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Around the Region | Roos will reunite to reminisce

By Gus Underwood

May 8, 2026

One of the team’s star players, Jeff Turpin, with a team photo of the 1991 Girgarre premiership team from when it beat Lancaster for the flag. Photo: Rohan Aldous.

Girgarre Football Club will celebrate not one but two premiership anniversaries this Saturday.

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Both the 1976 and 1991 premiership teams will be feted at Girgarre at its home game against Nagambie.

Club president Brendan Nicholson said indications were most of the players in those flag-winning teams would be making an effort to attend the reunion and reflect on those glory days for the club.

Girgarre's 1976 premiership line-up. Back: T Reid (trainer), K Hewitt, A Jones, A McDonald, G Betts, T Turpin, A Tonkin, B Collins, G Rue, R McDonald, P Rooney, J Pleitner, S Leaf, I McDonald, T Atkins (trainer). Middle: K Pleitner (president), C Scripps, D Baker, W Thorson, J Murphy (coach), B Prendergast, G West, B Leaf, R Johnson. Front: J Roberts, L Casey, P Latter, G Ryan. Photo by Contributed

The scorecard when Girgarre defeated Nagambie in the 1976 grand final. Photo by Supplied

Girgarre has won only four flags in its days in the Kyabram District League and its 1991 upset flag win over Lancaster when it was coached by Brendan Flanagan was the most recent.

Flanagan will attend the reunion.

So will the captain-coach of its 1976 premiership winning side, John Murphy.

Murphy said this week he was really looking forward to attending the reunion and meeting up with the players who delivered the unexpected 18-point flag win over Nagambie on that mid-September day at Undera.