RIP: Coreen and District Football Netball League 1909 to 2007
Today marks the end of one of the longest running Football Leagues in Country Victoria and New South Wales, 98 years strong 1909 to 2007.
The Coreen League with its origins around Corowa in New South Wales bids farewell today at Rennie Football Ground. Todays grandfinal we see 2 amalgamated clubs which comprises 6 former power houses and two of the foundation clubs of the league.
CDHBU Saints better known as Coreen, Daysdale, Hopefield Buraja United Saints will take on Billabong Crows better known as Urana and Oaklands.
Coreen and Daysdale originally merged to form the Saints in 1996. Hopefield and Buraja merged in 1948. Then these two clubs amalgamated in 2006.
Urana and Oaklands merged in 2005.
All these clubs have won a total of 42 flags and one of the merged teams will make it 43.
RiverinAFL will be attending the game in respect for what the league has done for football and netball in the region and how it showed the community spirit will ensure the fight to survive lasts as long as humanly possible.
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