The Eastern Ranges is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

team that currently competes in the

Talent League The Talent League (also known as the Coates Talent League under naming rights and previously as the NAB League and TAC Cup) is an under-19 Australian rules football representative competition based in Melbourne and run by the Australian Foot ...

, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition.

History

Inaugural playing squad (1992)

Honours

*Premiers (2): 2002, 2013 *Runners-up (6): 1995, 2000, 2004, 2015, 2019, 2023 *Minor Premiers (3): 1995, 2002, 2019 *Wooden Spoons (1): 2012 *

Morrish Medal The Morrish Medal is an award presented to the best and fairest player in the premier Victorian underage Australian rules football competition during the home-and-away season. Boasting an uninterrupted lineage from 1947 onwards, the medal is cu ...

lists: Matthew Bate (2004), Ben Cavarra (2013) *TAC Cup Coach Award Winners: Jason Snell (1995), Tim Finocchairo (1996), Blake Grima (2002),

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(2008) *Grand Final Best-on-Ground Medalists: Stephen Dinnell (2002), Ben Cavarra (2013)

Draftees

*1992: Mark Attard, Jeremy McVay, Jason Disney *1993: Brad Nicholson, Chris Scott, Rayden Tallis, Paul Mullarvey, Daniel Hargreaves *1994: Brett Chandler, Mark Cullen, Damien Ryan, Brad Scott, Adam White, Emil Parthenides, Matthew Banks *1995: Clinton King, Kane Johnson, Nick Trask, Jason Snell, Kane Fraser *1996:

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, Adam Kingsley *1997: Andrew Pugsley, Mark Bolton, Jason Saddington, Brett Rose, Tim Finocchairo, Fred Campbell *1998: Troy Simmonds *1999: Damien Cupido, Scott Homewood, Michael Clark,

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, Simon Godfrey, Marc Skidmore *2000: none *2001:

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, Kieran McGuiness *2002: Blake Grima, Brad Fisher,

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, Greg Edgcombe, Joel Perry,

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, Kris Shore,

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*2003: Daniel McConnell *2004: Matthew Bate, Fabian Deluca,

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, Nathan O'Keefe *

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: Jonathon Patton,

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, Aaron Mullett *

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References

External links

Eastern Ranges - TAC Cup websiteOfficial Eastern Ranges website
{{TAC Cup Talent League clubs Talent League Girls clubs Sport in the City of Whitehorse Australian rules football clubs in Melbourne 1992 establishments in Australia Australian rules football clubs established in 1992