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The Northwestern Miners was 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 ...
club based in
St Helens, Merseyside St Helens () is a town in Merseyside, England, with a population of 117,308. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens which had a population of 183,200 at the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 Census. The town i ...
,
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.


History

The St Helens Miners formed for the 2002
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season. They were the first aussie rules club to be based in the north of England for some time, the Liverpool Blues having been the most recent in the area around 10 years earlier. The Miners struggled onfield against the strong London-based clubs initially, but their situation improved after joining the new BARFL Regional series in 2003. In 2004, the club renamed itself the Northwestern Miners to better attract players from across the region, avoiding old rivalries between St Helens and other towns such as
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and
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. They formed an alliance with the
Southport Sharks The Southport Australian Football Club, nicknamed the Sharks, is an Australian rules football club based on the Gold Coast, Queensland, that competes in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Southport is one of the most successful football clu ...
, a powerful club playing in the
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and began wearing the Sharks' jumper rather than the Footscray Bulldogs jumpers they had previously used. The Miners folded mid-2004, although some ex-Miners went on the play for the Manchester Mosquitos when this club formed in 2006 and the Liverpool Eagles who formed in 2008.


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