Balmain Australian Football Club is a NSWFL foundation

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club competing in the

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Premier League and based out of the Sydney suburb of Balmain. The team train at Glover st Oval in Lilyfield from 6pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Home games are currently at HJ Mahoney Park in Marrickville.

History

The club formed in 1903 as the ''Balmain Football Club'', a founding member of the Sydney Football League. The Tigers won the Sydney AFL flag most recently in 2014.

Famous players

Jack Ashley Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, (6 December 1922 – 20 April 2012) was a British politician. He was a Labour Member of Parliament in the House of Commons for Stoke-on-Trent South for 26 years, from 1966 to 1992, and subsequently sat in t ...

played for Balmain before being recruited by , taking part in the clubs 1913

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victory and winning the

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the following year.

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player

Troy Luff Troy Luff (born 22 November 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer for the Sydney Swans of the Australian Football League. Football career Troy Luff grew up in the town of Traralgon, Victoria, where he lived until high school age. He ...

played for Balmain after retiring from the

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from 2002 onward.

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player

Wally Messenger Walter Messenger (July 1890 – 1961) was the youngest son of Charles A. Messenger and Annie (née Atkinson). He was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1910s and into the 1920s. He was a state and national representative e ...

(the brother of

Dally Messenger Herbert Henry Messenger, nicknamed "Dally" and sometimes "The Master" (12 April 1883 – 24 November 1959) was one of Australasia's first professional rugby footballers, recognised as one of the greatest-ever players in either code. He played f ...

) played for the club in its early days. Players to make

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level from the Balmain Tigers over the years included John Stephenson (1907,

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), Charles Brown (1916–1923, Collingwood) Jack Armstrong (1925, St Kilda), Neil Davies (1955,

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Paul Feltham Paul Feltham (born 1 October 1948) is a sport psychologist and former Australian rules footballer and coach. He is best known for a short stint as caretaker senior coach of the Brisbane Bears in 1989. Playing career Early in his career, F ...

(1970–78,

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, Richmond) and

Ray Hall Ray Hall (born 27 October 1980) is a former Australian rules football player who played for the Richmond Football Club. Hall grew up in New South Wales, playing for the Balmain Australian Football Club before moving to Woy Woy where he was r ...

(1999, Richmond). In 2010 and 2011 Nic Fosdike (

) was the senior playing coach while Nick Davis (

), Jason Saddington (

) and Chad Fletcher (

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) played alongside Fosdike. In 2014 the club broke a 16-year drought to take out the Division 1 premiership

External links

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Full Points Footy profile for Balmain Tigers
Australian rules football clubs in Sydney Australian rules football clubs established in 1903 1903 establishments in Australia Balmain, New South Wales {{AFL-team-stub