Murray Bushrangers

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Murray Bushrangers
Full Name Murray Bushrangers Football Club
Nickname 'Rangers', 'Bushrangers'
Strip Navy Blue guernsey with yellow, navy blue shorts, navy blue and yellow socks
Founded 1993
Sport Australian rules football
League TAC Cup
First season 1993
Ground Wangaratta Oval - Wangaratta
Club Song Unknown
President Andrew Carson
Coach Phil Bunn
Captain  ?
2008 1st of 12

Murray Bushrangers is an Australian rules football team playing in TAC Cup since 1993 based in Wangaratta. The team trains in WJ Findlay Oval. The team is coached by Phil Bunn. Jersey colors are Black, Purple and Yellow, with black socks and black (home) or white (away) shorts.

The Bushrangers have produced some of the current elite Australian Football League players through the AFL Draft including Daniel Cross, Brett Deledio, Steve Johnson, Jarrad Waite, Kayne Pettifer, Justin Koschitzke, Hamish McIntosh, Barry Hall, Ben Mathews, Steven King, Robert Campbell, Alipate Carlile, David Mundy & Shannon Byrnes

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Club History

Murray Bushrangers are based at Wangaratta, near the Victoria-NSW border and have been involved in the TAC Cup since 1993 when the competition added an additional four country teams. Murray lost in the 2007 TAC Cup Grand Final to the Calder Cannons by 50 points, the only TAC Team of the Year representative for the year was Ben McEvoy. 2008 saw the Bushrangers dominate the entire TAC Cup season finishing 1st at season end and defeating the Dandenong Stingrays by 81 points in the 2008 grand final, midfielder-forward Steele Sidebottom had a game-high 32 possessions and booted 10.3 claiming best on ground honours.

Grand Finals

2008 Murray Bushrangers - 21.16 (142) d. Dandenong Stingrays - 9.7 (61)

Players Drafted

2008 Jack Ziebell, Steele Sidebottom

2007 Ben McEvoy, Dawson Simpson

2006 Ben Reid

2005 Marcus Drum, Beau Muston, Alipate Carlile

2004 Brett Deledio, Chris Egan, Michael Newton, Shannon Byrnes*

2003 Kane Tenace, Ryley Dunn, David Mundy

2002 Hamish McIntosh, Luke Mullins

2001 Steven Johnson, Mark Powell, Simon O'Keefe, Justin Davies, Mark McGough , Jarrad Waite, Robert Campbell*, David Teague*, Craig Ednie*

2000 Justin Koschitzke, Kayne Pettifer, Allan Murray, Chris Hyde, Daniel Cross, Mark Bullen, Luke Hammond, Blake Campbell

1999 Josh Fraser, Adam Butler, Andrew Mills, Robert Forster-Knight, Ryan Houlihan, Matthew Shir, Adam Matthews

1998 Michael Stevens, Murray Vance, Chris Lamb, Aaron Henneman, Derek Murray, Ricky Symes, Glen Bowyer *

1997 Joel McKay, Brad Stephens, Josh Robertson, Leigh Newton

1996 Rory Hilton, Haydyn Lamaro, Ben Parker

1995 Luke Trew, Leigh Marshall, Andrew Lamb, Ben Matthews , Barry Hall

1994 Joel Smith, Shane Sikora, Adem Yze, Shaun Gordon, Adam Houlihan, Steven King

1993 Fraser Gehrig, Paul Lewis

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