Wednesday Afternoon Football Association (WAFA)

Was a popular mid-week competition that provided opportunities in the main, for those who worshipped footy, but worked on weekends. It also brought together region against region, rivalry yes, but on a more social level.

What helped make the competition successful, was that Wednesday afternoon was a half-day holiday during the early 1900’s. Although it was a great community and recreational sporting event, it succumbed to the ever changing dynamics of the game and that of communities, it too ceased to operate after 1912.

Clubs that participated included: Butchers, Drapers, Grocers, GPO, Ironmongers and Tramways.

Apart from Drapers being the initial premiership winners in 1904, Butchers won five consecutive premierships from 1909 until the Association became defunct in 1913.