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Waaia Football Club
The Waaia Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is an Australian rules football and netball club playing in the Picola & District Football League. The club is based in the small Victorian town of Waaia, approximately 220 km from Melbourne.
The first published football match for "Waaia Football Club" was in August 1893 when Nathalia defeated Waaia at Nathalia, while the first published club meeting took place in 1895. Over the next couple of decades the club only competed in the Goulburn Valley Football Association in between some periods of being in recess.
Waaia were runner up to Mucatah in the 1900 Goulburn Valley Football Association premiership.
In 1915, Waaia FC applied to join the GVFA, but were refused.
In 1930, Jim Grinter and Fred Jorgenson called a meeting to reform the Waaia FC, but it appears the club did not reform.
In 1935, the club commenced an involvement in the Picola & District Football League that continues to this day. Waaia's first premiership was won in 1953.
Its 1990 premiership is folklore in the district with Mick Cleeland's 50 metre torpedo goal giving the Bombers a come-from-behind victory after the final siren had sounded. Footage of the event can be viewed via this link.
Chaos reigned following his goal as officials tried to unravel what had happened. The main issue being that the score board only showed the goals and behinds and not the total score...creating confusion as to who had won. Added to all this was irony of the goal kicker...Mick Cleeland. When then coach Mick Power took over the reins in 1988 he inherited a talented but undisciplined team that needed to learn team play. He immediately banned the use of the torpedo as it was selfish and inaccurate. Players who persisted in kicking 'torps' were benched. The most common culprit of the rule was Mick Cleeland. However, after the awards ceremony on the ground of the 1990 grand final win the team retreated to the change rooms to sing the club song whereupon Mick Power stopped everyone and yelled," I love torpedoes!"
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Waaia Football Club
The Waaia Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Bombers, is an Australian rules football and netball club playing in the Picola & District Football League. The club is based in the small Victorian town of Waaia, approximately 220 km from Melbourne.
The first published football match for "Waaia Football Club" was in August 1893 when Nathalia defeated Waaia at Nathalia, while the first published club meeting took place in 1895. Over the next couple of decades the club only competed in the Goulburn Valley Football Association in between some periods of being in recess.
Waaia were runner up to Mucatah in the 1900 Goulburn Valley Football Association premiership.
In 1915, Waaia FC applied to join the GVFA, but were refused.
In 1930, Jim Grinter and Fred Jorgenson called a meeting to reform the Waaia FC, but it appears the club did not reform.
In 1935, the club commenced an involvement in the Picola & District Football League that continues to this day. Waaia's first premiership was won in 1953.
Its 1990 premiership is folklore in the district with Mick Cleeland's 50 metre torpedo goal giving the Bombers a come-from-behind victory after the final siren had sounded. Footage of the event can be viewed via this link.
Chaos reigned following his goal as officials tried to unravel what had happened. The main issue being that the score board only showed the goals and behinds and not the total score...creating confusion as to who had won. Added to all this was irony of the goal kicker...Mick Cleeland. When then coach Mick Power took over the reins in 1988 he inherited a talented but undisciplined team that needed to learn team play. He immediately banned the use of the torpedo as it was selfish and inaccurate. Players who persisted in kicking 'torps' were benched. The most common culprit of the rule was Mick Cleeland. However, after the awards ceremony on the ground of the 1990 grand final win the team retreated to the change rooms to sing the club song whereupon Mick Power stopped everyone and yelled," I love torpedoes!"