By Tavis Perry This year I’m playing for Yarrawonga, which is affiliated with the Ovens and Murray Football League. Like a lot of country players I’m living and working in Melbourne, which makes it impossible to get to training with the team in Yarrawonga. This is common for county footballers. Yarrawonga have 13 footballers who [Read more]
Press release: Victorian women’s footy team
June 1, 2009 by Leave a Comment
from Leesa Catto and the VWFL The Victorian senior women’s football team flies out on Tuesday the 2nd of June bound for Perth to compete in the 2009 AFL national women’s championships. The new look Victorian team boasts fourteen players making their debut in the Big V jumper with nine of those fourteen having represented Victoria at [Read more]
Jones files: High times on the back of a truck
May 29, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Richard Jones WHILE broadcasting sports events in Papua New Guinea was never dull, radio work hasn’t been without its moments here in central Victoria. How many metropolitan radio hacks would hoist themselves into the back of ute parked against a country footy ground’s fence? Not to mention a dairy cattle livestock truck positioned adjacent [Read more]
In the Sheds: Not a level playing field
May 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
One of the great things about footy is that every ground is different. Unlike soccer and rugby pitches, which are uniform in dimension, footy grounds can be as big as the sky or as small as a pie, with straight wings or bulbous wings or a kink in one pocket. Another factor that sets grounds [Read more]
Yarra Man: The lowdown on the elite
May 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Tavis Perry THE talk of whether Lou Richards should be inducted into the AFL hall of fame coincided with Jason Akermanis’ 300th game. Aker is undoubtedly one of my favourite all-time players. The subsequent articles on him and the hall of fame inductees made for some interesting reading on one of my favourite topics: [Read more]
Local Footy: UQ notch a win, and seem to take on the local Ippy lingo
May 22, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Avan Stallard Div2 Reserves Match Report 16 May 2009 (BAFL) Uni 1.5 2.6 4.10 6.13 (49) Ipswich 1.0 2.3 3.4 3.9 (27) We played really good on the weekend. In the first quarter we wanted to beat the other side, who were Ipswich. [Read more]
Yarra Man: A half-back’s comparison of the Eastern league and the Ovens and Murray league
May 21, 2009 by 2 Comments
By Tavis Perry Last year I played for Blackburn in the Eastern Football League, which is commonly regarded as Victoria’s premier competition outside the VFL. This year I’ve transferred to Yarrawonga, which plays in arguably the strongest — and definitely the most even — country competition, the Ovens & Murray Football League. Often I’m asked, [Read more]
In the Sheds: Royboys’ turkey run unites distant clubs
May 21, 2009 by 3 Comments
By Paul Daffey The AFL’s Indigenous Round this weekend will promote unity through sport. For an example of such unity, look no further than the link formed by two clubs on opposite sides of the country, from opposite sides of the demographic coin. Warnum is a West Australian Aboriginal community that was once known as [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]
Local footy: VAFA report: Xavs grind out win
May 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Paul Daffey In the final round last year, Old Xaverians defeated Old Brighton in what many spectators said was the best game of amateur footy they’d seen for years. Yesterday’s A-section match at Elsternwick Park didn’t quite reach those heights, but it did have a similar intensity to the 2008 classic at the Brighton [Read more]
Local footy: Williamstown CYMS, Round 5: Willy too good at Yarra Valley
May 18, 2009 by Leave a Comment
SENIORS YARRA VALLEY 2.1 4.3 5.4 8.8-56 WILLIAMSTOWN 6.4 11.9 16.10 18.13-121 Williamstown CYMS returned to the winning list with a resounding 65-point away win against the Yarra Valley Bushrangers at Domeney Reserve on Saturday. Still smarting from their embarrassing defeat at the hands of Eltham the week before, the CYs got away to a [Read more]
Local footy: In the Sheds: Big clubs in unfamiliar territory
May 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Paul Daffey Essendon’s win over Hawthorn on Friday night has a lot to answer for. Not only did it end David Parkin’s career on ABC Radio (as detailed in The Age yesterday), but it set in train a weekend of madness in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. Vermont, Balwyn, Noble Park … these are the powerhouse clubs [Read more]
Local footy: Lunch with the hyphens at Old Geelong
May 12, 2009 by 5 Comments
by John Harms It’s midday Saturday. I am Yarraside, standing on the balcony of the wonderful art-deco pavilion at Como Park. I know it well. In summer it is the home of the South Yarra Cricket Club made (more) famous in GCJD Haigh’s celebrated yarn The Vincibles. GCJD is the inspiration of [Read more]
Williamstown CYMS Round 4
May 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Dene Macleod williamstown cyms football club SENIORS ELTHAM 7.2 11.4 16.10 18.11-119 WILLIAMSTOWN 2.2 7.4 12.4 13.7-85 Williamstown CY’s made the long trip to Research on Saturday only to be comprehensively beaten by Eltham Old Collegians. In a replay of last year’s Sect. D 3 Grand Final, the ‘Turtles’ jumped the [Read more]
VAFA report: Brothers keep Beders in the hunt
May 11, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Paul Daffey The St Bede’s Mentone juggernaut rolls on, with the Beders defeating Collegians by 53 points at the Harry Trott Oval in a rematch of the 2008 A-section grand final. As with most St Bede’s wins, a couple of families played key roles as their team kicked eight goals in the last quarter [Read more]
Local footy: Bendigo league almost gets a college team
May 11, 2009 by 1 Comment
By Richard Jones DURING the early 1980s turmoil in Bendigo football, one of the stranger proposals was to introduce a college or university team into senior ranks. A football team from the then College of Advanced Education, now LaTrobe University, Bendigo, was suggested as an additional senior club. The Bendigo and Golden City leagues had [Read more]
Weekend read: The money game
May 8, 2009 by 6 Comments
By Paul Daffey Amid all the talk about overcoming injury, flying for the big mark and striving for the premiership, it is sometimes forgotten that football clubs need money to survive. In larger country competitions, they need lots of money. There are player payments, affiliation fees, hot showers and new footballs to provide. In recent [Read more]
Ex-Blue gets leather poisoning
May 6, 2009 by 1 Comment
In the Sheds By Paul Daffey Readers may remember a bag-of-bones midfielder with blond hair who played for Carlton in the Denis Pagan era. His name was Jon “Hopper” McCormick, and although he impressed during his 26 AFL games he was offloaded after the 2004 season. In recent years McCormick has lived in his home [Read more]
Hats off to Castlemaine’s seven-decade servant
May 6, 2009 by 1 Comment
By Richard Jones JACK Jefferies’ service to the Castlemaine Football Club has spanned every decade from the 1940s to the early part of the 21st century. He has been a player – and a premiership player, at that, in 1952 – a club president, vice-president and committeeman and also the vice-president of the Bendigo Golden [Read more]
Water, water, everywhere but not a drop to drink
May 6, 2009 by Leave a Comment
by Avan Stallard There’s a remarkable little documentary called Cunnamulla. It tells the story of some of the less fortunate soles in the Queensland town of the same name. If you’re not familiar with the place, Cunnamulla is a settlement 800km west of Brisbane in the middle of nowhere. It also happens to be [Read more]
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