Bill Roach (footballer)

{{short description|Australian rules footballer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox AFL biography

| name = Bill Roach

| image =

| fullname = Charles Roach

| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|11|03|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2015|02|03|1925|11|03|df=y}}

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| originalteam = Prahran

| height = 175 cm

| weight = 67 kg

| position =

| statsend = 1946

| years1 = 1946

| club1 = {{AFL Ric}}

| games_goals1 = 1 (0)

| careerhighlights =

}}

Charles Arthur "Bill" Roach (3 November 1925 – 3 February 2015){{cite web|url=http://tributes.heraldsun.com.au/notice/114712220/view|title=Herald Sun Tributes|date=5 February 2015}} was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2014 |edition=10th |isbn=978-1-921496-32-5 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=752}} Less than two months after playing for Richmond, Roach requested a clearance to Melbourne Football Club,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22239895 |title=League Clubs Train Lightly. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=28 June 1946 |accessdate=10 February 2016 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}} which was granted,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206367643 |title=Savage and Carlton |newspaper=The Age |location=Melbourne |date=4 July 1946 |accessdate=10 February 2016 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} but he never played a league game for them.

He played for the Prahran Football Club in the Victorian Football Association, where he was a life member and chairman of selectors from 1965 to 1975.{{cite web|url=http://www.prahranfootball.org.au/pageitem.aspx?id=92629&id2=1&eID=30890&entityID=|title=News: Vale Don Butling|date= 20 February 2015}}