Williamstown

[Obi fella]

VALE THE MONSTER

Williamstown FC's most famous identity has passed away.

Gerry Callahan aka 'The Monster' has passed away peacefully aged 89.

171 games.
75 goals.
5 time premiership captain '54, '55, '56, '58 & '59.
2 time premiership coach '58 & '59.
2 time best & fairest '51 & '57.
Multiple player & coach at representative level.
Captain of Williamstown's team of the century.

The true icon of our club.
I could listen to his stories for hours.

RIP, your legacy will live on!

 

[Obi fella]

 

[eth-dog]

Monster? One of the VFA's all time greats. Will be sadly missed.

 

[pazza]

Mr. Williamstown. No man before or since embodied the Seagulls than he. RIP.

 

[Dogs till i die]

What a true legend of our club. Instrumental in forging our fantastic Port rivalry and those Willy premierships in his era. Sad news.

 

[Obi fella]

 

[Obi fella]

One minute silence for the great man.

 

[Obi fella]

 

[Dogs till i die]

Hopefully can change a few things so I can go down, apart from being historic,should be a good game too. Return of that....Jolley chap to add a bit more interest. Hopefully a nice night temperature wise and we send the Borough home with nothing.

 

[Obi fella]

RIP the VFA Recorder. The VFL has decided to scrap having footy records this year. What a joke. An A4 photocopied piece of paper here on in.

 

[eth-dog]

Yeah we got the same yesterday at the Coburg-Collingwood game. Free with a raffle ticket. And I won the raffle too!

 

[hilly]

New to the area, looking forward to popping down for a few games. Go (checks notes) Seagulls.

 

[Obi fella]

New to the area, looking forward to popping down for a few games. Go (checks notes) Seagulls.

You will enjoy it!

 

[Dogs till i die]

New to the area, looking forward to popping down for a few games. Go (checks notes) Seagulls.

As Obi said you will enjoy it.

Really think Willy is a unique club in Melbourne, very local and loyal supporters. A bit isolated no suburb immediatley to the south, west or east and we're at the 'end of the line'. Maybe just pick a nice day!

 

[Marcel Proust]

It was going in until the gust of wind sent it into the post...

what a bugger for ya

 

[Gameova_]

Unfortunate today. Big summer coming up

 

[AllHart]

My VFL 2019 Grand Final video on YouTube - last quarter games scenes and after match celebration. If you watch between 8:00 - 9:50 minutes you]ll see the two incredible posters from Williamstown - great crowd reactions and excitement. Willy were brave and unlucky to not win in the end but what can you do.

VFL Grand Final 2019 Richmond v Williamstown

 

[Marcel Proust]

Morris. Literally and metaphorically a champion.

Fancy bagging the s**t out of him all game and he plays like Fyfe in the 4th q of a grand final and panzes u hipsters?

bad luck always next years.

 

[Dogs till i die]

More weekend time on my hands in 2021 so keen to buy my first Willy membership for a decade and attend regular games now.

Hope the Qld teams get to visit Willy in June or July.

 

[Town]

Willy were stiff to not get the chocolates against Brisbane yesterday. Willy have been there abouts for so many consecutive years but losing 1900 games of experience will take a while to remedy!

 

[ringo1]

Willy were stiff to not get the chocolates against Brisbane yesterday. Willy have been there abouts for so many consecutive years but losing 1900 games of experience will take a while to remedy!

Sad to see such a rapid decline. The coach is a ripper.

 

[Dogs till i die]

Attended the supporters information night last Thursday night and very impressed with the club's plans.

Major points were:

• plans to build new change rooms near the current canteen, while enlarging the current player gym.
• shortly installing new video scoreboard, fully funded by the club at $250k
• planning on opening club gym to other sporting clubs and the public
• Got through the covid years in good financial shape after battening down
• Seagulls Nest pub returning close to pre covid turnover
• will utilise the higher salary cap for stand alone clubs which was halved during the covid years
• recruiting strategy to offer wider incentives to player targets - job offers, property and financial advice etc.
• closer, non financial partnerships with sponsors
• re-engaging with the local community

Good to talk with committee members and have the President, CEO and senior club coach talk about the future. Left enthused about the future.