Footscray Trugo Club

It’s been a massive couple of days for our club!

The Gumnuts played in the Grand Final on Saturday but sadly went down to Sandridge. The Gummies are elite though, having made 5 out of the past 6 GFs, and they’ll be back firing next year.

Then today we were privileged to have Mayor Mohamed Semra - City of Maribyrnong (along with Cr Bernadette Thomas, Cr Samantha Meredith and CEO Celia Haddock) visit us to open the new Trugo pavilion! 11 years in the making, and the result of heaps of advocacy and hard work from our club.

We’re excited at what this means for us and for the community, who will be able to hire the space when it’s not used for Trugo. No more 3x3 marquees! And indoor plumbing! Game on!!

We can’t thank Maribyrnong Council enough. You’ve made all our dreams come true ❤️

Yesterday was the VTA Trugo Premiership preliminary final. Our Gumnuts versus the break-out side of this season, the South Melbourne Penguins.

And it was never in doubt. The Gummies led by 12 at half time, to go on to win by 21. A dominant performance.

The Gums are now into next week’s grand final against top-of-the-table team Sandridge. A replay of last year’s grand final, and the Gumnuts’ 5th grand final in 6 years!

The Doughnuts played in the First Semi Final tonight against the South Melbourne Trugo Club Penguins. And those shifty Pengies rolled our team!

The final score was 144 🐧 versus 135 🍩. Well played to our great friends from South though… they really deserved their hard-fought win.

But hey next week South you’re coming up against the Gumnuts. And they won’t be easy… just saying 😉

It’s VTA Finals time! The Doughnuts are playing South Melbourne tonight in a knockout final

And the Gumnuts are straight through to the Preliminary Final! LFG Footscray

Stay tuned for game updates from the Doughies…

Today was the second last home & away game before the Trugo finals.

The Doughnuts had a great score of 142 against Yarraville, their second highest for the season. And then the Gumnuts went berserk and hit an incredible 155! The highest score for any team in many years 🤯

Both Footscray teams will be in the finals which begin in 2 weeks. And who would bet against the Gummies to go back-to-back with a score like that! 🙌

RIP John McMahon. An absolute lion of our game. The Don of Trugo.

John was so generous with his assistance to our club when were getting up and running 9 years ago. We always loved playing him and Yarraville.

Heaven will be full of madges now 💛💛💛💛

The new Trugo pavilion is getting closer… it will be a great community space.

The landscapers were hard at work in the heat today leveling the ground for the new grass (much needed after the previous lawn was used as a staging area for the construction).

It’s not often that Pradeep Tiwari - Maribyrnong City Mayor can say he’s rubbed shoulders with World Champions!

The Mayor visited our stall at the Seddon Festival today and was warmly welcomed by 2024-25 World Champions of Trugo, Nick and Viv. Hope they gave His Mayoralty some great tips on the art of the tonk!

It was amazing to see so much interest in Trugo today and we look forward to seeing everyone back at 139 Buckley St when the clubhouse reno’s are finished.

Come and find out about Trugo at the Seddon Fun & Games Fair this Saturday! The club will have a stall and our members would love to chat about the West’s homegrown game.

Sat 15 Nov, 12-5pm @ Greig St and Harris Reserve, Seddon.

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Our Trugo club was revived in 2016, and since then we’ve grown to two teams - with the Gumnuts winning 2 premierships!

It’s incredible that in the 9 years since we began that we have come so far.

We’re now about to get a new clubhouse, which will also be a fantastic space for the community to use. Thank you so much to the City of Maribyrnong for believing in us.

Watch this space!

A pleasure for the Doughies to host the revitalised South Melbourne Trugo Club on their first visit to the Trugodome last night. A thrilling game! Love your work South.