Football Club
The 2021 football season kicked off on April 10th with a home game for our club. It was a full program with 6 games being played and the senior teams were playing Torrens Valley. It was our inaugural Indigenous Round, and we made a day of it with the full program of games and before the A Grade game Jack Buckskin did a welcome to country and smoking ceremony which was great and then we cooked lamb on spit for the evening meal, and Shane and Troy Bond gave us a great insight into their AFL career’s.
The IBCGFC Indigenous Guernsey was designed by our A Grade Coach Elijah Ware for this Round One contest with Torrens Valley Football Club. The strip retains the ‘look’ of our usual Guernsey and essentially highlights both the geography of the area and the history of the Football Club.
The key piece of the design is the dark green patch in the lower right-hand corner of the Guernsey (if you are wearing it). This is the Recreation Ground which is a meeting or gathering place – a ‘waterhole’ if you like. The dotted lines denote the local roads. The horizontal dotted line above the ‘Meeting Place’ is Ackland Hills Road which intersects with Cherry Gardens road which runs vertically down. The continuation of the dotted line is Ironbank Road which loops around to the bottom of the dark green V – whereupon you find Morgan Road.
Other symbols of note include the 5 large stars – symbolizing our 5 Senior Premierships (4 Men, 1 Women), the smaller stars are the years the Club has been in existence, and the arrowed track markings are those of the large population of kangaroos in the area. And of course, the Thunderbolt – our logo.
In season 2021 we have amalgamated our junior teams with Bridgewater as the competition for juniors in the Country division did not have sufficient teams to run separate to the Central division. Our Women’s team will again be playing on Sunday afternoons and the Moddies will start their competition later in April.
As in previous season our main training night is Thursday and along with the Netball club training it means it is a big night with lots of players and families around. Meals are available and we welcome locals to drop in for a meal and enjoy themselves.
This is an explanation of the 2021 Indigenous Guernsey – click to download a PDF
