North Shore Bombers

North Shore was a founder member of the New South Wales Australian National Football League (as the SFL was originally called) in 1903. The side finished runner-up in its debut season before winning the first of its eventual total of thirteen senior premierships the following year.

In 1921 North Shore defeated Newtown by 15 points in the grand final but the next couple of decades constituted a lean time for the club as it only intermittently contested the finals. Consecutive 3rd place finishes between 1947 and 1949 served as preludes to its first flag in more than three decades in 1952. The side reached another grand final three years later, but lost to the all powerful Eastern Suburbs combination which won an unprecedented seven consecutive flags between 1953 and 1959. Thereafter, however, the 1950s proved to be a barren decade.

North Shore won another isolated premiership in 1961, but arguably the club's most auspicious era did not arrive until the late 1970s. In the five seasons from 1976 to 1980 the Bears as they were known at the time contested every grand final, winning two of them. They played off another half a dozen times in a row between 1989 and 1994, but only once, in 1991 against Holroyd-Parramatta, were they successful.

Today North Shore boasts an affiliation with Essendon (hence the Bomber nickname) and is very much at the forefront of the Sydney football scene, contesting seven of the last nine SFL grand finals for wins in 2001, 2004, 2005 and 2007.

The 2006 season brought a sharp decline in fortunes as the side plummeted to 7th place on the ladder with just 5 wins. It was the first time since 1996 that the Bombers had failed to contest the finals, and they were keen to make immediate amends, which is what they emphatically accomplished a year later as they defeated St George in the grand final by 21 points.

The Bombers again qualified for the finals in 2008 but their involvement was fleeting as they bowed out at the first hurdle against East Coast Eagles.

Club Snapshot

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City	Sydney
Home Ground	Gore Hill Oval, Pacific Highway, St Leonards
Club Address	PO Box 60, Balgowlah NSW 2093
Established	1903
Nickname:	Bombers
Team Photo:
President:	Andrew Murray
Coach:	Michael Hosking
Premierships:	1904, 1909, 1921, 1952, 1961, 1978, 1979, 1985, 1991, 2001, 2004-5, 2007
Song:	See the Bombers fly up, up!
Phone Contact:	0418 973 881
Email Contact:	northshorefc@yahoo.com.au
Website:	http://www.northshorefc.com.au
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