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**North Adelaide Football Club**
Names
Full name	North Adelaide Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Roosters
	Season 2007
Top goalkicker	Heath Younie
Best & Fairest	James Allen
Club Details
Founded	1888
Competition	South Australian National Football League
Chairman	Bohdan Jaworskyj
Coach	Daniel Healy
Captain(s)	Darryl Wintle
Ground(s)	Prospect Oval (Capacity: 20,000)
Other information
Official website	www.nafc.com.au
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North Adelaide Football Club is an Australian rules football club, who play in the South Australian National Football League.

[edit] History

Formed in 1888 as Medindie, in 1893 the club renamed itself to North Adelaide. It is the fourth oldest club still in operation in the SANFL. Although several other early clubs used the name of "North Adelaide", none of them bore ties to the current club[1].

North Adelaide started playing at Prospect Oval in 1922 and it has remained their home ground ever since.

Ken Farmer - "The Bradman of Goalkickers" kicked 105 goals in 1930 to become the first SA League player to kick 100 goals in a league state. He was a prolific goalkicker, kicking 100 goals in a season in 11 consecutive seasons (1930 – 1940). Farmer also holds the record for the most goals in an SANFL match - 23 against West Torrens at Prospect on July 6, 1940. Farmer scored ten or more goals in thirty-seven matches, and 1,419 goals in total over his career, at an astounding average of 6.3 per match.

North Adelaide’s other iconic player[2], Barrie Robran, played 201 League games for the Roosters and 10 State games. He won 3 Magarey Medals (1968, 1970 and 1973) and is the only SANFL "Legend" in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.

North Adelaide competed in the first match played at Football Park (now known as AAMI Stadium) in round 5, 1974. Their opponent was Central District.

The longest serving coach for the club is Michael Nunan - 12 seasons from 1981 to 1992.

The Captain’s record is held by Ian McKay, captaining the team for 8 years from 1948 – 1955.

[edit] Premierships

The club has won 13 Senior premierships in total: 1900, 1902, 1905, 1920, 1930-31, 1949, 1952, 1960, 1971-72, 1987, 1991

[edit] Other premierships

The club has also won premierships in:

Seconds/Reserves (from 1919) - 1925, 1928, 1932, 1934, 1964-65, 2005-6 (8 total)
Thirds/Under 19s (from 1936) - 1937, 1942, 1948-49, 1954, 1961, 1966, 2005 (8 total)
Colts/Under 17s (from 1939) - 1939-40, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1956, 1969-70, 1987, 1997, 2005, 2007 (12 total)
Championship of Australia 1972
Stanley H. Lewis Memorial Trophy 1966-67, 1971-72, 2005-6
SANFL Night/Knock-out/Pre-season Series 1968

[edit] North Adelaide Playing List

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1 Darryl Wintle (captain) 2 Clint Alleway 3 Tate Kaesler 4 Ben Walton 5 Josh Coulter 6 Toby Stribling 7 Scott Bamford 8 Matt Krieg 9 Kingsley Walker 10 Luke Ivens 11 Tim Martin 12 Josh Cubillo 13 Ryan McGahey 14 Brett White 15 Trent Sporn 16 James Allan 17 Owen Weatherley 18 Ricky Ebert		19 Nick Kurzel 20 Jack Lewis 21 Daniel Ebert 22 Tarquin Brown 23 Justin Harris 24 Dean Howard 25 Nick Gill 26 Daniel Wakelin 27 James Wundke 28 Aaron Motlop 29 Shane Schubert 30 Heath Younie 31 Matt Wright 32 Leigh Ryswyk 33 Alex Bray 34 Ben Hart 35 Andrew McIntyre 36 Matt Down		37 Greg Gallman 38 Gavin Grose 39 Dean Christie 40 Chris Ladhams 41 Brad Sheridan 42 Cohen Thiele 43 Brett O'Hara 44 Shannon Motlop 45 Zac Millar 46 Joel Campbell 47 Todd Pfeiffer 48 John Cheetham 49 Damian Cunningham 50 Michael Wundke 51 Tom Motlop 52 Tim Delvins 53 Josh Starke 54 Sunisa Gregov

[edit] AFL players affiliated with this club

(2007 season)

Adelaide Crows

(note:Gill and Gallman are on North's playing list)

Port Adelaide

[edit] Magarey Medallists

Phil Sandland 1901
Tom MacKenzie 1905 & 1906
Tom Leahy 1913
Harold 'Dribbler' Hawke 1937
Jeff Pash 1939
H.Ron Phillips 1948 & 1949
Ian McKay 1950
Barrie Barbary 1960
Don Lindner 1967^
Barrie Robran 1968, 1970 & 1973
Tony Antrobus 1983
Andrew Jarman 1987
Brenton Phillips 1993
Josh Francou 1996
James Allan 2007
Rhys Archard 2009

^ - awarded retrospectively

[edit] All-Australians

Haydn Bunton 1956
Don Lindner 1961
Andrew Jarman 1986 & 1987

[edit] League top goalkickers

A. Daly (54) 1903 & (30) 1905
P. Lewis (58) 1923
Ken Farmer (105) 1930, (126) 1931, (102) 1932, (112) 1933, (106) 1934, (128) 1935, (134) 1936, (108) 1937, (112) 1938, (113) 1939 & (123) 1940
W. McKenzie (67) 1954
Dennis Sachse (90) 1967
John Roberts (111) 1987
D. Hargreaves (68) 2002

[edit] Club song

North Adelaide have had many versions of their club song in the past. All contain the same lyrics, but have been changed rhythm wise to keep up with the times. The lyrics and tune are the only completely original written in the league, as all the other clubs have written lyrics to well known tunes. The most recent version was brought in during the early 2000s, but all versions can still be found on the club song CD.

 It's a great, great club, And the club we love, We're the good old red and whites! The mighty Roosters we're called, All for one, one for all, If we're down we fight, fight, fight! We always play as a team, And we play it clean, We're never out of sight, Be it wet, be it dry, We try, try, try, We're the good old red and whites!

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