Northern Territory Football League Finalists Decided
The final round of the NTFL home and away season today decide the 2014/15 finalists, but also left question marks hanging over the longevity of some of those teams contesting. After the Round 18...
View ArticleScotland pride for quartet at Coatbridge's Australian Rules Football team
The following article featured in Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper after initially being written for the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser. It looks at a new dream for some young Scottish converts...
View ArticleCyclone Lam Threatens Arnhem Land Footy Communities
Our thoughts are with the communities of the Northern Territory, particularly those on the northern coast and islands adjacent to Arnhem Land. The dangerous tropical storm is expected to hit those...
View ArticleKarmichael Hunt Faces Charges Of Drug Supply
At a time where the full impact of the ASADA investigation into the “Essendon 34” for alleged use of banned peptides is yet to reach a conclusion, news from the neighbouring world of Rugby League...
View ArticleNAB Challenge AFL Preseason International TV Schedule
Footy is back. Well in the pre-season NAB Challenge format at least. The NAB Challenge will be officially launched today and will see the first match played on Thursday night (Melbourne time) at Aurora...
View ArticleMuscat Magpies Draw Curtain on 2014/15 Season
Despite the enormous efforts of the AFL Middle east and the Oman based Clann na hOman GAA and Muscat Magpies AFL, the team has announced it will not formally continue the current season. In a blow to...
View Article'American Footy Stars' hit the ground running
The weather was kind. Well it was not hot. Maybe just a little damp even, and about 20 degrees Celsius. The second session for the first graduates of American Footy Star ran out onto North Port Oval...
View ArticleDragons Guard their Treasure
Not unlike Smaug, the devilishly gold driven dragon from the J.R.R Tolkein novel, The Hobbit, the Dubai Dragons are becoming fiercely protective of their glittering jewels. Whilst other teams slog it...
View ArticleCairns Product Eyes Second Chance With AFL Lifeline
For Sam Michael, a former Cairns junior, the current misfortune at Essendon in the wake of the suspension of players under ASADA investigation for the NAB Challenge might be a lifeline. The situation...
View ArticleUSA Recruit To Debut For St Kilda
The following article in the Herald Sun features the decision by the St Kilda AFL club to select their USA recruit, Jason Holmes, in their NAB Challenge teams this pre-season. Holmes, who has served an...
View ArticleRunning Of The Bulls – All The Way To Grand Final
Late last year the AFL Middle East competition welcomed a new team to the league with the BM Bulls becoming the third Dubai based team and a sixth team for the league. Whilst people may have dreamed...
View ArticleTownsville Shines For Suns – NAB Challenge 2015
The NAB Challenge for 2015 has been in swing for a few days now. First cab off the rank was Collingwood defeating Hawthorn at Aurora Stadium in Launceston, Tasmania. Friday night saw the West Coast...
View ArticleWomen’s National AFL Competition by 2017 A Possibility
The following article written by Jon Ralph at the Herald Sun looks at the possibility of a new national AFL competition for women as early as 2017. The extraordinary rise in numbers for the women’s...
View ArticleNew AFL broadcast deal for Asia/Pacific TV
The AFL this week announced that Australia Plus has assumed the rights to broadcast matches in the Asia/Pacific region from Australia Network. The announcement follows and appears to be a broadening...
View ArticleNAB Challenge AFL Preseason International TV schedule
The NAB Challenge will move into week two Thursday night (Perth time) at Fremantle Oval in Western Australia where Fremantle will host Melbourne.We bring you the international broadcast schedule...
View ArticleColin Carter keeps crusading for the cause
It's pleasing to be able to report that former AFL Commissioner and football visionary Colin Carter continues to push the international cause despite moving back to "clubland" as Geelong Cats...
View ArticleFifty boys introduced to Aussie football in Thailand & first game in Phuket
Thailand Tigers AFL club hold Auskick Football Clinic at Boy’s Home.A group of Thailand Tigers and Auskick families recently (December 2014) gave up their Saturday afternoon to run a football clinic at...
View ArticleFooty in Da Nang, Vietnam
Festival of Sport & Footy in Da Nang, VietnamCentral Vietnam Games - 2015 Da Nang 7th March 2015 The Vietnam Swans are proud to announce a new initiative being led by the Swans in conjunction with...
View ArticleWanderers Book Remarkable Grand Final Berth
In the run to the Northern Territory Football League finals this year, Wanderers fell. Their Round 16 loss to the Tiwi Bombers by 108 points hammered their percentage. The loss in Round 17 to...
View ArticleUSA’s Jason Holmes and Ireland’s Conor McKenna – Saints v Bombers
In just his second game for St Kilda, USA recruit Jason Holmes sent a very early message to both selectors and the opposition that he was there to play. It took almost 10 minute for the first goal to...
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