Gregory Flanegan
– North
Whyalla
Greg started with North's Under 10's
in 1966 and proceeded through all grades. Played in Whyalla SAPSASA
sides in 1969 and 1970, and played an under 16 game for Central
Districts in 1970.
Won the Under 18's Best and Fairest
Medal in Whyalla in 1976.
Played senior football for North
Whyalla in 1977 - 78 - 79 and the club won the premiership for those
three years. Greg won his club's Best and fairest in 1979.
He was invited to train and played
trials with West Torrens in 1977 - 79 and decided to stay in Whyalla
because of work commitments.
During 1979 Greg was invited by
Essendon to train and play in a trial and this resulted in a 3 year
contract with that VFL Club.
Greg played majority of seconds games
and towards the end of 1980 played two senior games. The first game
being a win against Footscray and Greg was one of the few players to
kick a goal with his first kick in League Football. The following week
he played against Bruce Doull and Geoff Southby.
In 1981 Greg commenced well with a
solid pre-season, however he received a bad injury four weeks into the
season and was sidelined for 6 weeks, during this period he requested to
return to Whyalla for Family reasons and after negotiating a release
from Essendon finished the 1981 season with North Whyalla. A three year
contract was signed with West Torrens for 1982 - 83 - 84 seasons and
played 53 League games.
Greg was still keen to return to the
country and purchased a business in Port Augusta in 1985, which resulted
in him playing with South Augusta until 1989.
1990 - one season with Gladstone
1991 - one season with South Augusta
1992 - returned to Gladstone from where he retired.
Returned to Whyalla in 1993 and came
out of retirement and played with his old club North Whyalla.
Greg now has a successful business in
Whyalla and his son has won the Whyalla League Under 12 1/2's Medal in
2004 and to it looks like the Flanegan name will soon return to League
ranks.
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