Round 1 2007 Update - Mt Roskill Saints Auckland AFL FC

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Tuesday, 28 August, 2007

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As The Mt Roskill Saints celebrate the 10th anniversary of their 1997 premiership an interesting piece of history regarding an AAFL club in the Mt Roskill area has just come to light.

I have received a couple of historic photographs from Jeff and Lynne Hickey of Mangonui which show an AAFL team based in the Mt Roskill area playing around the turn of the century. Ironically they won the local premiership exactly 100 years ago in 1907. They also won it in 1908.
Lynne’s Grandfather J (James) McCullough and his uncle W.H McCullough played in the team. Mr James McCullough married and lived in the Mt Roskill area.

Photographs of the 1907 and 1908 teams have been placed in the gallery section of our web site.

There was even a Cairns in the team!

If you go to the AAFL web site history section it notes that an AFL team represented New Zealand at Australasian Carnival around this time. Dressed in black with a gold fern, they competed in the Jubilee Australasian Football Carnival with games played at the M.C.G. They defeated New South Wales and Queensland, and lost to Victoria and Tasmania to finish fourth out of the seven competing teams.
According to the AAFL history section the Mt Roskill Saints were formed in 1991. There was an AAFL team in the Mt Roskill are under various names between the league being reformed in 1974 and 1991.

Go to the AAFL web site: http://www.aafl.co.nz/history.html for more information.

If anyone has any information they wish to add to the history section of our web site please contact me. I am interested in the Saints history between 1974 and 1991.

Also Lynne would love to hear from anyone with information regarding her Grandfather’s team. This information would also be a welcome addition to our web site.

So as we remember back to those heady days in 1997, a skinny 15 year old Jarrad Wallace, The Whale, The Wombat and The Turtle, the stars: Dan Carman, Jon Wild and Chris ‘Hollywood’ Davis, The Golden Greeks Con and Steve we can also reflect on a bit of Saints history created 100 years ago this year.

Regards
Greg Cairns

A great, gutsy first up win by The Saints against a very strong Nth Shore Tigers team. Go to our results section for further information.

THIS WEEKS GAME
We play at home (War Memorial Reserve May Rd Mt Roskill) this Sunday against the reining Premiers University. A great first up effort by both teams last Sunday. There were quite a few reserves grade players that did not turn up and we were still able to field two teams. Remember we need everyone to turn up on time every week. You must advise the coaching staff if you cannot make it to the game.

RESERVES PLAYERS BE AT THE GROUND AT 12.15am
SENIOR PLAYERS AT 1pm
MOUTH GUARDS ARE COMPULSORY
CHECK WITH STEVE FAIRWEATHER FOR THE DUTIES ROSTER FOR THIS SUNDAY

We need goal umpires, reserves umpires, water runners (both grades), scoreboard attendants and the goal post pads and canopy put up and taken down.