Dandenong Stingrays
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| Full name | Dandenong Southern Stingrays F.C. | ||
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| League | TAC Cup TAC Cup The TAC Cup is an under 18 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria, Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing 12 Victorian regions.... |
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| Founded | 1991 | ||
| First Season | 1992 | ||
| Ground | Shepley Oval, Dandenong | ||
| Coach | Graeme Yeats Graeme Yeats Graeme Yeats is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL/AFL.A skilful and consistent defender/wingman, Yeats played 182 games with Melbourne before becoming a premiership winning coach in the Victorian Football Association with Sandringham... |
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| Website | DSSFC | ||
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The Dandenong Stingrays are an Australian rules football
Australian rules football
Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...
team in a Victorian under 18s league called the TAC Cup
TAC Cup
The TAC Cup is an under 18 Australian rules football representative competition held in Victoria, Australia. It is based on geographic regions throughout country Victoria and metropolitan Melbourne with each team representing 12 Victorian regions....
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1992 saw the birth of the ‘Southern Stingrays’ and they were developed under the leadership of Steve Kennedy (Regional Manager) and Ron Roach (Promotions Manager) with the home base located at the Ben Kavanagh Reserve, Mordialloc. The side is coached in the inaugural year by Peter Russo
Peter Russo
Peter Russo is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1980s before finishing his career at St Kilda....
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The ‘Dandenong Southern Stingrays’ are currently under the leadership of Darren Flanigan
Darren Flanigan
Darren Flanigan is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Geelong and St Kilda in the VFL/AFL.Flanigan came to Geelong from the Victorian town of Katamatite and during the early 1980s acted as their back up ruckman. He got more regular game time in 1985, the same year he was named in...
(Region Manager) and Mark Wheeler (Region Development Manager) with the home base located at Shepley Oval, Dandenong. The side is coached by Graeme Yeats
Graeme Yeats
Graeme Yeats is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL/AFL.A skilful and consistent defender/wingman, Yeats played 182 games with Melbourne before becoming a premiership winning coach in the Victorian Football Association with Sandringham...
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2009
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Ground | A | H | A | BYE | H | H | A |
| Result | W | W | L | BYE | W | W | L |
2008
| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | QF | PF | GF |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | A | A | H | H | H | H | A |
| Result | L | W | L | L | W | W | L | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | W | L | W | W | W | W | L |
Yearly Ladder Placings
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 |
| Position | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 2 |
Club history
The Stingrays have been involved in the TAC Cup since the competition's first season in 1992.Grand Finalists
2008 Murray BushrangersMurray Bushrangers
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 Darren Ogier...
- 21.16 (142) d. Dandenong Stingrays - 9.7 (61)
2005 Gippsland Power - 12.9 (81) d. Dandenong Stingrays - 10.6 (66)
1997 North Ballarat Rebels
North Ballarat Rebels
The North Ballarat Rebels are an Australian rules football club which play in the TAC Cup, an under-18 competition in Victoria, Australia.North Ballarat is one of four regional clubs set up as part of a plan by the AFL to have clubs set in all regions of the state.This was to help aid in player...
- 16.15 (111) d. Dandenong Stingrays - 10.16 (76)
Players drafted
2009 Tom Scully (1), Ryan BastinacRyan Bastinac
Ryan Bastinac is an Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne in the Australian Football League .Bastinac can play both as an inside and outside midfielder and is renowned for his endurance and aerobic capacity...
(21), Dylan Roberton (49), Rohan Kerr
Rohan Kerr
Rohan Kerr is an Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League .Kerr is primarily a half-forward who can push into the midfield. He played eleven games for the Dandenong Stingrays in the 2009 TAC Cup competition, including the club's losing Grand...
(59)
2008 Tom Gillies (33), Ash Smith
Ashley Smith (Australian footballer)
Ashley Smith is an Australian rules footballer with the West Coast Eagles in the Australian Football League.-Football career:...
(36), Shane Savage
Shane Savage
Shane Savage is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League, playing for the Hawthorn Football Club.Born in New Zealand, Savage moved to Australia as a boy...
(75), Steven Gaertner.
2007 Jarrad Grant
Jarrad Grant
Jarrad Grant is an Australian rules footballer who has played for the Western Bulldogs Football Club in the Australian Football League since 2008....
(5), John McCarthy (31), Scott Simpson (44), Jarrad Boumann (48)
2006 Andrejs Everitt
Andrejs Everitt
Andrejs Everitt is an Australian rules footballer who currently plays with the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League and previously played for the Western Bulldogs. He is the younger brother of former St Kilda, Hawthorn and Sydney player Peter Everitt.Everitt was picked in the 2006 AFL...
(11), Greg Bentley
Greg Bentley
Gregory "Greg" Bentley is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League .Recruited from Rosebud and the Dandenong Stingrays, he was placed on the Port Adelaide Football Club's rookie list but was upgraded to the senior list during 2006...
, Daniel Nicholls
Daniel Nicholls
Daniel "Danny" Nicholls is an Australian footballer with the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League.A hard running forward pocket rover, Nicholls impressed the powers that be with his form for Williamstown in the VFL throughout 2006, so much so that he was retained for season...
2005 Nathan Jones
Nathan Jones (Australian rules footballer)
Nathan Jones is an Australian rules footballer playing for the Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League...
(12), Ryan Cook (23), Travis Tuck
Travis Tuck
Travis Tuck is an Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Hawks in the Australian Football League . Tuck was selected with a Father-Son selection in the 2005 AFL Draft...
(38)
2004 Jarred Moore
Jarred Moore
Jarred Moore is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League .Moore grew up in Langwarrin and played for the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup, from where he was recruited as the number 31 draft pick in the 2004 AFL Draft by the Sydney Swans. He was touted as a potential...
(31), Damien McCormack
Damien McCormack
Damien McCormack is an Australian rules footballer formerly on the Western Bulldogs list in the Australian Football League...
(38), Jayden Attard
Jayden Attard
Jayden Attard was an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. He is of Maltese descent.He was recruited as the number 50 draft pick in the 2004 AFL Draft from Chelsea and Dandenong Stingrays. He made his debut for Brisbane in Round 4, 2005 against Hawthorn.Attard was delisted...
(50), Luke Forsyth (64), Anthony Raso (77), Zane Leonard
2003 Shane Tuck
Shane Tuck
Shane Tuck is an Australian Rules footballer and the son of Hawthorn legend and VFL/AFL games record holder Michael Tuck. He is the nephew of Geelong great Gary Ablett Sr and former Hawthorn players Kevin & Geoff Ablett...
, Aaron Edwards
Aaron Edwards
Aaron Edwards is an Australian rules footballer for the North Melbourne Football Club.-Early life:Edwards was born in Samoa to a Samoan mother and New Zealander father. He migrated with his family to Australia at the age of two and played rugby union until the age of 13...
2002 Steven Salopek
Steven Salopek
Steven Salopek is an Australian rules footballer of Croatian descent. Originally from Narre Warren Football Club in Melbourne's south-east, he played for the Dandenong Stingrays in the 2002 TAC Cup before being drafted to AFL club Port Adelaide.-Port Adelaide career:Salopek wore number 31 for club...
(6), Paul Johnson
Paul A. Johnson
Paul Johnson is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League .He was drafted by West Coast at number 24 in the 2002 AFL Draft, but played only one game in two seasons with the Eagles....
(24), Matthew Boyd
Matthew Boyd
Matthew Boyd is an Australian rules football player who has come through the Western Bulldogs' rookie list, debuting in 2003. Prior to that he had played for Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup and Frankston in the VFL...
2000 Laurence Angwin
Laurence Angwin
Laurence Angwin is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League . He is infamous for being sacked by his team, the Carlton Football Club after turning up to training having used recreational drugs....
(7), Ryan Lonie
Ryan Lonie
Ryan Lonie is a former Collingwood footballer in the Australian Football League. Lonie is a hard-running back flanker who over the duration of his seven years at the club threatened to become a game-breaking wingman, however he did not make the transition.-Early career :Lonie starred as a junior...
(34), Michael Handby (38), Adam McPhee
Adam McPhee
Adam McPhee is an Australian rules football football player who plays for the Fremantle Football Club and formerly for the Essendon Football Club. He is a versatile player who has played both as a forward and defender, and recently has also moved into a tagging role, with high profile clashes with...
(39), Chris Newman
Chris Newman (Australian rules footballer)
Chris Newman is an Australian rules footballer, and currently the captain of the Richmond Football Club. He was drafted at Pick 55 in the 2000 AFL Draft from the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup....
(55), Nathan Lonie
Nathan Lonie
Nathan Lonie is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.The identical twin brother of Collingwood player Ryan Lonie, the two Lonies not only share identical looks but share very similar footballing characteristics - possessing long kicking abilities and playing a...
(58), Stephen Milne
Stephen Milne
Stephen Milne is a professional footballer for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League .-AFL career:...
1999 David Hille
David Hille
David Hille is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.He debuted in 2001 with the Essendon Football Club and has been a solid ruckman for a number of years....
(40), Daniel Wulf
Daniel Wulf
Daniel Wulf is an Australian rules footballer, who played for St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League ....
1998 Adam Ramanauskas
Adam Ramanauskas
Adam Ramanauskas is a former Australian rules footballer for the Essendon Football Club.Of Lithuanian descent, Ramanauskas was selected at no. 12 in the 1998 AFL Draft and was mainly a defender or midfielder...
(12), Brendan Fevola
Brendan Fevola
Brendan Fevola is a professional Australian rules footballer. He played with the Carlton and Brisbane Lions football clubs in the Australian Football League....
(38), Toby Thurstans
Toby Thurstans
Toby Thurstans is a former Australian Rules footballer for Port Adelaide Football Club and plays at Centre half forward or in defense.-Early Career :...
(39), Craig Jacotine
Craig Jacotine
Craig Jacotine is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football LeagueJacotine was an unlucky player considering his credentials. He wasn't picked up until no.41 in the 1998 AFL Draft, when people thought he would have been picked up at a younger age the year before...
(41), Steven Rode (66)
1997 Travis Johnstone
Travis Johnstone
Travis Johnstone is an Australian rules footballer who has played for the Brisbane Lions and Melbourne in the Australian Football League...
(1), Trent Croad
Trent Croad
Trent Eric Croad is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League .During his 222 game AFL career, he achieved some of the Australian Football League's highest honours including an AFL premiership medallion, All-Australian selection, representing...
(3), Kris Massie
Kris Massie
Kris Massie is an Australian rules footballer who played for Carlton and Adelaide in the Australian Football League....
(7), Andrew Williams (34), Craig Black (55), Darren Hulme
Darren Hulme
Darren Hulme is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton.Hulme played junior football for the Frankston Bombers, and the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup. He was recruited to the AFL with the 8th selection in the 1997 AFL Preseason Draft...
1996 Paul Corrigan
Paul Corrigan
Paul David Corrigan CBE is a Labour politician, and was health adviser to Tony Blair. He is married to Hilary Armstrong.Born in Woolwich, London on 11 April 1948, Corrigan gained his BSc in sociology, London School of Economics in 1969; PhD in juvenile delinquency and secondary education,...
, Tom Gilligan
Tom Gilligan
Thomas "Tom" Gilligan is an Australian rules footballer who once played in the Australian Football League.-References:...
, Mark Winterton, Chris Holcombe
1995 Chad Morrison
Chad Morrison
Chad Morrison is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.Drafted to the West Coast Eagles as a compensatory pick in the 1995 Pre-Season Draft, Morrison made his debut as an eighteen year old in Round 1 against Fremantle in 1996, after staying in Melbourne to finish year 12...
, Ashley Gehling, Daniel Marshall, Ryan Aitken
1994 Jeff White
Jeff White
Jeffrey Newman "Jeff" White is an Australian rules footballer who had a distinguished career in the Australian Football League spanning 14 years. He played most recently and notably for the Melbourne Football Club, following a move from the Fremantle Dockers at the end of 1997...
(1), Matthew Joy, Chad Liddell
Chad Liddell
Chad Liddell is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood in the Australian Football League during the 1990s.Liddell played his early football at Mentone Grammar and with the Southern Stingrays...
, Michael Agnello, Austinn Jones
Austinn Jones
Austinn "Aussie" Jones is a former Australian rules footballer with the St Kilda Football Club.The 176 cm Jones played for the Collingwood reserves in the mid-1990s, but they were afraid to recruit him due to him weighing just 64 kilograms...
1993 Christian O’Brien, Michael Prentice, Shayne Smith, Clint Shaw
1992 Darren King, Danny Winkel, Kane Batzloff, Justin Leppitsch
Justin Leppitsch
Justin "Leppa" Leppitsch is a former Australian rules footballer who was a key defender for the Brisbane Lions.Leppitsch played with the Hawthorn Under 19s as a 16-year old in 1991, however did not make the Hawks' senior list...
Captain(s)
2009 Ryan BastinacRyan Bastinac
Ryan Bastinac is an Australian rules footballer for North Melbourne in the Australian Football League .Bastinac can play both as an inside and outside midfielder and is renowned for his endurance and aerobic capacity...
, Tom Scully
Tom Scully
Thomas "Tom" Scully is an Australian rules footballer, currently contracted to in the Australian Football League . He previously played for ....
2008 Ricky Ferraro, Paul Rogasch
2007 Russell Gabriel
2006 Matt Robinson, Mitch Bosward
2005 Greg Bentley
Greg Bentley
Gregory "Greg" Bentley is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League .Recruited from Rosebud and the Dandenong Stingrays, he was placed on the Port Adelaide Football Club's rookie list but was upgraded to the senior list during 2006...
2004 Jarred Moore
Jarred Moore
Jarred Moore is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League .Moore grew up in Langwarrin and played for the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup, from where he was recruited as the number 31 draft pick in the 2004 AFL Draft by the Sydney Swans. He was touted as a potential...
2003 Kane Taylor
2002 Michael Stinear
2001 Andrew Tuck
2000 Ricky Clark
1999 Michael Ablett
1998 Craig Jacotine
Craig Jacotine
Craig Jacotine is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football LeagueJacotine was an unlucky player considering his credentials. He wasn't picked up until no.41 in the 1998 AFL Draft, when people thought he would have been picked up at a younger age the year before...
, Chris Fortnam
1997 Ben Lovett, Craig Black
1996 Anthony Hardie, Daniel Anderson
1995 Michael Agnello
1994 Brad Lloyd
Brad Lloyd
Brad Lloyd is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Australian Football League during the 1990s....
1993 Ben Delarue
1992 Darren King
Best and Fairest
2009 Luke ParkerLuke Parker
Luke Parker is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.Born in Coventry, and having previously played for Oxford UCCE and British Universities, he has come through the ranks to play for Warwickshire, for whom he is soon hoping to make an impact in the...
2008 Tom Gillies
2007 Matthew Clark
2006 Curtis Barker
2005 Greg Bentley
Greg Bentley
Gregory "Greg" Bentley is an Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League .Recruited from Rosebud and the Dandenong Stingrays, he was placed on the Port Adelaide Football Club's rookie list but was upgraded to the senior list during 2006...
2004 Jarred Moore
Jarred Moore
Jarred Moore is an Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League .Moore grew up in Langwarrin and played for the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup, from where he was recruited as the number 31 draft pick in the 2004 AFL Draft by the Sydney Swans. He was touted as a potential...
2003 Marc Holt
2002 Michael Stinear
2001 Andrew Tuck
2000 Chris Newman
Chris Newman (Australian rules footballer)
Chris Newman is an Australian rules footballer, and currently the captain of the Richmond Football Club. He was drafted at Pick 55 in the 2000 AFL Draft from the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup....
1999 Michael Burke
1998 Ashley Roberts
1997 Trent Croad
Trent Croad
Trent Eric Croad is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played in the Australian Football League .During his 222 game AFL career, he achieved some of the Australian Football League's highest honours including an AFL premiership medallion, All-Australian selection, representing...
1996 Ben Lovett
1995 George Harrack
1994 Austinn Jones
Austinn Jones
Austinn "Aussie" Jones is a former Australian rules footballer with the St Kilda Football Club.The 176 cm Jones played for the Collingwood reserves in the mid-1990s, but they were afraid to recruit him due to him weighing just 64 kilograms...
1993 Shayne Smith
1992 Justin Leppitsch
Justin Leppitsch
Justin "Leppa" Leppitsch is a former Australian rules footballer who was a key defender for the Brisbane Lions.Leppitsch played with the Hawthorn Under 19s as a 16-year old in 1991, however did not make the Hawks' senior list...
Coaches
- Graeme YeatsGraeme YeatsGraeme Yeats is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL/AFL.A skilful and consistent defender/wingman, Yeats played 182 games with Melbourne before becoming a premiership winning coach in the Victorian Football Association with Sandringham...
(2004–present) - Rob Dean (1996–2003)
- Greg HutchisonGreg HutchisonGreg Hutchison is a former Australian rules footballer who played with and coached Melbourne in the VFL.Hutchison came to Melbourne from the Chelsea Football Club and appeared sporadically for the Demons during the late 1970s and early 1980s...
(1993–1995) - Peter RussoPeter RussoPeter Russo is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Hawthorn in the VFL during the 1980s before finishing his career at St Kilda....
(1992)