Balmain Australian Football Club
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| Full name | Balmain Australian Football Club |
| Nickname | Dockers |
| Strip | Similar to Fremantle Football Club) |
| Founded | 1903 |
| Sport | Australian rules football |
| League | Sydney AFL |
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| Ground | Drummoyne Oval |
| Club song | ' |
| President/Chair | Paul Feain |
| Coach | Damien Hall |
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Balmain Australian Football Club is an Australian rules football club competing in the Sydney AFL league and based out of the Sydney suburb of Balmain.
The club recently did a deal with the Fremantle Dockers, and are now known as the Balmain Dockers. In the 2007 season, they will wear a Fremantle-style guernsey, replacing the black with a yellow sash strip that went with their previous nickname, the Tigers.
[edit] History
The club formed in 1903 as the Balmain Football Club, a founding member of the Sydney Football League.
[edit] Famous Players
Sydney Swans player Troy Luff played for Balmain after retiring from AFL football in 2002. Charles Brown played for Collingwood from 1916-1923. Rugby league player Wally Messenger (the brother of Dally Messenger) played for the club in its early days.
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Clubs in the Sydney AFL |
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Balmain | Campbelltown | East Coast | North Shore | Pennant Hills | St George | UNSW-Eastern Suburbs | Western Suburbs | Wollongong |
| Sydney Football Association |
Holroyd-Parramatta | Macquarie University | Manly-Warringah |Penrith | South-West Sydney | Southern | Sydney University | University of Technology Sydney | St Clair |
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