Woodville-West Torrens Football Club

However, a third western suburbs team in the competition West Adelaide proved too much to handle with both sides struggling on the field following Woodville's inception.Heading into 1964, West Torrens had won four premierships in the previous forty seasons, and were a highly competitive club, regular finalists, and played off in 8 Grand Finals - the last one being the 1953 victory over Port Adelaide.Public figure and talkshow radio host Robert Al Forno reported in 1987 that if the merger ended up happening, he would eat his hat.Network Seven also aired a story in late 1989 on local fan Tony 'T-Bone', who had stated that if the merge happened, he would riot and attempt to hold up traffic in Adelaide's CBD.It was decided at the end of the season to merge the two sides to form the Woodville-West Torrens Eagles, effectively returning to how things were prior to 1964.After losing yet another Grand Final to their arch-rivals in 2005, the Eagles bounced back and got their first premiership in 13 years, and after 6 attempts, with a thumping 76-point victory over the Bulldogs.Each club progressed straight through to their respective Grand Finals, and the Reserves completed a remarkable undefeated season (first team to do so since West Torrens in 1919) to take out their 8th flag.Before the start of the 2020 SANFL season, the club hired a new coach: former Sturt premiership player and Magarey Medalist Jade Sheedy.The Woodville-West Torrens Football Club song is called "We're the mighty flying Eagles" and is to the tune of The Battle Hymn of the Republic (Verse) We're the mighty Eagles And we always battle through The mighty flying Eagles Wearing Gold and Green and Blue Sound the Siren, turn us loose And watch the Feathers fly And you'll see what we can do (Chorus) We're the mighty flying Eagles We're the mighty flying Eagles We're the mighty flying Eagles In Gold and Green and Blue (Home Run) In Gold and Green and Blue italics current coach * Premiership Coach italics current coach * Premiership Coach italics current captain * Premiership Captain (Justin Cicolella was acting captain for the 2006 Premiership) {{Rls |squadname=Woodville West Torrens Football Club |BC1 =Yellow; |FC1 =Green; |BC2 =white; |FC2 =Green; |BC3 =white; |FC3 =Green; |source = |date = 7 May 2017 |templatename=Woodville West Torrens current squad |column1_title=SANFL Senior list |list1a= |coach= Sam Jacobs SANFLW League Senior Coach= Narelle Smith SANFLW Development League Senior Coach= Claire Christie
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