1933 - 1934 - 1935 DIRTY DAYS

DIRTY DAYS


With the economy on the improve, the reintroduction of the senior team into competition occurred in 1933 but it was to be a slow road back as the team quickly became the competition’s ‘chopping block’, losing every game bar one, a one point victory over Carnegie. Chelsea won the wooden spoon hands down and, worse still, managed the daily double as the Juniors picked up the same award for the trophy cabinet. These were difficult times indeed.

This was the last time that a Junior Under 21 competition was operational as it was replaced by a B Grade open division in 1934.

Commencing the 1934 season with two narrow losses and much improved on-field performances, Chelsea finally broke the ice in Round 3 and followed up with a second win the next week. Things were improving and the club was able to register seven wins for the season, but it was to be a short lived improvement .
1935—’ANNUS HORRIBILUS’ - a year that went down in history as our worst ever. Not one single win was registered as the club was relegated to B Section for the coming season. It was to be a blessing in disguise, as the troops rallied at the indignity of their pitiful performance and set about rectifying the situation.

The club’s ‘Bonnie’ Johnstone'  was about to win Chelsea’s first Federal District League best and fairest award.

Keith Fraser who had played in Chelsea's U-21 Premiership side was recruited by Collingwood in 1933.

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