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The Balmain Football Club started in 1903 and was a founding member of the Sydney Football League.
The club recently did a deal with the Fremantle Dockers, and are now known as the Balmain Dockers. Since the 2007 season, Balmain wear a Fremantle-style guernsey, replacing the black with a yellow sash strip that went with their previous nickname, the Tigers.
Former Sydney Swans player Troy Luff (2002-2004) who won the Phelan medal for the Best & Fairest player in the Sydney competition, currently plays for us.
Rugby league player Wally Messenger (the brother of Dally Messenger) played for the club in its early days.
Players to make a VFL/AFL list from Balmain over the years included
- John Stephenson (1907 Essendon)
- Charles Brown (1916–1923 Collingwood)
- Jack Armstrong (1925 St Kilda)
- Neil Davies (1955 Richmond)
- Paul Feltham (1970–78 North Melbourne,Richmond)
- Adam Coles (1996 Sydney)
- Ray Hall (1999 Richmond)
Other players to recently play a role in the Sydney Swans reserves and who are all Balmain Juniors are;
- Jerome Farrell
- Rohan Bates
- John Feain
- Jo Britton
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