NEWCOMB
Current Affiliation: Bellarine Football League (BFL) since 1971
Formed: 1971
Colours: Maroon, gold and light blue
Emblem: Power
Senior BFL Premierships: 1980-1-2, 1988, 2005, 2007 (6 total)
BFL Club Championships: 1978-9-80-1-2, 1987 (6 total)
Senior BFL Best and Fairest Awards: John Fagan 1981; Paul Hudson 1993, 1996 & 1997; Ricky O'Toole 2007 (3 Winners/5 Wins)
Despite its formidable recent record, the Newcomb Power Football Club commenced the 2008 season harbouring genuine fears over its short term survival prospects. Required by the league to field teams each week at both senior and reserves level, the Power's vastly reduced playing stocks rendered this extremely problematical, and arguably presented an even greater challenge to the club than its three recent senior grand finals.
Two of those grand finals - against Torquay in 2005 and Ocean Grove last year - were won, with Torquay snatching a narrow triumph in the intervening match. The Power's 2007 flag was their sixth, making them the Bellarine Football League's third most successful club.
Newcomb was a member of the BFL from the start, but the team took a while to find its feet. Known at the time as the Dinosaurs, they first reached a grand final in 1979, but lost to Leopold by 9 points. This proved to be the first of four successive grand final appearances, with those of 1980 and 1981 against Portarlington and 1982 against Torquay producing victories.
Newcomb's next flag-deciding match in 1986 was one to forget as an unbeaten Torquay surged to a record breaking 111 point win. Two years later amends were made with a hard fought 14.7 (91) to 11.12 (78) grand final defeat of Drysdale.
Providing the Power can overcome their current problems there is no reason not to expect a rash of further premierships in the coming decades.
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