The Australian Country Football Championships can be a serious affair. Over the first two days, the seven teams play six games of 17-minute halves. After a day’s rest, a full-scale game is held between the top two teams to decide the winner. This year’s championships were in Canberra. The Victorian major-league team (there was also [Read more]
Sunshine, Sea and Footy
July 25, 2010 by 2 Comments
It doesn’t get much better than this, mid winter in Lorne, the day is still and mild, the sky a steely grey and the smoke from open fires in surrounding homes creates a unique atmosphere for a game of footy. Lorne are playing Simpson, a side that gave them a right royal touch up some [Read more]
Local Footy: Race for Eastern league flag is wide open
July 21, 2010 by 6 Comments
Eastern FL Division 1 club wins losses percentage points Scoresby 11 2 166.48 44 Noble Park 9 4 159.83 36 Balwyn 9 4 151.64 36 Norwood 8 5 109.85 32 Croydon 8 5 108.72 32 Blackburn 7 6 108.05 28 Vermont 7 6 91.17 28 East Burwood 6 7 86.60 24 South Croydon 4 9 [Read more]
Sheldon, Diesel leaders of 1997 BFL All Stars
July 20, 2010 by 3 Comments
by Richard Jones NOW that the 2010 BFL Hall of Fame and Team of the Decade concepts are up and running, it’s perhaps timely to look back at an All Stars function held 13 years ago. In October, 1997, the VFL-aligned Bendigo Diggers Football Club hosted an evening in which 23 top players from Bendigo’s [Read more]
Perhaps footy isn’t the answer to everything?
July 15, 2010 by 15 Comments
Music’s coming out of the speakers; the dog is stretching out behind me making funny noises, I’m sipping from my bottle of lemon ice tea and I am bored. And sick. I’ve been sick for a couple of weeks now, the day of the Thursday night Carlton v Brisbane Lions game was the first day [Read more]
Another Power team loses, this time to the Superdogs
July 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment
ROUND EIGHT AFL MASTERS OVER 35’S by Nick Kossatch The Power lost another match; however it was in the form of Portland Power, this time to the Riverland Superdogs at Rosewater Oval on Sunday by eight points. The visitors welcomed new players Dean Romeo, Barry Gavranich and ex-Superdog and Central Districts and Hawthorn player Robert [Read more]
Local Footy: Wickers walk tall against 142nd opponent
July 8, 2010 by 7 Comments
Elsternwick Amateur Football Club’s greatest rivals Club games won lost drawn first played last played ANZ Bank/Albert Park 50 26 24 0 1961 2010 Collegians 47 20 25 2 1914 1953 Old Scotch 42 11 20 1 1923 1947 University Blacks 41 15 26 0 1921 1947 Glenhuntly 40 17 23 0 1928 1998 Power [Read more]
Franksy’s 200th game
July 7, 2010 by 10 Comments
Daniel Franks player his 200th game for the Wynyard Cats last Saturday. Who? What? Where? Who cares? We all do. The long suffering supporters who have shared all his pain from the bone crunching hits he has received in his protracted career of unflinching attack on the ball; the emotional pain of another belting to [Read more]
ECHUCA, MAGPIES WIN WINTER MUD BATTLES: JULY 1960
July 3, 2010 by 6 Comments
IN the mud and slush of mid-winter 1960 Echuca and Castlemaine scored surprise victories over fancied opponents Golden Square and Sandhurst. The Advertiser’s chief football writer John Rice described the July 11th round 50 years ago as contested “on muddy battle grounds”. “Tailenders Echuca downed the Square, which was fighting for a place in the [Read more]
KEN PIESSE: FAVOURITE SONS FROM THE MID MURRAY
July 3, 2010 by 4 Comments
Sharrock, Bos, Wallis, Raines, Frèe, O’Bree, Guerra… the Central Murray region has been a goldmine for the big city clubs, some of the VFL’s very best hailing from the townships of Tooleybuc, Jerilderie, Wandella and the like. As much as I admired the prodigious punting of Sharrock and the pepper-and-salt arrogance of Raines, as smooth [Read more]
Local Footy: Old Carey at head of amazing logjam
July 1, 2010 by 2 Comments
VAFA PREMIER B Old Carey 7 4 135.55 28 St Kevin’s 7 4 115.67 28 Old Haileybury 7 4 115.24 28 Old Ivanhoe 7 4 113.93 28 Oakleigh 7 4 110.65 28 St Bernard’s 7 4 107.61 28 Uni Blacks 6 5 113.73 24 Hampton Rovers 5 6 100.27 20 Old Essendon 1 10 68.38 [Read more]
UNI FOOTY CLUBS ARE UNIQUE
June 30, 2010 by 15 Comments
When Len Cuff transferred in his employment to Sydney in 1984 the former Tasmanian Amateur rep just went straight down to Sydney Uni where he found out he didn’t have to learn a new club song. The Sydney Uni victory song, “1-2-3 the uni boys are we”, “4-5-6 we got ‘em in a fix”, “7-8-9 [Read more]
The Perry Meka Roadshow
June 29, 2010 by 7 Comments
By Paul Branagan I was obviously out of my inner-suburban comfort zone when I buggered up the take-a-number system at the Nagambie bakery. It was 11.30am and I was on my way to the Shepparton United / Shepparton Swans clash at Princess Park by the Goulburn River. Innocently I picked up what I thought was [Read more]
A day at Woodfull-Miller
June 27, 2010 by 4 Comments
The Dons are having a week off, so what better to do than go to one of the prettiest grounds in Melbourne, the home of MHSOB. High on Forest Hill stands the imposing castle like building of the school overlooking the football oval, The football ground is called the Woodfull-Miller Oval, named after two exceptional [Read more]
Ken Piesse: Favourites sons of the GOULBURN VALLEY
June 23, 2010 by 11 Comments
KEN PIESSE: FAVOURITE SONS FROM THE GOULBURN VALLEY Years ago I was interviewing an old Australian cricketer, one-Test wonder George Thoms, when he stopped in mid-sentence and said: ‘Ken… you’re a good listener.’ ‘George,’ I said, ‘I just love hearing all your stories.’ Footy or cricket, I have been a sucker for a good yarn [Read more]
Local Footy: The day the Murray league beat the Saints
June 23, 2010 by 21 Comments
This Friday marks a special occasion for the Murray Football League: it’s the 50th anniversary of the day a hastily cobbled-together team of Murray league players became one of the few country teams to defeat a VFL visitor. Practice matches between country teams and VFL teams were common from footy’s earliest days right up until [Read more]
THREE SOUTH PREMIERSHIP TEAM MEMBERS RETURN TO QEO
June 21, 2010 by 2 Comments
TWENTY years on, South Bendigo’s three premiership-winning teams from 1990 will celebrate their QEO successes on Saturday, June 26th. The Peter Bradbury-coached seniors downed Golden Square by 22 points in a classic grand final, Brendan Francis’ reserves accounted for Eaglehawk by 27 points, while in the under-18s the Brian Teasdale-mentored Bloods beat the Square by [Read more]
KEN PIESSE FAVOURITE SONS FROM THE WIMMERA
June 18, 2010 by 1 Comment
McKenzie Creek is a near-forgotten whistlestop outside Jeparit, but for footy fans, especially down Geelong way, it will always be notable for being the childhood home of iconic Cat’s goalkicker Doug Wade, a true 1960s and 1970s goalkicking great. Doug may have been recruited direct from Horsham, but he played his first senior footy [Read more]
Local Footy: Two Dans and a draft
June 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Dan Noonan and Dan Nicholson are contrasting footballers. Noonan is big and solid, able to patrol a backline with his presence as much as his sure hands and timely fist. Nicholson is small and nippy, able to baulk and shimmy before kicking long in to the forward line. On Sunday the two Dans represented the [Read more]
Brunswick Revisited – A Day with North Old Boys
June 12, 2010 by 1 Comment
At the place where Sydney Rd meets Albion Street rise two distinct buildings, the Edinburgh Castle and Don Bosco Boys’ Hostel. Passing these landmarks I recall flickering images of youth. Twenty years ago I boarded at Don Bosco with many other students and apprentices new to the city. A few of these made their way [Read more]
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