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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...

THEY’LL be no such thing as “second-year blues” should Redland be given a reasonable run with injury as well as the run of the ball this North Easter AFL season. Not if second-year coach Leigh Harding has his way anyway. After the...