Retrospective: Round 4
Your weekly dose of history brought to you by Holmesglen Geoff Reilley 10 YEARS AGO – 2010 Old Haileybury went ahead of St Bernard’s in Premier B Section, defeating the
‘Clubs in Focus’ Podcast: Collegians FC
Collegians Football Club is the oldest club in Amateur football; indeed, it is older than the VAFA and is the only founding Club of the M.J.F.A./V.A.F.A. still in existence. In
Hibbins the greatest amateur of them all
Nick Armistead Not only was he arguably the greatest Amateur player of all time but Geoff Hibbins was a student of the game and one of the first to adopt
William Buck VAFA Footy Flashback: 2015 Premier GF
Arguably the best grand final in recent VAFA memory, re-live the 2015 Premier shootout between St Bernard’s & Old Trinity from 8pm Wednesday night with the William Buck VAFA Footy
True Blue War Hero
The best known of all MHSOB players was the inimitable Keith ‘Bluey’ Truscott. He was a star performer in the centre as a 17-year-old in 1934, though with his boundless
Wars at Home and Abroad
Ahead of Anzac Day on Saturday, here is an extract from ‘For the Love of the Game’ At the beginning of the 1940 season it appeared that the war might
VAFA Victoria Cross awardees & their stories
The Victoria Cross was originally the British Empire’s highest award for bravery in wartime and is now Australia’s pre-eminent award for conspicuous gallantry in combat. Two VAFA players have been
‘Clubs in Focus’ Podcast: St Bernard’s OCFC
Since 1963, St Bernard’s have been the “boys from Essendon” and trips by opposition clubs to the Snakepit have not always been kind to them. VAFA Media reflects on
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