CHANNEL
Affiliated:
Huon
Football Association (HFA) 1967-1995; Southern
Tasmanian Football League (SthFL)
from 1996
Formed:
1967
Home Ground: Snug Oval
Colours:
Red,
white and black
Emblem: Saints
Senior Premierships: HFA - 1975, 1977-8, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990 (8 total); SthFL - 1996 (1 total)
Peter Hodgman Medallists: A.Beveridge 1998; M.Gowans 2005 (2 total)
Most Games: 411 by Ken Smith
Channel (white shorts) in action against Kermandie in 2005.
When the disastrous bushfires of 1967 left the Kettering, Margate, Snug and Woodbridge Football Clubs without clubrooms and much of their equipment, their respective members decided to join forces and form a new club. That club was named Channel, after the southern Tasmanian region in which all four clubs had been situated, and from the 1967 season it would be lining up in the Huon Football Association. Shortly afterwards, a set of red, white and black playing jumpers were donated to the club by the Longley Football Club, which would no longer be needing them as it had recently merged with Kingston.
Channel spent a total of thirty-nine seasons in the Huon FA, reaching the grand final on 15 occasions for 8 wins. The club was a founder member of the Southern Football League in 1996, and won that competition's very first premiership with a 12.15 (87) to 11.4 (70) grand final defeat of Kingston. Since the SFL competition split into two sections in 2002, the Saints have competed, so far without senior premiership success, in the Regional League.
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