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Western Suburbs Rosellas

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Western Suburbs Rosellas - The Maggots
Rosella
Club information
Full nameWestern Suburbs Rugby League Football Club
Colours  Green
  Red
  Black
  White
Founded1910; 114 years ago (1910)
Websitehttp://www.westrosellas.com.au
Current details
Ground(s)
  • Harker Oval, New Lambton NSW
CompetitionNewcastle Rugby League

The Western Suburbs Rosellas, Western Suburbs, Wests, The Rosellas are a Rugby league club based in the Newcastle, NSW region of Australia. It was a foundation member of the Newcastle Rugby League in 1909 and has been one of the most successful teams in that competition.[1] The club has had a number of players represent Australia including Wally Prigg, a member of the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame.[2] Johnny Raper, another member of the Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame played for Wests after he finished playing for the St. George Dragons.[3]

History

Early years

A strike in 1909 hastened the conversion to the professional code and the club was formed in New Lambton, though no Rebels players had joined. Playing in red and green, their first match was on 14 May 1910 where they lost to South Newcastle 18–0. They withdrew from the competition midyear.

The club has been known as the Rosellas since at least 1915, where it is recorded in a report on a challenge match where they as champions played Balmain as champions of the Sydney premiership that year and won 35–5.

The 1990s-

The club has had a successful leagues club making an attractive sponsor of rugby league in the national rugby league. Despite attempts by the Newcastle Knights to gain sponsorship from the Wests Leagues Club, in 1995, the club was going to be the majority owner of the Hunter Mariners in the Super League competition until a majority of members of the club made it clear that they would not support a team in the Super League competing against the Knights in August 1995. Bob Ferris, the General Manager of Western Suburbs, left shortly after to manage the Mariners.[4] In December 2005 the Wests Leagues Club, entered into an arrangement with the Newcastle Knights to secure their future as a member of the National Rugby League.

Wests Football Club has also supplied a number of players for the Knights most notably NSW and Australian player Matthew Gidley, current players Kurt Gidley, Jarrod Mullen and former Knights player Luke Walsh.

West Song

The team song for the Rosellas is "Oh have you ever seen a better football team than the one that plays for West, They come from miles away just to see us play for they say that West is best, The Western Suburbs boys fill the crowd with joy - they're the best you've ever seen, So you'd better come along when you hear this song and see the boys in the red and green."

Premiership titles

Years Won
1912 1915 1916 1922 1961 1966 1970 1978 1980 1981 1982 1984 1992 1997 1998 1999 2002 2004 2008 2012 2013 2014 2019

International representatives

Notable Juniors

Notes

  1. ^ Newcastle Rugby League competition records to 1998 Archived 3 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame "Wally Prigg" Archived 5 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ 1908 Rugby League Australian Rugby League Hall of Fame Johnny Raper entry
  4. ^ The Newcastle Herald "A League of their Own" 20 April 2005 page 8 retrieved through EBBSCO's Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre 8 December 2006

References

  • Power, Bob (1992). The Rebels of Rugby: The Story of Newcastle Rugby League Pioneers "The Bolsheviks vs. The Lilywhites" 1907-1920. Newcastle, New South Wales: self. ISBN.
  • The Newcastle Herald "Our Knights Future:It's Here in Fine Print" 7 December 2005, page 9 retrieved through EBBSCO's Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre 8 December 2006
  • The Newcastle Herald "Matt Gidley" 6 April 2006, page 40 retrieved through EBBSCO's Australia and New Zealand Reference Centre 8 December 2006
This page was last edited on 13 February 2024, at 01:33
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