1990 VFA season

none December 2017 December 2017 1990 14 12 Preston 7 Jamie Shaw(Preston – 103 goals) Matt Burrow(Preston – 14 votes)Joey Garbuio(Oakleigh – 14 votes)Steve Harkins(Port Melbourne – 14 votes)Stuart Nicol(Springvale – 14 votes) white 1989 VFA season 1989 white 1991 VFA season 1991 The 1990 VFA season was the 109th season of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), an Australian rules football competition played in the state of Victoria.1990 VFA Premiership Season https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfa/193/premiership%2Bseason/8/8/1990/advanced Australian Football 7 April 2025 https://web.archive.org/web/20250407053251/https://australianfootball.com/seasons/season/vfa/193/premiership%2Bseason/8/8/1990/advanced 7 April 2025 The premiership was won by the Williamstown Football Club, after it defeated Springvale in the grand final on 30 September by two points; it was Williamstown's twelfth top-division premiership. Association membership Merger between Brunswick and Broadmeadows After enduring financial difficulties consistently since the early 1980s, the future of the Brunswick Football Club was uncertain at the end of the 1989 season. Its financial position was weak, its facilities at Gillon Oval were of increasingly poor quality, and it had only 300 members.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 75 11 August 1989 Brunswick in merger talks with 'outsider' At a special meeting on 2 October 1989, the club met to decide on its future, and by a large margin it decided to enter a merger with the Broadmeadows Football Club; rejected options were continuing in the VFA as a stand-alone club, folding, or merging with Sunshine.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 59 3 October 1989 Wicks settle on merger option Under the terms of the merger, the new club was known as the Brunswick-Broadmeadows Magpies. It remained based at Gillon Oval, as Broadmeadows did not yet have its own home ground. The Broadmeadows Football Club, known as the Falcons, was a club at an administrative level only. Its executive committee was established in 1987, and it had the support of the Broadmeadows council to develop a new Association-standard venue at the Johnstone Street Reserve, Jacana; but in the three years it had existed, it had never fielded a team in any suburban competition, and it did not have an existing home ground. The club was built entirely around its aspirations to play in the Association, and had made an unsuccessful bid to join for the 1988 season.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Paul Cunningham 79 29 July 1987 Broadmeadows in VFA entry bid The Brunswick-Broadmeadows merger was not a successful venture. Its huge board, which comprised seven former Brunswick committeemen and seven former Broadmeadows committeemen, suffered throughout the year from factional fighting which limited its ability to operate effectively as a unified club. As a result, the club was unable to meaningfully address its debt problems during the year, it failed to meet its financial reporting commitments to the Association, and several committeemen and the general manager resigned from the club as a result of the board's ineffectiveness. On 1 August, the Association intervened; it sacked the club's board, and Association executive director Athol Hodgetts was appointed as the club's administrator.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 75 2 August 1990 noneThe Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 79 17 August 1990 Combine's saga set to drag on Hodgetts returned the club to a new board in September, but the club was still more than $250,000 in debt and at risk of Broadmeadows withdrawing from the merger.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 77 20 September 1990 Club in danger of getting the boot It was the beginning of the end for the club, which did not survive in the Association to the end of 1991.Herald-Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Adrian Dunn 72, 69 7 May 1991 Death of VFA Magpies Sunshine Football Club After having withdrawn is senior and reserves teams midway through the 1989 season, Sunshine intended to regroup and return to the Association in 1990. Although the club believed it had restored a financial position stronger than at least five other struggling clubs in the competition, it appeared unlikely that the club would be permitted to continue as a stand-alone entity, so it proposed a merger with Brunswick to form a new club which would have been known as the Sunshine Magpies; but, on 2 October, Brunswick voted instead to merge with Broadmeadows. A new opportunity for the club's survival emerged on 3 October, when it was announced that League clubs and were merging, with the new Fitzroy Bulldogs club to play at Princes Park, North Carlton;The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC 1–2 Tony de Bolfo Michael Stevens 3 October 1989 VFL clubs "to merge" this temporarily made Sunshine the only League or Association football team remaining in the inner western suburbs, giving it the chance to win over former Footscray fans, or enter a partnership with a new Footscray-based Association club;The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC 80 Amanda Buivids 5 October 1989 Merger may help lost clubs however, there was a strong and successful fightback campaign from local residents and businesses which not only kept Footscray as an independent League club, but also drew attention and local support away from Sunshine's efforts to consolidate its own viability. On 25 October, two days after the Fitzroy Bulldogs merger collapsed, the Association terminated Sunshine's licence.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC 91 Amanda Buivids 26 October 1989 Sunshine licence terminated The club continued preparations for the 1990 season in the hope that it could convince the Association to change its mind,Sunshine–Western Suburbs Advocate 3 McGhie to coach Sunshine 29 November 1989 Sunshine, VIC but this did not happen, bringing an end to Sunshine's 31-year stint in the competition. Home-and-away season In the home-and-away season, each team played eighteen games; the top five then contested the finals under the McIntyre final five system. The primary finals venue was North Port Oval, and the grand final was played at Princes Park. Ladder main WDL Q 5 true points y 4 2 NBU Preston SPR Springvale COB Coburg WIL Williamstown WER Werribee DAN Dandenong FRA Frankston SAN Sandringham BOX Box Hill BRU Brunswick-Broadmeadows PMB Port Melbourne PRA Prahran OAK Oakleigh CAM Camberwell 13 4 1 2188 1774 13 5 0 2214 1828 13 5 0 2105 1760 12 6 0 2130 1539 P 12 6 0 2257 1823 10 7 1 2122 1678 10 8 0 2077 1988 9 9 0 2154 2200 8 10 0 2242 2142 8 10 0 1867 1856 8 10 0 2026 2247 5 13 0 1775 2148 4 14 0 1936 2460 0 18 0 1330 3010 Premiers #CCFFCC QF QF QF QF QF 1) points; 2) percentage; 3) number of points for. complete The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 80 27 August 1990 Bullants cement ladder lead Finals Qualifying final Saturday, 1 September Springvale 23.19 (157) H Coburg 12.12 (84) North Port Oval 4,000 The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 84 3 September 1990 Springvale takes roar out of Lions Elimination Final Sunday, 2 September Williamstown 23.17 (155) H Werribee 16.14 (110) North Port Oval 4,523 The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 84 3 September 1990 Tigers no match for the Gulls First semi-final Saturday, 8 September Coburg 8.12 (60) A Williamstown 14.21 (105) North Port Oval 4,924 The Age Melbourne, VIC Nicholas Johnston 31 10 September 1990 Big win puts Vales in Grand Final Second semi-final Sunday, 9 September Preston 9.11 (65) A Springvale 24.15 (159) North Port Oval 3,533 Preliminary Final Sunday, 16 September Preston 15.6 (96) A Williamstown 23.15 (153) North Port Oval 7,494 The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 85 17 September 1990 Straight shooting Grand Final 1990 VFA Grand Final 1990 VFA Grand Final Sunday, 30 September 2.5 (17) 8.11 (59) 13.15 (93) 15.15 (105) Robinson 4, Maloni 3, Dempster 2, Dudley 2, Phillips 2, Jeffs, Maylin Meade (concussion)Phillips (unspecified) A 5.4 (34) 6.4 (40) 10.5 (65) 16.11 (107) Rickman 4, Johansen 3, Minett 3, Aziz, Gould, Muschialli, O'Connor, Smith, Swan Princes Park 18,634 The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 77 1 October 1990 Seagulls steal glory B. Bulluss, J. Russo Norm Goss Memorial Medal Barry Round (Williamstown) Notable events Interleague matches The Association played one interleague match, against the Australian Capital Territory, during the 1990 season. Phil Cleary (Coburg) was coach of the Association team, and Brett McTaggart (Williamstown) was captain.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 91 9 June 1990 Serious clash of reputations 1990 Interleague matches Sunday, 10 June A.C.T. 13.14 (92) A V.F.A. 21.11 (137) Football Park, Phillip 5,000 The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 51 11 June 1990 VFA Cleary the best Other notable events Freight company Wards Express, a subsidiary of Mayne Nickless, signed on as the new major sponsor of the Association, replacing ANA Friendly Societies. The premiership trophy became known as the Mayne Nickless Premiership Cup under the arrangement.The Sunday Sun Melbourne, VIC Sam Kekovich 97 1 April 1990 VFA on fire in the 90s Camberwell and Oakleigh both faced financial difficulties during the 1990 season. Oakleigh needed to raise $50,000 by the end of the season to avoid folding, mostly owing to debts left over from over-spending during the 1970s;The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 74 25 May 1990 Cobras, Devils in crisis and Camberwell, more than $100,000 in debt and unable to pay its players, established the "Save the Cobras" campaign to re-establish community support and remain afloat.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 53 29 May 1990 Cobras all fired up In the televised match-of-the-round on 7 July, Brunswick-Broadmeadows fell just short of overcoming a 70-point three-quarter time deficit against Preston. Preston 18.13 (121) led Brunswick-Broadmeadows 7.9 (51) at three-quarter time, but Brunswick-Broadmeadows kicked first eleven goals of the final quarter, including six goals in eight minutes, to draw within three points of Preston; Preston's Adrian Marcon kicked a goal in the 27th minute to steady the game for Preston; Preston 19.15 (129) d. Brunswick-Broadmeadows 18.12 (120).The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC Amanda Buivids 73 14 July 1990 Results leave queries For the first time, the Melbourne City Council gave its approval for the Association to stage the grand final at Princes Park.The Sun News-Pictorial Melbourne, VIC 82 6 September 1990 VFA's final support The Association had tried to move the grand final to Princes Park from as early as 1979, but had always previously faced opposition to Sunday football from the council.The Age Melbourne, VIC Marc Fiddian 37 26 May 1979 Council to decide on VFA finals References Category:Victorian Football League seasons VFA