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KATAMATITECurrent Affiliation: Picola and District Football League (PDFL) since 1995 Club Address: 2883 Murray Valley Highway, Cobram 3644, Victoria Website: www.katamatitefc.vcfl.com.au/ Email: tkmynard@bigpond.com Colours: Black and yellow Emblem: Tigers Senior Grade Post-War Premierships: PDFL -1950, 1996, 2001 (3 total); Tungamah Football League (TFL) - 1979 (1 total) Prior to the second world war, and dating as far back as the turn of the century, Katamatite had stints in various competitions, but details of the club’s achievements are sketchy. Things become clearer after the war, and particularly from 1950 when the club affiliated with the Picola and District Football League for the first time. In its very first season in the competition Katamatite went top thanks to an 11.17 (83) to 8.5 (53) grand final defeat of Numurkah Seconds. The Tigers again reached the grand final in 1952, but lost to Picola, a result that was repeated two years later. In 1956 Katamatite left the PDFL to compete in the Benalla Tungamah Football League. The club remained in this competition, which dropped the word ‘Benalla’ from its name in 1967, until 1994, claiming a single senior grade flag in 1979. The Tigers’ resumption in the PDFL in 1995 was not quite as spectacular as their original foray as on this occasion it took them two seasons to procure a premiership. Their victims in the 1996 grand final were Strathmerton, Katamatite winning a dour tussle by 25 points, 7.9 (51) to 3.8 (26). The Bulldogs gained revenge the following year when they downed the Tigers in the grand final by 29 points, 12.12 (84) to 7.13 (55). Over the past decade Katamatite has played off for the PDFL’s senior grade flag on three occasions, with a victory over Blighty in 2001 being sandwiched in between losses to the same club in 2000 and to Katandra in 2004. Where now? or
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