Corowa-Rutherglen Football Club

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Corowa-Rutherglen
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Names
Full nameCorowa-Rutherglen Football Netball Club
Nickname(s)Kangaroos
Club details
Founded1979;44 years ago (1979)
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Competition Ovens & Murray Football League
PresidentGraham Hosier
Premierships(2): 2000, 2003
Ground(s)John Foord Oval
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Official website corowarutherglenfnc.com.au

The Corowa-Rutherglen Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Corowa in New South Wales. Corowa-Rutherglen's football and netball squads formerly played in the Ovens & Murray Football League.

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The club is notable for producing many VFL / AFL football players over many years, including John Longmire.

History

The club was formed in 1979 when the Corowa Spiders and the Rutherglen Redlegs merged to become the "Corowa-Rutherglen Roos".

Additionally surplus players formed the Rutherglen-Corowa Cats in 1979 and competed in the Coreen & District Football League for 13 seasons, before moving to the Ovens & King Football League for 11 seasons. Today the club is known as the Rutherglen Cats, dropping "Corowa" from their name in 2002, and have competed in the Tallangatta & District Football League since 2004.

In the 2016 Ovens & Murray FNL season it was announced that the Corowa-Rutherglen FNC would move the round 11 home match to Rutherglen's Barkley Park. This marked the first time a match was played in Rutherglen for premiership points since the 1981 Ovens & Murray FL season. [1] Traditionally the Rutherglen Cats do not play on the Queen's Birthday Weekend as the town hosts the annual Winery Walkabout.

Accompanying the return was a pre-match luncheon with many guest speakers, including Rutherglen O&M Hall of Famer Bill Gayfer, Mick Gayfer, John Pearce, Corowa-Rutherglen's O&M Hall of Famer Jim Sandral, Dennis Sandral, John Clancy, and Peter Chisnall. At the luncheon it was suggested by Corowa-Rutherglen official Fred Longmire that both the Corowa-Rutherglen FNC & Rutherglen FNC could be run by a one-commission model, which would include three representatives from both clubs, an independent chairperson and a paid general manager to run 12 football and nine netball teams in the O&M and T&D football leagues. [2] [3] [4] [5]

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Premierships

VFL / AFL players

The following players played with CRFNC prior to making their VFL / AFL senior football debut or were drafted to an AFL club.


Team of the Century (1903–2003)

Team of the Century [7]
B: Rutherglen fc monogram.svg F. King AFL North Melbourne Icon.jpg D. Sandral Rutherglen fc monogram.svg L. Jackson
HB: Rutherglen fc monogram.svg W. Francis EssendonDesign.svg J. Sandral AFL North Melbourne Icon.jpg J. Kingston
C: Rutherglen fc monogram.svg A. Dunn Rutherglen fc monogram.svg W. Gayfer EssendonDesign.svg W. O'Donoghue
HF: EssendonDesign.svg D. Carroll Rutherglen fc monogram.svg N. Hawking EssendonDesign.svg AFL North Melbourne Icon.jpg G. Tobias 1
F: Rutherglen fc monogram.svg A. Francis EssendonDesign.svg R. Baker Rutherglen fc monogram.svg A. McCauley
Foll: AFL North Melbourne Icon.jpg M. Mills Rutherglen fc monogram.svg J. King EssendonDesign.svg J. Clancy
Int: EssendonDesign.svg J. Lane EssendonDesign.svg A. Way AFL North Melbourne Icon.jpg C. Dickins
Coach: AFL North Melbourne Icon.jpg P. Tossol
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  5. ↑ "Roos return to Rutherglen". Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 31 July 2016.
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  7. ↑ Team of the Century 1903–2003 on SportsTG
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