy history. Adelaide . I walked into a room where they were preparing the North Adelaide banner. This proved to be a false dawn, however, as the side recorded only 2 further wins for the year - one of which was against Central District - to finish in a position which was to become familiar: last. As a struggling club with limited fans and finances, there were regular calls throughout the 1980s to merge Woodville with another club. 1980 Sachse John - the "other" Sachse brother; Leaping Lindner reckons it must have been a pre-season match. Because of the exigencies of war the number of clubs in A2 of the SAAFL was reduced from ten to six in 1941. The Peckers' only three victories for the season were all gained at the expense of the winless Bulldogs by 10, 28 and 35 points. His first season back in Adelaide was unsuccessful, with the club finishing with the wooden spoon. O old pecker Draftee May 22, 2007 4 0 [3], Parker was a ruckman when he arrived at Footscray from Welshpool. The next seven minor round matches represented one of the pinnacles of Woodville's twenty-seven season involvement in the SANFL at senior level, with victories over Sturt (31 points), Norwood (21 points), West Adelaide (23 points), Port Adelaide (6 points), West Torrens (45 points), Central District (22 points) and North Adelaide (18 points). *Behinds for the pre-1965 era are for selected matches only I think he also spent some time as a male stripper. Join FREE and support Australia's favourite footy community. Adelaide Crows Women's Team: 3 x AFLW premiers! In Sheedy's first year in charge, the club finished minor premiers and advanced to the 2020 SANFL Grand Final where the club overcame North Adelaide by 39 points to win their first premiership in 9 years. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for SANFL Football - Woodville West Torrens Eagles Vintage Jackets - Size 2XL / 3XL at the best online prices at eBay! Intersate recruit that didnt set the world on fire-Kym Chatfield, dont think he racked up many games at East Freo before his Woodville stint either, how did they get hold of this guy? The mighty flying Eagles Woodville south football club past players. Des O' Dwyer played with Woodville from middish 1986 to 1990 incl. (and hopefully the image will work!!) Since 1993, the Eagles have played most of their home games at Woodville's home ground of Woodville Oval, having previously used Football Park. [5], Unable to register a senior game in 1972, Parker returned to country football and played briefly at Gippsland club Leongatha. Rucci then proceeded to sit fairly and squarely on the fence when analysing Woodville's prospects: Woodville, which has qualified for the finals for the second time since it was re-admitted (sic.) Women's Major Partner. The fact that only a handful of the Titles were gained made them lifetime highlights for players, officials and supporters when they did come along. Tournament Game 2022 UIL Texas Football State Championships 2022 Football Conference 3A D1 Woodville 27 East Chambers 20 Final Box Score All Contest Videos Tournament Bracket Full Points Footy's Encyclopedia of Australian Football Clubs, Volume 1. [4] Playing mostly as a defender, Parker appeared in 266 games for Woodville over 14 seasons and was club captain in 1982, 1986 and 1987. Blight stood down at the end of 1987 and was replaced by Port Adelaide Football Club legend and four time Magarey Medallist Russell Ebert. Wearing Gold and Green and Blue Whispers had grown throughout SA football circles that a merger would save these clubs throughout the 1980s. The SAAFL still operated a challenge system of playing finals at this point. In 1964, when the Woodpeckers embarked on their fully fledged SANFL career, it was Simunsen who was both their first skipper and their first interstate representative, while the coaching duties were handled by former Port Adelaide wingman Harold McDonald. 4. 7. The new team trained in a yard behind the Land of Promise Hotel but this was soon found to be inadequate so the players used Port Road as their training track. Full forward Stephen Nichols booted 5 goals, with Templeton and Taylor bagging 3 apiece, while Kevin Harris, with 21 possessions, was best on ground. West Torrens won 4 Premierships pre-1991, in 1924, 1933, 1945 and 1953. Junior football club support day. Now he becomes eligible for the "Worst Recruit" category, and would possibly be in the first few lines of the betting. It only takes a few seconds. League. Pretty sure Malcolm Ellis is still there. On this occasion, the scoreboard clearly showed the green and golds as winners. Similarly, the return to the Woodville fold as playing coach a year later of 'favourite son' Malcolm Blight did not immediately succeed in turning things 'round. *Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on. The Warriors simply overwhelmed their opposition to win with consummate ease, 27.20 (182) to 11.15 (81). At quarter time their confidence appeared to be seriously mis-placed. And you'll see what we can do, We're the mighty flying Eagles Ruckman Craig Parry was named the Jack Oatey Medalist for Best on Ground for 2011. The Eagle logo of the West Torrens Football Club was adopted as the official emblem of Woodville West Torrens. 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