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IC14 Round 3 - Community Round Preview

  • Friday, August 15 2014 @ 10:14 pm ACST
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We preview tomorrow's Community Round with teams playing across Melbourne and into country areas Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong among others.  The battle to finish in the top four is well and truly on and results of many of the matches will be eagerly awaited.

Men’s Division

Ireland v Nauru 5:30pm Queen Elizabeth Oval, Bendigo  after the 2.20pm Castlemaine v South Bendigo (BFNL) match.  The formline suggests that Nauru are a chance to upset the Irish in Bendigo.  Nauru accounted for Great Britain convincingly enough in the end.  They showed that despite a lack of key position players they can beat a side that does have them.  GB went down to Ireland by just a point in the Euro Cup last year so theoretically they should be very close to Ireland.  Two factors that may come in to play is that the Australian based Irish weren't at the Euro Cup and Nauru's Adam Otto will miss the rest of the tournament due to suspension coming out of the game against GB.

 

Round 2 goal of the day - Steven Maguire (GB)

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The Round 2 match between Nauru and Great Britain was for 3 and a half quarters a ripping game. Several times it looked like Nauru was set to run away only for the Bulldogs to claw their way back and with less than a goal in it at 3/4 time it was anyone's game. Nauru kicked out again in the last and 18 pts up the crowd wondered whether the Bulldogs had another burst left. Enter Steven Maguire.

Sheehan makes solid Blues debut

  • Friday, August 15 2014 @ 02:05 pm ACST
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The Carlton Blues may be having their issues on and off the field recently. But on the weekend a shining light for the club was the debut of Irishman Ciaran Sheehan (who first trialled with Carlton in 2009)  for the club on Saturday against the Gold Coast.

The lad from County Cork had 8 kicks, 5 handballs, 5 marks and two tackles.  He also had two "goal assists" with some impressive delivery to Carltons forwards.

Video of Sheehan in action and interview after the game can be seen below. 

Photos from Round 2

  • Friday, August 15 2014 @ 01:41 am ACST
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Themes from the Western Oval and Women’s Footy – Northern (En)light(s)enment overpowers American Liberty

  • Thursday, August 14 2014 @ 10:55 pm ACST
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*Steve Alomes’ view of footy through different angles.... Canada NL vs USA Liberty
Your esteemed sports correspondent, or cub reporter perhaps, was meant to be covering another match. Except, just like a suburban Tom Wolfe or Hunter S Thompson or a sporting version of Australia’s Bob Ellis, he wandered into the Northern Lights of Canada vs USA Liberty, the number one Canadian team against the number two American team.
 
Thus, we redeem the balance a little by providing double coverage of this women’s game.
 
It was a revelation. Aside from cultural factors (thanks Tom Wolfe) like differentiating between a dozen pony tails in the era of the return of long hair, more difficult than the Swede boys with beards and top knots, and one pony-tail Finn, it was an interesting game.

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