SALE CITY Football-Netball Club has returned to preseason training.
The Bulldogs will be aiming to return to finals in the North Gippsland Football-Netball League under second year coach, Nathan Thomas.
Senior premiership captain Ben Chivers is coaching the thirds this season.
Local historian, Laurie Smyth, is in the midst of completing a book on the club’s history, detailing its 50 year existence.
The Bulldogs’ first game was on April 4, 1970, at home against Glengarry, and their first win came a few weeks later, in round four against Rosedale.
Sale City’s home ground at Stephenson Park was originally called the Friendly Society Oval, and the club shared Sale Oval for the 1976 season, enabling the new Stephenson Park reserve to be completed in time for the following season.
There was three senior football teams in Sale when Sale City first entered the NGFNL. East Sale RAAF Base also had a side in North Gippy, while Sale (Magpies) competed in the Gippsland League.
The Bulldogs’ senior premiership years are: 1978, 1979, 1993, 2010, 2011, 2016 and 2017.
