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AAMI about-face means good and bad news

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Sunday, December 28 2008 @ 12:07 am ACDT

You mustn't have noticed that as part of this site we try to educate readers on the broader context of Aussie Rules - the rich culture, history and continuing depth of the game across its country of origin - Australia.

So now and then we have stories that are relevant to the AFL (as is this one) or the strength of the game in a particular state (as is this one) or just something of interest (subjective). We've done so with stories from all over Australia, here's a small selection:

Tasmania ready but told to wait

Tassie attacks

NT team confirmed for Queensland league

Breath-taking

Melbourne Grammar takes 150th anniversary spoils in AFL's Tom Wills Round

Born in a red ‘n’ black jumper

Stamp celebrates 150 years

Australian premiership table from 1877 onwards

Queensland's proud Aussie Rules history

Subiaco set for world class upgrade as footy facilities become an issue

Top End gripped by Grand Final fever

I have two more in the pipeline, regarding QLD and Tasmania. Feel free to skip them if they're not of interest. I'll assume your worry about my SA bias isn't coming from the old Melburnian in you.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

AAMI about-face means good and bad news

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Sunday, December 28 2008 @ 12:13 am ACDT

Having said all that, I wasn't going to bother doing this story, except as I said in the article, I've been a critic of AAMI Stadium in other articles, so to be fair, when good plans are announced, I figured I should acknowledge it.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

AAMI about-face means good and bad news

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Tuesday, December 30 2008 @ 01:11 pm ACDT

Just whilst we're at it, I'd love to recommend an article along the lines of the wonderful world leading (at the time) football heritage of Australia.
Looking at a list the other day, by the time the English 'football league' was established in 1888, there were already 'leagues' in SA, WA, Tassie, Vic (inc. Bendigo) and NSW (Broken Hill in 1888 and Newcastle in 1883).

It's this Newcastle one I'd love to hear more about - the Black Diamond Trophy. Still going and I've seen it indicated as the oldest continuous league trophy or something like that.

btw - I was amazed when reading Geoffrey Blainey's "A game of our own", to come across a reference to Stratford vs Sale in the 1880s........amazing that such small country towns were playing football with clubs established before the vast majority of the worlds soccer clubs - for example.

This is a heritage that needs to be made MORE known within Australia, let alone internationally.

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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