Corowa-Rutherglen Football Club

The Corowa-Rutherglen Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Kangaroos, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in the town of Corowa in New South Wales. Corowa-Rutherglen's football and netball squads formerly played in the Ovens & Murray Football League.

The club is notable for producing many VFL / AFL football players over many years, including John Longmire.

History
The club was formed in 1979 when the Corowa Spiders and the Rutherglen Redlegs merged to become the "Corowa-Rutherglen Roos".

Additionally surplus players formed the Rutherglen-Corowa Cats in 1979 and competed in the Coreen & District Football League for 13 seasons, before moving to the Ovens & King Football League for 11 seasons. Today the club is known as the Rutherglen Cats, dropping "Corowa" from their name in 2002, and have competed in the Tallangatta & District Football League since 2004.

In the 2016 Ovens & Murray FNL season it was announced that the Corowa-Rutherglen FNC would move the round 11 home match to Rutherglen's Barkley Park. This marked the first time a match was played in Rutherglen for premiership points since the 1981 Ovens & Murray FL season. Traditionally the Rutherglen Cats do not play on the Queen's Birthday Weekend as the town hosts the annual Winery Walkabout.

Accompanying the return was a pre-match luncheon with many guest speakers, including Rutherglen O&M Hall of Famer Bill Gayfer, Mick Gayfer, John Pearce, Corowa-Rutherglen's O&M Hall of Famer Jim Sandral, Dennis Sandral, John Clancy, and Peter Chisnall. At the luncheon it was suggested by Corowa-Rutherglen official Fred Longmire that both the Corowa-Rutherglen FNC & Rutherglen FNC could be run by a one-commission model, which would include three representatives from both clubs, an independent chairperson and a paid general manager to run 12 football and nine netball teams in the O&M and T&D football leagues.

Premierships

 * Ovens & Murray Football League
 * Seniors (2) 2000, 2003
 * Seconds (2): 1986, 1992
 * Thirds (3): 1983, 1984, 2000

VFL / AFL players
The following players played with CRFNC prior to making their VFL / AFL senior football debut or were drafted to an AFL club.


 * 1981 - Darryl Henderson -
 * 1986 - Michael Gayfer -
 * 1988 - John Longmire -
 * 1988 - Brett MacKenzie -
 * 1988 - Mark O'Donoghue -
 * 1994 - Damian Houlihan -
 * 1995 - Jeff Bruce -
 * 1997 - Brad Campbell -
 * 1997 - Adam Houlihan -
 * 1997 - Ben Mathews -
 * 2000 - Ryan Houlihan -
 * 2000 - Aaron Henneman -
 * 2001- David Teague -
 * 2002 - Robert Campbell -
 * 1982 - Craig Horwood - Played no senior AFL games
 * 1986 - Paul Bartlett - Played no senior AFL games
 * 1993 - Paul Lewis - Played no senior AFL games
 * 1999 - Adam Mathews - Played no senior AFL games
 * 2001 - Joshua Houlihan - Played no senior AFL games

Team of the Century (1903–2003)

 * Team ref:
 * EssendonDesign.svg Corowa (1903–78)
 * Rutherglen fc monogram.svg Rutherglen (1903–78)
 * AFL North Melbourne Icon.jpg Corowa-Rutherglen (1979–2003)


 * Notes:
 * 1 G. Tobias was named in the Team of the Century for his career with the Corowa FC. He was also a foundation player for the Corowa-Rutherglen FC in 1979