Formed: 1986, by means of a merger between the Burra and Booborowie Hallett Football Clubs

Colours: Blue, red and white

Emblem: Rams

Senior NEFL Premierships: 2009 (1 total)

The Rams may have claimed only one senior grade premiership, but they boast a proud lineage. Prior to the merger, the Burra Football Club played off in no fewer than nineteen grand finals, winning six, while Booborowie Hallett, which had itself, in 1970, emerged out of a marriage between two clubs, had contested three North Eastern Football League grand over the course of its brief existence. Booborowie Football Club dated back to the 1890s, and by the time of its amalgamation with Hallett had won a total of nineteen premierships, which included an astonishing sequence of seven in succession between 1961 and 1967. Hallett’s history was only marginally less impressive. Like Booborowie the club originated in the final decade of the nineteenth century. It won its first flag in 1924 in the Golden Vale Football Association, and went on to add another seven prior to the merger.

Burra Booborowie Hallett - invariably referred to as the BBH Rams - came closest to breaking the premiership ice in 1988 when they lost a tensely fought, low scoring grand final to Brinkworth Spalding Redhill by a couple of goals. They then had to wait another twenty-one years before achieving the ultimate breakthrough with a 10.17 (77) to 7.8 (50) defeat of Blyth Snowtown in the 2009 grand final. At the main break, the Rams trailed by 10 points, but thereafter they dominated, adding 7 goals to 2 over the remainder of the match to win 'pulling away'.

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