About
The club was formed in 2002, via a merger of the Noorat Bombers and Kolora Magpies. In fact, the Power is really a combination of four clubs: The Sisters, Glenormiston, Kolora and Noorat.
The Sisters was famous for producing former Footscray and Melbourne player Jack ‘Cactus’ Coolahan, who earned his nickname because everyone who ran into him got hurt. Coolahan coached The Sisters to a premiership after returning from the VFL, although the club folded in 1962, with the majority of its players transferring to Kolora.
Glenormiston continued until the early 1990s when it fell on hard times and merged with Noorat. Previously known as the Swans, Noorat adopted Glenormiston’s nickname and became the Bombers.
From there, Kolora and Noorat kept slugging it out in the Heytesbury-Mount Noorat league until the early 2000s. The unique aspect of their rivalry was that they shared the Noorat Showgrounds. Kolora, the home club of Fitzroy’s last coach Alan McConnell, trained on Monday and Wednesday nights. Noorat, which is the club where Collingwood cult hero Ron Wearmouth began his career, trained on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Website
Kolora Noorat Power
Home Ground
Noorat Recreation Reserve, McKinnons Bridge Road, Noorat
Location
Noorat is a small township in southwestern Victoria, located 240 km west of Melbourne and 52 km northeast of Warrnambool. The township is located at the base of Mount Noorat, a dormant volcano, which is considered to have Australia’s largest dry crater. Noorat derives its name from Mount Noorat, a dormant volcano named by explorer Major Thomas Mitchell after a local Indigenous elder, Ngoora.
Premierships
2009-10-11
