WAUBRA
Current Affiliation: Central Highlands Football League (CHFL) since 1979
Colours: Blue and white
Emblem: Kangaroos
Senior Premierships: Learmonth District Football Association (LDFA) - 1922-3, 1925 (3 total); Burrumbeet and District Football Association (BDFA) - 1938-9 (2 total); Lexton Football League (LFL) - 1946-7-8, 1950, 1955-6-7, 1960 (8 total); CHFL - 1982, 2006 (2 total)
Waubra's emphatic triumph over Hepburn in the 2006 Central Highlands Football League grand final was the culmination of several seasons of steady improvement. In 2003 the 'Roos managed just 6 wins from 18 matches to finish 8th (of 13). They improved marginally in 2004 (7 wins), and in 2005 got as far as the 1st semi final before losing to Clunes. In 2006, however, with the exception of a round 11 reversal at Learmonth, they emerged victorious from every match, more often than not by a hefty margin. Two cases in point were the 2nd semi final, where they outclassed Daylesford by 49 points, and the grand final where they handed out an 85 point hiding to Hepburn.
If it had been a long time - twenty-four years - between drinks for Waubra, that is not the same as suggesting that the club was unused to premiership celebrations. Back in the 1920s the 'Roos went top on three occasions, while the ensuing decade brought four grand final appearances for two more flags. After the war, during the course of thirty season stint in the Lexton Football League, Waubra proved repeatedly proved itself one of the competition's leading forces, particularly during the first decade and a half of its involvement. Between 1946 and 1961 the seniors contested thirteen out of a possible sixteen grand finals, winning eight of them.
In 1975, Waubra transferred from the LFL to the Clunes Football League. Four years later, the CFL merged with the Ballarat and Bacchus Marsh Football League to form the Central Highlands Football League, which is where the 'Roos have competed ever since. Their first senior flag in the new competition arrived in 1982 when they just held off a fast-finishing Dunnstwon to win a gruelling grand final by 3 points, 16.14 (110) to 15.17 (107). Aside from praise for the victor's gutsy performance, the match attracted headlines of the wrong sort following a behind the play incident in which Waubra's Stephen Head was brutally felled, and ended up in hospital with his jaw, which had been broken in four places, wired up, and twenty stitches in his mouth. The police launched an investigation into the incident, but were unable to bring any charges owing to a lack of evidence.
Waubra's most recent premiership campaign in 2007 ended in disappointment when the side succumbed by 8 points to Daylesford in a low scoring grand final.
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