Sandringham honours two-time premiership coach and former league football great Trevor Barker
Sandringham has bestowed another honour on its two-time premiership coach and St Kilda great, the late Trevor Barker.
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TWENTY-five years after coaching Sandringham to a premiership for the second time, Trevor Barker has been inducted to the Zebras’ hall of fame.
The former St Kilda champion, who died of cancer in 1996, aged 39, is one of 10 new inductees.
Taking over from Darryl Nisbet, Barker coached Sandy from 1992-94, with the club winning the ’92 and ’94 grand finals.
Famously, the Zebras came from four goals down at Victoria Park to charge past Box Hill and win by nine points in 1994.
That year they achieved the treble of seniors, reserves and Under 19 premierships, in the last grand finals played under the VFA banner.
It’s the third significant honour for him at Sandringham: after his death the Beach Rd ground was renamed the Trevor Barker Beach Oval, and he was selected as coach of the team of the century.
“Trevor brought a new level of professionalism to the club,’’ former Zebras general manager John Mennie said last night.
“If rain was forecast he’d put covers over the cricket wicket just to make sure there were good conditions for the players. He did things like that, and the players loved him.
“He was very passionate about football and, being a local boy, he became very passionate about Sandringham Football Club.
“I think it’s fair to say he set the pattern for our future success, the premierships that followed in 1997, 2000, 2004, 2005 and 2006.’’
Barker left Sandringham to coach St Kilda’s reserve grade team.
Mennie said he believed Barker was destined to coach a senior AFL team.
“I think he had all the traits and skills necessary to coach at the highest level,’’ he said.
Sandringham’s hall of fame recognises “those who have given outstanding service to the club and to permanently honour those outstanding individuals, being a player or an official.’’
The 2019 inductees are Barker, former star players Justin Crough, Darren Mitchelson, Joe Rugolo, Marty Lyons, Frank Rugolo and Shane Foley, and long-serving officials Dennis Galimberti, Gerry Ryan and Ed Hattam.
Mitchelson, Foley, Crough, and the Rugolo brothers played in premierships under Barker, as did Mark Williams, who extended the Barker lineage by steering Sandy to the 2005-05-06 flags.
The latest induction coincides with the club’s 90th year.
The hall of fame function will be held on Saturday, June 8, at Sandy by the Bay, Wilson Storage Trevor Barker Beach Oval, Beach Rd, Sandringham. Tickets are $125.
HALL OF FAME
Dennis Galimberti
Board member 1984-1986, 1999-current
Sandringham life member, VFL life member
Gerard “Gerry’’ Ryan
President 2006-2014
Sandringham life member, VFL life member
Ed Hattam
Sandringham No 1 member
Sponsor
Sandringham life member
Justin Crough
Player 1993-1998
Games 92
Premiership player 1993 (reserves), 1994 and 1997 (seniors)
Best and fairest 1998
JJ Liston Trophy 1997
VFA representative team
Member team of the century
Darren Mitchelson
Player 1994-1999
Games 105
Captain 1997-1999
Premiership player 1994 and 1997
Life Member VFA/VFL
Joe Rugolo
Player 1988-1994
Games 102
Premiership Player 1992 and 1994
Norm Goss Medal 1992
Best and fairest 1990
JJ Liston Trophy 1992
Member team of the century
Trevor Barker
Coached 1992-1994
Premierships 1992 and 1994
Ground named Trevor Barker Beach Oval in his honour
Marty Lyons
Player 1974, 1977-1986
Games 141 Captain 1984
Premiership Player 1982 (reserves), 1985 (seniors)
Frank Rugolo
Player 1988-1994
Games 82, goals 319
Premiership player 1992 (seniors), 1993 and 1994 (reserves)
Sandringham, VFA leading goalkicker 1992
Shane Foley
Player 1993-1997
Games 118, goals 142
Premiership player 1993 (reserves), 1994 and 1997 (seniors)
Best and fairest 1994, 1996
VFA representative team
Member team of the century
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