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Australians stroll through warmup

  • Wednesday, October 16 2013 @ 07:45 pm ACDT
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International Rules

The Australian team today defeated the combined Dublin colleges team at Parnell Park in Dublin. The final scoreline 62-23 not nearly as important to the Australians as the chance for a competitive hit out. Their opponents finding the going much tougher than last week when they played against the VAFA side.

In the cold conditions the Aussies were off to a slow start with the quarter time score Australia 23 - Dublin Combined Universities 11 but soon found their feet and showing their pace, and superior tackling managed to shut down the students and force numerous turnovers.

Ash McGrath looked comfortable as keeper and looks certain to have the job on Saturday night in Cavan.

Aussie Football Returns to Austin’s City Limits

  • Wednesday, October 16 2013 @ 04:29 pm ACDT
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North America

Press release from the USAFL: The United States Australian Football League’s (USAFL) National Tournament returns to Austin this weekend, October 19-20. The tournament is expected to attract more than 1,000 athletes from all over North America for the two-day event being held at Onion Creek Soccer Complex, south of downtown. This is the second time the tournament has been held in Austin with the first in 2011. After much success and positive feedback the vote was unanimous to return.

"We are truly excited to be the host city once again for this fantastic event", said Matthew Payne, Executive Director for the Austin Sports Commission, "we had such an amazing experience with the league and their members back in 2011, so were thrilled when we the USAFL decided to return".

 

Both men and women will compete throughout the weekend, with four men’s and one women’s division – 39 teams in total. The top division favorites are the New York Magpies and Calgary Kangaroos who both missed out on the division title last year after it was vacated when the Dallas Magpies were disqualified.

Kiwi and the Kahus- kicking goals on and off the field (Part 1)

  • Wednesday, October 16 2013 @ 07:54 am ACDT
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Oceania

We asked Lisa 'Kiwi' Roper to give us her thoughts on the recent series between the Breeze (Under 16 Australian Girls Australian Football team) and the first ever female team in New Zealand - the Kahus. Living in NSW and playing and coaching the Australian form of football for many years (including playing over 200 games, and being in 10 grand finals in 12 years including two for NSW) she will always be a proud Kiwi. The greatest shame of this story is that womens footy only comes to NZ now. But looking on from the sidelines on this tour it seems Kiwi is happy to be looking forward to what the future holds for the Kiwi girls of today and tomorrow.

 

My perspective of the history making Trans-Tasman female tour. By Lisa ‘Kiwi’ Roper
Something special happened in New Zealand last week. Those that know will tell you there is always something special happening in NZ. Whatever they say, history was created and the “AFL is no longer a male game”, slogan was proudly announced at the opening ceremony. I was lucky enough to be there and get the best view in the Waka to witness the evolution of the sport as the first ever female New Zealand team took to the field.
Given the Maori name for Hawks, the Kahus were selected after mostly only picking the Sherrin up 6 weeks prior. This U18 team went through a High performance programme and completed the combine programme to get them as quick up to speed on the game as was possible in that time, before they took on the might of Australia. 

Aussie on-field leaders named

  • Wednesday, October 16 2013 @ 04:45 am ACDT
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International Rules

North Melbourne star Daniel Wells has been named captain of the Australian team to play Ireland on Saturday. Aaron Davey, who has retired from AFL football after ten seasons at the Melbourne football club has been named vice captain.

 Coach Michael O’Loughlin said that Wells and Davey were high quality individuals who were the perfect role models for their teammates for this historic competition.

“Daniel and Aaron are both highly regarded by their peers and have impressed everyone with their natural leadership and mentoring skills during the lead-up to the International Rules Tests,” O’Loughlin said.

Michael Long Learning & Leadership Centre unites with Charles Darwin University

  • Tuesday, October 15 2013 @ 06:29 pm ACDT
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Australia

When the name Michael Long is mentioned, many thoughts race back to the 1993 AFL Grand Final where his exploits won him the Norm Smith Medal, and probably won Essendon the premiership. His deeds have placed him in the same stellar orbit as other great indigenous footballers like Polly Farmer, Barry Cable, Maurice Rioli and Steven Michael to name just a few. More recently it has been his willingness to strive for indigenous causes which has led to “The Long Walk” and “Dreamtime At The G”: events which celebrate the histories and advance the potential  opportunities of indigenous Australians. His latest venture is the Michael Long Learning and Leadership Centre which strives to make the transition for indigenous youth more attainable through employment, education, socialisation and opportunity as they leave their homes and communities to follow their football dreams in the larger cities. This latest press release from the AFLNT details the union of this centre with the Charles Darwin University (CDU).

AFL Northern Territory Indigenous Ambassador and AFL legend Michael Long will today sign an agreement which will see Charles Darwin University become an Official Education Partner of the Michael Long Learning and Leadership Centre (MLLLC). 

Which Aussie will wear the keepers kit?

  • Tuesday, October 15 2013 @ 07:10 am ACDT
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International Rules

At the Australian team’s training session in Melbourne on Friday three players separated off from the rest for some goalkeeping practice. With assistant coach Jason Mifsud and Melbourne Victory’s goalkeeping coach Steve Mautone  giving instructions on positioning and tactics Ash McGrath, Nathan Lovett-Murray and Cameron Ellis-Yolmen.

 

Eastern Hawks triumph in 2013 AFL Japan Cup

  • Tuesday, October 15 2013 @ 12:23 am ACDT
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Asia

On Saturday, October 5th, Japan's largest footy tournament was held at Seimei-no-mori Resort in Chiba.

Despite the unfortunate rainy weather, the tournament was carried out as initially planned receiving the attendance of 3 local Japanese teams (Eastern Hawks, Komazawa Magpies, Senshu Powers), 1 Expat team (Tokyo Goannas), 1 mixed team (Tokyo Bay Suns), and a visiting team from Box Hill North.

The games were played with 9 players each on the ground, structure of 10 minute halves for preliminary rounds and semi-finals, and 15 minute halves for the Grand Final.

Eastern Hawks finished on top after a seesaw game against the Tokyo Bay Suns in the Grand Final.

This report courtesy of Hiroyuki Toyama from the AFL Japan.

AFL Canada announce IC14 sqaud

  • Monday, October 14 2013 @ 08:45 pm ACDT
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International Cup 2014

AFL Canada today announced a 37 man Team Canada Northwind squad for the 2014 International Cup in Melbourne.  The squad containing plenty of familiar names from the past International Cups and some fresh faces. 

Canada finished tenth at the 2011 International Cup and are currently ranked 14th in the World Footy News unofficial World Rankings.

The full squad can be seen below.

Irish name final 23 man team

  • Monday, October 14 2013 @ 05:42 pm ACDT
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International Rules

Ireland have named their 23 man team ahead of the upcoming International Rules Series Tests against Australia in Ireland.  The first Test is this Saturday 19th of October at Kingspan Breffni Park. 

Among the named squad Australian football followers will recognise Carlton’s Zach Tuohy and former Brisbane/St Kilda player Colm Begley. Chrissy McKaigue played with the Sydney Swans reserves, and Michael Shields lasted half a season with the Carlton Football Club before deciding to go back to Ireland.

Ciaran Kilkenny who left Hawthorn before the season started this year and Ciaran Byrne who has signed with Carlton to be on the club’s list as an International Rookie in 2014 have also been named.

The squad is as follows

USAFL Weekly Report streaming US Nationals coverage

  • Monday, October 14 2013 @ 07:27 am ACDT
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North America
Alex Benjamin will again be broadcasting from the US Nationals this year in Austin. You can access his UStream channel at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/usafl-weekly. He tells us he will actually be broadcasting 40 shows and approximately 56 hours coverage of the 2013 Nationals starting this past Sunday afternoon US time. For the full schedule check out his blog at http://usaflweeklyreport.com/
Below is the schedule for his broadcasts at the Nationals in Austin. Please note that some streaming of events in the past year e.g the 49th Parallel Cup and the Euro Cup have had difficulties in providing a stream as scheduled. Please keep this in mind when looking to catch any live streams online.

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