KERMANDIE (Liverpool)

Affiliated:  Huon Football Association 1887-1997; Southern Tasmanian Football League (SthFL) 1998-present

Club Address:  P.O. Box 80, Geeveston , Tasmania 7116

Home Ground:  Kermandie Oval

Formed: 1887 as Liverpool Football Club

Colours: Navy blue and red (initially black and red, then, at various times, red, blue and gold, and royal blue and white)

Emblem:  Robins (formerly, at various times, Crows, Bushrangers and Kangaroos)

SthFL Premierships:  SthFL - 2000 (1 total); Regional League - 2005, 2007 (2 total)

Peter Hodgman Medallists:  Andrew Nash 2007 (1 total)

Most Games: 400 by Shane O'Neil

Kermandie in action against Lindisfarne in 2003.  (Photo courtesy of Dan Garlick of OzVox Media.)

Formed in March 1887 as the Liverpool Football Club, Kermandie went on to enjoy a long and fruitful membership of the Huon Football Association, vying with Cygnet as that competition's most successful side.  The club's first premiership arrived in 1905, and its twenty-fourth with a 7 point grand final win over Franklin in 1996.  Kermandie entered the SthFL in 1998, but endured a quite horrendous time at first, winning just 1 of 18 matches in its debut season en route to the ignominy of a wooden spoon.  There was marginal improvement in 1999, but the side still finished a long way off the pace with just 4 wins for the year.  However, the 2000 season saw the Bushrangers, as they were then known, shocking everyone by surging up the ladder to qualify for the finals in 2nd place, just a win behind minor premier and former Statewide League club Hobart.  Once the finals got underway, Kermandie struck a rich vein of form that culminated in a convincing 13.11 (89) to 8.11 (59) grand final defeat of another former Statewide club in New Norfolk.

Since the SthFL split into two divisions in 2002 Kermandie has competed in the Regional League, breaking through for a flag in its fourth season with a thrilling 6 point grand final win over arch rival, and reigning premier, Cygnet.  In 2006 the side bowed out at the preliminary final stage against Sorrell.  It then returned to the winners' enclosure with a hard fought 16.13 (109) to 15.9 (99) grand final defeat of Huonville in 2007.

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