The Corowa-Rutherglen Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Corowa in New South Wales. Corowa-Rutherglen's football and netball squads formerly played in the Ovens & Murray Football League.
The club is notable for producing many VFL / AFL football players over many years, including John Longmire.
History The club was formed in 1979 when the Corowa Spiders and the Rutherglen Redlegs merged to become the "Corowa-Rutherglen Roos".
Additionally surplus players formed the Rutherglen-Corowa Cats in 1979 and competed in the Coreen & District Football League for 13 seasons, before moving to the Ovens & King Football League for 11 seasons. Today the club is known as the Rutherglen Cats, dropping "Corowa" from their name in 2002, and have competed in the Tallangatta & District Football League since 2004.
In the 2016 Ovens & Murray FNL season it was announced that the Corowa-Rutherglen FNC would move the round 11 home match to Rutherglen's Barkley Park. This marked the first time a match was played in Rutherglen for premiership points since the 1981 Ovens & Murray FL season. Traditionally the Rutherglen Cats do not play on the Queen's Birthday Weekend as the town hosts the annual Winery Walkabout.
Accompanying the return was a pre-match luncheon with many guest speakers, including Rutherglen O&M Hall of Famer Bill Gayfer, Mick Gayfer, John Pearce, Corowa-Rutherglen's O&M Hall of Famer Jim Sandral, Dennis Sandral, John Clancy, and Peter Chisnall. At the luncheon it was suggested by Corowa-Rutherglen official Fred Longmire that both the Corowa-Rutherglen FNC & Rutherglen FNC could be run by a one-commission model, which would include three representatives from both clubs, an independent chairperson and a paid general manager to run 12 football and nine netball teams in the O&M and T&D football leagues. YearGBPtsHomeGBPtsAwayReport201661147 Corowa-Rutherglen10668 Wodonga Report (Saturday June 11)
Premierships Ovens & Murray Football League Seniors (2): 2000, 2003 Seconds (2): 1986, 1992 Thirds (3): 1983, 1984, 2000
Seniors (1): 1979 - O&MFL Pre Season Premiership
VFL / AFL players The following players played with CRFNC prior to making their VFL / AFL senior football debut or were drafted to an AFL club.
1981 - Darryl Henderson - 1986 - Michael Gayfer - 1988 - John Longmire - 1988 - Brett MacKenzie - 1988 - Mark O'Donoghue - 1994 - Damian Houlihan - 1995 - Jeff Bruce - 1997 - Brad Campbell - 1997 - Adam Houlihan - 1997 - Ben Mathews - 2000 - Ryan Houlihan - 2000 - Aaron Henneman - 2001- David Teague - 2002 - Robert Campbell - 1982 - Craig Horwood - Played no senior AFL games 1986 - Paul Bartlett - Played no senior AFL games 1993 - Paul Lewis - Played no senior AFL games 1999 - Adam Mathews - Played no senior AFL games 2001 - Joshua Houlihan - Played no senior AFL games
Team of the Century (1903–2003)
Team ref Corowa (1903–78) Rutherglen (1903–78) Corowa-Rutherglen (1979–2003)
Notes 1 G. Tobias was named in the Team of the Century for his career with the Corowa FC. He was also a foundation player for the Corowa-Rutherglen FC in 1979
See also Rutherglen Football Club (1893) Rutherglen Football Club Corowa Football Club
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