Being 300 meters from the heart of Parramatta, this is a good question.

In the early years, the club played out of many different grounds in the Granville area including, Granville Park, Merrylands, Pitt Row (which includes Ollie Webb Reserve and Jones Park) Parramatta and A’Beckett Street Park, Granville (lost due to the M4 motorway) and even Parramatta Park but by the 1940’s mostly settled for Brunton Park (affectionately known to locals as Brunton’s Paddock), located on the corner of Clyde and William Streets Granville. The park was donated after Brunton’s Flour Mill which was demolished in the 1980’s. The park is now the site of Granville Diggers (RSL Club) who had the land donated to them by Brunton’s in 1960.

When construction of the RSL club commenced in the early 1960’s, we moved to James Ruse Reserve, which is the park land to the immediate west of Hambledon Cottage however when Parkes Street was extended to link with Hassall Street in the late 1970’s, it dissected James Ruse Reserve and we were forced to move north across the road to Robin Thomas Reserve. Interestingly, just a few years earlier field number 2 was a land fill dump that was leveled and grassed. It has been our home ever since.

There have seen several pushes to change the club’s name through the years, the most recent in 2015. Over 150 members attended this meeting and the motion failed by a very large margin – it is clear our members proudly want to retain the name and all its glorious history (first you get used to the name and then you fall in love with it).

As the Granville area was arguably the birth place of soccer football in Australia and certainly then the cradle of the game for decades, it makes no sense to change the name and severe that proud and unbroken connection.