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LINDENOWCurrent Affiliation: East Gippsland Football League (EGFL) since 1974 Club Address: 81 Moroney Street, Bairnsdale, Victoria 3875 Colours: Navy blue and white Emblem: Cats Senior Premierships Since World War Two: Gippsland Football League (GFL) - 1964 (1 total); EGFL - 1980, 1986, 1989, 1991 (4 total) Stewart Wren Medallists: Bruce Cowell 1975; Doug Paterson 1980 & 1981; Chris Redenback 1985, 1989 & 1991; Geoff Wren 1990; Wayne Trinder 1997; Brett Walker 1999 & 2007; Vaughan Evans 2004; Luke Dyer 2009 & 2010 (9 Winners/13 Wins) Between the wars Lindenow competed in the Lindenow Football Association for a time and then in the Bairnsdale-Bruthen Football League (BBFL). However, records for both these competitions are extremely difficult to locate, and it is not known how well the club fared. After World War Two the Cats resumed in the BBFL before crossing to the East Gippsland Football League in 1947. They later moved to the Gippsland Football League (GFL), where they were successful in claiming a senior flag in 1963. The 1974 season saw the GFL amalgamate with the Bairnsdale District Football League to produce a new incarnation of the East Gippsland Football League, with Lindenow among the new competition's eleven founder members. The Cats struggled at first and did not contest their first grand final until 1980. Opposed by the reigning premiership side in Orbost they showed scant regard for reputations in sweeping to victory by 68 points. The Cats' next grand final appearance came in 1985, but they lost by 34 points to Snowy Rovers. Twelve months later they made amends with an emphatic grand final defeat of Wy Yung. In 1989 Lindenow embarked on a club record three successive grand final appearances, winning the first and last of them against Lakes Entrance and Wy Yung respectively. Between 1995 and 1997 the Cats again managed a hat trick of grand final appearances only to lose them all. Lindenow's most recent grand final appearance came in 2010 but Bairnsdale proved markedly too strong, winning by 10 goals. Where now? or |