Sport
10 May, 2024
Rowbottom to play 100th senior game
TOMORROW’S round five Hampden League clash against Cobden will be an extra special one for Camperdown’s Will Rowbottom.
He will run out at Leura Oval for his 100th senior game for the Magpies.
Rowbottom, who began season 2024 on 95 senior games, has played all rounds this year to date and will notch up his 100th tomorrow (Saturday).
His long career with the Magpies began when he joined the Sunday junior program as an under 12.
He played under 18s football under coach Jeremy Baker in 2014 and in the following season continued his 18s footy under the direction of Baker – and also earned the club’s best and fairest award with 75 votes.
Throughout that season he also assisted the reserves, playing in four games, and enjoyed his senior debut on one occasion.
Season 2016 saw Rowbottom go between the senior and reserve teams, notching up 10 reserve matches under coach James Castles, and 11 senior games under Phil Carse.
The senior side went on to finish fifth on the ladder and lost its elimination final, while the reserves were defeated in the preliminary after finishing third.
Under ‘Carsey’, Rowbottom enjoyed a further 15 appearances in the senior side in season 2017 as well as three games in the reserves, and then notched up another 20 senior matches the following year.
With new senior coaches Neville Swayn and Jack Williams at the helm, Rowbottom added 18 games to his tally in season 2019 before COVID hit the following year – halting all games and interrupting season 2021.
In 2022 Rowbottom headed north to Darwin where he spent a season playing for Palmerston North in the Northern Territory Football League.
Last year he returned home and enjoyed a further 18 games with the Magpies.