by Mereki | Oct 1, 2020 | Falcons History, Football
After nearly twenty years of providing opportunities for women to play sport, the Falcons spread their wings in 2008 and launched their first junior team: a youth girls Aussie rules team. It would be the beginning of a remarkably successful junior program that would...
by Mereki | Aug 1, 2020 | Falcons History, Football
In the 2005 Falcons Annual Report, senior coach Peta Searle wrote that “you’re only as good as your next game so let’s be ready for a kick ass 2006”. It was a rousing statement that would foreshadow the beginning of one of the most successful eras for Aussie rules at...
by Mereki | Jun 1, 2020 | Falcons History, Football
If footy fate exists, then it was in action at the end of the 2002 VWFL season. The Falcons footy program was in the midst of a rough patch. While an increase in player numbers at the beginning of the season had encouraged the club to enter a second team in Division...
by Mereki | Feb 20, 2020 | Falcons History, Football
After five years as the perpetual underdogs, the 1996 season was one that changed the course of the story of the Falcons and they have a bunch of Lions to thank for it. The Ballarat Lions won a premiership in 1995, but that didn’t stop the team folding after the end...
by Mereki | Jan 1, 2020 | Falcons History, Football
At the end of the 1989 Victorian Women’s Football League (VWFL) season, the Fairfield Falcons had lost all but one player. It looked likely to be a disappointing end to the club’s involvement with the only women’s football league in the state after first forming in...
