After such a convincing Grand Final performance in 1965 the question was “could Olinda-Ferny Creek maintain the momentum?”
Trevor Billington stood aside and Arthur Gill was recruited from South Belgrave as Captain/Coach.
OFC also signed two other key players.
Former U/16 premiership player Peter Jones returned to the Club from Port Melbourne and dual OFC Best and Fairest winner David Daly also joined the Red and White.
Even so there were few signs during the season that OFC were favourites to go back to back.
We finished third on the ladder, behind Norwood (High School) and Wandin after losing four of the first seven games.
Significantly OFC steadily improved and beat both Norwood and Wandin late in the season.
We then disposed of old rivals Coldstream and Norwood in the finals and set up a showdown against Wandin.
In probably the most exciting Grand Final the club has ever played we won by a point, with the last kick of the game.
As a footnote to this nailbitng win- Arthur Gill was injured in the week befre the Grand Final and couldn’t play ! Sandy Gammon again had the honour of captaining our Premiership team.
We are in the process of adding PDFs to this site which detail the extraordinary last kick victory over Wandin. Suffice to say it was Barry McCathy who scored the winning goal after being awarded a 15 yard penalty.In the pic above Barry is being chaired from the ground.
Historical Perspective- could OFC keep this group together and go on to enjoy yet more finals success? To find out proceed to the next year, 1967
| ROUND | HOME TEAM | SCORE | AWAY TEAM | SCORE |
| 1 | OLINDA FC | 7.14.56 | MT EVELYN | 5.7.37 |
| 2 | RINGWOOD ROVERS | 17.20.122 | OLINDA FC | 8.14.62 |
| 3 | COLDSTREAM | 15.5.95 | OLINDA FC | 7.11.53 |
| 4 | OLINDA FC | 8.10.58 | ROWVILLE | 1.10.06 |
| 5 | NORWOOD HIGH | 11.20.86 | OLINDA FC | 4.17.41 |
| 6 | OLINDA FC | 10.16.76 | MONTROSE | 7.7.49 |
| 7 | WANDIN | 15.14.104 | OLINDA FC | 8.10.58 |
| 8 | OLINDA FC | 11.11.77 | YARRA GLEN | 3.9.27 |
| 9 | MOOROOLBARK | 7.5.47 | OLINDA FC | 5.11.41 |
| 10 | MT EVELYN | 10.11.71 | OLINDA FC | 12.21.93 |
| 11 | OLINDA FC | 9.14.68 | RINGWOOD ROVERS | 4.7.31 |
| 12 | OLINDA FC | 9.9.63 | COLDSTREAM | 3.6.24 |
| 13 | ROWVILLE | 5.8.38 | OLINDA | 8.11.59 |
| 14 | OLINDA | 11.16.82 | NORWOOD HIGH | 7.10.52 |
| 15 | MONTROSE | 7.9.51 | OLINDA FC | 13.17.95 |
| 16 | OLINDA FC | 6.9.45 | WANDIN | 3.8.26 |
| 17 | YARRA GLEN | 4.4.28 | OLINDA FC | 11.20.86 |
| 18 | OLINDA FC | 31.29.215 | MOOROOLBARK | 5.4.34 |
| TEAM | WON | LOST | DRAW | % | PTS |
| NORWOOD HIGH | 15 | 3 | 0 | 147 | 60 |
| WANDIN | 14 | 4 | 0 | 129 | 56 |
| OLINDA FC | 13 | 5 | 0 | 143 | 52 |
| COLDSTREAM | 12 | 6 | 0 | 157 | 48 |
| RINGWOOD ROVERS | 12 | 6 | 0 | 112 | 48 |
| MT EVELYN | 8 | 9 | 1 | 101 | 32 |
| YARRA GLEN | 5 | 13 | 0 | 80 | 20 |
| MOOROOLBARK | 5 | 13 | 0 | 58 | 32 |
| ROWVILLE | 3 | 15 | 0 | 74 | 12 |
| MONTROSE | 2 | 15 | 1 | 45 | 10 |
FINALS
| 1ST SEMI | OLINDA FC | 10.14.74 | COLDSTREAM | 9.8.62 |
| PRELIM | OLINDA FC | 12.14.86 | NORWOOD HIGH | 9.14.68 |
| GRAND FINAL | OLINDA FC | 6.19.55 | WANDIN | 8.6.54 |
GOALS PAUL JONES 3 B VERNON 1 B McCARTHY 1 R FOWLER 1
BEST S GAMMON PETER JONES PAUL JONES D MCCARTHY B McCARTHY G ORR
PREMIERSHIP TEAM
| B | S GAMMON 11 | C MATTHEWS 6 | M PEEL 13 |
| H/B | P VAN BERKEL 23 | P MILIC 22 | Y VERSTEEGE 15 |
| C | J ISING 7 | K RANKIN 16 | G ORR 4 |
| H/F | D DALY 30 | R FOWLER 32 | D BROWN 25 |
| F | B VERNON 5 | PAUL JONES 2 | B McCARTHY 18 |
| R | PETER JONES 13 | D HARRIS 3 | D McCARTHY 17 |
| INT | N BRADSHAW 1 | W CAKEBREAD 10 |
| COACH | TREVOR BILLINGTON |
| CAPTAIN | SANDY GAMMON |
| B+F | PETER MILIC |
| BEST IN GF | SANDY GAMMON |
| GOAL KICKER | PAUL JONES |