By Nick Kossatch The Riverland Superdogs Master’s over 35s football side returned to the winner’s list in barnstorming fashion against Pooraka with an 87-point victory at Berri Oval on Sunday. After an inaccurate first half, highlighted by Johnny ‘The Whiz’ Barrett’s ‘goal hungriness’ – the Dogs’ debutant Scott Muller (four goals) proved a fine a [Read more]
AFL Round 12: Bulldogs v Port Adelaide: Dogs chew up insipid Port
June 16, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Nick Kossatch I was on a ‘high’ after watching the St Kilda and Carlton match the previous night – Friday night footy on national TV. It was pure football – tough, no flooding, and man-on-man. The following day, on a cool Saturday afternoon, in my role as a football writer for The Murray Pioneer, [Read more]
Local Footy: Superdogs go down fighting
June 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Nick Kossatch The Riverland Superdogs went down in valiant fashion against the Ingle Farm Football Club-based East club by 27 points at a rain-soaked Foxfield Oval in Adelaide on Sunday. It was a tough and physical match and Nick “Kossy” Kossatch yet again drifted forward, unaccountable, to mark and then boot the Superdogs’ first [Read more]
Local Footy: Waikerie hammer Berri
June 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Nick Kossatch TOM’S TEN TAUNTS THE DEMONS – RFL ROUND SIX Tom Hyde booted 10 goals in the Waikerie Magpies 50-point drubbing of the Berri Demons in Waikerie. It was Demon Terry Bonner’s 200th senior match not the result he had hoped for. Hyde reeled off four goals in the opening [Read more]
Local Footy: Riverland Superdogs go down in Berri
June 4, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Nick Kossatch The Riverland Superdogs broke their ‘record-breaking’ winning stretch at Berri Oval after Gawler defeated them by 10 points on Sunday. It was a physical and hard-fought epic and Canadian exchange schoolteacher Steve Deighton (here on holidays in other words!) revelled in overcast conditions. He was in-and-under and continually ran to [Read more]
AFL Round 10: Port succumb to humble Pie pressure
June 1, 2009 by 1 Comment
by Nick Kossatch Collingwood 3.1 6.5 15.8 17.12 (114) Port Adelaide 5.2 7.5 9.6 11.10 (76) GOALS Collingwood: Anthony 4, Didak 3, Dick 3, L. Brown 2, Lockyer, Swan, Davis, Clarke, Sidebottom Port Adelaide: Ebert 3, Gray, Rodan, Cassisi, Tredrea, M. Westhoff, Lade, Surjan, Pearce BEST Collingwood: Swan, L. Brown, [Read more]
AFL Round 9: Port blown away
May 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Nick Kossatch With the Western Bulldogs just failing against unbeaten Geelong – Port’s match against the contested-ball kings, Sydney, was a chance for the club to gain respect from afar as well as outright third on the AFL premiership ladder. It was time for the Power to show their mettle, away from the safe [Read more]
Local Footy: Riverland FL special centenary match
May 18, 2009 by 2 Comments
by Nick Kossatch The Riverland FL Centenary game produced a remarkable and controversial draw between North-Of-The-River and South-Of-The-River after North’s Ryan Bennett booted a 55-metre goal after the final siren. There was confusion when the Renmark Oval scoreboard showed North being five-point victors and they celebrated accordingly. The goal and field umpires [Read more]
The ‘Hoff’ Feasts on Wests
April 30, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Nick Kossatch THE Riverland Superdogs may have lost the rugged Paul ‘Weeds Cupcake’ Matthews (knee soreness) and Nick ‘Kossy’ Kossatch (Power barracking commitments) but it did not stop them from winning their first game against Wests at Berri Oval on Sunday. It was a keenly fought contest and club president Lance ‘Buckets’ Gum suffered [Read more]
Oh what a feeling for a Port fan
April 21, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Nick Kossatch It was hard for me to get up at ten minutes past four on the Saturday morning in the lead-up to the Port and Hawthorn clash at the MCG in the afternoon. “Gee, the Power boys better win,” I said to myself. “Last time I was at the ’G it was a [Read more]
Broken Hill Outmine the Superdogs by Nick Kossatch
April 6, 2009 by Leave a Comment
THE Riverland Superdogs ventured off to Broken Hill for their round one clash against the Masters Australian Over 35’s competition newcomers. Saturday’s twilight fixture was a success for the Silver City-siders as they overran the Dogs in the last quarter by 10 points. Canadian recruit Steve ‘The Puck’ Deighton unfortunately strained his driver in his [Read more]
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