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| Full name | North Melbourne Football Club |
| Nickname(s) | Kangaroos, North, Kangas, Roos, Rooboys, Shinboners. |
| Motto | Victoria Amat Curam |
| Season 2008 | |
| Top Goalkicker | David Hale |
| Best & Fairest | Brent Harvey |
| Club Details | |
| Founded | 1869 |
| Colours | Royal Blue and White |
| Competition | Australian Football League |
| Chairman | James Brayshaw |
| Coach | Dean Laidley |
| Captain(s) | TBA |
| Ground(s) | Telstra Dome (Capacity: 56,000) |
| Melbourne Cricket Ground (Capacity: 100,000) | |
| Other information | |
| Official website | www.kangaroos.com.au |
North Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed The Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football club in the Australian Football League. It is based at the Arden Street Oval in the inner Melbourne suburb of North Melbourne, but plays its home matches at the Telstra Dome and occasionally, the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
The club mascot, dating from the middle of the twentieth century (1950), is a grey or red kangaroo, however the club is unofficially known as the "Shinboners", a title which dates back to its 19th century abattoir-worker origins. The club's motto is Victoria Amat Curam, Latin for "Victory Demands Dedication".
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North Melbourne Football Club was born in 1869, 32 years before federation making it older than the Commonwealth of Australia itself. Formed soon after the formation of the first set of rules for Australian football it can be said to be one of the oldest football clubs in Australia and indeed one of the oldest football clubs, of any code in the world.
Acting upon this James Gardiner and other prominent citizens of the city of Hotham (an urban development to the North of Melbourne) formed the North Melbourne Football Club in 1869. At first the club played games against any other club with which they could arrange a match. Playing its matches at Royal Park (where the Melbourne Zoo now resides) In 1876 the club decided to amalgamate with another team Albert Park and for twelve months were known as "Albert Park cum North Melbourne". Quite a mouthful! After just one year the amalgamation collapsed and the club changed its name to Hotham Football Club after its locality of origin.
In 1877 Hotham (North Melbourne) and 7 other clubs decided to form the Victorian Football Association (VFA) in order to compete in football matches on a regular basis. The VFA being one of the first football associations formed in the world.
In 1888 the club once again became the North Melbourne Football Club after Hotham municipality changed its name to North Melbourne in order to cash in on the reputation Melbourne had gained throughout the world.
In 1896 a breakaway group saw the establishment of the Victorian Football League (VFL) from which North Melbourne was excluded mainly through the opposition of the Collingwood Football Club which had not forgiven North for a controversial game in which they had met. North were upset by there non inclusion as they felt that they were as good as, if not better, than any team that formed the League.
North continued in the VFA becoming Premiers in 1903 and 1904. 1907 saw North attempt, for the first time, to enter the Victorian Football League. It proposed to amalgamate with the West Melbourne Football Club and seek membership of the League. The application was rejected with the result that the club was expelled from the Association (VFA) and found themselves without a competition in which to play. In 1908 a "new" club was formed and its application to join the VFA was accepted. North Melbourne Football Club was once again part of the VFA.
In the years 1905, 1910, 1914, 1915, 1918, and 1919 North finished at the top of the ladder, winning the premiership in 1910 and 1914 as well as going through the seasons 1915 and 1918 being undeafeated as well as being premiers. From 1914 to 1918 they won 58 games in succession.
1921 saw North once again seek admission to the VFL. They felt their record of dominance entitled them to admission into what was becoming the strongest competion in the land. Essendon Football Club, a foundation member of the League found themselves without an arena on which to play. North, an adjacent suburb to Essendon, offered them their ground, Arden St., if they would amalgamate thereby gaining a team based at North Melbourne into the League. Essendon agreed. North advised their players that they would disband and asked their players to transfer to Essendon so that in their next season they could continue their association with the team based at Arden St.
Unfortunately Essendon gained the use of a ground at the time being used by an Essendon team playing in the Association. This left North a disbanded club without players. The most highly regarded being Syd Barker who later captained Essendon and was a member of two premiership teams with that club.
In a clever move North quickly amalgamated with the displaced Essendon Association team and was once again competing in the VFA the following season having failed to complete the 1921 season. vfltm.gif
In 1925 North finally gained admittance to the Victorian Football League, not by stealth as they had tried previously, but by invitation brought about by lobbying of the clubs supporters.
After a promising start in the League North had many lean years, not reaching a Grand Final until 1950, where they were beaten by their former proposed amalgamation partner Essendon.
It was not until 1975 that they finally won their first League Premiership, the culmination of a plan hatched under the presidency of Allen Aylett 4 years before. They followed this up in 1977 with another Premiership. Between the years 1974 and 1978 North participated in every Grand Final.
In 1990 the Victorian Football League became the Australian Football League as it extended its operations Australia wide. A foundation member of this league North Melbourne took out its inaugural Premiership under this banner in 1996. ( A year that North sought another amalgamation; this time with Fitzroy Football Club. A move that failed due to the opposition of other League teams fearing North would become too strong)
This was a season celebrated by the League as their centennial year as it was the hundredth season of VFL/AFL football. By winning the gold cup North Melbourne Football Club became the Centennial Premiers. A fitting tribute to this historic club.
North Melbourne has one of the most passionate and loyal supporter bases in the league. The club enjoys the 2nd highest supporter to member conversion rate, behind only the Fremantle Dockers. Despite this, the club still had the 2nd lowest membership base in 2007, having risen only by 200 people since 2000.
In 2007, research conducted by Roy Morgan estimated that 228,000 people Australia-wide followed the club. This is 2nd only to the Melbourne Demons as the smallest supporter base in the league. Decisions to play more games interstate and to change the club's name, have alienated their Melbourne based supporters, and this is reflected in Roy Morgan's research which suggests that North has lost 14% of its supporter base since their golden era ended in 2000.
Contrary to popular opinion, North Melbourne hasn't always had a small supporter base. In the early 20th century the club was known for its large supporter base, once setting an all-time league record for memberships in 1937 when the club signed up 2,400 members, but the club's popularity dwindled after spending decades at the bottom of the ladder after promotion to the VFL in 1925.
Ever since North Melbourne rejected the AFL's proposal to relocate to the Gold Coast, club membership has soared, exceeding the previous record set in 2006 by almost ten thousand in 2008.
| Year | Members | Finishing position* |
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| 1984 | 6,374 | 11th |
| 1985 | 6,520 | 4th |
| 1986 | 5,318 | 7th |
| 1987 | 3,430 | 5th |
| 1988 | 4,415 | 11th |
| 1989 | 3,411 | 9th |
| 1990 | 5,201 | 6th |
| 1991 | 6,683 | 8th |
| 1992 | 6,083 | 12th |
| 1993 | 6,851 | 5th |
| 1994 | 10,296 | 3rd |
| 1995 | 14,027 | 3rd |
| 1996 | 14,438 | 1st |
| 1997 | 19,368 | 4th |
| 1998 | 20,196 | 2nd |
| 1999 | 22,080 | 1st |
| 2000 | 22,156 | 4th |
| 2001 | 21,409 | 13th |
| 2002 | 20,831 | 7th |
| 2003 | 21,403 | 10th |
| 2004 | 23,420 | 10th |
| 2005 | 24,154 | 7th |
| 2006 | 24,700 | 14th |
| 2007 | 22,372 | 3rd |
| 2008 | 34,342 | 8th [1] |
* following finals
The North Melbourne Football Club is a non-profit organisation limited by guarantee. Members of the club serve as the guarantees of capital, and have full voting rights at AGMs to elect directors to the club’s board.
The club’s board compromises 9 directors with each director serving a 3 year term before their position is put up for re-election at an AGM. Only one-third of the board is contested at each AGM due to the rolling structure of the terms of the directors. This structure safeguards the entire board from being ousted at a single AGM, and has made North Melbourne immune to a lot of the in house fighting witnessed at other AFL football clubs. The board governs the club as well as selecting a Chairman to head the club through a majority vote of directors.
Unlike all other AFL teams, North Melbourne is a company, not a club. It was floated by Bob Ansett in 1986, and was raided by the John Elliott-led Carlton Football Club after the 1987 crash. The Blues got 20 per cent of the capital but that stake was eventually bought by John Magowan, the former head of Merrill Lynch Australia and a long-time Kangaroos tragic. Magowan's stake was then split among a variety of wealthy supporters.
North Melbourne reverted back to public company in 08. A moratorium was passed at an Extraordinary General Meeting that will allow James Brayshaw’s board to serve unopposed until 2010, so as to allow his ticket the maximum time to enact their policies to make the North Melbourne Football Club financially viable.
Though its origin is disputed, the 'Shinboner Spirit' came originally from butcher shops that were close to Arden Street Oval, when the North Melbourne Football Club was new. Known as the 'Shinboners' for roughly the first decades of their existence, the club adopted the "Kangaroos" nickname around the 1940s, and by the time of the first Grand Final appearance in 1950, this had become the dominant identifier of North Melbourne.
The Shinboner Spirit is a phrase attributed to the Kangaroos' ability to fight back hard with their backs against the wall. The 2005 Season was a great example of this spirit, with the Kangaroos finishing fifth after being tipped for the wooden spoon by many otherwise well-respected football writers and journalists. It was most arguably evident in their match against the Sydney Swans in 2004, when they rallied from a 40 point deficit at three-quarter-time to record a fitting result in Glenn Archer's 250th game of AFL Football.
1996 season was the perfect example of the Shinboner spirit. Where the club went onto win the Centenary premiership despite merging talks off the field.
In 2005, to celebrate the club's 80th anniversary of senior competition and the thirtieth anniversary of the first VFL premiership, the Kangaroos held a massive "Shinboner Spirit" gala event, attended by almost the entire surviving playing list. In the awards ceremony, the key "Shinboners" of the past eighty years were acknowledged, with Glenn Archer named the "Shinboner of the Century" to almost unanimous acclaim.
Another example of the Shinboner spirit has happened in 2007. After being tipped to finished last by many people, they finished 4th after the home and away season.
North are traditional rivals with Essendon, mostly because of the close location others grounds. The 'Roos and the Bombers played off in the 1950 Grand Final, which Essendon won.
They also had a strong rivalry with Hawthorn in the 1970s with the two clubs playing in 3 Grand Finals against each other in the space of 3 years. The rivalry with the Hawks has been getting more fierce in the past few years.
North Melbourne is recognised throughout Australian football for its famous vertically striped Royal Blue and White jumper.
The design first used in 1884, North Melbourne's jumper pre-dates any of the other vertically striped jumpers worn by other clubs in the Australian Football League.
The design has proven itself popular in Australian Football having been adopted by hundreds of other clubs across the country.
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| Season | Manufacturer | Sponsor(s) | Current Home Guernsey | Current Away Guernsey | ||
| 2005 | Bont | |||||
| 2006 - 2007 | Reebok | |||||
| 2008 | Reebok | |||||
| 2009 | Reebok | |||||
The club has traditionally worn a blue and white striped jumper. North Melbourne's kit is made by Reebok, and recently signed a $5.5 million deal with Mazda for the motor company to become their major sponsor for the next 3 years.
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| North Melbourne Team of the Century | |||
| B: | Glenn Archer | David Dench | Michael Martyn |
| HB: | John Rantall | Ross Glendinning | Ted Jarrard |
| C: | Keith Greig | Les Foote | Laurie Dwyer |
| HF: | Malcolm Blight | Wayne Carey (c) | Wayne Schimmelbusch |
| F: | John Dugdale | Jock Spencer | Allen Aylett |
| Foll: | Noel Teasdale | Anthony Stevens | Barry Cable |
| Int: | Brent Crosswell | Barry Davis | Peter Steward |
| Sam Kekovich | |||
| Coach: | Denis Pagan | ||
| Year | W: D: L | Position |
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| 2000 | 15:0:10 | 4th |
| 2001 | 9:0:13 | 13th |
| 2002 | 12:0:11 | 7th |
| 2003 | 11:1:10 | 10th |
| 2004 | 10:0:12 | 10th |
| 2005 | 13:0:10 | 7th |
| 2006 | 7:0:15 | 14th |
| 2007 | 15:0:10 | 3rd |
| 2008 | 12:1:10 | 7th |
Note: Prior to the establishment of the U-19s comp in 1946, North Melbourne fielded a successful Colts side in a local fixture which was responsible for developing junior stars like Dally O'Brien, Les Foote, Don Condon, Kevin Dynon and Keith McKenzie
Note: The Champions of Australia series was discontinued after 1975. As a result North Melbourne retains both the Winfield Cup as a permanent memento of the victory, and retains the perpetual Australia Cup.
| 1975 VFL Grand Final | G | B | Total |
| North Melbourne | 19 | 8 | 122 |
| Hawthorn | 9 | 13 | 67 |
| Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground | Crowd: 110,551 [1] | ||
| 1977 VFL Grand Final Replay | G | B | Total |
| North Melboune | 21 | 25 | 151 |
| Collingwood | 19 | 10 | 124 |
| Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground | Crowd: 98,366 [2] | ||
| 1996 AFL Grand Final | G | B | Total |
| North Melboune | 19 | 17 | 131 |
| Sydney | 13 | 10 | 88 |
| Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground | Crowd: 93,102 [3] | ||
| 1999 AFL Grand Final | G | B | Total |
| Noth Melbourne | 19 | 10 | 124 |
| Carlton | 12 | 17 | 89 |
| Venue: Melbourne Cricket Ground | Crowd: 94,228 [4] | ||
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Join in the Chorus is the official anthem of the North Melbourne Football Club. The song is also used by the Victorian Bushrangers and other Victorian sporting teams, with "Victoria" substituted for North Melbourne. The song arises from two separate pieces of music. The first verse or preamble which is traditionally sung (or shouted) in great spirit was appropriated from the score of a Theatre Musical called 'Australia: Heart to Heart and Hand to Hand" written by Toso Taylor in the 1890s in pre-federation Australia[2]. The second verse is unknown in origin, presumably added by members of the North Melbourne Football Club when the song was chosen as the club theme. The third verse was appropriated from a song written and performed by Scottish musician Harry Lauder.The song is called 'A wee Deoch and Doris', written around 1911 [3]
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