Mordialloc Football Club Team of the Century

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Mordialloc Football Club Team of the Century Team was announced at the Mordialloc Sports Club on Saturday August 19 before 240 people. B Gary Hobson, Bill Lang, Geoff Rosenow HB Terry Coughlin, Croftin Mudge, Terry Moore C Ross Robertson, Ray Besanko, Jack Kennedy HF Michael Deaton, Ian Harry, Ben Kavanagh F Harry Stanton, Peter Neville, Jack Danckert Jnr FOLL Peter Guy, Terry Walsh ROV Michael Norris INT Len Crane, Peter Slade, Peter Thomson, Frank Hauser, Michael McCarthy, Bob McQueen COACH Dick Harris CAPTAIN Geoff Rosenow TRAINERS Alan 'Doc' Thompson, Sam Allica, Bill Castle, Frank Stringer, Alan Miller, Brian Couttie, Jacqui Harvey CLUB DOCTOR David Quinn SENIOR PREMIERSHIPS 1923, 24, 29, 39, 50, 51, 52, 77, 99 SPONSOR John Barr
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jasonborough Tue, 5 Sep 2006 - 17:29
VFA THOSE premierships were they in first or second division,just wondering/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
NorthPort Tue, 5 Sep 2006 - 17:35
Is anyone willing to nominate some of those players into the VFA Team of the Century side?
vfa Topic starter Tue, 5 Sep 2006 - 19:40
Bill Lang was a great fullback who played over 250 games. Peter Neville kicked many many goals for the bloods with a very good average. Not sure if any players could make it into a vfa team of the century. Mordialloc only won one VFA flag in the VfA in 1977 in 2nd Division. Onslaught I will send you the Mordialloc Bloods logo later this week to put it on the website. You can then put the Mordialloc Team of the Century details on to the club news for Mordialloc.
jb Wed, 6 Sep 2006 - 13:59
A few of those players (Rosenow, Guy, Neville, Lang, Deaton) were all why Mordialloc did well in the mid 70's to early 80's. Wouldn't think any would make VFA team of century but the above 5 (particularly Neville and Deaton) would be a chance for a div 2 team. Neville would have stiff opposition for FF from Fotheringham, Hammond, Pretto and Litchfield. 1976 Mordialloc burst into the top of Div 2 with Frankston and they got 8000 at one of the games between them. Deaton and Neville murdered Willy at Willy that year when the bloods kicked 13 in the first term. Surprised not to see a Feltham (Bill or Paul I thought played a few years down there). Also, Peter Bardoel is an omission of players I saw. Both Bardoel and Walsh (named ruck rover, although mainly played centre), went to Frankston and I'm sure had a big part to play in the Dolpins making the '84 Grand Final.
Tiger Wed, 6 Sep 2006 - 15:53
WOULD HAVE THOUGHT PETER BARDOEL WOULD HAVE BEEN A BETTER CHOICE THAN MICHAEL McCARTHY. HE SPENT A YEAR AT MELBOURNE U19s BEFORE RETURNING TO MORDI. A MORDI / FRANKSTON GAME AT MORDI DREW 10000 IN 1976 AND 8000 FOR THE RETURN MATCH. OH FOR THOSE DAYS AGAIN.
vfa Topic starter Wed, 6 Sep 2006 - 17:38
Would love to get hold of any video footage of Mordialloc in its VFA days. Wonder if they taped the Mordi team of the century or if they showed old footage. The only footage I have of Mordialloc is the 1976 Grand Final against Williamstown. I think one of Mordialloc's early matches in 1978 was televised on Channel 0. Someone must have taped the 1977 Grand Final against Yarraville ??
jb Thu, 7 Sep 2006 - 07:01
The early 1978 game on Channel 0 was round 2 against Preston when they unfurled the 77 2nd Div flag. Mordy won by 1 point, and the game was memorable for the bloods red and white stripes clashing with Prestons red. Mordy had also won in round 1 so after round 2 were 2nd on % behind Port, but then only won one more game that year and were relegated. vfa, you'd remember the 76 1st semi between Northcote and Willy. I remember a sunny day, a big crowd at Toorak Park and Dad almost having a nervous breakdown as Northcote did all the attacking late in the game.
vfa Topic starter Thu, 7 Sep 2006 - 11:51
I do remember the 1976 1st semi Final very well. Northcote can consider themselves very unlucky. I think the dragons could have gone all the way in 1976. I remember the last round of the season where Camberwell played Northcote at Camberwell Sports Ground. The stakes were high with the winner making the finals. Northcote kicked with the aid of a strong breeze in the first quarter and booted 12.4.76 to slaughter the cobras. Northcote won by around 5 goals in the end. Another good memory of 1976 was a game where Northcote were playing Sunshine at Skinner Reserve. The dragons were down by almost 5 goals at the twenty five minute mark of the last quarter. The booted 5 goals in about 4 minutes to snatch victory. Gun full forward Bill Chapman come on from the bench and kicked a couple including a few big marks. Also remember the victorious Northcote players being spat on by Sunshine supporters when they were going up the race. Those were the days !!!