Sale Football Club

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Sale Football Club
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Names
Full nameSale Football Netball Club Inc
Nickname(s)Magpies
Motto"Cede Nulli"
Club details
Founded1877;146 years ago (1877)
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Competition Gippsland FNL
Premierships10 (1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1986, 2008, 2012)
Ground(s)Sale Recreation Reserve
Uniforms
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The Sale Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Magpies, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in Sale, Victoria and are based at the Sale Oval.

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The club teams compete in the Gippsland Football Netball League (GFNL). [1] [2]

History

Founded in 1877, Sale began playing official competitive football in 1889 when they joined the Gippsland Football Association, as a junior side. [1] [3] In 1900, the club entered the senior competition and were premiers for the first time the following year. [1]

One of the greatest players produced by the club, Brownlow Medal winner Norman Ware, came to Footscray from Sale in the 1930s. [4]

Sale were a foundation member of the Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954. [5] [6] They were the dominant team in the early years of the competition, with four premierships in the first six seasons. [1] [7] More recently, Sale defeated Maffra to win the 2012 grand final. [8]

Football Premierships

Seniors

Club records

Individual

Most games

Most Best & Fairest

Most goals in a game

Most goals in a season

Team

Highest score

Football League best and Fairest Winners

Gippsland FL
Trood Award
La Trobe Valley FNL
Trood Award / Rodda Medal
Gippsland Football League
Trood Award / Rodda Medal

2021 - Shannon Lange 2023 - Shannon Lange

Coaches

CoachYearsPremierships
Charlie Canet [14] 1924-19271924, 1927
Hugh Murnane 1954-19561954, 1955
John Nix 1957-19591957, 1959
Dick Evans1960
Kevin Hogan1961
Laurie Stephenson1962
Don Williams 1963
Kevin Hogan1964-1965
Joe Ambrose1966-1967
Robert Foster1968-1970
Trevor Somerville 1971-19721971
Jim Hart1973-19781973, 1975
Charlie Healy1979
Ray Christie / Jim Hart1980
Graham Robbins 1981
Robert Holmes1982
Vic Aanensen 1983
Shane Dove1984-1985
Kevin Greenwood1986-19871986
Neil Bristow1988
Ted Fidge 1989-1990
Merv Neagle 1991
Kevin Greenwood1992-1993
John Walsh1994
Darren Hall1995-1997
Anthony Dessent1998-1999
Anthony Banik 2000-2001
Adrian Burns 2002-2003
Richard Coulthard2004-2005
Darren Hall2006-2007
Adrian Cox 2008-20092008
Nick Anderson2010-2011
Matthew Ferguson 2012-20142012
Travis Ronaldson2015-

VFL / AFL Players

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Norm Ware

The following footballers played with Sale FC before making their senior VFL / AFL football debut.

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References

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  2. ↑ Deacon, Wayne (2004). Sale Football Club L.V.F.L. : the mighty magpies : 125 years of football history and 10 years of netball history. Sale, Vic.
  3. ↑ Blainey, Geoffrey (2010). A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football. Black Inc. ISBN   9781863954853.
  4. ↑ "Another ruck award". The Barrier Miner . Broken Hill, NSW: National Library of Australia. 13 September 1941. p. 6 Edition: Sports Edition. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  5. ↑ "Sale Set To Continue Winning Football Run". The Age . 19 June 1954. p. 10. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  6. ↑ "The Black and The White". Gippsland Times . Vic.: National Library of Australia. 20 September 1954. p. 1. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  7. ↑ "Sale fans arrive in farce...... and return in triumph". The Argus . Melbourne: National Library of Australia. 12 September 1955. p. 7. Retrieved 2 April 2014.
  8. ↑ Braithwaite, David (12 April 2013). "Pies' premiership defence begins". Gippsland Times . Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "1889 - Football: Maffra v Sale". Trove Newspapers. The Maffra Spectator. 2 September 1889. p. 3. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "1892 - Gippsland & Feilchenfeld Cup match review". Trove Newspapers. Warragul Guardian and Buln Buln and Narracan Shire Advocate (Warragul, Vic). 23 September 1892. p. 3. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  11. ↑ "1901 - Gippsland Premiership: Sale v Maffra". Trove Newspapers. The Maffra Spectator. 7 October 1901. p. 3. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  12. ↑ "1902 - Sale FC - AGM". Trove Newspapers. Gippsland Advertiser. 1 May 1902. p. 3. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  13. ↑ "Sale footballers Celebrate". Trove Newspapers. Gippsland Times (Vic). 30 October 1950. p. 6. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
  14. ↑ "Sale FC - Canet reappointed". Trove Newspapers. Gippsland Times (Vic). 31 January 1927. p. 3. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
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