EDFL 2018: Family ties keep Pascoe Vale Football Club ticking past its century
PASCOE Vale will celebrate its centenary this month as the club reflects on the families that built it, including the famous Ogston clan, now in its fourth generation.
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LIKE all football clubs, Pascoe Vale is built on family.
Famous names have passed through the club and gone on to higher honours — including AFL premiership player David King and former VFL player and AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou — but for Alan Ogston, the club was where he always returned to.
Alan followed his cousins Barry and Keith Ogston to the club and went on to wear red and black on 316 occasions, with his son Grant pipping him on 320.
Barry’s father Ed captained the club in the 1940s.
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Despite a run with the Carlton under-19s, Alan said he was always going to return to Raeburn Reserve.
“I had a real connection with my family and mates and this was always my club, I always came back,” he said.
Barry and Alan’s granddaughters Brittany and Georgia now head the fourth generation of the family now playing with the club.
“(Brittany) came here through friendship just like Alan … our connection to the club has really hit home because of this celebration,” Barry said.
The Panthers have sold more than 400 tickets to a centenary gala dinner on July 21.
Current club secretary Jenny Tydell made note that the club’s founding fathers may have been mystified that the first game played on Raeburn Reserve in the club’s centenary year was a girls’ under-15s match.
But with new female clubrooms opened on just last month, the club’s growth isn’t slowing in its old age.
Given the influx of female Ogstons in the six women’s teams at the club, Alan is optimistic the name and club will live on.
“You like to hope so, I would think there could still be generations playing for as long as the club runs,” he said.
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