The Aldinga Football Club is an

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club that was a foundation member of the Southern Football Association in 1886. From 1927 to 1932, Aldinga won a record 6 premierships in a row in the Southern Football Association. In 1901 Aldinga was involved in a brief merger with the Sellick's Hill F.C. to form the Hills United Football Club. The Aldinga Football Club continues to field teams in both Senior and Junior grades in the

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2014 media coverage

In 2014, Aldinga received significant media coverage after sacking their coach, Shane Lynch, after only two games which resulted in combined losses of 457 points, including a 300-point loss to Port Noarlunga. Following being sacked by Aldinga, Lynch was appointed coach of Mitchell Park and led them to the 2015 Channel 9 Adelaide Football League Division 7 premiership. Following the sacking of Lynch, further media coverage occurred the next weekend when a player was stung in the throat by a bee in a 254-point loss against

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, including an appearance by the President, Danny Wilde and the bee-stung player, Ali Vessali on The Footy Show. These stories of plight led to

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volunteering his time to run a training session and

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coach

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offering his time to give a pre-match " rev-up" before their next game, a 6-point loss against

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. The Advertiser also placed their support behind running a family day during the same game with various giveaways including cow bells and a free

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. Further events occurred: *

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list Shane Crawford led Aldinga to their first win of the season playing as a guest player against O'Sullivan Beach-Lonsdale on 24 May. * At the same game that Shane Crawford played, Sam Newman sung the

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, Billy Brownless led the cheersquad,

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made an appearance and some coverage will be given on the following week's Footy Show. *

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invited Aldinga to play a curtain raiser against fellow strugglers Kilburn to be held on 12 May. This game failed to eventuate when the South Australian Amateur Football League refused to adjust its program to allow Kilburn to play.

A-Grade Premierships

* Southern Football Association A-Grade (7): ** 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1934 *

Division 2 (2): ** 1991, 1993

Greatest SFL Team

To celebrate the 125th anniversary of the

, each club was asked to name their "Greatest Team" whilst participating in the SFL.

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References

External links

Official Facebook page
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