World Footy News

Reporting on the footy news in western Canada, MyK Aussie brings us the following.

In the 2nd game of the year between the two Calgary-based teams the Bears won convincingly by approximately 30 points. After Marlborough Park, a full size Aussie Rules Footy playing field, was flooded a week ago and could not be mowed the Calgary footy crews had to again revert to the Rugby fields on Sheppard Rd in the South East of Calgary.

In game 3 of the 07 season the Vancouver Cougars 18.26.134 hammered the Burnaby Eagles 4.2.26 despite some inaccurate kicking. The scoreline is even more remarkable considering the Eagles had won the first two games played this year.

The Bears with the aid of the breeze got off to a great start in the 1st quarter. The Roo's had a reasonable 2nd quarter but were still trailing at 1/2 time. We the Roo's tightened up on the Bears dominant mid fielders in the 3rd quarter and we were confident of winning the game going into the 4th quarter with the aid of a 3-4 goal breeze. It wasn't to be as the Bears outplayed us in the 4th quarter to run out convincing winners. It was thus former Western Bulldog Brad Copeland's 1st victory as a Head Coach. The series is now tied up 1-1.

MyKAussie’s website now has up a 14 minute show from the Kelowna Cup - see for yourself what footy in Canada is all about, featuring game action of the Canadian/non Australian games, interviews with Canadian Northwind coach Mark Block, Cwoc Christina from Power 104 and Australian and Canadian umpire Ken Freeman. Also featured is the 1/2 time speech from Alberta Canadian/non-Australian coach, "Mr Roo" Troy Rose presenting Gareth Williams with the Kelowna Cup, the AB Canadian/non Australian Bears singing the song and interviews with the Aussie Burnaby Eagle Dale Wakefield and Edwin and Damo from the victorious team.

On top of running his massive website and providing us with updates on Canadian footy, MyK Aussie has recently been talking up Aussie Rules on Sports Rage with Gabriel Morency on Sirius Satellite Radio. MyK Aussie is a regular guest talking about footy in Canada and the US. The past few Friday nights after discussing what is hot in North American Sports Gabriel has then been asking him for weekly AFL picks and comments in response to his many callers from the USA asking him about the AFL games. Gabriel’s show can be found at http://www.hardcoresportsradio.com. We hope that televised footy broadcast in Canada can resume soon to reward its loyal Canadian fans and show newcomers what our game is all about.