Nathalia

I was delighted to come across this article about Nathalia Football Club's recent success.
My Nan lived in Nathalia and we spent many many wonderful holidays staying with her and visiting our cousins the Gallaghers.
On occasion we would go and watch the Nathalia footy team play.
We were not impressed one year to discover that they had adopted the black and white stripes of the much loathed Collingwood but thankfully good sense prevailed and a couple of years later they reverted to their traditional purple and gold.
Nathalia's greatest claim to fame is in being the home town of Richmond legend Francis Bourke, who I think was selected in the AFL Team of the Century, though I could be wrong about that.