We would like to thank Bruce Dawes, who did us the honour of tossing the commemorative Life Member Coin for the match against Lobethal on Saturday 10 August 2024 whilst joining his mates for reunion day.
Bruce played his entire junior and senior career at Mt Lofty, and with 362 senior club games, is still the current record holder for the Devils. Bruce won the A Grade Best and Fairest in 1996 and was an A Grade Premiership player in 2006 and 2007, later adding 2 Premierships in the B Grade and one in the C Grade. He then went on to coach our A Grade between 2014 and 2016, becoming a Premiership Coach in 2014 and being recognised as the Senior Country Coach of the Year by the SANFL. He also coached our senior womens team in 2019 then going onto coach SANFLW League where he coached at Sturt FC and now resides at West Adelaide. Bruce is also a HFL umpire and on the HFL board.
Back home at Mt Lofty he has been an avid volunteer over many years, helping all over the club. Over the years Bruce has continuously helped with oval maintenance and line marking. He is also one of our beloved MC’s at Quiz night, Presentation night and other functions, and chips in whenever the call out comes.
We are extremely lucky to have Bruce Dawes as a part of the Mt Lofty Devils Family.
Thank you sincerely on behalf of everybody at Mt Lofty District Football Club for all that you do BD.
BD testing out his tossing skills on Reunion Day, losing this one but the Devils got the win for him on the day. Bruce Dawes after flipping the coin with brother Leith who had just finished as a HFL Umpire of the BGrade Both Bruce and Leith are HFL Umpires and MLDFC Life Members2024 Reunion. Two Life Members Bruce Dawes, 2014 A Grade Coach and 2014 A Grade Team Manager, Jeff Pistola and reminiscing about the amazing season.
What a turn out for reunion day! Thank you so much to everyone that joined us to make such a memorable day! Our Lofty Legend Convener Haydn Cutting was diligent as always, and grabbed a few snaps on the day.
Thank you to everyone that made the day the success is was.
2024 Reunion. Shane Wissell who’s Grandfather was a member of the 1934 Aldgate Premiership side. Shanes family goes back to the formation of the Aldgate club with every generation playing for Aldgate and Mt Lofty. Shane with Mt Lofty was 4th generation and his sons 5th generation, James playing in the U16’s and Harry playing in the U14’s.2024 Reunion. Allan Miller – 1954 Stirling A Grade Premiership player, Martin Ellis and Chris Chardon – 1963 and 1964 Stirling Colt Premiership players and David Miller on the left.2014 Mt Lofty Premiership players and officials at the 2024 reunion. L to R. Jill Dawes, Jeff Pistola, Bruce Dawes, Sarah Bennett, Michael Stapleton, Tom Morgan, Peter Sanders, David “DK” Stevens, Matt Pistola, Steve Drake, Perry Edwards, Ben Phil, Sam Broadbridge, Wade Hall, Stuart Gould, Tom Maslin, Joel Van Paridon, Scott Huff, Henri Tonkin, Steve Drake, Sascha Oerli, Mark Drake, Brad Burch.2024 Reunion. Premiership players from HAU 1974 and Mt Lofty in 1984 and 1994. L to R Kevin Hampton, Keith White, Rob Sampson, Daryl Hampton, Robert Penny, Trevor Ranford, Perry Edwards, Ben Anderson, Lionel Kerr, Dave Bennett, Bruce Dawes, Jeff Pistola, John Bowes, Malcolm Foale.2024 Reunion. Two Life Members Bruce Dawes, 2014 A Grade Coach and 2014 A Grade Team Manager, Jeff Pistola and reminiscing about the amazing season.
It was a clean sweep for our boys at home on Saturday with some big wins recorded against Lobethal. With two weeks left of the minor rounds, our teams are looking good for finals. Meanwhile, our Senior Women and U17 Girls both took on Blackwood for round two of HFLW finals yesterday. Our U17 Girls had a good win and are straight through to the big dance. Our Senior Women played a great first half but couldn’t keep up with the undefeated Woods Greens in the second half and went down by 44 points. Thankfully, they have the double chance and will play Onka Valley again on Sunday. Our U12 Girls played in an elimination final yesterday and went down to Payneham, ending our young Devs’ 2024 season. Well done on a great year girls. See you on the weekend Devs fans!
A GRADE | HFL Mt Lofty def Lobethal 22.13.145 8.11.59 LADDER POSITION | 3rd
SENIOR WOMEN | HFL Mt Lofty def by Blackwood Green 3.4.22 10.6.66 WILL FACE ONKA VALLEY IN PRELIM FINAL SUNDAY
B GRADE | HFL Mt Lofty def Lobethal 5.10.40 6.14.50 LADDER POSITION | 5th
U18 BOYS | HFL Mt Lofty def Lobethal 25.19.169 3.3.21 LADDER POSITION | 2nd
U17 GIRLS | HFL Mt Lofty def Blackwood 6.4.40 3.3.21 STRAIGHT THROUGH TO GRAND FINAL 25 AUG
U16 BOYS | HFL Mt Lofty def Lobethal 16.15.111 1.1.7 LADDER POSITION | 3rd
U14 BOYS | HFL Mt Lofty def Lobethal 8.22.70 0.2.2 LADDER POSITION | 2nd U12 MIXED | HFL Mt Lofty def Lobethal 4.1.25 2.3.15 LADDER POSITION | 7th SEASON COMPLETE: WELL DONE DEVS
U12 GIRLS | SANFL JUNIORS Mt Lofty def by Payneham 1.3.9 3.4.22 SEASON COMPLETE: WELL DONE DEVS
With many fond memories of yonder years to bring us together today, we have a story to share too. A treasured HAU & Mt Lofty member who was very excited to join us today has unfortunately had a health turn. Herman’s wife Glenda has sent a message to share ❤️🤍❤️💚💛
Our beloved Herman had a stroke on the right side of his brain affecting his left side, on 22nd July… He is in Flinders Rehab ward and is working pretty hard on his rehab. Every day I see him he looks brighter and he is no longer leaning to his side. His speech is fine, his passion about his football Clubs, Heathfield Aldgate United, Mt Lofty District FC and Port Adelaide has not waned. The determination for his Rehab is equal to the way he played his Centre Half Back position in the number 13 guernsey. His saying for his footy was ‘you either want to play footy or you don’t’ and ‘bad kicking is bad football’ as well as ‘put everything into it or get off the oval’
Please can contact our daughter Nikki on 0408 133 029 for any updates… and feel free to send him words of encouragement in the comments as he will be reading this too!
