In 1997 they club reverted to Geelong West St Peters. The club made the finals four times and were wooden spooners twice during their 28 years in the GFL.
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The official AFL Season Guide recognises Richmond as the wooden spooners for the 1916 VFL season, while the Football Record in 1917-1923 listed the teams' positions for 1916 as Fitzroy, Carlton, Collingwood and Richmond.
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McConnell made his first grade debut for Western Suburbs in Round 3 1933 against Newtown at Marrickville Oval. Western Suburbs only managed to win 4 games in 1933 and finished with the wooden spoon by coming last. In 1934, McConnell played 17 games as Western Suburbs went from wooden spooners to premiers by claiming the minor premiership and then defeating Eastern Suburbs in the 1934 grand final with McConnell playing at second row. As of 2019, Western Suburbs are the last team to have gone from wooden spooners to premiers the following season.
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However, late-season victories over old rivals Collingwood in Round 19, and Essendon in Round 21, saved them from this fate. They would eventually finish the year as wooden-spooners, with 3 wins, 1 draw, and 18 losses.
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Stirzaker was selected and played for Australia XV that played the French Barbarians in late 2016 losing 19–11 in Bordeaux. After previous successful seasons Stirzaker captained a Rebels team that finished wooden spooners for the 2017 season, and faced possible axing out of the competition.
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They went on to win the 2016 Premiership. After winning the 1942 premiership, Canterbury- Bankstown then crashed to last place in season 1943. After winning the 1952 premiership, Western Suburbs finished last in the season 1953. South Sydney went from minor premiers in 1989 to wooden spooners in 1990.
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They were promoted into the GFL in 1982 and stayed until they merged in 1989. The new club entered the Geelong Football League but progress was slow, wooden spooners in their second year. From 1992 to 1996 they played as West Saints. In 1996 they unsuccessfully played off for the premiership.
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Adelaide came back to South Australia for a clash with last seasons wooden spooners . The game was played at Elizabeth Oval, home of local club Central District, and Adelaide prevailed by two points for their first win of the new season. The last match of Adelaide's pre-season was played against at Visy Park. It was another close affair, with the Crows prevailing by a point.
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Phil Brown confirmed the Riverina Rhinos will be joining the ACT NPL leagues system but rejected it was connected to a future A-League bid. The Rhinos finished its first season in the NPL in 9th place in the league, two points above wooden spooners Monaro Panthers and eight points behind 8th placed Woden-Weston FC. Riverina did not qualify for the finals series.
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The Central Coast entered a respresentative team, as the Roosters, in the 2020 NSWRL Women's Premiership. The commencement of the competition was delayed until July, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. The team completed the seven match regular season in first place, with five wins, one draw and one bye. Remarkably, the draw came against Wentworthville Magpies who were winless wooden spooners.
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Slefendorfas made an excellent debut for Canterbury United against 2010–11 season wooden spooners YoungHeart Manawatu, scoring a brace in their 4–0 victory on the opening weekend of the season. Round 2 would provide more goals and excitement from him, as Canterbury United put Waikato FC to the sword 5–0, with Slefendorfas scoring 4 goals, to take his tally to 6 after only two games.
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The 1991 NSWRL season featured the introduction of rugby league football's first draft system. The draft allowed teams to recruit players on a roster system based on where the club finished the previous year. It ran in reverse order with the wooden spooners getting first choice and the premiers last. The draft lasted just the one season before being defeated in the courts by players and coaches opposed to its limitations.
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Originally from Moree, Peckham made his first grade debut for the newly admitted Penrith side in 1967. Peckham played in the club's first ever game against Canterbury-Bankstown which ended in a 15-12 defeat. In the club's inaugural season, Penrith finished second last on the table, 5 points clear of wooden spooners Cronulla. Peckham went on to play 2 further seasons for Penrith before signing with Canterbury-Bankstown.
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In 1997, Maybon moved to the newly formed entity the Adelaide Rams on a two-year deal. Maybon played a senior role at the club. Maybon played 13 games and scored 5 tries and finished the 1997 season as the team's equal top try scorer along with Kurt Wrigley. Despite these efforts, the Rams finished 9th in the 1997 Super League season and only finished one point ahead of wooden spooners, the North Queensland Cowboys.
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Sheehan made his first grade debut for Western Suburbs in 1934. That season the club went from wooden spooners in 1933 to winning the minor premiership and premiership in 1934. Sheehan played on the wing in the 1934 grand final victory over Eastern Suburbs at the Sydney Sports Ground with Sheehan scoring a try. As of the 2019 season, no other team since Western Suburbs has come from last place to winning the premiership the following year.
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The club was one of the foundation members of the Sydney rugby football league competition in 1908. Founded at a meeting on 4 February 1908 at Ashfield Town Hall, they won only one match the following season so were the League's second wooden spooners (after Cumberland in 1908). Though they spent long periods of time as also-rans they did taste premiership success four times in the mid 20th century. They won their first premiership in 1930, beating St George 27–2.
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Jack Rayner took up the reins as South Sydney's player-coach in 1949 and held that role for all five of the premiership victories he enjoyed at Souths. His playing retirement in 1957 marked his coaching retirement at the club. Rayner coached the club to 5 premierships: 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954 and 1955. For the 1958 NSWRFL season he took on the challenge as coach at Parramatta who had been wooden-spooners in 1956 and 1957 and consistent cellar-dwellers all through the 1950s.
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Doyle made his first grade debut for Canterbury against South Sydney in 1966 after being called into the side to cover an injury within the team. Doyle later became the first choice five-eighth after Leo Toohey was demoted to reserve grade. Doyle then went on to partner Ross Kidd in the halves. Doyle made 19 appearances for Canterbury in 1967 as the club reached the grand final after years of struggling on the field and had only finished as wooden spooners in 1964, 3 years prior.
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Brisbane's Shaun Berrigan, playing in his new role as hooker, received the Clive Churchill Medal for man-of-the-match. His dummy half raids and effective defence were seen as instrumental in his team's victory. The Broncos' victory was the club's sixth premiership in their nineteen seasons and it broke what was at the time their longest premiership drought (five years). They suffered 11 losses during the season (including those to non-finals teams the Cowboys (twice), Wests Tigers and the wooden spooners, the Rabbitohs), the most ever by a premiership-winning team.
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Western Suburbs were the only team to finish last in a season (1933) and then back up with a premiership in the following year. In season 2009 the Sydney Roosters finished last, winning just five games, however conjured a remarkable turnaround on and off the field to make the Grand final the following season. In 2003, the Penrith Panthers won a premiership after finishing wooden spooners in 2001, and after finishing round 2 of the 2003 season in last place (15th). In the 2014 NRL season, the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks were the wooden spoon recipients.
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In the curtain raiser, VFL wooden spooners 19.16 (130) defeated NSWAFA runners-up Newtown 8.11 (59) by 71 points. Essendon won the toss and kicked to the Punt Road end of the ground in the first quarter. Essendon started well, with Tommy Jenkins kicking the first goal inside the first minute of play, and kicking another shortly afterwards. Thereafter, Footscray did most of the attacking for the quarter, but finished with only two goals, and were repeatedly repelled by the Essendon defenders, particularly Watt, Fitzmaurice, Donaldson and Maher.
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Andrews made his first grade debut for South Sydney against Parramatta in round 3 of the 1984 season at Redfern Oval. Andrews played in both of South Sydney's finals games in that season. Andrews played for Souths in their subsequent finals campaigns in 1986, 1987 and 1989, the latter of which is when the club claimed the minor premiership. In 1990, Andrews only made 2 appearances as Souths suffered one of their worst seasons on the field and also one of the worst form slumps as they went from minor premiers to wooden spooners.
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Longbottom made his first grade debut for South Sydney in round 2 of the 1988 season against arch rivals Eastern Suburbs at the Sydney Football Stadium. Longbottom was a member of the South Sydney team that won the minor premiership in the 1989 NSWRL season but failed to reach the grand final after being defeated by the Canberra Raiders in the preliminary final. Longbottom's final season for Souths came in 1990 as the club went from minor premiers the previous year to wooden spooners after winning only 2 games all year.
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In 2015, the women's team went from grand finalists to wooden spooners after winning just one game to be clear on the bottom of the standings. The men, meanwhile, were also in unfamiliar territory. Their 13-year run of making the finals ended in 2015 as they finished in 12th position with a 9–17 record while losing their last seven matches. Since joining the SBL in 2000, the Lightning had been a powerful force in the men's competition, never going through a season winning single-digit games.
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Upton was Head Coach of the Sydney Thunder cricket team in the Australian Big Bash League for four seasons, from 2014-2018. His appointment came after the team had lost 21 out of 22 matches in the first three seasons of the Big Bash League (BBL01 to BBL03). Along with Captain Mike Hussey, Upton guided the team from wooden-spooners to Big Bash League Champions two seasons later, in BBL05. In a 2015 interview, Australian cricketer Shane Watson referred to Upton as 'one of the best coaches in the world'.
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18 left them decrepit in the ruck and defence. Future Hall of Fame coach John Todd had his first major success, lifting 1965 and 1966 wooden spooners South Fremantle to their third finals berth and first victory since 1956. Early in the season the red and whites were the nearest rivals to East Perth, who won fifteen of their first sixteen matches before fading. Perth had been a 2/1 flag favourite before the season startedChristian, Geoff; ‘Three Look Good but East Fremantle Outclassed’; The West Australian, 10 April 1967, p.
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Blake made his first grade debut for Western Suburbs in Round 10 1933 against Newtown at Pratten Park. In 1934, Western Suburbs went from wooden spooners in 1933 to winning the minor premiership and premiership in 1934. Blake played in the 1934 grand final victory over Eastern Suburbs at the Sydney Sports Ground. The final had been delayed for over a week due to heavy rain and Wests went into the match as underdogs with Easts boasting players such as future immortal David Brown, Viv Thicknesse and Ray Stehr.
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Just months after his last game, Stewart took a punt by taking on the coaching job at the embattled wooden spooners, South Melbourne. He was lured to the job by ex-North Melbourne administrator, Ron Joseph, who was on a short-lived appointment at the club. The Swans were the worst performed team since the war, and their finances were beginning to spin out of control. Over two seasons, Stewart performed a minor miracle by hauling the team up to eighth in 1976 and then the following year the Swans made the finals for only the second time in 32 years.
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He became coach of the Wests Panthers in 1975 where he guided them to back to back BRL Premierships in 75 and 76 after Wests finished wooden spooners in 1974. In 2004, Ron was nominated for the Canterbury Bankstown Berries to Bulldogs 70 Year Team of Champions. On Sunday 31 July 2016, Ron received the great honour of having the old seniors field at Purtell Park, Bardon named after him. The field was name Erica Quinn and Ron Raper Oval and was named after Ron in recognition for his services to the Wests Panthers throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.
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Sims in action for Broncos Sims made his Brisbane Broncos début in the Round 1, 2008 clash against reigning wooden spooners, the Penrith Panthers, in a 48–12 win. Later that year, an elimination semi-final against the Melbourne Storm, Sims started the match in the back-row. The Broncos were leading at the time, but went on to lose the game in the final minute, after Sims dropped the ball with two minutes remaining in the match, which led to the match winning try by Greg Inglis. Sims described it as "one of the low points" of his career.
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Wheelhouse was unavailable for the majority of the 2006-07 A-League season and made his return against Perth Glory in Round 1 of the 2007–08 season. Since returning, the often unfairly maligned Wheelhouse has impressed for the Jets, one of the standouts in Newcastle's disastrous 2008-09 A-League campaign, where they plummeted from champions to wooden spooners in one season. Jobe scored one of the great A-League goals of all time in a Round 18 clash with Gold Coast United in season 2009–10. The goal was described by Gold Coast manager Miron Bleiberg as a "Maradona-style" goal.
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In the following 2 seasons, Canterbury went from winning the premiership in 1942 to running last in 1943 and 1944 claiming the wooden spoon. As of the 2019 season, no other club has gone from premiers to wooden spooners the next season with the exception of Melbourne who won the premiership in 2009 but were later stripped of the title for major breaches of the salary cap in 2010 and made to play for no points which resulted in the club coming last. Allison played up with Canterbury up until the end of 1945 before retiring.
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In 1942, Clunas made 1 appearance for Canterbury and missed out on the club's second premiership victory over St George. In the following 2 seasons, Canterbury went from winning the premiership in 1942 to running last in 1943 and 1944 claiming the wooden spoon. As of the 2019 season, no other club has gone from premiers to wooden spooners the next season with the exception of Melbourne who won the premiership in 2009 but were later stripped of the title for major breaches of the salary cap in 2010 and made to play for no points which resulted in the club coming last.
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In 2014, Chile reached a bottom point; in the 2014 South American Championship, they finished bottom of the group, losing to Brazil for the first time in their history. Chile were also wooden spooners in the 2014 CONSUR Cup, the new competition featuring Argentina and the top 2 sides in South America. However, the following year, Chile won the South American Championship for the first time in their history, cruising through both Brazil and Paraguay before defeating Uruguay at home 30–15. In 2016, Chile participated in the first Americas Rugby Championship in its current format.
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In 2002, the then table-topping Canterbury Bulldogs were stripped of all competition points and finished wooden spooners after being found cheating the salary cap. However, just two years later they won the premiership with largely the same playing roster. Gallop also had to deal with the mid-season defection of Bulldogs star Sonny Bill Williams to French rugby union. In 2011, he again fell into hot water in his first visit to Melbourne after the Storm salary cap scandal of 2010, when he likened Melbourne Storm fans to terrorists after they booed him during the presentation of the 2011 Minor Premiership.
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The Demons lost their first three games of the season and never recovered, finishing a bitterly disappointing 17th on the ladder with five wins and 17 losses. Three narrow victories prevented the Demons from winning their first wooden spoon in ten years – two five-point wins over Hawthorn and Carlton, and a last-gasp one- point win over eventual wooden spooners Gold Coast. Gawn was appointed as the club's sole captain for the 2020 season, replacing co-captains Viney and Jones. Melbourne improved significantly from their horror 2019 season but, just like in 2017, they would narrowly miss the finals.
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Victoria Park, wooden spooners in 1935, reverted to the club's traditional name of 'Perth' after Parliament failed to pass an Act to allow them to acquire Raphael Park to develop a new oval.East, Alan (2005); From Redlegs to Demons: A History of the Perth Football Club from 1899; p. 58 After a poor beginning the Redlegs improved, but were not again to contest open-age finals until they began three decades of only briefly interrupted success in 1947. Off the field, 1936 saw the WANFL establish permanent headquarters at Subiaco Oval,'New Football Headquarters'; The West Australian, 7 September 1936, p.
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Gray made his first grade debut for Western Suburbs in Round 1 1934 against Balmain at Leichhardt Oval. In the same season, Western Suburbs went from wooden spooners in 1933 to winning the minor premiership and premiership in 1934. The change in form was attributed to the fact that Western Suburbs lost players such as Frank McMillan and Alan Ridley who were away on tour with the Australian team when the club finished last but returned for the start of the 1934 season. Gray played in the 1934 grand final victory over Eastern Suburbs at the Sydney Sports Ground.
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The competition at the time and for decades to come often did not complete full round robins. When a team had an unassailable lead over their nearest rivals the competition was often concluded at that point. Ponsonby and City had already met twice during the season but rather than conclude the round robin with round 10. In round 10 Ponsonby would have had a bye and City would likely have gained an easy win over wooden spooners, Eden Ramblers so the Auckland Rugby League decided to have the two top teams play off for the title a week early rather than prolong the competition.
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In the following 2 seasons, Canterbury went from winning the premiership in 1942 to running last in 1943 and 1944 claiming the wooden spoon. As of the 2019 season, no other club has gone from premiers to wooden spooners the next season with the exception of Melbourne who won the premiership in 2009 but were later stripped of the title for major breaches of the salary cap in 2010 and made to play for no points which resulted in the club coming last. By 1945, Elley was playing for the Canterbury reserve grade team which reached the grand final against South Sydney. Elley retired following the conclusion of the 1945 season.
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In the first match they were humbled in front of a packed Jubilee Stadium, before travelling to face Bennett's former team. The Broncos defeated the Dragons. Season 2010 saw the club lose seven matches – the same tally as in the 2009 home-and-away season, against eventual wooden spooners the Melbourne Storm, 2008 premiers the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles, their perennial bogey team the Canberra Raiders, 2003 premiers the Penrith Panthers in round 17, the Gold Coast Titans in extra time in round 20, Bennett's old team the Brisbane Broncos in round 21 and a second time to the Canberra Raiders in round 24.
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Carman, as promised when he began coaching the Double Blues, retained the coaching job for 1996 despite being on a 24-game losing streak. Sturt broke their 27 games losing streak against West Adelaide in Round 3 of 1996, but four wins and an eighth successive wooden spoon was seen as disappointing after the off-season off-field efforts. It was only in 1997, after further changes to the club’s administrative personnel, that the Double Blues improved seriously, rising from perpetual wooden spooners to fourth place. In 1998, Sturt played in the grand final against rival Port Adelaide but went down by 9 points.
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The stadium continued as a home to the Mariners A-League side , and hosted NRL matches throughout the 2008 Centenary Year. In 2014, the NSW Country Eagles hosted a National Rugby Championship match at Central Coast. In recent years the Sydney Roosters have hosted one NRL game per season at Central Coast Stadium; other clubs such as the South Sydney Rabbitohs, Wests Tigers, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs have also taken games to the Central Coast. In 2004, Central Coast Stadium played host to two North Queensland Cowboys matches, the first of which resulted in a historic 20-20 draw with wooden spooners South Sydney, the first such result since golden point was introduced in 2003.
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Kristen Hughes (née Heinrich; born 28 August 1979) is an Australian netball player, who played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the ANZ Championship in 2008. Kristen received her first call up to the Australian Netball Team in June 2004, after Australian shooter Catherine Cox was injured a week before the team was due to fly to New Zealand for a Test Series against the Silver Ferns. She now has 5 international test caps, always playing as goal shooter and is a member of the current Australian Team. After Hughes was selected in the Australian 21U Squad in 1999 while playing with the Adelaide Ravens, her sporting career stagnated as the Ravens were wooden spooners.
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Following that loss the Cats entered a form slump, caused in part by several key injuries; their eight games from Rounds 14 to 21 yielded four wins and four losses, but only one of those wins (a 46-point victory against eventual wooden spooners ) was by a margin greater than one goal. Geelong won their final game comfortably to finish with a record of 18-4. They defeated a fast-finishing Bulldogs team by 14 points in their qualifying final and then comfortably beat Collingwood by 73 points in their preliminary final to advance to the grand final. In the week leading up to the grand final, Geelong's Gary Ablett was awarded the Brownlow Medal.
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In the following 2 seasons, Canterbury went from winning the premiership in 1942 to running last in 1943 and 1944 claiming the wooden spoon. As of the 2019 season, no other club has gone from premiers to wooden spooners the next season with the exception of Melbourne who won the premiership in 2009 but were later stripped of the title for major breaches of the salary cap in 2010 and made to play for no points which resulted in the club coming last. Later in his career, Anderson switched to the second-row and he retired at the end of 1946. In total, Anderson played 105 games for Canterbury across all grades.
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The feel-good story of the season was Nambour Yandina United who came 2nd and won the major semi-final to make their first ever grand final, after being wooden spooners in 2018. Nambour Yandina United's 2nd placing equalled their best ever finishes in 1977 (as Nambour Reds) and 2000 when ironically they also finished 2nd to Noosa (on goal difference). In the major semi-final Nambour Yandina United defeated Noosa 3–2 with Josh Sansucie scoring a double to make their first A Grade/1st Division/Premier League grand final since their formation in 1974. In August Kawana celebrated their 40th anniversary following their formation from the disbanded Henzell Park Rangers club.
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Young made his first grade debut for Canterbury against Balmain in Round 4 1944 at the Leichhardt Oval. In the 1944 season, Young made 4 appearances as Canterbury went from winning the premiership in 1942 to running last in 1943 and 1944 claiming the wooden spoon. As of the 2019 season, no other club has gone from premiers to wooden spooners the next season with the exception of Melbourne who won the premiership in 2009 but were later stripped of the title for major breaches of the salary cap in 2010 and made to play for no points which resulted in the club coming last. In 1947, Canterbury went on to finish as minor premiers that season.
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Despite Gosnell being the second of their famous half-back line to win the Sandover Medal, West Perth fell to wooden spooners owing to the suspension of key forward Fred Wimbridge for most of the season.Atkinson, Brian; It’s a Grand Old Flag: a History and Comprehensive Statistical Analysis of the West Perth Football Club 1885-2007, p. 57 Following controversy over his clearance from South Fremantle that caused him to sit out the 1923 season,Devaney, John; Full Points Footy’s WA Football Companion, p. 201. East Perth's “Bonny” Campbell was to break Allan Evans’ record from 1921 for the most goals scored during a WAFL season with 67.Devaney, Full Points Footy’s WA Football Companion, p.
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The change in form was attributed to the fact that Western Suburbs lost players such as Frank McMillan and Alan Ridley who were away on tour with the Australian team when the club finished last but returned for the start of the 1934 season. As of the 2019 NRL season, no club has gone from wooden spooners to premiers the following season since Western Suburbs achieved this feat. After the premiership victory in 1934, Western Suburbs went through a period of decline and finished last in 1940, 1942 and 1943. McGuinness became a regular member of the team during this time and was selected to play for New South Wales and New South Wales City in 1941.
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Hearts and Dumbarton finished off their respective league campaigns on 15 February at Tynecastle. The Sons were anchored at the bottom of the league and this showed as there was never a serious challenge mounted and the Hearts were untroubled in a 7-0 rout. Following a free week, on 29 February it was the battle of the wooden spooners as Dumbarton travelled to Greenock to play Morton who had finished bottom of the Second Division. At half time the Sons led 3-2 but in a miserable second half performance the Sons were completely outplayed and were deservedly beaten 7-3, although losing Campbell to injury with the score at 3-3 did not help.
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Collingwood performed scratchily in the NAB Cup and were made to play NAB Cup premiers and premiership favourites the Western Bulldogs in round 1. Despite coming in as underdogs they beat the Bulldogs, boasting new recruit Barry Hall, by six goals in a stirring victory. They would then win in unconvincing fashion against reigning wooden spooners Melbourne by a single point and would then go on to lose by 28 points against top four aspirant St Kilda in a low scoring encounter in round 3. Despite the Magpies dominating field position for much of the game they managed to only kick 4 goals and 17 behinds in what would become the beginning of a trend of inaccurate goal- kicking which the Pies would be widely criticised for throughout the season.
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Maybon was graded to South Sydney as a 17-year-old in 1987, and made his first grade debut for the Rabbitohs in round 21 of the 1988 season, playing at halfback against the Gold Coast Giants at the Sydney Football Stadium. This was Maybon's only game of first grade in 1988 and he would only make two appearances for the Rabbitohs in their 1989 season in which they finished minor premiers after losing only three games in the regular season that year. Maybon played his first game at fullback against the Canberra Raiders at Bruce Stadium in round 7 of the Rabbitohs' ill-fated 1990 season in which they finished wooden spooners after winning only two games. From 1990 until 1993, Maybon was more of a regular in the Rabbitohs' team.
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The 1989 WAFL season was the 105th season of senior football in Perth. It saw Claremont continue its dominance of the competition with a third successive minor premiership under Gerard Neesham, despite having lost most of their top players of previous seasons to the VFL, and their 1988 conquerors Subiaco fall to third last with a mere six wins – their worst performance since the dark days of 1983 when the club had not played in the finals for nine years and had been wooden spooners four times in eight seasons. Coach Bunton had to promote many young players and knew 1989 was to be a year of rebuilding,Lewis, Ross; ‘Subi on Slippery Slope’; The West Australian, 12 June 1989, p. 112 though only a second (and last as of 2014) Colts premiership under Eddie Pitter showed Subiaco did possess much resilience.
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The Australian rugby league wooden spooners are the team that finished last in the premier top-grade rugby league competition in Australia, which is currently the National Rugby League, and was previously the New South Wales Rugby Football League (1908-1994), the Australian Rugby League (1995-1997), and Super League (1997). Each of these seasons is considered to represent one continuous line of competition dating back from the first season in 1908. The wooden spoon is an unofficial award, however, fans often bring "real" wooden spoons to taunt opposition sides who are struggling on the bottom of the ladder. Since the Melbourne Storm's salary cap breach which saw them win the wooden spoon in 2010 (more below), betting agencies have instead placed wagers on who would suffer the most losses in a single season, rather than win the wooden spoon itself.
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During the 2006 season, Armstrong stepped down as coach due to internal pressure from the playing group, ending his six-year term as Devils coach. North Hobart premiership coach and former Devil Brendon Bolton was made stand in coach for the remainder of the year.Tasmania Devils history Tasmanian and former Sydney Swan Daryn Cresswell was named coach of the club for 2007 after a successful career as an assistant coach at Geelong and the Brisbane Lions; however, hampered in part by Cresswell's off-field issues which included a gambling addiction and eventual fraud conviction, the club finished wooden spooners both seasons he coached the team, winning only six of a total 34 games. At the end of the 2008 season, AFL Tasmania decided to withdraw the Devils from the VFL competition in favour of restarting a new Tasmanian league encompassing the entire state.
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It was won by the Hobart Football Club, wooden spooners of the previous two seasons in the TANFL and, despite some good football displayed, the football public failed to warm to the concept. The series ran at a financial loss as attendances were disappointing with 75,516 people attending the 58 matches. The TANFL expressed plans to hold another Winfield Statewide Cup competition in 1981 with prizemoney extended to $50,000 with a view to holding a full TFL Statewide League roster comprising six TANFL clubs and six clubs from the North and North West from the start of the 1982 season. However, at a meeting of the three main bodies in Launceston on 21 August 1980, the NTFA and NWFU voted against the proposal believing it not to be in the best interests of football in the north of the state.
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The prevailing mood was best captured in Footscray's last win of the season in Round 20 against eventual wooden-spooners ; although the Bulldogs won by 78 points, a meagre crowd of 8,673 turned up to what many believed at the time would be Footscray's last home game at the Western Oval. Age journalist Garry Linnell wrote: "But saddest of all is that the suburb of Footscray has turned its back on the Western Oval and its football team. Without that support, one of the last remaining monuments to the days when Victorian football was a battle of suburban tribes has hit the dust." Faced with the prospect of running a club with declining membership and sponsorship, Columb learned that Footscray's debt situation was poor, and it reached the point when the VFL looked likely to appoint an administrator to wind up the club's affairs at the end of the year.
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This was unpopular among local fans, significantly harming the popularity of the club; and the season proved to be a disappointment on-field, with the Devils finishing ninth and missing the finals. During the 2006 season, Armstrong stepped down as coach due to internal pressure from the playing group, ending his six-year term as Devils coach. North Hobart premiership coach and former Devil Brendon Bolton was made stand in coach for the remainder of the year.Tasmania Devils history Tasmanian and former Sydney Swan Daryn Cresswell was named coach of the club for 2007 after a successful career as an assistant coach at Geelong and the Brisbane Lions; however, hampered in part by Cresswell's off-field issues which included a gambling addiction and eventual fraud conviction, the club finished wooden spooners both seasons he coached the team, winning only six of a total 34 games.
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1952-1956 Croydon-Ferntree Gully Football League B Grade. Tragedy struck the Walker family in 1953 with the accidental drowning of Jim Walker and his daughter Lorraine at Phillip Island. The community got together and erected the entrance gates and plaque in their memory and from that day the three parcels of land are known as Walker Reserve. The club had minimal success in this league. 1957-1964 Mountain District Football League Division 2 1957 - Runners up in first season. 1958 - The Devils win club's first senior premiership defeating Silvan with promotion to First Division. 1959 - Struggled in the top Grade and eventually were wooden spooners (last) in 1960 and 1961. 1965-1966: Division 2 - Eastern Districts Football League Invited to be foundation member club of new Eastern Districts Football league and competed in Division 2 Only one win for the first two seasons and demoted to Division 3 for 1967 1967-1985: Division 3 A long lean era for the club.
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The 2009 WAFL season was the 125th season of the West Australian Football League in its various incarnations. It saw South Fremantle break Subiaco’s dynasty that had seen the Lions a kick shy of a perfect season in 2008, winning their last ten games after the early part of the season was the most evenly contested since the nine-club competition began in 1997. In the end, however, the top four was the same as in 2008. Peel Thunder, with Dean Buszan back, at one point looked like they might achieve their first season with more wins than losses, but returned to their old ways, losing their last ten games by an average of sixty-two points, whilst East Fremantle did not build upon their excellent finish to 2008. 2008 wooden spooners East Perth turned out the biggest threat to the top four with seven wins from eight matchesPike, Chris; “WAFL Round 21 hits and misses” but failed in their last match against Subiaco.
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In order to rebuild the team for the Champions League the Jets, very much in need of several new players, signed Perth defender Nikolai Topor-Stanley in early January 2008. But the signing of Topor-Stanley would prove to be the Jets' sole gain on the transfer market for several weeks, and fans grew even more disgruntled as the Jets were confirmed as the 2009 A-League "Wooden Spooners" with a 2–0 loss to Adelaide United in mid-January. An encouraging 2–1 win over Perth Glory in the Jets' final home game of the A-League 2008-09 season lightened the mood somewhat, but when the Jets crashed in a 4–0 capitulation at the Sydney Football Stadium the following week, things were looking grim. And the picture only grew bleaker as the notorious player exodus continued and the club lost Socceroos defender Mark Milligan to Shanghai Shenhua, along with Jesper Hakansson, who left the club after agreeing to a mutual termination.
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This would be the start of a turnaround for Collingwood with them recording a 25-point victory against Sydney in the following week as part of a successful run against the Sydney Swans, with a winning streak going back to 2005. They backed this up with an 83-point victory against eventual wooden spooners West Coast in round 14 in front of 38,781 fans at Etihad Stadium. Their next win was a 26-point victory against Port Adelaide in Adelaide in Mark Williams' last game as coach of the Power. The fired up power scored 5 goals to none in the first quarter before Collingwood recorded a 58-point turnaround after quarter time. The next performance against St Kilda in round 16 was their most convincing for the season with them recording a 48-point victory in front of 81,386 fans at the MCG with this victory propelling Collingwood to the top of the ladder, a position they would retain for the rest of the year.
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A wooden spoon, also known as the "anti-slam", is sometimes spoken about in tennis. It is described as the worst possible outcome in a tournament, applying to the player for whom the following scenario occurs: Won by the player who is defeated in the first round by a player who is defeated in the second round, who is defeated in the third round and so forth, until the final of a given tournament. Some notable Grand Slam "wooden spooners" include, among others, Goran Ivanišević (1995 Australian Open), Mary Pierce (2002 Australian Open), Marat Safin (2004 US Open), Caroline Wozniacki (2007 French Open), Ana Ivanovic (2010 Wimbledon Championships), Karolína Plíšková (2015 US Open), Rafael Nadal (2016 Australian Open), Jelena Janković (2016 French Open), Naomi Osaka (2017 French Open), and Jeļena Ostapenko (2018 French Open - she was the defending champion, having won in 2017). Greg Rusedski (1994 and 1995 US Open, 2006 Wimbledon Championships), Nicolás Lapentti (1996 French Open, 1997 and 2009 Wimbledon Championships) and Julien Benneteau (2014 and 2016 US Open, 2016 French Open) can claim three wooden spoons throughout their career.
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The Nuggets entered the National Basketball League (NBL) for the first time in 1990. After finishing in the top six in five of their first eight seasons, and making the semi- finals three times in that span, the Nuggets finished in the bottom four in their next 14 seasons, including being perennial wooden spooners. Following a tumultuous 2008 season, where the Nuggets collected their fourth consecutive wooden spoon and had mass player turnover throughout the year, Basketball Otago withdrew the Nuggets from the 2009 season, citing financial concerns. They returned to the league in 2010 and subsequently finished with a winless record (0–18), becoming just the third team in NBL history to finish a season without a win (joining the 1998 Northland Suns and the 2009 Taranaki Mountainairs). The Nuggets also had a 33-game losing streak that spanned April 2008 to May 2011. In 2013, the Nuggets made it to the post-season for the first time since 1997. They finished the regular season in second place with a 12–4 record, before losing 87–72 to the Nelson Giants in the semifinal. In 2014, the Nuggets missed the finals with a 7–11 record.
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In 2002 the club changed their name to Farum Cats after reaching an agreement with the Geelong Cats, the favourite club of founder Jim Campion. On March 1, 2012 the club officially changed their name from Farum Australsk Fodboldklub (English: Farum Australian Football Club) to Farum Cats Australsk Fodboldklub, after using the name for several years. The club has won four premierships as the Cats, all of the times they've had exchange students from the Geelong College playing for them (usually two, but in 2011 only 1). The years as the Cats started out as the years of the Lions had ended, though they won the first game of the year, against the Aalborg Kangaroos, however this was one of only two games the club won that year, and they ended up second last, only better than wooden spooners Helsingborg Saints, who had an abysmal season, finishing with -4 point In 2003, Farum came out of their finals drought (the longest and only in the history of the club, 01-02) After being nearly unbeatable in the newly founded Sjælland Conference, but striking out in the semi final against later premiers Amager Tigers.
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