consecutive years and captained the VAFA twice .
celebrated their 75th Par;-- ' Old Anniversary in July with a gala ball and the announcement of their "Team of the Century" . In what was a tough task for selectors, to narrow the 52 nominees into a team of 24 . The final team consisted of 18 premiership players, 16 club captains, 15 VAFA State Representatives, 4 VAFA Best & Fairest winners, 2 All Australian Captains and the team had won a combined 32 Best & Fairests between them
John Booth was awarded vice captaincy . John captained the club to 2 premierships and played in another two . He also won 2 Best & Fairests, represented the VAFA and also coached the club to 4 flags .
President Pet n was honoured to award each team member with selection, "It was fantastic to see some great clubman return for what was a fantastic night . Not surprisingly the side was rich with players from the 1960's , the Clubs most successful era when we won 6 A Grade premierships, but it was also great to see some of the contemporary club champions make the team as well" Peter sai d
Captain of the side was Phil McLaughlin, who captained the club for 7 years including 2 premierships, also winning 2 club Best & Fairests as well as 2 VAFA Best & Fairests Phil represented the VAFA State side for fiv e
Coach was Ma urie C onsidine . Maurie coached the side to 4 premierships, prior to becoming the assistant coach to John Kennedy at Hawthorn . Peter Brabender was the only current player to make the side and fittingly kicked 6 goals for Parade on the day of the announcement in what was his 318th game for the club . On another note, Simon Vincent, one of the other selected players had an enormous 24 hours, only some 20 hours earlier he witnessed the birth of his first child, a son Charlie . Fittingly Simon, met his wife Gabrielle at the club and Gabrielle's father Cliff was also one of the nominees for the Team of the Century . It is quite likely that young Charlie will be playing for Old Paradians when the club celebrates their 100th anniversary .
,AM WAS AS F(-3: Maurie Considine Phil O'Dwyer Sam Assetta
Chris Hughes
Michael Quinlan
Neil Pivetta
Peter Wood
Bernie O'Brien
Phil McLaughlin (c) John Tudor
Dominic Spillane
Marc Harrison
Ross Duke Frank Gleeson
Fred Proctor Peter Brabender
John Booth (vc)
Denis Dalton
Brendan Danaher
Graeme Mansfield Simon Vincent
Brian Weyman Spence Williams
Tony Johnso n
Paul Considine
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