It has won sole of these premiership, when swimming within the VFL/AFL, in 1954.

This profits was inside there are no little a share due to deuce champions of the club- Charlie Sutton a wiley & hard Captain/Coach & the clubs and one of Australian System' right ever players, Ted Whitten, otherwise known as 'Mr Football'. Charlie claims to own invented a modern play in style of football- rebegin, handball, run, kick. When Teddy Whitten has been a source of additional arguments in world health organization is a greatest streaming video player than any more to grace the fields of Australian System Football.

Two prior to & fallowing 1954 a club struggled to produce a final 'Quartet' still it nigh universally managed to hang on to itself two or three games above a 'cellar inhabitant' on the ladder.

It got players of two quality & character like Charlie & Ted, around a future Gary Dempsey a heroic ruckman world health organization was badly burnt within bushfires in 1967 however managed to choose out a games top single award the 'Brownlow' inside 1975. Or even Dougie Hawkins the rogish lad when much home sustaining a beer as ingesting on the likes of 'Dipper' on the outer wing of the American (Whitten) Ellipse. Potentially Simon 'a Pieman' Beasley a fatal precise Good Forward & stockbroker world health organization broke a image of blue collar players at the club. (He's currently the bookmaker- does'nt therefore different from either the stockbroker!)

In a dimmed distant past (1900 to 1925) a club won a string of premierships in a VFA, however fallowing the powerful clubs experienced broken away & formed the VFL, the forerunner of the AFL.

Under tightly focused management by club president David Smorgon, driven coaching by Terry Wallace, & a in-field leadership of Chris Grant and Tony Liberatore, a club experienced a comparatively successful time period through the mid- to late 1990s, making the finals from either 1997 to 2000. Nonetheless, forswearing a premiership win, the club's new when ever looks in the knife's edge. When the 'quietly' period of time under previous coach Peter Rohde, a English bulldog come searching to a brightly first by having the appointment of Rodney 'Rocket' Eade when coach inside 2005. This was done by having the English bulldog winning Eleven games & finishing Ninth on the ladder, upright missing retired on the finals by 1/2 a game. Missing the finals wwhen dealt a blow to each players & supporters of the team as hot late year form saw the team existence considered very premiership competition, possibly though a finals berth experienced non been secured.

Brownlow Medal Winners

Allan Hopkins (1930) Norman Ware (1941) Peter Box (1956) John Schultz (1960) Gary Dempsey (1975) Kelvin Templeton (1980) Brad Hardie (1985) Tony Liberatore (1990) Scott Wynd (1992)

Team of the Century

Inside May 2002, a club announced the team of the greatest players from either the endure century.