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BUCHANCurrent Affiliation: Omeo District Football League (ODFL) since 1978 Colours: Blue and white Emblem: Cavemen Senior Grade Premierships: Orbost District Football League (OrDFL) - 1951 (1 total); Snow Valley Football League (SVFL) - 1952, 1959 (2 total); ODFL - 1983, 1987, 1998, 2004-5 (5 total) Buchan was playing scratch matches against local rivals as early as the 1890s, but a club representative of the town does not appear to have begun to participate in organised competition until after the first world war. Details of the club’s early achievements are patchy although it is known to have competed for much of the inter-war period in the East Gippsland Football League. After world war two Buchan transferred its allegiance to the Orbost District Football League in which it was successful in claiming a premiership in 1951. The following season saw the club switching to the Snow Valley Football League and promptly procuring a second successive flag. The side ended the 1950s in style with grand final appearances in both 1958 and 1959, winning the latter. It had been the most memorable decade in Buchan’s history but it was immediately followed by a dismal era during which the club was twice forced to disband for periods of four and eight years. When the club resumed for the second time in 1978 it affiliated with the Omeo District Football League in which it continues to compete to this day. Swiftly putting the traumatic memory of the preceding two decades behind them the Cavemen soon developed into a force in the competition, claiming the first of an eventual half a dozen senior grade premierships in 1983. The years since the turn of the century have been the most successful in the club’s entire history, with consecutive flags in 2004 and 2005 the highlights. The Cavemen also reached the 2001 grand final, but lost to Swifts Creek. The last three seasons have seen the fortunes of Buchan’s seniors gradually declining with the side finishing fourth in 2006, fifth in 2007 and sixth and last in 2008. The club’s only other grade, the under sixteens, have endured a similarly disappointing time. Where now? or
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