TATONG
Current Affiliation: Benalla and District Football League (BDFL) since 1946
Colours: Black and white
Emblem: Magpies
Senior Premierships: Tatong and Thoona Football Association (TTFA) - 1934 (1 total); BDFL - 1960-1-2, 1972-3, 1975, 1984, 1988, 1994-5-6 (11 total)
When the Benalla and District Football League was established after World War Two, Tatong was one of six founder member sides, and one of three to make the transition from the pre-war Tatong and Thoona Football Association.
In the ten seasons that the TTFA existed, Tatong was highly competitive, winning a premiership in 1934 thanks to a 21 point grand final defeat of Goorambat, and coming close on several other occasions. The Magpies reached their first BDFL grand final in 1952, but lost a thriller to Tolmie by 2 points. Further losing grand finals followed in 1953, against Benalla All Blacks, and 1959 against Goorambat, before they broke through for their first flag in 1960 courtesy of a 13.9 (87) to 10.8 (68) grand final victory over North Wangaratta. This was the first of three successive premierships for Tatong who thereby became the first BDFL club to achieve the feat.
The Magpies' record since the early 1960s has been quite superb, and overall they have vied with Goorambat for the honour of being the most consistently successful club in the competition. Their tally of eleven senior premierships included another hat-trick between 1994 and 1996, but since the last of these triumphs success has, temporarily one imagines, dried up.
In recent seasons the Magpies have tended to struggle, although they did reach the preliminary final in 2004.
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