Reg Smith was born in Williamstown in April 1916 and he played in his first A Grade game for the Williamstown Rovers when he was 16 years old. He continued playing until he was 43 years old however he did play another game when the team was short playing Cambrai. He played this game with his son Ivan when Reg was 56 years old.
The Reg Smith Trophy for A Grades Best and Fairest player was first presented in 1980 following the amalgamation of the Lyndoch Football Club and the Williamstown Rovers Football Club to form the Barossa District Football Club. As a life member of the Williamstown Rovers, Reg was one of the main instigators of the amalgamation when both clubs were performing poorly (being thrashed) in the Gawler League. He pushed the issue and with some assistance from a few other personnel the amalgamation went ahead. He was also a key player in developing the new clubrooms at Williamstown Oval in 1984. The building of the clubrooms was achieved by the supply of labour by the government and the materials paid for by the club and park committee. Reg spent many hours liaising, ordering, supervising, supplying machinery and delivery of goods and materials at no charge. Reg was very proud of the new club and was very honoured to have the A Grade Best and Fairest Trophy in his name.
Reg continued as a stalwart of the club until he passed away in 2002 at 86 years of age.
Dear BDFC players, volunteers, members and supporters
I write to introduce myself as the incoming President of the Football Club. I’m honoured to be given the opportunity to lead the Football committee, particularly coming in at such an exciting time in the history of our Club. For those that don’t know me, I’ve been involved with the administration of football at the BDFC and in the Association for almost 25 years. I was awarded BDFC life membership in 2013 prior to joining the BLGFA as a Director and Vice President, serving for 9 years before resigning my position at the end of 2021 due to work commitments. I have been a police officer for 35 years but I’m currently on leave pending my formal retirement early next year so I now have the time to re-commit to the Club.
I thank the outgoing committee members, Jason Thiele (President), Corey Roberts (Treasurer), Elijah Grantham (Secretary) and Jamie Sibbick (Sponsorship) for doing an amazing job, and look forward to working with the incoming Committee members, and various working groups who strive to provide a successful and enjoyable experience for everyone involved at our Club.
We have so much to look forward to. The new facility at Lyndoch is unbelievable and, after waiting for so long, it’s happening so fast!. I am so happy to be riding the wave of excitement at the Club with the impending move. An enormous amount of credit needs to go to the BDFNC Management Committee and the Barossa Council who have worked, and continue to work tirelessly to set up a state-of-the-art facility and systems that maximises the benefit to our Club and the Community generally.
As you have probably noticed from the Facebook posts, the Football Operations Recruiting team have been working extremely hard for months now and we are so pleased to welcome back a number of great players to the Club, along with some outstanding talent joining us for the first time. We also welcome new A-Grade Coach, Ash (Red) Barnett back to the Club. We are also so happy to now have our BDFC Juniors (Under 9’s and 11’s) back to play at the Club after several years playing their games at Sandy Creek so we’ll all be together again. Our women’s program is also looking great with some quality players and coaches joining the squads. 2025 will see us fielding a Senior Women’s team (something we unfortunately couldn’t do in 2024), along with a team in each other grade. So we are getting set for a fantastic 2025 and so looking forward to our first game in the new facility on 10th May.
Go Dogs!
Simon Carpenter
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About time! Congratulations, the club are so lucky to have you ❤️🤍💙
Wonderful news. Welcome back Simon. It's going to be an awesome year ❤️🤍💙
Congratulations, what a great appointment.
Congratulations Simon on your appointment as President of BDFC, you have some exciting times ahead of you with all that is going on best of luck for season 2025
Congratulations Simon, awesome news.
Great news! Welcome Carps!
Congratulations Carps. And congratulations on the retirement mate - Shilts 👍
Great to have you back mate and I know you will do great things congratulations
Congratulations and good luck Simon. All the best dogs 👍
congratulations Simon
Onward & upwards. Great announcement 👏👏
The ultimate appointment, fantastic to have you back Carps!
Congratulations Carps👏
Congratulations Simon, I'm the Scott boys Nana. 🏉🏉
Great appointment! look forward to it Simon Carpenter 👍🏻
What a fantastic appointment for the Club.
Love it welcome back Simon xx
This is awesome. 👏🏼
Fantastic appointment 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Congratulations Carps, looking forward to working with you
Great stuff!! 👏🏼
Awesome
YAY 💙❤️🤍
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Our pre-season merchandise campaign is OPEN now!! ❤🤍💙🎽 Check out the club polo - reversible training tops - long sleeved warm up tops - and new Limited additional 2025 LYNDOCH scarf and beanie!!
Campaign will close on Monday 2 December to provide time for pre-season items to be in by mid January. Get on it!
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Sale ends tomorrow!!!Ho Ho Ho - stock up on wine and beer for the holidays - at 20% off. For a limited time!!
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📣2025 BAROSSA DISTRICT NETBALL TRIALS📣
Links for Registration Below
Senior 1-3 Trials
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Senior 4-7 Trials
www.playhq.com/netball-australia/register/755b3b
Junior Team Trials (Sub-Juniors, Juniors and Intermediates)
www.playhq.com/netball-australia/register/c344cd
Primary, GO, Netset program- Expressions of Interest
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