WWTFC Honours WEST TORRENS

[Aerie]

It really is just a token amount of green in the Eagles guernsey. If I was a Woodville supporter, I'd be pretty pissed off.

If I was a Port supporter, I'd be pretty pissed off.

[RustyCage]

It really is just a token amount of green in the Eagles guernsey. If I was a Woodville supporter, I'd be pretty pissed off.

If I was a Port supporter, I'd be pretty pissed off.

Go on, explain why a Port supporter would be pissed off?

[once_were_warriors]

From a former woodville supporter

I think the club has done quiet well in all regards of representing both clubs history

Eagles as club nickname, honours West Torrens
Home ground Woodville Oval honours Woodville.

Games at Thebby , which i once was going to boycott is now probably ok recognition of West Torrens history.

The one thing that gives me th Sh@#s is th guernsey and uniform.

Shocking guernsey to start with and the lack of green does not represent the history of Woodville.

How the club can persist with this is staggering

At least the shorts and socks should be green , this would be fairer. Cant get much worse than it is now

I hope the club looks into a more traditional football guernsey/uniform next year

I support the Eagles with passion , the result on the weekends sets my mood for the rest of the week.

The club should change the guernsey as a more representable statement of both former clubs

[cd]

For the past players there will be a special area for them to all get together and relive old times.

Also watch in the Advertiser for an article this week with hopefully a photo of past Eagle great and current WWTFC Life Governor Fred Bills in the heritage jumper.

Weather forecast is for a cold but sunny fine day - 16 degrees so should be a good day out at Thebby.

[cd]

As part of the build up to this week's game tonight on ABC radio 891 interview with West Torrens great and WWTFC Life Governor and No 1 ticket holder Bob Hank.

Not sure of time - tune in at 7:00pm to find out when on

[Mickyj]

It really is just a token amount of green in the Eagles guernsey. If I was a Woodville supporter, I'd be pretty pissed off.

If I was a Port supporter, I'd be pretty pissed off.

Go on, explain why a Port supporter would be pissed off?

Well I as an Eagles fan can not tell you why youd be pissed off mate .But can you answer me which Port Adelaide football club won all the flags .Can you also tell me and most of the port fans which team plays in the SANFL because when you play port the majority of port fans wear the Power's colours and not the magpies !!
geez mate and your pissed off at a small amount of green in a WWT jumper at least our fans wear eagles colours to a game and not an AFL clubs colours.
Get a life PAFC1870 or go down to the port river and get over the new damn bridge !!

[cd]

West Torrens players from 1955 - the first year the big Eagle jumper was worn - will be presented to the crowd before the game.

E-bay auction of the jumpers starts on Monday - open for 10 days

[MightyEagles]

I'll bid for a Woodville Jumper later in the year when we play North at Woodville.

[am Bays]

Lets hope the Eagles players get into the spirit of wearing a West Torrens guernsey and put in a typical display to remind us how we remember West Torrens v Glenelg clashes.....

[McAlmanac]

Lets hope the Eagles players get into the spirit of wearing a West Torrens guernsey and put in a typical display to remind us how we remember West Torrens v Glenelg clashes.....

Does spelly or anyone have a record of West Torrens v Glenelg clashes from 1955-1970, which encompasses the "Big Eagle" guernsey era? The last four years might tip towards Glenelg, but I suspect this Eagle guernsey might have had the wood on the Bays during its lifetime.

[McAlmanac]

From a former woodville supporter

I think the club has done quiet well in all regards of representing both clubs history

Eagles as club nickname, honours West Torrens
Home ground Woodville Oval honours Woodville.

Games at Thebby , which i once was going to boycott is now probably ok recognition of West Torrens history.

The one thing that gives me th Sh@#s is th guernsey and uniform.

Shocking guernsey to start with and the lack of green does not represent the history of Woodville.

How the club can persist with this is staggering

At least the shorts and socks should be green , this would be fairer. Cant get much worse than it is now

I hope the club looks into a more traditional football guernsey/uniform next year

I support the Eagles with passion , the result on the weekends sets my mood for the rest of the week.

The club should change the guernsey as a more representable statement of both former clubs

I think you speak for a lot of people.

[Wedgie]

Lets hope the Eagles players get into the spirit of wearing a West Torrens guernsey and put in a typical display to remind us how we remember West Torrens v Glenelg clashes.....

Does spelly or anyone have a record of West Torrens v Glenelg clashes from 1955-1970, which encompasses the "Big Eagle" guernsey era? The last four years might tip towards Glenelg, but I suspect this Eagle guernsey might have had the wood on the Bays during its lifetime.

No, but he did only mention a Torrens guernsey and not that one specifically.

Torrens v Glenelg
Games played: 161
Glenelg won: 69
Torrens won: 91
Draw: 1

I'm assuming by a typical display Tassie "hopes" Torrens will win as that was the norm in most of the matches between the two clubs.
Changed club Tassie?

[am Bays]

Lets hope the Eagles players get into the spirit of wearing a West Torrens guernsey and put in a typical display to remind us how we remember West Torrens v Glenelg clashes.....

Can many of us remember footy before 1970 let alone 1960? In my living football memory (1977 onwards) a game against West Torrens usually meant 2 pts to us. I'm sure it is more but I can only specifically recall two times Torrens beat us, once when we we kicked something like 9 23 at Thebby in 1978 and 1983 when I was down from the NT on holidays....

That is what I am refering to with respect to the "spirit" of a West Torrens guernsey.

We got into the winning habit early against West Torrens our first ever win was against them in 1925..

Hopefully come Saturday night our first and last wins will be against teams wearing West Torrens guernsies.

As per the Old Football Times Year books I wouldn't mind seeing our win loss records against teams post WW2. I'm tipping against South, West Torrens and maybe West Adelaide our win loss record will be better than our overall win loss record to the point where we maybe better than 50%. Port, North, Norwood and Sturt no change compared to our overall win loss record.

[am Bays]

Changed club Tassie?

Not on your ******* life....

[Mickyj]

From a former woodville supporter

I think the club has done quiet well in all regards of representing both clubs history

Eagles as club nickname, honours West Torrens
Home ground Woodville Oval honours Woodville.

Games at Thebby , which i once was going to boycott is now probably ok recognition of West Torrens history.

The one thing that gives me th Sh@#s is th guernsey and uniform.

Shocking guernsey to start with and the lack of green does not represent the history of Woodville.

How the club can persist with this is staggering

At least the shorts and socks should be green , this would be fairer. Cant get much worse than it is now

I hope the club looks into a more traditional football guernsey/uniform next year

I support the Eagles with passion , the result on the weekends sets my mood for the rest of the week.

The club should change the guernsey as a more representable statement of both former clubs

I think you speak for a lot of people.

I dont wish to offend you two guys but it happened so long ago we merged accept the fact like everyone else has .I know I was a torrens fan and I get on quite well with the former woodville fans that sit near me at the footy we are now 1 family .
Having said that I played junior footy at a club in the woodville area lived in the west torrens area stood on woodville oval in my local clubs jumper to represent the club at high school the footy players lived in either west torrens or woodville areas and the school was zoned west adelaide!!!
Lets talk colour of jumpers if the blue jumper causes a fuss lets wear the yellow jumper with the same amount of blue and green!!
Or our first jumper as a united club !!
I would just like to watch my team play footy if anyone from either of the two clubs can not accept that perhaps they should just watch the AFL beacuse the small number of eagles fans that go to the games all get on with each other !!
And Tassie Medialist why cant WWT wear the jumper that we kicked Glenlgs butt in at footy park when Campbell was sacked !! Not the one when you used to thrash us in
And for the record thebbie is spiritual home but Woodville is home .

[Aerie]

I was up stairs in the club at half time last week and a man was coming around with two books, one was the history of West Torrens Volume 1 (1945-1990 I think) and the other was Woodville's history. West Torrens Volume 2 (pre-WWII) was in the making. The books were hard cover, very thick and $120 each. They looked fantastic, with colour pictures and full of records etc. I think the man said he needed 100 people to show interest for it to be worth getting them printed. I put my name down for one. Does CD or anyone else closer to the club have any more info on these and the name of the person who compiled them? They look great and hopefully there is enough interest cos I'd love to own one.

[Wedgie]

Very disappointed to see the replica Torrens guernsey today in the paper, a poor effort by the club and as a lover of the SANFL history I think they failed miserably on 4 points but I'm willing to conced on the last:

1) Fake laces look shocking, I was the biggest critic of North's first heritage guernsey when they did this, its also on the current Magpies guernsey, looks like a joke as laces were there for a practical purpose and not part of the actual design of the guernsey, no need to include them, they look gay.
2) Hill sponsorship, now correct me if I'm wrong but Hills weren't sponsoring Torrens in the 50s? Completely cheapens the guernsey and compromises the design. North found Robert Gerard very understanding when leaving Mistral off their heritage guernsey, I'm sure a great sponsor such as Hill would be willing to do the same for one week so as not to compromise the integrity of the guernsey
3) As above but this time with the Jax Sports emblem which isn't as big, if other clubs can manage no sponsors on their heritage guernsey how hard would be to leave off at least 1 on the front (I dread to see the back, could be another point there)
4) The Eagle, now unless my Bob Hank book has been doctored the Eagle on this new guernsey looks shocking

Some may think I'm being petty but as a loyal lover of the history of the SANFL I think a shocking job has been done here. I'll wear my heritage top from last year to show them how it should have been done. Poor effort Eagles.

(And I don't expect the usual one eyed suspects to agree with me on any points and may I point out I was just as critical of North's first effort on one of the points and would have been equally critical on all of the points if they'd arisen for North, this rant is made purely as a lover of the SANFL)

[RustyCage]

It really is just a token amount of green in the Eagles guernsey. If I was a Woodville supporter, I'd be pretty pissed off.

If I was a Port supporter, I'd be pretty pissed off.

Go on, explain why a Port supporter would be pissed off?

Well I as an Eagles fan can not tell you why youd be pissed off mate .But can you answer me which Port Adelaide football club won all the flags .Can you also tell me and most of the port fans which team plays in the SANFL because when you play port the majority of port fans wear the Power's colours and not the magpies !!
geez mate and your pissed off at a small amount of green in a WWT jumper at least our fans wear eagles colours to a game and not an AFL clubs colours.
Get a life PAFC1870 or go down to the port river and get over the new damn bridge !!

WTF? Mickyj I think you'll find that once_were_warriors understands the point I was making about Woodville supporters being dissapointed at the lack of green in the Eagles guernsey. Why you then got on your anti-port bandwagon I dont know. And even if you only want to count Ports premierships since after the Power came about, we still have more than you. About the teal at magpies games, what AFL colours would your supporters wear anyway? If you really want to go back over old ground about the Magpies-Power history, send me a PM. I wont piss everyone else off because you are too thick to understand whats going on.

[RustyCage]

Very disappointed to see the replica Torrens guernsey today in the paper, a poor effort by the club and as a lover of the SANFL history I think they failed miserably on 4 points but I'm willing to conced on the last:

1) Fake laces look shocking, I was the biggest critic of North's first heritage guernsey when they did this, its also on the current Magpies guernsey, looks like a joke as laces were there for a practical purpose and not part of the actual design of the guernsey, no need to include them, they look gay.
2) Hill sponsorship, now correct me if I'm wrong but Hills weren't sponsoring Torrens in the 50s? Completely cheapens the guernsey and compromises the design. North found Robert Gerard very understanding when leaving Mistral off their heritage guernsey, I'm sure a great sponsor such as Hill would be willing to do the same for one week so as not to compromise the integrity of the guernsey
3) As above but this time with the Jax Sports emblem which isn't as big, if other clubs can manage no sponsors on their heritage guernsey how hard would be to leave off at least 1 on the front (I dread to see the back, could be another point there)
4) The Eagle, now unless my Bob Hank book has been doctored the Eagle on this new guernsey looks shocking

Some may think I'm being petty but as a loyal lover of the history of the SANFL I think a shocking job has been done here. I'll wear my heritage top from last year to show them how it should have been done. Poor effort Eagles.

(And I don't expect the usual one eyed suspects to agree with me on any points and may I point out I was just as critical of North's first effort on one of the points and would have been equally critical on all of the points if they'd arisen for North, this rant is made purely as a lover of the SANFL)

When the magpies wore a heritage guernsey as few years back, I wasn't to concerned by the sponsorship on it or even having the players names on the back. I don't think a heritage guernsey has to be so like the original that things like sponsorship have to be removed, although there should be some rule about not having large sponsorship across the front of the guernsey anyway.

[am Bays]

Not that I like agreeing with Port supporters but my last Glenelg game I went to I had a blue red and gold shirt on with a Black and gold jacket.

It would be niave to think that their aren't supporters of 8 SANFL clubs that would occasionally wear blue, red and gold to the footy. In the same way port Magpies supporters often have a touch of teal to accompany their black and white.

Doesn't stop us from giving Port supporters sh!t about being fickle because they are Port supporters and deserve to have sh!t hung on them....