The good, the bad and the downright ugly names of Australian Rules football clubs.

[muesli]

I'm pretty sure Yarra Glen are know as the "River Pigs" & they have a netball team connected.

They changed from the River Pigs to Thunder when the netball team started.

 

[Brenton Davy]

In the SAAFL

Old Ignations "Iggies"
Angle Vale "Owls"
Rostrevor Old Collegians "ROCS"
Tea Tree Gully "Gullies"

Hills Football League

Ironbank "Thunderers"
Mt Lofty "Mountain Devils"

Northern Areas FL

Orroroo "Roos" (try sying that with a speech impediment!)

Southern FL

Morphett Vale "Emus"
in addition to those already mentioned

 

[whitelinefeva]

That is absolutely fantastic .
The phantom was the only comic book hero I identified with .
Are all the players named "Walker" ?

If you want some really good names go O/S.

The clubrooms are known as "The Skullcave". Coached by 90's cult hero Wayne "Weeeeeeed" Weidemann.

 

[SpiritOfCarlton]

Dromana used to be the "Hoppers" and wore a light gold and green in the MPNFL.

The Grasshoppers to be exact, not exactly a threatening mascot, unless the team fielded in plague proportions.

There are reports that Carlton were once known as the 'Butchers' in the 19th century. There was also a short lived media driven campaign midway through last century to have Carlton adopt the moniker of the 'Cockatoos'. In hindsight that would be more appropriate for St Kilda.

 

[Spongebob]

West Perth were the 'Cardinals'

West Perth were originally called the Victorians.

 

[fabulousphil]

Latrobe have been known as the Demons for decades, but yes, were originally known as the Diehards.

Never heard of the Devenish Barbers

Huonville ended up as the Bulldogs for just about all their life in the now defunct Huon Football Association, amalgamated with nearby Franklin Lions in 1998 to join the current Southern Football League as the Huonville Lions.

Kermandie ended up being known as the Robins for decades in the Huon FA, forced to change identity when entering the Southern Football League in 1998, they became the Bushrangers.
North Melbourne sponsored them a set of jumpers in 2001 and they became the Kangaroos for a season or two before returning the Robins for another few seasons. Kermandie folded on 17 March 2010.

Cananore used to play predominently in the same playing uniform as the Claremont Football Club currently do in the WAFL with the exception of it being a black jumper as opposed to navy blue.
They were actually named after an incorrectly spelt brass name plate on a house in West Hobart where supporters used to gather for socials in the early part of last century, the property was owned by a person who had travelled extensively in India that had been one of the founding fathers of the club.
Cananore closed down in 1944 when the TFL went to district-based clubs and it morphed into the Hobart Football Club that played in the TFL and is currently in the State League.

Some others from Tasmania:
Cygnet "The Port" - Southern Football League (formerly the Magpies).

Rocherlea "Rockapes" - NTFA Division One (also the Tigers)

Many teams such as North Hobart (until 1969), North Launceston (until 1998), Brighton, Kermandie, Parattah, Smelters, Ulverstone, Redpa, Sheffield etc have been/still are the Robins.

Strahan were known as the Seals in their short-lived return to the old WTFA from 1991-1993, they'd last played in the old Murchison FA in 1958.

Bridport in the North Eastern FU are the Seagulls, Sandy Bay were also the Seagulls in the TFL from 1945-1997 until they folded that year, as are Turners Beach in the NWFA.

Channel in the Old Scholars FA are known as the Sharks (formerly Saints), forced to change when joining the comp as St Virgil's were known as the Saints, Hillwood are also known the Sharks in NTFA Division One along with the Prospect in another Northern comp.

Eaglehawk Neck (now defunct) were known as the Coutas in the old Peninsula FA comp near Hobart until the comp and all its clubs folded in 2001.

Penguin Football Club (formerly of the NWFU and now the NTFL) are known the Two Blues, Lindisfarne from the former TAFL Southern Division, now in the Southern Football League also use that nickname.

City-South from the old NTFA in Launceston were the Redlegs, they merged with East Launceston in 1986 after East had joined the TFL, the merged club became the South Launceston Bulldogs.

Lyell in the old WTFA were the Maroons until they merged with the Gormanston Blues in 1976 to become Lyell-Gormanston Lions.


In reality it's a pretty irrelevant name now. It got that name when they were all a part of the former Tasmanian Amatuer Football League (Southern Division) and there was a split in 1981, whereby they formed a seperate Old Scholars division until the whole TAFL went belly-up in 1995.
It became the OSFA in 1996, thing is there's not a great deal of involvement from the Colleges that the teams 'represent' anymore.
Dominic College kicked it's team (DOSA) off their grounds and they became nomads until they moved to North Hobart this past year.
OHA is named Old Hobartians Association and is based at Geilston Bay on the Eastern Shore, despite representing a defunt school that used to be based in that large mansion-like building behind North Hobart Oval which closed in the early 1970's.
Former team Friends' was named after the prestigious Friends' School in North Hobart (Friends of Quakers Society in Hobart) but the school disowned them and booted them off their Bell Street Ground to turn them into soccer grounds when they decided Australian football was no longer to be part of their sports curriculum and the team became nomads, eventually moving to North Hobart Oval and folded after 70-odd years, about 5 years ago.
St Virgil's College only goes up to Year 10 these days after Governmental changes during the 1990's and Hutchins School still goes through to Year 12, these two are the only ones to have any sort of involvement with their original colleges along with Uni, that are based down in Sandy Bay near the Uni.
The remaining clubs are Richmond from the old TAFL Southern Division and Channel formerly of the Huon FA and later Southern FL.

Cheers for your post, Devenish barbers are not TAS but Victorian...http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/devenish.htm.. my mistake

I realise that there very few actual old scholars schools in the "Old Scholars " league, but it's just a great name IMO.

Thanks for your info.

 

[The Dentist]

Gassy Sheep Shaggers - (Gascoyne FC - WA)
Now known as the Hawks.

 

[The_Wookie]

God the SA SFL was a fun league to play in.

Port Noarlunga the only ground you could get eaten alive by bugs due to close proximity to friggin swamp. goddamn cockledivers

Morphett Vale were feral as. But i could talk, not playing for the Hackham Hawks. Also played Frankston YCW...for the Kananook Bombers.

Those were the days

 

[giantroo]

Lalor "Bloods" - NFL (Vic) - club that produced Lance Whitnall and Anthony Koutafides

 

[no orange peeler]

Mangoplah cookadinia Eastlakes United Goannas
club song is to the tune of Hey Hey we're the MONKEYS
Hey Hey where from Mango

 

[no orange peeler]

Not an Afl name but there is an expat Rugby League Club in england, The club hails from Hammersmith Hills and is played in and run by Aussies living in England. They are known as the Hammersmith Hills Hoists. (as in clothesline)

 

[Catsace]

Newcomb in the Bellarine Football League were known as the Dinosaurs, now known as the Newcomb Power. The former Dinosaur Hotel on Bellarine Highway later changed it's name to the Peninsular Hotel, i can't recall if they each changed names at the same time or a little time apart.

 

[Johnpoland]

I remember watching a documentary about the Coober Pedy team and the insance amount of travelling they did to actually play any fixtures.

The original team were fittingly called the 'Detonators', sadly relaunched as the more boring 'Saints'...

 

[rose jam]

Haven't read through the pages but Demons and Bombers are in pretty poor taste and probably should be renamed, particularly Bombers.

 

[Michael Scarn]

Coreen-Daysdale-Hopefield-Buraja United.

 

[Brenton Davy]

Coreen-Daysdale-Hopefield-Buraja United.

Should be called "Half of Country Victoria" United LOL

 

[handy point]

Mayblooms (Hawthorn) and Prince Imperials (Footscray) are the only other interesting ones I know - both were relatively shortlived.

Have read that Collingwood were unofficially known as the Flatites early on, due to the topography of the suburb.

 

[Pluggeroo]

Nilma Darnum in the Ellinbank League are the Bombers, but they are more affectionately known as The Darno's!

 

[fabulousphil]

Have read that Collingwood were unofficially known as the Flatites early on, due to the topography of the suburb.

Yes, the Collingwood flat, down the bottom near the river, or due to the shape of their heads, or possibly they believed the world to be flat. , option 3 is more likely.

 

[TennisPlayerAndy]

The Yarrawonga Pidgeons.

 

[Chewy]

I've never liked the Bombers as a nickname

Millions of innocent people have been killed or maimed as a result of bombs

It's a cowardly human invention and a disgrace to mankind.

People can laugh it off and say 'get a life', but how would these people feel if they got home tonight and found nothing but a smoking ruin and the mutilated, charred remains of all their relatives.


Once upon a time, the Essendon FC probably had the ugliest name in the history of sport. They were known as the Bloodstained N.ggers. This was eventually changed to something more "acceptable", but surely the world events from the past decade has underlined how distasteful their current nickname is.

 

[Wernumberone]

I've never liked the Bombers

You could have just stopped there.

 

[Chewy]

You could have just stopped there.

True

But I meant everything I said. I can see why you'd want me to stop right there. I can partly understand why the Essendon FC wouldn't want to think about too deeply, but it reeks of burying their heads in the sand. It makes their club look vaguely silly in regard to other progressive stances they've taken for the betterment of society (indigenous rights, women's rights, etc)

Can you imagine a new team like Gold Coast calling themselves the Bombers? It would not even be contemplated.

The Bombers should change their name to the Jets

 

[Wernumberone]

True

But I meant everything I said. I can see why you'd want me to stop right there. I can partly understand why the Essendon FC wouldn't want to think about too deeply, but it reeks of burying their heads in the sand. It makes their club look vaguely silly in regard to other progressive stances they've taken for the betterment of society (indigenous rights, women's rights, etc)

Can you imagine a new team like Gold Coast calling themselves the Bombers? It would not even be contemplated.

The Bombers should change their name to the Jets

Neither myself nor Essendon have any interest in when you stop or what you think. I was merely pointing out the obvious.

 

[Chewy]

Neither myself nor Essendon have any interest in when you stop or what you think. I was merely pointing out the obvious.

This thread is about downright ugly names of Australian Rules football clubs.

I think the "Bombers" is probably the ugliest of them all for reasons I've already explained.

So instead of posting nonsense about how you "don't care what I think" why don't you add something to the thread ?