Notable Club Members
The club's two premiership coaches, Brendan McCartney (who won the 1994–1997 flags) and Mark Neeld (who won the 2000–2003 flags), have both gone on to senior coaching jobs in the Australian Football League, with the Western Bulldogs and Melbourne respectively. Coincidentally, both men were appointed to their senior coaching jobs in the same week at the end of the 2011 AFL season.
As of 2009, five players have made it from the Grubbers up to AFL level:
- Melbourne's Clint Bartram
- West Coast's Jordan Jones,
- Collingwood's Danny Stanley,
- Western Bulldog's Ayce Cordy,
- Western Bulldogs Guy O'Keefe.
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