The Ovens and Murray Football Netball League ( O & amp; MFNL ) are Australian soccer rules and the Netball competition contains ten clubs based in northeast Victoria, the southern region of Riverina New South Wales and the Ovens and Murray regions. The name comes from the River Ovens, a river in the northeast part of Victoria covered by the league, and the Murray River, which separates Victoria and New South Wales.
This league features three levels in the Australian rules of football competition, with this being First Class , Class-Ringgit and Under 18 years . In the netball competition, there are four classes, with this being A-Grade , B-Grade , C-Grade and Below 16 seconds .
Currently a host and away season consisting of eighteen rounds is played. The top five teams then play according to the McIntyre System, culminating in O & amp; MFNL Grand Final, which since 1995 has been held at Lavington Sports Ground on the outskirts of Albury, Hamilton Valley.
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History
Beginner
Organized competitions in the region started as Ovens & amp; Murray Football Association in 1893, although it was interrupted in 1911 when Albury was released, with renamed renamed Rutherglen DFA for the season. Albury was welcomed back in 1912 and after several clubs stumbled with The Chiltern & amp; FA District, reformed competition under Ovens & amp; Murray Football Association again in 1914.
It is a mistake to report that Oven & amp; Murray Football Association changed its name in 1911 to Rutherglen & amp; Regional Football Association. In fact, Oven & amp; Murray FA folded and was not there again in 1911. The previous year's competition only attracted three teams, Albury, Excelsior and prime minister Rutherglen, and the teams in the district refused to play against Rutherglen and Albury. The Ovens and Murray Junior Association held a meeting at the McKays Hotel in Rutherglen on Wednesday 19 April 2011, attended among others by Messrs. Reid and Walter of Howlong, where a movement was brought into effect that the Association changed its name to Rutherglen and the Regional Football Association. A name change is required because if the Junior Association continues under their real name, there will be an impression that the Oven & amp; The Murray Association is still there, but it is not. The Rutherglen & amp; FA District continues for three years until Ovens & amp; Murray FA reformed for 1914.
After three years of rest because of World War I, the associations reformed for the 1919 season with four clubs, the United Borders, Howlong, Lakes and Rutherglen. In 1920 the league did not change; clubs move to Chiltern DFL.
The competition was reformed in 1921 with Lakes Rovers, Rutherglen, St Patricks, Corowa, Springhurst and Wahgunyah. In 1922, big city clubs Benalla and Wangaratta joined the OMFA while Wahgunyah and Springhurst moved to the Chiltern DFL. In 1926, the name was changed to its present form. Around this time the clubs that compete in the league include Wangaratta, Hume Weir (who drew many of his players from the workers who built the Hume Dam at the time), Yarrawonga and two clubs from Albury City, St Patricks and Albury (not to be confused with the club Albury now). The two clubs were largely divided among sectarian lines, St Patricks became Roman Catholic and Albury became Protestant and, after much tension, in 1929 the two clubs agreed to disband and form two new clubs, East Albury and West Albury, with a player base for drawn geographically.
In 1930, Haydn Bunton was recruited from the league by Victoria's Football League (VFL) club Fitzroy, where he was considered one of the best VFL players in the Depression era and will continue to win three Brownlow Medals. Bunton Park, where Albury Football Club North is based, is not named Haydn, but his brother Cleaver Bunton, who was elected president of O & amp; MFL in 1930 and will serve in that role until 1969. (Cleaver also later will serve as mayor of Albury for 30 years.)
Post World War Two
In 1940, the league went into recess after round 10 during World War II, before full competition resumed in 1946. In 1947 North Albury was accepted, followed by Wangaratta Rovers and Myrtleford, received from Ovens & King Football League in 1950. The Wangaratta Rovers will continue to dominate O & amp; M for the rest of the 20th century, winning fifteen prime ministers to date, a number recently overhauled by Albury with their own flags.
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s the league began to gain reputation in Victoria as the strongest competition outside the VFL and VFA. The best players are often recruited from O & amp; M to play for one of the "city" clubs, but it's not unusual for VFL players to retire from the "big league" and play in O & amp; M or other country leagues, and may start a coaching career there too, often at the same time as a coach to play. One noteworthy example of this, as far as the O & M is concerned, is Bob Rose, who retired from Collingwood as a player in 1955 and coached Wangaratta Rovers into two prime ministers in 1958 and 1960, after which he returned to Collingwood for continue his coaching career.
1970s and 1980s
In 1968, the VFL introduced state recruitment zones throughout Victoria and the Riverina, which limited the area from which any VFL club could recruit. O & amp; MFL is allocated to North Melbourne, and thus some players are better than O & amp; M came to play for Kangaroos, contributing partly to the club's rise to success in the 1970s. These include Xavier Tanner and John Longmire, who have won senior O & amp; M who led the goalkicker in a season in 1980 with Corowa-Rutherglen before moving on. The zonation system was discontinued in the late 1980s when the VFL/AFL introduced the draft system.
In 1974 O & amp; MFL is affiliated with the Victorian Country Football League (VCFL) when O & amp; MFL refused to accept applications from Lavington Football Club to join the league. At this stage the football club is based at Lavington Sports Club, an established licensed club, and strong enough for the field teams in Tallangatta League and Hume Football League the following year.
The makeup of the competition remained stable until 1979, when Corowa and Rutherglen joined Corowa-Rutherglen, and Lavington Football Club was finally received from the Farrer Football League, so the number of clubs remained at ten.
Lavington's home ground, Lavington Sports Club Oval, provides an ideal venue for many sports as the sports club gradually develops it after its construction in the 1970s. The league has been appointed as the venue for most of the league's grand final since the 1980s. More recently, additional assistance for grand final performances through regional promotions and sponsorship in the form of goods has been provided by Albury City Council.
In 1983, after a failed debut season for Hawthorn the previous year, Gary Ablett played for Myrtleford at O ​​& amp; M for a year, before he was recruited by Geelong where he restarted his career in VFL/AFL and established himself as one of the best code players, who was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
In the late 1980s, Wodonga Demons of the Tallangatta League had made numerous offers to join O & amp; M, and in 1989 was accepted into the competition to serve the western part of the city of Wodonga, based in Birralee Park. They changed their name to Wodonga Raiders Football Club so it did not cause confusion with the long-standing Benalla Demons and Wodonga Football Club.
Grand Final Bloodbath 1990
Shortly after the start of the 1990 grand final between Wodonga and Lavington, playing at Albury Sportsground, most players from both teams were involved in a bench-clearing fight. Since the game was televised by local TV stations, the tape received sensational national media coverage, where fights were generally described as a surprising indictment of the code. Although more than a decade has passed, the comparison for this incident was done after the AFL Cairns Grand Final of 2004 dropped into a similar dispute.
Wodonga eventually won the game with 20 points and thus premiership, and the league court handed out a number of long suspensions for players from both sides for the following season. Incidentally, the result marked the second prime minister for Wodonga's then-first coach, Jeff Gieschen for the club in 1987, before he went on to train West Perth and then an ill-fated task at Richmond in 1997-1999.
Recent years
In 1996, after a series of failed seasons at O ​​& amp; M, Benalla moved to the Goulburn Valley Football League. In 2000, Penrith Panthers Leagues Club, a financier from the Penrith Panthers National Rugby League team, joined the Lavington Sports Club. As a result, Lavington Football Club changed their nicknames from the Blues to the Panthers, added "Panthers" to their titles, and adopted the guernsey in the same color as the NRL Panthers, but in the Port Adelaide AFL pattern.
Also around this time, the Wagga Tigers Football Club, which has dominated the Riverina Football League, made an offer to join the O & MFL; However, partly because of concerns from the league's southern clubs about travel time, the offer was denied. The Wagga Tigers then managed to bid to join AFL Canberra.
In 2000 the O & MFL, in an association with AFL North Melbourne Football Club, dropped a team in the Victoria Football League called Murray Kangaroos, playing a home match between Coburg and Lavington. However, due to concerns from club O & amp; M about player availability, Kangaroos about travel time, and poor presence compared to O & amp; M league game, the venture was discontinued after three seasons and Kangaroos later established an affiliation with VFL which established Club Port Melbourne.
Current Final System
Since 1972, OMFL has used "McIntyre System". The last series was played for four weekends, with the Grand Final traditionally played on the third weekend of September. Also there is usually no ground advantage given to any team, instead the O & amp; M assumes where the final will be held, with all the finals for Football & amp; Netball is played in one place during each last day. The Grand Final since 1995 has been held at Lavington Sports Ground (officially "Lavington Panthers Oval") on the outskirts of Albury, Hamilton Valley.
Interleague Competition
O & amp; M has won the first division of the Victorian Country Football Interleague championship 17 times, the last victory was in 2009. In the interleague competition the team wore gold guernsey, decorated with monogram-style black "O & amp; M" initials, with black shorts and T-shirts black foot.
- VCFL Championships - Division One: 1954, 1955, 1957, 1967, 1968, 1985, 1987, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009.
Junior Development
The more successful was the Murray Bushrangers TAC Cup Under 18s team, who played their home games at Wangaratta; before the AFL national draft and the start of the TAC Cup, young players in the area will usually play through the class with their local clubs, with less chance of being coached by the recruiting staff of the AFL club. Despite some concerns about the club about these players being excluded from local competitions, unrecognized players usually return to their home clubs to play locally as soon as they grow up.
Even in this case, there are several possibilities that players "older" in their early 20s will be recruited by the AFL club. Some important examples to build directly from O & amp; The MFL includes Fraser Gehrig (Wodonga Raiders/West Coast Eagles/St Kilda), Guy Rigoni (Myrtleford/Melbourne), and Brett Kirk (North Albury/Sydney Swans).
All sides of the club field in the competition under 18, apart from Myrtleford, which is a joint team with a "Bright Football Club" wearing blue and navy & amp; the club will be known as the "Alpine Eagles" , and they will also be a joint team under 18 in "Ovens & King Football League" also wearing navy blue and colors gold & amp; the club will be known as the Alpine Eagles. But the Alpine Eagles alliance between Myrtleford and Bright has been tense for the last few seasons before finally after the 2013 season. The under-18s Myrtle Myrtle announced that they would stop wearing blue and gold from "Alpine Eagles" and would return to red, white and black & amp; the club will be known as "Myrtleford Saints" , ending their nearly 10-year partnership with Bright, since the early 2000s.
Currently Wangaratta Rovers is the only club that will not pack any team in either of the two Major Major Football League.
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Club
Note: The monikers clubs listed above for former clubs are the clubs that they currently use and may not be their moniker used while playing in Ovens and Murray Football League .
Awards
Best and most beautiful
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- The Leo Burke Medal is awarded for the best and longest football player in O & amp; MFL during home and away season.
- The Leo Dean Medal is awarded for the best and fairest footballer in the O & amp; MFL during the host season and away.
- The Toni Wilson Medal is awarded for the best and fairest A-Grade netball player in OMFNL during the host and away seasons.
Premiership
Recordings
Football: Seniors
- Most flags are in succession: 4, St. Patrick (1921, 1922, 1923, 1924) .
- Most grand finals in a row: 9, Albury (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) .
Seasons
Season 2014
- Senior Football
- Players: Albury (defeating Yarrawonga 13.13.91 to 12.12.84)
- Minor Premiers: Albury (Victory: 16, Pictures: 1, Disadvantages: 1)
- Wooden Spoon: Wodonga (Victory: 1, Image: 1, Disadvantages: 16)
- Morris Medal - Best & amp; Most Fair: 26 Votes - High Kristan, Myrtleford
- Strang Medal - Leading Goalkicker: 116 Goals - Setanta O'Hailpin, Albury
- A-Grade Netball
- Players: Yarrawonga (beat Wodonga 49 to 40)
- Minor Premiers: Yarrawonga (Won: 14, Interesting: 1, Disadvantage: 3)
- Wooden Spoon: Wodonga Raiders (Victory: 0, Interesting: 0, Disadvantages: 18)
- Toni Wilson Medal - Best & amp; Most Fair: 27 Voices - Jacqueline Newton, North Albury
- Leading Scorer: 701 Goals - Bridget Cassar, Yarrawonga
Oven & amp; Murray Hall of Fame
The Ovens & amp; Murray Hall of Fame was founded to recognize and promote the outstanding achievements of some of the greatest league players, dedicated administrators and club support staff and media representatives serving the old.
At the 2016 ceremony there were 63 inductees, including 2 netballers. Only 4 people have received additional honor to be promoted to "Legend" status. (Cleaver Bunton AO OBE - 2005; Rob Walker - 2007; Neville Hogan - 2012; Jim Sandral - 2013.)
Minor value
Netball
Netball Competition added to Ovens & amp; Murray Football League from the 1993 season.
Albury Wodonga Junior Football League
Note: Team field by club for that age group; "= Yes" & amp; "= No" .
Wangaratta & amp; Junior County Soccer League
Note: Team field by club for that age group; "= Yes" & amp; "= No" .
AFLNEB Youth Girls League
The age group of the competition is from 12-17.
Note: Team field by club for the season; "= Yes" & amp; "= No" .
Premiers
See also
- Oven and Murray
References
External links
- Official Ovens Sites and Murray Football League
- Country Score Leg & amp; MFL
- The Footypedia O & amp; MFL
- OMFL History and Notes in Full Footy Points
- Brief History - Oven & amp; Murray Football League FOX SPORT PULSE
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