Morningside Australian Football Club
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Morningside Australian Football Club, also known as Morningside AFC or the Panthers, is an Australian Rules football club based at Jack Esplen Oval in the suburb of Hawthorne
in Brisbane. The club consists of both Junior and Senior football sections.
Its senior team competes in the AFL Queensland
Australian rules football
competition, while its junior sides compete in the AFL Brisbane Juniors (AFLBJ) competition. The club also caters for young girls and boys by running Auskick skills clinics, which are held at the beginning of the season and do not involve competitive games.
Morningside AFC has operated successfully as a football club in Brisbane for over 50 years and is one of the most widely recognised Queensland based AFL clubs within Australia. It developed from the Hawthorne Juniors club which was founded in 1931.
At the beginning of the 2000 season the members of both clubs’ voted unanimously to join and form one united club. This decision was made to strengthen the club socially, financially and to improve the junior player development programmes and created a player path to the elite AFLQ State League competition.
Morningside has provided some of the best Queensland-bred Australian rules footballers of the last 50 years, including triple-premiership winning Brisbane Lions
captain Michael Voss
and his teammate fullback Mal Michael
, Voss's brother Brett Voss
(who played at Brisbane and St Kilda), Brisbane Lions youngster Scott Harding comes from this club as well as former Carlton
player Tony Lynn
.
is awarded to the best and fairest player in an AFLQ season.
Hawthorne, Queensland
Hawthorne is an inner riverside suburb of Brisbane, Australia. It is east of the Brisbane central business district.Hawthorne started as a farming district in the 1860s, and was gradually subdivided as Brisbane grew...
in Brisbane. The club consists of both Junior and Senior football sections.
Its senior team competes in the AFL Queensland
AFL Queensland
AFL Queensland is the governing body of Australian rules football in Queensland. It was formed in 2000 after the previous governing body for the sport in Queensland, the Queensland Australian Football League , went into voluntary liquidation...
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...
competition, while its junior sides compete in the AFL Brisbane Juniors (AFLBJ) competition. The club also caters for young girls and boys by running Auskick skills clinics, which are held at the beginning of the season and do not involve competitive games.
Morningside AFC has operated successfully as a football club in Brisbane for over 50 years and is one of the most widely recognised Queensland based AFL clubs within Australia. It developed from the Hawthorne Juniors club which was founded in 1931.
At the beginning of the 2000 season the members of both clubs’ voted unanimously to join and form one united club. This decision was made to strengthen the club socially, financially and to improve the junior player development programmes and created a player path to the elite AFLQ State League competition.
Morningside has provided some of the best Queensland-bred Australian rules footballers of the last 50 years, including triple-premiership winning Brisbane Lions
Brisbane Lions
The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League . The club is based in Brisbane, Queensland. The club was formed from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions in 1996...
captain Michael Voss
Michael Voss
Michael Voss is the senior coach of the Brisbane Lions Australian Football League team and a former professional Australian rules footballer....
and his teammate fullback Mal Michael
Mal Michael
Malcolm Roberto "Mal" Michael is a former Australian rules footballer. He is notable for his successful professional Australian Football League career. Following a career spanned 238 games and three clubs in two Australian states he is best known as a triple premiership full-back with the...
, Voss's brother Brett Voss
Brett Voss
Brett Charles Voss is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Lions and the St Kilda Football Club.He was drafted by the Brisbane Bears as a zone selection in 1995...
(who played at Brisbane and St Kilda), Brisbane Lions youngster Scott Harding comes from this club as well as former Carlton
Carlton Football Club
The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...
player Tony Lynn
Tony Lynn
Tony Lynn is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Brisbane Bears and Carlton in the Victorian/Australian Football League ....
.
Grogan Medallists
The Grogan MedalGrogan Medal
The Grogan Medal is an Australian rules football award given to the best and fairest player in home and away rounds of each season's QAFL/Queensland State League competition. It was first awarded in 1946, previously the league's best player won the De Little Medal.-Winners:-External links:*...
is awarded to the best and fairest player in an AFLQ season.
- Noel McGuinness 1953
- Henry Maguire 1955
- Keith Farnsworth 1957
- Merv DihmMerv DihmMervyn "Merv" Dihm is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the Victorian Football League ....
1960 - Terry Johnston 1967
- Jeff Ebert 1974
- John BlairJohn Blair (Australian footballer)John Blair is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne, Fitzroy and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League . He has since become a successful coach in Queensland and is currently senior coach of Morningside.A utility, Blair spent a lot of his career as a centre-half...
1982 - Daryl BourkeDaryl BourkeDaryl Bourke is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League during the 1980s....
1989 & 1993 - Ricky Chapman 1992
- Mitchell Howe 1994
- Dean Edwards 1998
- Jacob Gough 2003
- Nathan Kinch 2008
QAFL Top Goalkickers
- G. Jones (114) – 1974
- G. Jones (124) – 1975
- G. Jones (142) – 1976
- J. Newton (81) – 1979
- J. BlairJohn Blair (Australian footballer)John Blair is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne, Fitzroy and St Kilda in the Victorian Football League . He has since become a successful coach in Queensland and is currently senior coach of Morningside.A utility, Blair spent a lot of his career as a centre-half...
(86) – 1985 - J. Manson (106) – 1986
- D. Vickery (95) – 1989
- D. Vickery (117) – 1990
- D. Vickery (100) – 1991
- D. Vickery (81) – 1992
- M. Russell (83) – 1994
- M. Russell (105) – 1995
- M. Russell (101) – 1997