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LINDISFARNE
Affiliated: Various junior competitions including the Tasmanian Amateur Football League Southern Division (TAFLSD) 1905-95; Southern Tasmanian Football League (SthFL) 1996-present
Home Ground: Anzac Park
Formed: 1911
Colours: Dark and light blue
Emblem: Two Blues
Senior Premierships: Clarence Football Association (CFA) - 1924 (1 total); TAFLSD - 1957,1982, 1989 (3 total); TAFL State Championship (Conder Shield) - 1957, 1989 (2 total); TAFLSD Districts - 1982 (1 total)
Senior Competition Best and Fairest Awards: Walter Howard Medal - Ron Marney 1956-7; Phil Molineaux 1977-8; John Kulpers 1983; Paul Arnol 1993 (4 Medallists/6 Medals)
Peter Hodgman Medal - T.Blanden 1997 (1 total)
Most Games: 320 by Bill Marney
| MINI-BIOGRAPHIES: | Ron Marney |
Action from Lindisfarne's visit to Dodges Ferry in 2005. (Photo used by kind permission of Dan Garlick of OzVox Media.)
The Lindisfarne Football Club was a founder member in 1996 of the SthFL. After showing promise by reaching the finals in its first couple of seasons, however, the club has found life difficult. Indeed, in 1999 and 2000 the Two Blues failed to win a single match. Nevertheless, the club boasts excellent facilities, as well as a strong membership base, and these two factors combined with a strong sense of tradition could well help bolster the team's level of performance in the near future.
In 2006 the Two Blues suggested that they were beginning to flex their muscles when they qualified for the finals, ultimately finishing 4th. However, they proved unable to build on this, and a 10-8 record in 2007 was only good enough for 6th place.
The 2008 season ought really to have produced the club's first ever Regional League flag but despite dominating the competition almost all year there was an inexplicable sting in the tail as Huonville won the grand final by 37 points. The Two Blues entered the grand final as almost unbackable favourites having won their previous 19 matches, but they wilted under pressure in the final term and a season's hard and impressive work was ruined.
Lindisfarne's pre-SthFL existence stretched back to before the 1st World War and the club won its first senior premiership in 1924 in the Clarence Football Association, where it competed for several seasons in the 1920s. Most of the Two Blues' success arrived after World War Two, however. In 1957 they procured the coveted 'double' of southern and state amateur premierships, beating Ogilvenians by 42 points to clinch the former, and overcoming northern premier Old Launcestonians by 9 points in the play-off for the latter.
The 1980s proved to be a particularly productive decade for Lindisfarne. In 1982 the TAFLSD was divided into Districts and Old Scholars sections, with the two section winners playing off for the Divisional premiership. The Two Blues duly won the Districts grand final against Claremont, and then beat Old Hobartians for the Southern Division flag. They went under to Old Launcestonians in the state title decider, however.
In 1989 they again claimed the double, scraping home by 4 points against Claremont in the local grand final before trouncing Longford by 61 points for the state title. Lindisfarne's last senior grand final appearance to date came in 1992, but resulted in defeat against Claremont by 34 points.
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