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Parkside Football Club 1897/2017

The three weeks after Footscray Market opened its doors for the first time, the FDFL 1981 season
commenced for the 51st time.

The Mail shared Parkside’s anticipations for an exciting season ahead.

“With the Footscray District Football League season due to start on Saturday, Parkside – who have
improved greatly since last year – is a team to watch.

With the addition of several new players including former Footscray Star Gordon Casey, Parkside
have been most impressive in practice matches beating last year’s premiers North Footscray and
third place Kingsville.

On Saturday Parkside will meet last year’s fourth placegetters St. Albans at Henry Turner Reserve.”

The Mail, 1 April 1981

*****

ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES

Gordon Casey’s survival story

By Kirstie Fitzgerald

“Three-thousand three hundred of our dads, brothers, sons and friends will die from prostate cancer
in Australia this year.Alarmingly, this averages out to almost nine men each day and while survival
rates have increased in recent times, prostate cancer continues to be one of the most common
cancers in men, with more than 20,000 new cases diagnosed this year.

Once a Parksider, Always a Parksider