South Fremantle Football Club
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| Full name | South Fremantle Football Club |
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| Sport | Australian rules football |
| Founded | 1900 |
| League | West Australian Football League |
| Home ground | Fremantle Oval, Fremantle |
| Anthem | We're the Bulldogs |
| President | Terry Dean |
| Head coach | John Dimmer |
| Captain | David Gault |
| 2006 | 2nd of 9 after season, runners-up after finals |
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| White Guernsey with a Red V in the centre (colours reversed for away matches) | |
The South Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed The Bulldogs is a semi-professional Australian rules football club and one of nine clubs that compete in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). It was formed in 1900 and has its training, administration and home games at Fremantle Oval.
The club is coached by John Dimmer with David Gault as the Captain and Toby McGrath and Adam Hay as Vice Captains.
History
The South Fremantle Football Club dates back to 1900 when it was formed because the once invincible Fremantle Football Club that had carried the hopes of football followers at the port was in debt and disarray. The new club did well in its first year, finishing runners-up. However, over the next three seasons the performance fell away badly and, in April 1904 a Fremantle newspaper confidently reported that South Fremantle would not appear again. However, the club decided to carry on and centreman Harry Hodge took over as skipper, but the season was a disaster. The club won only one game. Despite the early rough days, the South Fremantle FC is now a prsopering club with one of the highest supporter bases in the WAFL competition.
Over its 107-year history South Fremantle has produced many fine players, with many going on to perform well at state or VFL/AFL level. South has won 12 premierships & is now the first WAFL club to have won 10 grand finals since World-War II.
Four of the 12 premierships were won against the club's traditional rivals, East Fremantle.
Fremantle Derby
The Fremantle Derby (Derby pronounced to rhyme with herb, not car), is the biggest game of the year on the WAFL calendar. Every year since 1990 the two Fremantle sides have clashed in the match which until the advent of the AFL was one of the big Sporting rivalries in Australian Sport. The Derby's still have a great following but are now considered minor as the Western Derby, the match between WA's two AFL teams takes centre stage.
The Foundation Day derby on the first Monday in June (a public holiday to mark the Foundation of Western Australia in 1829) is commonly the highest attended game of the home and away season. To the end of the 2006 season the two clubs had met 344 times with South Fremantle winning 156 to East Fremantle's 184 wins, 4 Draws have occured between the two sides.
Current squad
As of September 3, 2006:
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AFL Listed Players:
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Honours
WAFL Premierships: 1916-17, 1947-48, 1950, 1952-53-54, 1970, 1980, 1997, 2005 (12)
Sandover Medallists: Jack Rocchi 1928; Frank Jenkins 1937; Clive Lewington 1947; Steve Marsh 1952; John Todd 1955; Stephen Michael 1980 & 1981; Mark Bairstow 1986; Craig Edwards 1989; Toby McGrath 2005 (9 Medallists/10 Medals)
Tassie Medallists: Stephen Michael 1983; Brad Hardie 1984, 1986 (3)
All Australians: Steve Marsh 1953; John Gerovich 1956; Cliff Hillier 1956; John Todd 1961; Brian Ciccotosto 1972; Stephen Michael 1983 (6)
Records
Record Home Attendance: 23,109 v. East Fremantle on 4th June 1979
Highest Score: 40.18 (258) vs. West Perth in 1981
Most Games: 266 by Marty Atkins
Notable players
External links
- Bulldogs - Official club site
- Detailed South Fremantle History at Full Points Footy
- West Australian Football League - Official WAFL site