Glenorchy Football Club

Glenorchy District Football Club
Names
Nickname(s)	The Magpies, Pies
Motto	Fortis ad Finem (Mighty to the End)
2016 season
After finals	1st
Home-and-away season	1st (16 wins, 2 losses, 0 draws)
Best and fairest	Jaye Bowden
Club details
Founded	1919 (as New Town)
Colours	Black and      White
President	John McCann
Coach	Aaron Cornelius
Captain(s)	Brayden Webb
Premierships	17 (1935, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1958, 1965, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2016)
Ground(s)	KGV Oval Glenorchy, Tasmania (capacity: 18,000+ capacity)
Other information
Official website	www.glenorchymagpies.org.au

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

Origins

The club is nicknamed the Magpies after its black and white playing strip, and was originally known as New Town Football Club (wearing a green and 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 after absorbing the already established club Glenorchy Rovers and relocated its headquarters to KGV Oval at Glenorchy in Hobart's northern suburbs in the same year, playing its first match at the venue on 4 May 1957 against Hobart. It remains there to this day.

After the death of the Tasmanian Football League in December 2000, the club was temporarily without a league to play in.

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 and 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 and white strip, and the Magpie emblem.

TANFL/TFL Statewide League/TSL premierships

• 1935, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1965, 1975, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1999, 2016

TANFL/TFL Statewide League/TSL runners up

• 1923, 1926, 1946, 1950, 1954, 1957, 1961, 1966, 1967, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1988, 2009

SFL Premier League premiers

• 2007, 2008

SFL Premier League runners up

• 2001, 2006

State premierships

• 1948, 1953, 1956, 1965, 1975

William Leitch Medallists

(Best and fairest player – TFL and 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 – Jesse Crouch
• 2008 – Shane Piuselli

George Watt Medallists

(Best and 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
• 2006 – Clinton French

V. A. Geard Medallists

(Best and fairest player – TFL thirds football)

• 1950 – J.Chick
• 1956 – D. Cranfield
• 1974 – L. Berwick
• 1981 – N. Jeffrey

D. R. Plaister Medallists

(Best and fairest – TFL fourths football)

• 1978 – Jamie Woolley
• 1991 – Craig Grace

Lefroy Medallists

(Best and fairest – Tasmanian state team)

• 1965 – M. McMahon (tied)
• 1979 – Darryl Sutton
• 1986 – David Pearce
• 2009 – Shane Piuselli (tied)

Horrie Gorringe Medallists

(Best on field in the Premier League Grand Final)

• 2007 – Brad Curran
• 2008 – Damian McIvor

Tassie Medalists

• 2012 – Jaye Bowden

Club record attendance

24,968: 1979 TFL Grand Final vs Clarence Roos at North Hobart Oval.

Club record attendance (Home & Away)

8,480 + approx. 2000 non-paying juniors: 2011 TSL Round 1 vs Clarence Roos at KGV Oval

Club record score

TFL 34.21 (225) vs Hobart 18.14 (122) at KGV Oval Round 22, 1983.

Senior coaches

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Glenorchy District Football Club Team of the Century: 1921–2000

Backline: Roland Curley, Roy Witzerman, Alan Leitch.

Half-back line: Trevor Sprigg, Barry Strange, Robbie Dykes.

Centre line: Michael Styles (Capt), Neil Conlan, Ben Atkin.

Half-forward line: John Klug, Max Griffiths, David Pearce.

Forward line: Danny Ling, Peter Hudson, Gary Linton.

Ruck: Jack Rough, Rex Garwood, Ron Marney.

Interchange: John Chick, Matthew Mansfield, Kevin Morgan, Denis Lester, Kevin Baker, Adrian Fletcher, Max McMahon.

VFL/AFLPlayers

Notable players that went on the play in the VFL/AFL who started at Glenorchy:

• Josh Watts
• Zac Webster
• Ben Brown
• Jimmy Webster
• Ryan Harwood
• Brodie Moles
• Aaron Cornelius
• Aaron Joseph
• Simon Wiggins
• Peter Street
• Brodie Holland
• Justin Wood
• Ben Beams
• Daryn Cresswell
• John Klug
• Adrian Fletcher
• Andy Lovell
• Matthew Mansfield
• Shane Fell
• Rodney Eade
• Wayne Fox
• Darryl Sutton

Players who came to Glenorchy post-career:

• Peter Hudson
• Jason Akermanis
• Shayne Stevenson
• Darren Kappler
• Robert Groenewegen
• Shane Loveless
• Bill Picken
• Max McMahon

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References

External links

• AFL Tasmania
• Southern Football League Official Website
• Glenorchy Magpies Official Website