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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

Parksiders demonstrated that being formidable and resilient requires that you can endure all sorts
ofchallenges.

A dispute regarding the club’s rooms between Parkside FC and Harry Bryce, a successful Parkside
president, who was noticeably advocating the interests of the Footscray Boys/Youth Club and who
actually underestimated the social impacts and importance of football for a local community, was
finally resolved.

Pascarl remembers that, “with council permission, we built the other old shed into club rooms better
than the first shed we modified. I mention these two sheds that we turned into club rooms because
they took a lot of hard work to make presentable.

Then more bad luck, the second of these rooms we built were burnt to the ground and so once again
the Club was without club rooms.

We once again were granted permission to build but this time built with bricks, concrete floor, and
change room for two teams, showers, toilets for men and women and a small social room. All this
was done with borrowed money.

When this building was finished, good windows, newly painted with tables and chairs, we had, in our
opinion, the best club rooms in the Footscray District Football League. Over the years, we added
another section and then they were flooded when the Maribyrnong River overflowed and that
season, the Club played on Dobson Reserve ground.”

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider