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Leading goalkicker
  
Shane Hanson

Colours
  
Red and Black

Coach
  
Ashley Barnett

Best and fairest
  
Valor Thach

President
  
Newton Lines

Founded
  
1907

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Full name
  
Hamley Bridge Football Club

Competition
  
Adelaide Plains Football League

Hamley Bridge Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club, based in Hamley Bridge, South Australia, that competes in the Adelaide Plains Football League.

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The club is currently coached by Ashley Barnett and is captained by Craig Taylor. The current president is Newton Lines. The club fields teams in the A Grade, Reserves, Senior Colts, Junior Colts, under 11's and under 9's grades.

Club history

Hamley Bridge Football Club was formed in 1907 and after engaging exclusively in social fixtures for its first three years commenced its competitive existence with a season in the Gawler Football Association in 1910. The following year saw it start an extended, and highly successful, stint in the Wooroora Football Association which saw it contest eight grand finals in eleven seasons on either side of world war one. In 1911, 1912, 1914 and 1924 Hamley Bridge brought home the premiership, each time at the expense of Owen.

After leaving the WFA at the end of the 1926 season spent the ensuing decade and a half flitting back and forth between various competitions, claiming flags in the Gilbert Football Association in 1932 and the Adelaide Plains Football League in 1938. After the second world war Hamley Bridge competed in the APFL until 1964, during which times it won grand finals against Long Plains in 1952 and Balaklava in both 1956 and 1960. The 1964 season brought the start of a twenty season affiliation with the Gawler and District Football League which spawned a premiership in 1968 plus two losing grand finals.

Since 1984 the Bombers have once more competed in the APFL and added another three senior grade flags to their curriculum vitae. Their most recent success was in 2004 when they scored a convincing 69-point grand final triumph over Hummocks Watchman.

138-game Hawthorn player, Luke McCabe is a product of the Hamley Bridge Football Club.

Club guernseys

The Hamley Bridge Football Club guernsey is black featuring a red sash. It has the club logo on the left chest and a club sponsor on the right.

Premierships

The club has been very successful on the field since their inauguration in 1907, winning 13 A Grade premierships, including back-to-back flags from 1988 to 1989 and also pre-World War I in 1911 and 1912. The club celebrated its most recent premiership in 2004.

Association Best & Fairests and other awards

A Grade Association Medallists

  • Craig Young (2005)
  • Luke Slattery (2004) (Tied with Todd Thorne of Mallala)
  • Kym Herrmann (2003) (Tied with Gary Wehr of Balaklava)
  • Don Ayliffe (1963) (Tied with Allan Aldenhoven of Balaklava)
  • Les Scott (1939)
  • Paddy Connell (1924) (Tied with Barney Bennett of Owen)

    • A Grade Association Leading Goalkickers

  • Luke Slattery 87 goals in 2004

    • Reserves Association Medallists

  • Lou Surace (1993)
  • Darcy Rex (1990)
  • Darcy Rex (1987)

    • Reserves Association Leading Goalkickers

    Senior Colts Association Medallists

  • Alex Rademacher (2004)
  • Matthew Koch (2000)
  • David Ireland (1997)
  • Adam Baker (1993)

    • Senior Colts Association Leading Goalkickers

    Junior Colts Association Medallists

  • Rhys Savage (1997)
  • Adam Baker (1990)
  • Daniel Healey (1987)

    • Junior Colts Association Leading Goalkickers

    References

    Hamley Bridge Football Club Wikipedia
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