Woodville Football Club

**Ƙungiyar kwallon ƙafa ta Woodville,** kungiya ce ta kwallon ƙafa ta Australiya wacce ta fafata a Kungiyar Kwallon ƙafa ta Kudancin Australiya (SANFL) daga 1964 zuwa 1990, lokacin da ta haɗu a 1991 tare da Kungiyar Kwando ta Yammacin Torrens don kafa Woodville-West Torrens Eagles .

An kafa shi a yankunan yammacin Adelaide, Kudancin Australia. Woodville ya samo sunansa daga yankin da yake ciki.

Rashin nasarar kulob din ba a iya kwatanta shi ba a cikin VFL ko WAFL tare da kulob din da ke karɓar cokali na katako 9, ciki har da sau 6 a jere 1980-1985, a cikin shekaru 27 yayin da kawai ke yin wasan karshe sau 3 ba tare da babban bayyanar karshe ba.

## Tarihin kulob din
Akwai nassoshin jarida game da kungiyar kwallon ƙafa ta Woodville tun daga karni na 19, lokacin da Woodville da Adelaide suka kasance ƙungiyoyi kawai, amma an kafa kulob din na zamani a 1938 don yin wasa a gasa ta gida. A shekara ta 1959 ƙungiyoyin SANFL na yanzu sun amince da gabatarwar daga Woodville da Gundumar Tsakiya don fadada gasar daga ƙungiyoyi takwas zuwa goma a kan tanadin da za su shiga gasar tsaron SANFL a kan shekaru biyar kafin su sami shiga gasar a shekarar 1964. An san ƙungiyar da sunan "Woodville Woodpeckers".

Lokacin da aka fara shi ya kasance alama ce ta magajinsa (ko rashin shi) ga sauran wanzuwarsa. Kungiyar ta lashe wasanni uku kawai, duk a kan Gundumar Tsakiya. A cikin lokutan 27 a cikin SANFL, Woodville ya kai wasan karshe sau uku kawai: a 1979, 1986 da 1987; mafi kyawun sakamako shine matsayi na 3 a 1986.

Ɗan wasan da ya fi cin nasara a Woodville shine Malcolm Blight, wanda ya lashe lambar yabo ta Magarey ta SANFL kuma ya sami zaɓi a cikin ƙungiyar All Australian a shekarar 1972. Daga baya zai buga wa kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Arewacin Melbourne a gasar kwallon kafa ta Victoria (VFL), inda ya lashe lambar yabo ta Brownlow a shekarar 1978 kuma ya shiga ƙungiyar 'yan wasan da suka lashe lambar yabo mafi girma a gasar SANFL da VFL.

Blight ya koma Woodville a 1983 a matsayin Kyaftin-Coach, yana jagorantar kulob din ta hanyar mafi kyawun lokacinsa. Lokacinsa na farko a Adelaide bai yi nasara ba, tare da kulob din ya gama da cokali na katako. Daga can kungiyar ta fara tsayawa kuma a shekara ta 1986 an dauke ta da damar da za ta samu a gasar farko, amma ta kammala ta 3 bayan ta sha kashi a hannun firaministan Glenelg a wasan karshe. Sun kuma kai wasan karshe a shekarar 1987, amma sun zo na 5, inda suka rasa wasan karshe ga Glenelg.

Blight ya tsaya a ƙarshen 1987 kuma an maye gurbinsa da mashahurin kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Port Adelaide da kuma sau hudu Magarey Medallist Russell Ebert. A karkashin kocin Ebert, Woodville ya lashe gasar SANFL Night a shekarar 1988, gasar Escort Cup, inda ya doke Port Adelaide 14.12 (96) zuwa 7.9 (51) a filin kwallon kafa. Zai zama ganima ta ƙarshe da kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Woodville za ta ci a cikin SANFL. Woodville ya kuma lashe gasar cin kofin Coca-Cola a shekarar 1972, gasar tsakanin kungiyoyi wadanda ba su shiga hudu na karshe ba.

A matsayin kulob din da ke fama da iyakantaccen magoya baya da kudade, akwai kira na yau da kullun a cikin shekarun 1980 don haɗa Woodville tare da wani kulob. A cikin 1990, tare da shigar da Adelaide Crows na Kudancin Australia a cikin Kungiyar Kwallon Kafa ta Australiya (tsohon VFL), an yanke shawarar haɗa Woodville tare da makwabciyar West Torrens Football Club. A cikin lokacin da ya dace, Woodville da West Torrens sun zana su don yin wasa da juna a wasanninsu na ƙarshe, tare da Woodville ya fito da nasara da maki 50, 24.10 (154) zuwa 15.19 (104) a Adelaide Oval. Kafin wasan an gabatar da tatsuniyoyi da yawa daga kungiyoyin biyu ga taron.

Kyaftin din Woodville a wasan karshe shi ne sanannen tsohon soja Ralph Sewer (kyaftin din Romano Negri na yau da kullun yana cikin tawagar amma ya tsaya a gefe don wasan karshe don ba Sewer girmamawa). Sewer mai shekaru 38 wanda ke wasa wasan sa na 382 kuma na karshe na kwallon kafa na SANFL. "Zip Zap" kamar yadda aka sani, ya fara buga wasan farko tare da Woodville a shekarar 1969 kuma yana wasan sa na 325 ga kulob din. Ya kasance babban mai tsalle-tsalle na Woodville a shekara ta 1975, kuma ya lashe lambar yabo mafi kyau & Fairest a shekara ta 1978, a wannan shekarar an ba shi lambar yabo ta Life Membership daga kulob din da Player Life Membership manipud SANFL. Sewer, wanda ya buga wasanni 57 ga masu fafatawa na Glenelg daga 1981-84, shine kawai dan wasan da ya buga a cikin shekaru arba'in na kwallon ƙafa a cikin SANFL.

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