{"id":452988,"date":"2026-02-02T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452988\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T05:12:11","slug":"snapshot-of-the-past-neerim-neerim-south-football-club-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/452988\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot of the past &#8211; Neerim-Neerim South Football Club rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                         &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                            <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/NSClubrooms_56040.jpg\" alt=\"Snapshot of the past - Neerim-Neerim South Football Club rooms\" class=\"gh-post-page__image\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<\/p>\n<p>A photograph of a workman putting the finishing touches on Neerim-Neerim South Football Club&#8217;s new $60,000 two-storey clubrooms in March 1982.<br \/>Just 10 years later, the clubrooms were destroyed in a devastating fire.<br \/>The $60,000 clubrooms signalled the start of a new era at Neerim South, resulting from a whole town effort.<br \/>Built utilising voluntary labour, expertise and materials, then president John Tucker claimed the opening of the clubrooms would result in Neerim South ultimately having a sporting facility second to none in Gippsland.<br \/>Club history shows $250,000 of damage was caused in the early morning fire in April 1992. Changerooms, showers, a sauna and upstairs social rooms used by both the football and cricket clubs were destroyed.<br \/>Unreplaceable items including trophies, team photos, football and cricket records and premiership flags &#8211; including the historic Warragul Shire 1982 centenary premiership flag &#8211; were also lost.<br \/>A new function area and clubrooms were built and officially opened in April 1993. After much talk and consultation, it was named &#8220;Phoenix Rooms&#8221;, reflecting its rise from the ashes.<br \/>The club has enjoyed a much happier future of late, named premiers and champions in both the senior football and A grade netball competitions within the Ellinbank and District Football Netball League.<br \/>Photograph courtesy of the Warragul Gazette.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Updated&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        February 02, 2026 3:00 pm | 4 minutes ago &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"gh-post-page__share-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.thegazette.com.au\/snapshot-of-the-past-neerim-neerim-south-football-club-rooms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Share on facebook\">&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n                    <\/a><br \/>\n                    <a class=\"gh-post-page__share-link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https:\/\/www.thegazette.com.au\/snapshot-of-the-past-neerim-neerim-south-football-club-rooms\/&amp;text=Snapshot%20of%20the%20past%20-%20Neerim-Neerim%20South%20Football%20Club%20rooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Share on twitter\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><br \/>\n                    <a class=\"gh-post-page__share-link\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20this%20article&amp;body=https:\/\/www.thegazette.com.au\/snapshot-of-the-past-neerim-neerim-south-football-club-rooms\/\" aria-label=\"Share via email\">&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    <\/a><br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                        Link copied!&#13;<br \/>\n                        Copy failed!&#13;<\/p>\n<p>            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; A photograph of a workman putting the finishing touches on Neerim-Neerim South Football&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-452988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}