Talk:Northcote Football Club

A comment on the Brickfielders

I've been reading a lot of old newspapers about the VFL, and I've never once seen a contemporary source refer to the Northcote Football Club as the Brickfielders; it doesn't mean one doesn't exist, but I've never seen it. I've seen reference to brickfielder winds at the Northcote ground, and I know the suburb had a brickworks, but that's the only link. However, I have seen contemporary sources in more than one newspaper refer to Brunswick as the Brickfielders back in the early 1900s (which I've added to the Brunswick page). There are several modern sources which refer to Northcote as the Brickfielders, but I assume that Full Points Footy is the only that did any original research, and that every other source on the internet just copied from it.

This is not to say that both clubs' players were not known for a time as the Brickfielders. The nicknames used at the time were not formally associated with the clubs, and I've seen Williamstown, Port Melbourne and Sandringham players all referred to as the Seasiders due to their bay proximity. Entirely possible that the two brickfieldside teams both attracted the name. Nevertheless, I've still seen it only in connection with Brunswick.

I'm not going to remove the reference to Northcote being called the Brickfielders from this page – since we consider Full Points Footy to be a reputable source and it would be a WP:NOR violation – but I just thought I'd mention here that I suspect FPF got this one wrong, and that the error has propagated through the internet since. Aspirex (talk) 08:37, 22 November 2013 (UTC)

Aha. I've finally found a contemporary reference to Northcote as the Brickfielders in the Australasian in 1924. Aspirex (talk) 11:20, 3 April 2014 (UTC)