Lightning McQueen wrote:Dogwatcher wrote:
Those three were longer than 20 years ago.
More like 25 years for Westfields (didn't Blakeview have something to do with them ending?). I can't even remember an Elizabeth North, so that must have been a bloody long time ago. And Blakeview was in 1994, IIRC, not long after Mile End (an infamous pairing).
Blakeview had stuff all to do with Westfields folding, Westfields were always in A2 of the CDFA and after Smithfield hosted a 10 hour local band tribute for a local musician that died pretty much all of the WFC played at Smithifeld, this included the Moss brothers, Capasso, Youngy and a heap of others.
Blakeview formed from a few breakaway Smithfield players, Leigh Baker was the inaugural chairman at 17 or 18 years of age.
Elizabeth North Saints used to use Dauntsey Oval, they last had an under 14 team in 1988, it was their only remaining side.
Yeah, looking at the dates in that link provided earlier, I realised Blakeview couldn't have had anything to do with Westfields.
I knew there had been a transfer of players from somewhere to Blakeview - makes sense there was a Smithfield element.
My uncle played at Westies as a kid.
Was the musician the Chisel/Swanee roadie who died in a truck crash (I've heard about that - as he was my uncle's best mate growing up)?
Also, the Fraser brothers, Rob and Andy, were Westfields lads, from memory.
Interesting that there was still an under 14 Elizabeth North side so long after the rest of the club had folded.
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