The Sale Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Magpies, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in Sale, Victoria and are based at the Sale Oval.
The club teams compete in the Gippsland Football Netball League (GFNL).
History Founded in 1877, Sale began playing official competitive football in 1889 when they joined the Gippsland Football Association, as a junior side. In 1900, the club entered the senior competition and were premiers for the first time the following year.
One of the greatest players produced by the club, Brownlow Medal winner Norman Ware, came to Footscray from Sale in the 1930's.
Sale were a foundation member of the Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954. They were the dominant team in the early years of the competition, with four premierships in the first six seasons. More recently, Sale defeated Maffra to win the 2012 grand final.
Football Premierships Seniors Payne Challenge Cup 1889 Gippsland & Feilchenfeld Cup 1892 Gippsland Football Association / League (10) 1901?, 1911, 1924, 1927, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1949, 1950, 1953 Latrobe Valley Football League (8) 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1971, 1973, 1975, 1986 West Gippsland Latrobe Football League (1) 2008 Gippsland Football League (1) 2012
Club records
Individual Most games Jack Schuback – 400+
Most Best & Fairest Shane Fyfe – 5
Most goals in a game Shane Loveless – 15 (vs Churchill in 1987)
Most goals in a season Shane Loveless – 140 (1987)
Team Highest score 39.20 (254) (versus Moe in 1997)
Football League best and Fairest Winners Gippsland FL Trood Award 1935 - Arthur Davidson 1936 - Jack Collins 1946 - Leo Brennan (Sale Greens) 1952 - Bob Mason
La Trobe Valley FNL Trood Award / Rodda Medal 1954 – Bob Mason 1955 – Bob Mason 1957 – John Nix
Gippsland Football League Trood Award / Rodda Medal 2009 – Adrian Cox 2012 – Luke Collins 2017 - Kane Martin 2021 - Shannon Lange 2023 - Shannon Lange
Coaches Coach Years Premierships Charlie Canet 1924-1927 1924, 1927 Hugh Murnane 1954-1956 1954, 1955 John Nix 1957-1959 1957, 1959 Dick Evans 1960 Kevin Hogan 1961 Laurie Stephenson 1962 Don Williams 1963 Kevin Hogan 1964-1965 Joe Ambrose 1966-1967 Robert Foster 1968-1970 Trevor Somerville 1971-1972 1971 Jim Hart 1973-1978 1973, 1975 Charlie Healy 1979 Ray Christie / Jim Hart 1980 Graham Robbins 1981 Robert Holmes 1982 Vic Aanensen 1983 Shane Dove 1984-1985 Kevin Greenwood 1986-1987 1986 Neil Bristow 1988 Ted Fidge 1989-1990 Merv Neagle 1991 Kevin Greenwood 1992-1993 John Walsh 1994 Darren Hall 1995-1997 Anthony Dessent 1998-1999 Anthony Banik 2000-2001 Adrian Burns 2002-2003 Richard Coulthard 2004-2005 Darren Hall 2006-2007 Adrian Cox 2008-2009 2008 Nick Anderson 2010-2011 Matthew Ferguson 2012-2014 2012 Travis Ronaldson 2015
VFL / AFL Players
The following footballers played with Sale FC before making their senior VFL / AFL football debut. 1906 - Robert Michael - Collingwood 1911 - Vic Trood - University 1919 - Stewart McLatchie - Carlton 1926 - Ed Ryan - Fitzroy 1930 - Wally Ware - Hawthorn 1932 - Harvey Johnson - Hawthorn 1932 - Norman Ware - Footscray 1939 - Arthur Davidson - Sale 1945 - Jack Mitchell - Melbourne 1961 - Ian Collins - Carlton 1980 - Andrew Pollett - Footscray 1994 - Stuart Anderson - North Melbourne 2003 - Jacob Schuback - Adelaide 2006 - Scott Pendlebury - Collingwood 2016 - Josh Dunkley- Western Bulldogs 2018 - Kyle Dunkley- Melbourne
Notable Netballer’s Lara Dunkley-Melbourne Vixens, Queensland Firebirds Kate Eddy-NSW Swifts, Melbourne Vixens
References
External links
Facebook page Gippsland FNL Best & Fairest Winners Sale at Australian Football.com