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MITTA UNITEDCurrent Affiliation: Tallangatta and District Football League (TDFL) since 1952 Formed: 1952, by means of a merger between the Eskdale and Mitta Town Football Clubs Colours: Navy blue and white Emblem: Blues Senior TDFL Premierships: 1952-3, 1959-60-1, 1963, 1967-8, 1973, 1975, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1992-3, 1996, 2004-5-6-7 (21 total) With a total of twenty-one senior grade premierships to their credit the Blues have been by some measure the Tallangatta and District Football League's most successful club. That success commenced in their very first season of 1952, and over the remaining seven years of the decade they contested all bar two grand finals, emerging victorious from those of 1953 and 1959. The 1960s proved even more memorable as the Blues went top on no fewer than five occasions, with their triumphs of 1960 and 1961 enabling them to emulate Kergunyah's feat, achieved between 1955 and 1957, of claiming a hat trick of flags. Over the past four decades regular success has continued to come Mitta United's way with the senior side's achievement in winning four consecutive premierships between 2004 and 2007 setting a competition record. The Blues might easily have made it five flags in a row in 2008 but, after finishing the minor round in second place with a 15-2-1 record, they underperformed in the finals and ended up being placed third. The reserves provided a measure of consolation when they overcame Barnawartha by 29 points in their grand final. Where now? or |