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KEY FACTS

Official name
Terang Mortlake Football Netball Club Inc.

Known as
Terang Mortlake

Formed
2001: merger between Terang and Western Lions

Colours
Blue and red

Emblem
Bloods

Associated clubs
Derrinallum; Terang; Mortlake; Western Lions

Affiliation (Current)
Hampden Football Netball League (HFL) 2002–2024

Senior Premierships
Hampden Football League - 2004-5, 2008 (3 total)

Terang Mortlake

Prior to their amalgamation in late 2001, both Terang and Mortlake had been successful members of the Hampden Football League for many years. Football in Mortlake dated back at least to the 1880s, and Mortlake Football Club participated in a number of different competitions prior to joining the HFL as a founder member in 1930. It won its first HFL senior premiership in 1931, and went on to add two more, in 1936 and 1975, as well as finishing as runners-up on seven occasions. 

The club also won seven reserves and two under eighteen flags, but during the 1990s it began to experience trouble finding enough players to field viable teams each weekend, and in 1999 it entered into a merger arrangement with the Derrinallum Football Club to form the Western Lions. The Lions only lasted one full season, however, before disbanding. It would be the Western Lions entity which would merge with Terang in August 2001 ahead of the 2002 HFL season.

Terang, like Mortlake, had been a foundation member of the competition in 1930 and overall won a total of eighteen premierships, of which eight were at senior level. The club’s colours of red and blue and nickname of the Bloods have been inherited by Terang Mortlake, which plays its home matches in the two towns alternately. The success of the merger is readily discerned from the club’s achievements to date, with the seniors winning three premierships from four grand finals in their first eight seasons, and the reserves four flags from four grand finals over the same period. During the past decade or so the Bloods have continued to perform quite strongly in the main but there have been no further grand final appearances. They finished fourth in 2014, third in 2015, ninth in 2016, eighth in 2017 and sixth in 2018 on what is a ten team premiership ladder.

Source

John Devaney - Full Points Publications


 

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.