Saturday is set to be a milestone day for Deloraine Football Club both on-and-off the field as they celebrate several key milestones in their club's history against Bracknell.
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Winning their last premiership in 1979, the club will wear a replica guernsey of their triumph 40 years ago and celebrate 125 years as a Football Club with players across all decades to both meet and reunite with their fellow Kangaroos representatives.
With 15 players out of the famed 1979 22 confirmed to be in attendance, club captain Brad Crowden said it's an honour to represent the glory of the club.
"It's going to be a special day," 212-gamer Crowden said.
"It's a real honour, I haven't been lucky enough to play in a premiership over my career so it's an honour to play for the guys who have been fortunate enough to."
Since his time at the club, the Kangaroos' game record holder acknowledges the amount of training, fitness and recovery necessary to continue playing as things that have changed the most but still sees football as a "roller-coaster".
"Footy is still the same up-and-down game. You have some good years where you could possibly win flags in which I've played in two losing grand finals, and then you have years where you're at the bottom, so the big wheel keeps on turning."
Taking the field for the Kangaroos since 2000, Crowden jokingly said he'd stuck around at the club because he "lives out there" before crediting the club's mate-ship and welcoming nature as the main reasons.
"It's about the mates you grow up with and playing with family and friends and you meet some really good people.
"The football club eventually turns into a family. It's a great community and you then form friendships that you'll never lose."