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Ray Byrne
Ray Byrne (born 16 July 1953) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton, Collingwood and Geelong during his eleven-year career in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Byrne will be remembered as one of the most unfortunate players in the history of VFL/AFL football, as he turned out for two clubs in four Grand Finals, only to be on the losing side in each one of them ''( Carlton 1973, Collingwood 1979, 1980, 1981)''. At the time of his retirement Ray had played in 22 finals which at the time was the 6th most finals games in VFL History. Pre VFL Career At the age of 19 Byrne played in Golden Square's 1972 Bendigo Football League Premiership side, as well as representing Bendigo Football League at Inter-League level alongside future Geelong player Kevin Sheehan, before joining Carlton who recruited him out of their residential zone. Carlton At Carlton he went on to play 81 games from 1973 until his final game against Hawthorn in Round 6, 1978. Byrne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bendigo
Bendigo ( ) is an Australian city in north-central Victoria. The city is located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2022, Bendigo has a population of 103,818 making it Australia's 19th-largest city by population. Bendigo is the fourth-largest inland city in Australia and the fourth-most populous city in Victoria. Bendigo is administered by the City of Greater Bendigo, formerly the City of Bendigo. The council area encompasses roughly 3,000 square kilometres. The city is surrounded by smaller towns such as Castlemaine, Heathcote, Kyneton, Maryborough, Elmore, Rochester, Goornong and Axedale. The traditional owners of the area are the Dja Dja Wurrung (Djaara) people. The discovery of gold on Bendigo Creek in 1851 transformed the area from a sheep station into one of colonial Australia's largest boomtowns. News of the finds intensified the Victorian gold rush, brin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 VFL Season
The 1978 VFL season was the 82nd season of the Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 1 April until 30 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs. The premiership was won by the Hawthorn Football Club for the fourth time, after it defeated by 18 points in the 1978 VFL Grand Final. Rule changes * The 19th and 20th men were converted into Interchange (Australian rules football), interchange players, meaning that any two players could be rested at any time, and could return to the field. * Goal umpires required to touch goal post if the ball had hit post. Also two flags were positioned at one post and one flag at the other to save time when signalling scores. Night series defeated 13.18 (96) to 2.8 (20) in the final. Home-and-away season Round 1 , - bgc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Bartlett (Australian Rules Footballer)
Kevin Charles Bartlett AM (born 6 March 1947) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Richmond Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Nicknamed "KB" or "Hungry" due to his appetite for kicking goals and apparent reluctance to handpass,Main (2006), p. 213 Bartlett is a Legend of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and is the first VFL/AFL player to have reached the 400-game milestone, a feat since achieved by five other players as of 2024; he has played the fourth-most games of any player in VFL/AFL history. He is a key member of a golden era in Richmond's history, playing in five premiership teams and winning five Jack Dyer Medals, equalling Jack Dyer's tally. Short and slender in stature, Bartlett possessed tremendous stamina, determination and a seemingly sixth sense to evade opposition players intent on negating his influence. He played much of his best football as Richmond's starting rover but adapted superbly when moved to the half-f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Cricket Ground
The Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), also known locally as the 'G, is a sports stadium located in Yarra Park, Melbourne, Victoria. Founded and managed by the Melbourne Cricket Club, it is the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere, the List of stadiums by capacity, eleventh-largest stadium globally, and List of cricket grounds by capacity, the second-largest cricket stadium by capacity. The MCG is within walking distance of the Melbourne City Centre, Melbourne CBD and is served by Richmond railway station, Melbourne, Richmond and Jolimont railway station, Jolimont railway stations, as well as the Melbourne tram route 70, route 70, Melbourne tram route 75, 75 and Melbourne tram route 48, 48 trams. It is adjacent to Melbourne Park and is an integral part of the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct. Since it was built in 1853, the MCG has undergone numerous renovations. It served as the main stadium for the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games, as well a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richmond Football Club
The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers or colloquially the Tiges, is a professional Australian rules football team competing in the Australian Football League (AFL). Founded in 1885 in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond, Victoria, Richmond, the club competed in the Victorian Football League, Victorian Football Association (VFA) from 1885 to 1907, winning two premierships. Richmond then joined the Victorian Football League (now known as the AFL) from the 1908 season and has since won List of VFL/AFL premiers, 13 premierships, most recently in 2020. But, as of 2025, they are the reigning List of VFL/AFL wooden spoons, wooden spoonist, after finishing last on the AFL ladder in 2024. From 1885 to 1964, Richmond's home ground was the Punt Road Oval, (formerly named Richmond Cricket Ground), which is still utilised as their headquarters, training facility and hosting AFL Women's (AFLW) and #Reserves team, reserves matches. Since the 1965 season, the Melbourne Cricket Ground ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 VFL Season
The 1983 VFL season was the 87th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 26 March until 24 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs. Before the season, the South Melbourne Football Club, which had played its home games in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1982, formally relocated its operations to Sydney and was renamed the Sydney Swans. The Hawthorn Football Club won the premiership for the fifth time after it defeated Essendon by 83 points in the 1983 VFL Grand Final. Night series defeated 14.16 (100) to 10.6 (66) in the final. Home-and-away season Round 1 , - bgcolor="#CCCCFF" , Home team , Home team score , Away team , Away team score , Venue , Crowd , Date , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 14.16 (100) , , 12.15 (87) , Arden Street Oval , 18,496 , 26 March 1983 , - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Australian Rules Football Team
The Victoria Australian rules football team, known colloquially as the Big V, is the state representative side of Victoria, Australia, Victoria, Australia, in the sport of Australian rules football. The Big V has a proud history, dominating the first 100 years of Interstate matches in Australian rules football, intercolonial-interstate football. After the change to State of Origin rules, the results with the other main Australian football states became more even. Victoria has a long and intense rivalry with South Australia Australian rules football team, South Australia and Western Australia Australian rules football team, Western Australia. The Victorian and South Australian rivalry was characterised by the catchcry in South Australia called "Kick a Vic", and fans would bring signs of the cry to the games. Some of the games between Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia in the 1980s and 1990s have been regarded as some of the greatest games in the history of Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1980 VFL Season
The 1980 VFL season was the 84th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria. The season featured twelve clubs, ran from 29 March until 27 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top five clubs. The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the tenth time, after it defeated by 81 points in the 1980 VFL Grand Final. Night series defeated 8.9 (57) to 7.12 (54) in the final. Home-and-away season Round 1 , - bgcolor="#CCCCFF" , Home team , Home team score , Away team , Away team score , Venue , Crowd , Date , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 15.16 (106) , , 16.15 (111) , Princes Park , 21,028 , 29 March 1980 , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 12.13 (85) , , 13.10 (88) , Kardinia Park , 22,685 , 29 March 1980 , - bgcolor="#FFFFFF" , , 12.15 (87) , , 15.10 (100) , Windy Hill , 28,811 , 29 March 1980 , - bgcolor= ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robbert Klomp
Robbert Klomp (born 14 May 1955) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Sturt in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL), and with Carlton and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Klomp was born in the Netherlands and raised in South Australia. He began playing for Sturt in 1973 and was a key contributor to their premierships in 1974 and 1976. He was one of the best players on the ground in the 1976 SANFL Grand Final, kicking 2 goals from centre half-forward and creating several more for his teammates with clever handpasses. Klomp was signed by VFL club Carlton during the summer of 1978/79 and made an immediate impact in his first season with the Blues on the half-back flank. He played every game of Carlton's 1979 premiership season, finishing equal 7th in the Brownlow Medal with 13 votes and accumulating 20 possessions in both finals while minding dangerous opponents Russell Ebert and Rene Kink. He suffered a severe hamstr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Football Club
The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons or colloquially the Dees, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's premier competition and plays its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). Melbourne is the world's oldest football clubs, oldest professional club of any football code. If we are to accept contemporary accounts from the news of the day the club's founding father is James Bryant (Australian cricketer), James Bryant (1826-1881), an Australian cricketer who played first-class cricket matches for Surrey cricket team, Surrey and Victoria cricket team, Victoria. Bryant used Melbourne's Bell's Life newspaper to call for the young men of Melbourne to assemble at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) at one o’clock on the 31st July 1858 to play a game of football, and after, further assemble to form a committee to draw up a short code of rules."Footb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fitzroy Football Club
The Fitzroy Football Club is an Australian rules football club currently competing in the Victorian Amateur Football Association (VAFA). Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of City of Fitzroy, Fitzroy, the club is based at the Brunswick Street Oval, W. T. Peterson Community Oval in Fitzroy North, Victoria, Fitzroy North. The club nickname is the Roys, having previously been the Maroons (until 1938), Gorillas (1938–1957) and Lions (1957–1996). Since 1975, the club's colours have been red, blue and gold. Fitzroy was established as a member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), winning one premiership in that competition. In 1897, it was a foundation member of the breakaway Victorian Football League (1897–1989), Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest senior professional league in Victoria and later, as the Australian Football League (AFL), in Australia. Fitzroy was one of the most successful clubs over the league's first three decades, c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Walls
Robert Walls (21 July 1950 – 15 May 2025) was an Australian rules footballer who represented and in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1960s and 1970s. In a playing career that spanned three decades, Walls played a combined 259 games and kicked a total of 444 goals. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he continued to coach in the VFL/AFL for a total of 347 games across four different clubs. As a coach, his greatest achievement came in 1987 when he coached Carlton to the 1987 VFL premiership, the same club he won premierships with as player in 1968, 1970 and 1972. After his coaching career ended, Walls became involved in the AFL media as a commentator and columnist. Playing career Carlton Walls grew up in Brunswick, Victoria, and was educated at Coburg High School. He initially supported like his mother, but he ended up at because Brunswick at that time was part of Carlton's recruiting zone. Walls played junior football for Victorian Amateur Football Asso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
