Colours: Red, black and white

Emblem: Saints

Senior MFL Premierships: 1935, 1938-9, 1949, 1965-6-7-8, 1970-1, 1976, 1980, 1985-6-7-8, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2007 (21 total)

McDonald Medallists: B.Finn 1962; G.Adams 1965 & 1966; B.Storer 1974; B.Albert 1978; G.Dietrich 1981; R.Jackson 1985; N.Brimsmead 1988; M.Huxtable 1992; R.Parker 1995; W.Gill 1998; S.Kelly 2005; B.Casey 2007 (12 Medallists/13 Medals)

With a total of twenty-one senior grade premierships Bambill is, with Werrimull, the Millewa Football League’s joint most successful club. The club entered the competition in 1927, but tended to struggle initially. In 1934 it qualified for the grand final, only to lose by a single point against Meringur. This proved to be the first in a sequence of six successive grand final appearances highlighted by victories over Werrimull in 1935 and 1939 and Merrinee in 1938.

The first two decades after world war two saw the Saints performing modestly in the main, with their only flag during this period coming in 1949. The mid-1960s brought a major resurrection in fortunes with five straight grand final appearances between 1964 and 1968 with all except the first of these being won. The 1970s proved almost as successful with the side claiming three premierships before embarking on the greatest decade in the club’s history, the 1980s. During this decade Bambill contested the grand final on six occasions, emerging victorious from all but one of them. Included in the triumphs was another four in a row sequence achieved precisely twenty years after the first.

Bambill’s status as a perennial competition pace-setter shows no signs of coming to an imminent end. The 1990s produced another two flags plus four losing grand finals, while the present decade has seen a further three premiership triumphs.

Interspersed with the glory there has been the odd disappointment, with one notable example coming in a 2008 season that saw the Saints comfortably top the ladder with a 15-1 record only to endure heart breaking successive finals losses to Gol Gol by 5 points and Euston by 3 points.

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