Sid West, Alan Mitchelson, Kenny Knowles and Vince Mehegan, are in their 80s these days but can still remember the day they beat New Town at York Park to win the state premiership.

“We were a Westbury team but we played in the NTFA as the Longford seconds,” Mitchelson said.

“There were North seconds and City seconds – we won the NTFA seconds flag that year against Launceston I think it was and went on to play New Town in the state premiership.

“We had just turned 18 in those days – I started playing with Westbury before they were in the NTFA in what was the Westmorland competition with Deloraine and Bracknell.

“There were some good players in the team including Toppy Yost who was a bank manager at Westbury and Max Langham the captain-coach who came from Hobart and was a good footballer.”

West said when Longford first joined the NTFA in 1926 they recruited players from the Westmorland competition for their NTFA side.

“My dad was one of them and there was a Breward from Birralee and a Dick Scott from Westbury who went on to play for Tasmania,” he said.

“Vince Mehegan’s family owned shops all around Westbury but he lives at Riverside now.

“Kenny Knowles is retired but was involved in horse racing and lived at Spreyton for a while but now is in Devonport and Alan and I still live at Westbury.”