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While the cancellation of the 2020 Toyota NEAFL season has ended Redland Football Club’s season on the field it’s created a wonderful opportunity for two of the club’s coaching staff to join forces with Victoria Point Sharks Junior Football...

  Cameron Smith One of the biggest clichés in community sport clubs is that volunteers are the life blood of the club, and that without volunteers, the club would not exist. It is always dangerous to start a story with a cliché, but the fact of the matter is, it is...

JEFF STEPHENSON  THE TikTok phenomenon has surged in these days of COVID-19 with sporting personalities of all codes and at all levels around the world garnering their 15 seconds of fame.  While some Redland players (not so many coaches – with...

LONG-SERVING Redland Football Club Chairman Col Tobiasen says the Board, the coach and the players are doing everything in their collective powers to be ready for a delayed start to the 2020 NEAFL season. Tobiasen is in his 16th year as President of the Bombers and...

As you are all aware by now the AFL – in conjunction with all State CEOs – has made a collective decision to postpone the start of the NEAFL season until May 31 as the result of the COVID-19 virus. Our club, while disappointed, understands the decision has...

DON’T you just love it when former players look back on the good times they had with a club and then, when they settle into the next phase of their lives, invest in that club as it forges into a new era. Such is the case with John Simatovic, who played...

Jeff Stephenson IT can be a big leap jumping from one sport to another, but Redland recruit Jamie Ivers is confident he’s flicked the right switch. Jamie’s leap is a little more than transitioning between codes (he’s already marked that one off...

JEFF STEPHENSON WHEN Redland defender and two-time Dowling Medallist Adrian Williams and his fellow Bombers’ defender Mitch Stallard called in to Totally Workwear’s Capalaba store, they impressed owner Josh Mitchell with their enthusiasm which generated...

IT’S been tough going for the “foodie” precinct in Victoria Point these last 12 months as a direct result of the new bus stop works, but that hasn’t stopped Zambrero owner Shane Muspratt from continuing to support the Redland Bombers. The feted Mexican...

Cameron Smith When the Fun Over Fifty bus rolled in at 5:30 am at Carindale to pick up the players and coaching staff, you knew the Byron Bay pre-season camp was going to be a success, just by looking at the golden bus. The boys quite impressed...

Jeff Stephenson REDLAND Bombers and community radio station Bay FM are thrilled to be linking together as a sporting tour-de-force throughout the forthcoming NEAFL season. The hugely popular station, which has undergone some radical studio...

JEFF STEPHENSON WHEN Alex Tincknell puts his mind to something it invariably runs in tandem with those intangibles called heart and soul. Alex is investing his new business -Elders Real Estate Redlands – into the fabric of the Redland Football Club as a...

JEFF STEPHENSON ALTHOUGH tender in years Redland’s new signing Brodie Foster joins the club with a welter of experience and adds to the Bombers’ growing investment in bringing aspirational Queenslanders back into the NEAFL. The 20-year-old has already...

FUN OVER FIFTY – as the name succinctly suggests – is a tourist company aimed expressly at the senior market in Australia and provides for them a selection of all-inclusive package holidays to every State and Territory as well as many others...

JEFF STEPHENSON WE’RE not too sure things will be quite the same around the club next season when long-time soul mates – Brian and Deb Osland – take advantage of retirement and set sail into the wild bluey-brown Australian yonder. The couple...

THE Redland Football Club welcomes new sponsor Golden Cockerel for the new NEAFL season. This is the first time the well-known chicken processing company, which has a processing plant at Mt Cotton, has become involved in a sporting organisation...

KELLY Winsch and Sharnn Blake have been long-time AFL supports in the Redlands – particularly with Kelly’s two boys still playing for Victoria Point Sharks Football Club along with Sharnn’s brother Brayden and sister Ella, who will play for the...

JEFF STEPHENSON HOMECOMINGS are in vogue at Redland Bombers with the latest “new” addition being Chris David to the club’s coaching ranks. The decision to appoint Chris as assistant-coach looking after the defence has been welcomed by club...

Photo: Darrion Traynor/AFL Media. JEFF STEPHENSON FORMER Brisbane Lions and Footscray VFL defender Reuben William is the latest big-name player to sign with Redland Bombers for next season. It will almost be like coming home for Reuben as he can easily...

By JEFF STEPHENSON YOUNG Redlands defender Matthew McGannon underwent surgery last Monday and will have a little break back in his small Victorian hometown hamlet of Fish Creek in south-eastern Gippsland enjoying some “home-cooked meals” as he...

AFTER deciding to take the plunge and invest in a Just Cuts franchise in Cleveland, Vanessa and Matt Boland have quickly taken to spreading their wings. They have operated Cleveland Just Cuts for nine months now and are in the process of taking...

It was originally planned for Round 2 but Matt Thomson will achieve an outstanding milestone when he plays his 200th senior game for the Redland Football club at home on Saturday against reigning premiers Southport. Thomson’s durability and...

Sam Cunnington and Caleb Franks have been recalled to the Redland Bombers side that takes on the undefeated Brisbane Lions NEAFL team this Sunday at the Gabba. It’s the first curtain raiser back at the Gabba for 2019 and while a daunting task...

Phil Carse will play his first game for the Redland Football Club since September 2014 as he joins three other “ins” for the clubs vital Round 2 clash against Canberra Demons at home. Soul Cormick makes his long awaited comeback and has done a mountain of...

Saturday 13th April 2019. 8pm $35pp. Everyone welcome!  This is a combined function for all our Football Teams.  Victoria Point Sharks Football Club (Juniors, Colts, Reserves, Seniors) and Redland Football Club. Come along and meet players, coaches, staff...

Four new faces will don the Redland colours for the first time in the club’s Round One clash against the reigning premiers Southport at Fankhauser Reserve on Saturday. Seb Rogers (Southport), Matthew McGannon (Gippsland Power) and Camperdown pair Sam Cunnington and...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON THERE’S little doubt Hayden Bertoli-Simmonds has grown into his role as leader of the Redland Bombers. It’s just that last season he wasn’t afforded the opportunity to shine with that growth as much as he would have liked when...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON PHIL Carse made a triumphant return to Redlands Football Club at the Bomber’s annual jumper presentation telling a big crowd of Bombers’ supporters and sponsors to ready themselves for “one hell of a ride” this NEAFL season. The new...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON WHAT could a poor lad do? He’d just stepped off a ship from Wales after a long, tiresome and anxious voyage, arriving in Australia as an excited, nervous, apprehensive and most likely homesick 10-year-old. His new home was now in...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON SAM Cunnington played his first senior match with Cobden in Victoria’s Western District as a 15-year-old. By the time he was 19 he was club captain. Then, after making the bold move to switch clubs and join arch-rival Camperdown,...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON CAMERON Spence doesn’t necessarily adhere to the saying: “He who hesitates is lost”. But he does believe in exploring every detail and examining every issue confronting him, particularly when it comes to making a move that will...

Bombers finalise Pre-season games With only nine weeks remaining until Round 1 of the 2019 NEAFL season the Redland Bombers have finalised their last phase of pre-season preparation. Over the weekend of February 23/24 players and staff will head to Byron...

"Australian Rules Football has a long and rich history in Queensland”. Dating back as far as 1866, the publication of More of the Kangaroo captures the full history of all our regions throughout the state. Locally the Redland Football Club features prominently in...

The Redland Football Club is pleased to announce the signing of running defender/midfielder Matthew McGannon for the upcoming 2019 NEAFL season. McGannon hails from Waratah Bay in Victoria and has been an integral part of the Gippsland Power program...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON NEW Redland assistant-coach Jason Cotter has achieved just about everything there is to achieve in Queensland football. That he is now helping to guide the fortunes of the Bombers in our quest for success in the North East AFL is a...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON IT will be instantly understood by those who know him that when Redland midfielder and three-time club champion Phil Carse left four years ago to launch his coaching career, he did so with a heavy heart in one instance and a sense...

The Redland Football Club is pleased to announce the appointment of Jason Cotter and Stephen Wrigley to their coaching staff for the 2019 NEAFL season. Both have strong links with State League football throughout Queensland. Wrigley was selected by the...

The Redland Football Club is pleased to announce that Phil Carse has been appointed Senior Coach for the 2019/20 NEAFL seasons. 33 year old Carse returns to Scottsdale Park, a venue he knows so well after an illustrious 8 year career as a player from...

The Redland Football Club will commence the search for a new Senior Coach after Leigh Harding advised the club he would not be seeking re-appointment for 2019. Harding coached the Bombers for the 2017/18 NEAFL seasons after spending four years on the...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON STAR defender Adrian Williams has joined an elite group of Redland players to win back-to-back Dowling Medals when he grabbed the 49th edition of the coveted award with a thrilling last-vote victory at the Bombers’ awards night....

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON IT will be a strange experience indeed when our very own Brad Howard takes the opportunity to sit back and relax while his former teammates are out on the track later this year puffing and panting as another pre-season dawns. While...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON THE question is: Can Adrian Williams win his second successive Dowling Medal and become only the fifth player to make it back-to-back best and fairest awards for Redland? Willo has had another consistent season in a difficult year...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON REDLAND’S big three – Adrian Williams, Jackson Paine and Matt Hammelmann – represented the Bombers with distinction when they were named in the North East AFL Team of the Year at a glittering presentation ceremony in Sydney. Despite...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON WHEN it comes down to it there’s more to life than football and young Redland utility Luke O’Sullivan certainly has plenty of strings to his bow – maybe that should read plectrums to his guitar. Luke, 20, loves football – let there...

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FORMER REDLAND TRIO IMPRESSING WITH THE PIES Report: JEFF STEPHENSON FORMER Redland trio Josh Thomas, Adam Oxley and Josh Smith have for the first time all be named in Collingwood’s “extended” team to play Brisbane at the MCG on Saturday night. At this...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON ADAM Boon will join an illustrious group to crack 150 games with the club when the Bombers clash with Sydney University at Scottsdale Park on Saturday. That he’s about to achieve the milestone at age 28 would probably have surprised...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON “IT was”, as Paul Bufalino put it “the best phone call you could hope to receive the first thing on a Monday morning.” And he readily admitted his contribution to the exercise was nil. That’s nought. In other words - nothing. The...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON YOU can never accuse Craig Malone of punching above his weight. The Redland big man has developed into one of the elite ruckmen in the NEAFL at a time when the rucking ranks are at their strongest in the history of the competition....

PITCHING IN TO LEND A HELPING HAND TO OUR MATES Report: JEFF STEPHENSON THE Redland Football Club’s commitment to charitable organisations will continue later this month when funds raised following the July 21 clash with arch-rival Aspley at Scottsdale...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON CLAY Cameron will barely hear the cheers of support when he runs out onto Metricon Stadium against Gold Coast on Saturday to resume a career that was to all intents and purposes snapped asunder following him being diagnosed with...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON WHILE sitting at the foot of the NEAFL table, Redland continues to flourish in several departments of the game – something most analysts would find a tad confusing. With the mid-season mark just beyond us, Redland has a number of...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON THERE were times last year when Tom Salter must have driven the Redland coaching and medical staff mad as he tried almost beyond the measure of human endeavour to get back and play with the Bombers. A season-ending knee...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON ADAM Mueller was wondering how much he meant to the team and what qualities he brought to it soon after being named captain of Redland in 2007. They were mostly hard, mean and despairingly desolate times. What made it tough for the...

Kids hand players their jumpers for 2018 A GREAT night was had on Thursday when Redland senior-listed players plus rookies were presented with their jumpers by members of the Victoria Point Sharks juniors. A crowd of almost 150 was on hand to...

Report: JEFF STEPHENSON IT’S no good lamenting what might have been. All the “what ifs” in the world won’t change reality and the reality is that after two matches Redland Bombers are 0-2 and while both losses have been highly respectable – is...

Redland Football Club will play Aspley Football Club on 12th May 2018 at Graham Rd Aspley at 2.00pm. Our jumpers have been specially designed by Shara Delaney. Inspired by the colours of the Redland Football Club, this guernsey is to be worn...

ANZAC MATCH 2018 Redland Football Club will play NT Thunder at Traeger Park on Saturday 28th April 7.30pm. Thank you to John Worrall and Victoria Point Chiropractic these jumpers will be available for purchase and all funds raised will be...

MATTHEW Hammelmann announced his intentions when he kicked his season off to a flyer with a powerhouse five-goal display against Southport at Scottsdale Park in an otherwise disappointing start to season 2018 for the Bombers. While...