Sing it loud: Jordan Souter (left) celebrates after kicking the winning goal in Tongala’s fifth win of the Murray league season against second-ranked Numurkah. He is arm in arm with former Carlton and Melbourne star Brock McLean, coach Matthew Daniel and Sam Cipriani. Photo: Rohan Aldous.
Forty years ago Goulburn Valley League Hall of Famer Mick Souter was causing opposition full backs all sorts of headaches as he accumulated 1007 goals while wearing the navy blue of Tongala Football Netball Club on 333 occasions.
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He was upstairs with his 1983-84 premiership teammates on Saturday as his son, Jordan, produced a one-on-one mark in the goal square reminiscent of Souter senior’s own brilliant body use during the 1970s and 1980s. Souter junior snapped the winning goal with only seconds left in the match against Numurkah to secure a four-point win.
Tongala went into the game as a significant underdog, sitting 11th on the ladder and shocked the second-ranked Numurkah with the result, inspired by the presence of Tongala premiership players from 1961, 1983 and 1984. Only a week before the celebration, the last surviving member of the club’s only other GV premiership, in 1949, Bob Dawson died at 102 years of age.
More on pages 24-25 and inside today’s four-page Game On lift-out.
Remembered forever: Back-to-back coach of Tongala’s 1983-84 GVL premiership teams, Des Campbell (left), and 1961 premiership coach Alf Harrison, who will soon turn 94 years old, with the honourboard immortalising the players that were involved in the Blues’ four Goulburn Valley League premierships.
