Resource Geelong Football Club history

[Hot Tin Roof]

Anyone have knowledge/details on this image?​

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[jim boy]

Judging by the jumpers, that would date from the period 1908-1911

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

Jim McShane​

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From Wikipedia:
Jim McShane was a player for the Geelong Football Club. McShane was the first player in the VFL/AFL competition to kick ten goals or more in a match when he scored eleven goals against St Kilda in 1899. Scores: Geelong 23.24.162 def St. Kilda 00.01.01

Stats: http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/players/J/Jim_McShane.html

Did some further digging on the McShane Brothers...

From Ray Jerrems 'Jerrems Family Journal' http://jerrems.com/2007/10October.htm
James McShane, was one of six brothers who played Australian Rules Football at the most senior level for the Geelong Football Club ("The Cats") in the late 1800s. The six McShane brothers, household names in their day, were

John: A brilliant rover who always gave his all, and vice-captain of the 1886 championship team. Sadly he died from rheumatic fever in 1887 as a 23 year old. His death caused widespread sorrow at the time and 2000 people attended the funeral.

Phil: Also a member of the 1886 championship side, he was a brilliant goalkicker who established the club's all-time record of 58 in that year.

Tom: Another of the 1886 side who was the Victorian Football Association's leading goalkicker for 3 seasons.

Joe: Spent most of his career in the ruck. He captained the side in 1895, represented Victoria and went on to captain the Carlton Club for 1902-4. He was awarded the Geelong Club's Best and Fairest award in 1897. A portrait of Joe is displayed in pride of place at the Geelong Club.

Jim: Could play almost anywhere and spent all but 2 seasons with the Cats between 1894 and 1901. In his finest performance he kicked a remarkable 11 goals in a game against St Kilda in 1899.

Henry: The "baby" of the family. A half-back flanker who first played for the Cats in 1893, playing 6 seasons with them before (like his brother Joe) joining Carlton Football Club.

Having six brothers playing for a senior football club is to my knowledge an Australian record and would probably rank near the top on the world stage. Anita and George challenge other Jerrems Journal readers to cap the McShane story. The Guinness Book of Records has not succeeded in doing so.

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Several years ago Anita sent me a newspaper article. The occasion giving rise to the newspaper article was the unveiling of an imposing plaque (commissioned by the Geelong Club) at the McShane family's gravesite at Eastern Cemetery, Geelong. Anita unveiled the plaque in 1998 in a ceremony attended by Club representatives, family and friends. The unveiling was followed by lunch at the Club.

The Chairman of the club's History Committee paid tribute to the McShane family at the ceremony: "This family is unsurpassed as far as Geelong Football Club is concerned. No family has contributed more to this club in terms of players". I would call that an understatement!

In 2004 Anita and her husband George were guests of honour of the Club at an official function held at the sumptuous Crown Palladium. The Club presented her with the medal awarded to her great uncle Joe in 1897.

Interestingly, none of the next generation of McShanes produced any Australian Rules players of the same calibre, although it was not due to a lack of offspring. Jim had 12 children, including Anita's mother Therese!
From Ray Jerrems 'Jerrems Family Journal' http://jerrems.com/2007/10October.htm

• Jim McShane... 11 goals in a game, then went on to produce 12 kids. This goes along with what I have always said - Geelong need more catholics at full forward

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

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See Complete Article @ http://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=34
A Record Streak: Geelong's 26 games without a loss

Between Rd.9 1952 and Rd.13 1953, Geelong had a famous run of 26 games without a loss. This passed the previous record of 21 games by Collingwood's 1928/29 side and is still today a VFL/AFL record. Warming up for the record, the Geelong team had won 21 of their previous 25 games, including two streaks of 10 games in a row and winning the 1951 Grand Final.

Geelong's longest streak is 42 undefeated games played in the early VFA era. Games had lower scores during that period, but that VFA team won seven premierships within nine years.

Geelongs best streaks in the VFL/AFL (other than the 1942-53 Streak), were achieved by two of Geelong’s other great teams; The powerful 2007/09 team won 15 games in a row twice and the next best was 14 in a row by the 1937 Premiership team.

The efforts of the 2007/09 team are even more astounding when you allow for a few losses. Starting in Rd.6 2007 at Docklands where Geelong 35.12 (222) defeated Richmond 9.8 (65) Geelong won a sequence of 15 wins - 1 loss – 12 wins – 1 loss – 15 wins – 1 loss- 13 wins. Finally ending when Port Adelaide was defeated at Kardinia Park in Round 13 2009. A total of 55 wins and three losses from 58 games! A win of any of the three games Geelong lost would have created a new record for consecutive games without a loss.
See Complete Article @ http://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=34

 

[thecatattack]

I think this sign is circa-2004 or so and my Dad nicked it from and Apco bin about 10yrs ago.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Makes me proud of how far this club has come in just one decade.
Everyone on this board who has bought memberships since Cook came on board has little by little helped to ensure that we didn't end up like fitzroy

Good find
FWIW one of mates family owns apco

 

[SJ]

That would be from 2001, given the 'eyes' design.

 

[thecatattack]

That would be from 2001, given the 'eyes' design.

I thought it was early 2000s from the eyes and just guessed 2004.

 

[giggler99]

That would be from 2001, given the 'eyes' design.

Looking at my past membership cards, the eyes design art was from 2002

 

[The rabbi]

• Jim McShane... 11 goals in a game, then went on to produce 12 kids. This goes along with what I have always said - Geelong need more catholics at full forward

St. Josephs College in Geelong has been productive for supplying players in the past.

Mind you, I am one of 7 kids and my school mate from 2 doors down was one of 9 kids (7 boys) and we were not Micks. I think that it may have just been a pre-war thing.

 

[FredLeDeux]

Did some further digging on the McShane Brothers...

• Jim McShane... 11 goals in a game, then went on to produce 12 kids. This goes along with what I have always said - Geelong need more catholics at full forward

George Goninon did his best, he even tried to double up, but it didn't do him any good.

 

[Hot Tin Roof]

Round: 18

Date: Sat, 1-Sep-1951 2:15 PM
Venue: Glenferrie Oval
Attendance: 10,000

Hawthorn: 3.3.21 : 3.5.23: 4.8.32: 5.8.38
Geelong: 3.1.19: 5.4.34: 7.7.49: 10.10.70

Goals:
Geelong: Trezise 3. Goninon, McMaster, Pianto 2. Flanagan 1.
Hawthorn: Hartigan 3. McKinnon 2.

http://boylesfootballphotos.net.au/tiki-index.php?page=Geelong Senior Team 1951 (SLV 122_182)
This is a photo of the Geelong (VFL) senior team of 1951, the year of the club’s fourth VFL premiership.
They are shown before stepping out to play Hawthorn in the final home and away match of that season.
http://digital.slv.vic.gov.au/view/...adjacency=&divType=&usePid1=true&usePid2=true​

Back Row: Russell Middlemiss, Bruce Morrison, Tom Morrow, Jim Norman, Russell Renfrey, John Hyde, Loy Stewart, Alan Hickenbotham?
Middle Row: Bob Davis, Leo Turner, Fred Flanagan (captain), Bernie Smith, Cyril McMaster?, Syd Tate
Front Row: Terry Fulton, Neil Trezise, Peter Pianto, George Goninon

http://boylesfootballphotos.net.au/tiki-index.php?page=Geelong Senior Team 1951 (SLV 122_182)

Photo @ State Library (click on photo)​

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Makes me proud of how far this club has come in just one decade.
Everyone on this board who has bought memberships since Cook came on board has little by little helped to ensure that we didn't end up like fitzroy

Good find
FWIW one of mates family owns apco

following on from how far we have come in a decade.
http://issuu.com/brandfinance/docs/brandfinance_top_20_most_valuable_a

while i don't know exactly what the criteria for these rankings are, this company provides analysis of sporting brand values and the fact that we are considered the 6th most valuable sporting club in australia says alot about the quality of the individuals in charge of our club in recent years. Penrith at no.1 is surprising.

 

[Partridge]

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The efforts of the 2007/09 team are even more astounding when you allow for a few losses. Starting in Rd.6 2007 at Docklands where Geelong 35.12 (222) defeated Richmond 9.8 (65) Geelong won a sequence of 15 wins - 1 loss – 12 wins – 1 loss – 15 wins – 1 loss- 13 wins. Finally ending when Port Adelaide was defeated at Kardinia Park in Round 13 2009. A total of 55 wins and three losses from 58 games! A win of any of the three games Geelong lost would have created a new record for consecutive games without a loss.
See Complete Article @ http://www.boylesfootballphotos.net.au/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=34

That run is just out of this world. Consider the losses too - a narrow loss to Port which but for a Henry Playfair handpass we would have won, a belting by Collingwood (fair enough, they were never in that), and a Grand Final loss mainly due to horrendous conversion of many, many chances. No losing team had has 19 more inside 50s for that whole season.

And it's so hard to remain competitive week in, week out. Yet they did. Just remarkable. Even now, they've dropped so far they went 22-3 in 2011 (statistically the best season we've ever had), a "poor" 15-8 year in 2012, and 19-6 in 2013. When they finished 18-4 after home and away, which insanely means in the 7 years since and including 2007, we've won at least 18 games on FIVE occasions. That's nuts.

 

[MC Extra Dollop]

That run is just out of this world. Consider the losses too - a narrow loss to Port which but for a Henry Playfair handpass we would have won, a belting by Collingwood (fair enough, they were never in that), and a Grand Final loss mainly due to horrendous conversion of many, many chances. No losing team had has 19 more inside 50s for that whole season.

And it's so hard to remain competitive week in, week out. Yet they did. Just remarkable. Even now, they've dropped so far they went 22-3 in 2011 (statistically the best season we've ever had), a "poor" 15-8 year in 2012, and 19-6 in 2013. When they finished 18-4 after home and away, which insanely means in the 7 years since and including 2007, we've won at least 18 games on FIVE occasions. That's nuts.

And averaged 18 wins per H&A season for the past seven years. For the decade prior to Geelong's domination of the league, the minor premier averaged 17.4 wins (and that includes Essendon's 21-1 2000 season).

 

[Teriyakicat]

Greatest team of all, anyone?

 

[The rabbi]

Nup.

 

[Beanstalk]

 

[SJ]

Long live the King.

 

[manboob]

following on from how far we have come in a decade.
http://issuu.com/brandfinance/docs/brandfinance_top_20_most_valuable_a

Thanks for that worth a read! Some surprising results (Saints?!). But good to know we are thereabouts.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Thanks for that worth a read! Some surprising results (Saints?!). But good to know we are thereabouts.

Saints must be gaming revenue, would also explain Penrith

 

[manboob]

Saints must be gaming revenue, would also explain Penrith

Ah righto.
BTW I cannot over emphasise this owing our own stadium thing enough!

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Ah righto.
BTW I cannot over emphasise this owing our own stadium thing enough!

As long as you're offering, I'll have a stack of those

 

[SJ]

Ah righto.
BTW I cannot over emphasise this owing our own stadium thing enough!

We don't own our stadium.

 

[Partridge]

Great photo. Can anyone guess the year?

I'll Round 1, 1987. Ablett looks like he's got a beard and he had one early that season. Terry Bright is still playing (number 4) so that narrows it down too.