The Barwon Heads/Ocean Grove Football Club wore purple jumpers with gold trim and were, and still are known as the "Grubbers".

[1] In 2007 3 players from the Ocean Grove Football Club were found guilty by the Melbourne Magistrates Court for their part in an anti-Semitic remark on a father who was with his two young children.

Criminal convictions were recorded against one man and two others who pleaded guilty were fined, while the player who punched the father in the face was never identified.

[2] In November 2007 Melbourne writer and social commentator Christopher Bantick in his column in the Herald Sun wrote that "the club is deserving of public shame".

Coincidentally, both men were appointed to their senior coaching jobs in the same week at the end of the 2011 AFL season.