World Footy News

A total of 94 players were tonight added to AFL club lists at the 2012 NAB AFL Draft, held at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Queensland.

Dandenong Stingrays' midfielder Lachie Whitfield was taken at selection number one by the GWS Giants, with the Giants adding Jonathan O'Rourke (Calder Cannons) and Lachie Plowman (Calder Cannons) at selections two and three respectively.

Jimmy Toumpas (Melbourne), Jake Stringer (Western Bulldogs), Jackson Macrae (Western Bulldogs), Oliver Wines (Port Adelaide), Sam Mayes (Brisbane Lions), Nick Vlastuin (Richmond) and Joe Daniher (Essendon) rounded out the top 10 selections, while three players with previous AFL experience were re-drafted onto club lists - former Port Adelaide player Ben Jacobs and former Gold Coast player Taylor Hine both selected by North Melbourne while Hawthorn re-drafted premiership player Michael Osborne.

Irish rookies Zach Tuohy and Niall McKeever were both ugraded to the senior list as were Sudanese born Majak Daw and South African born Jason Johannisen.

Full draft list below:

 

ONLINE RAFFLE RESULTS

1st Prize Vanuatu Holiday Package - Kathy Tscharke
2nd Prize 2 x Cartons of Tusker - Shelley Christiansen
3rd Prize Vanuatu Volcanoes Guernsey - Leslie Glen
4th Prize Signed Israel Folau GWS Guernsey - Linda Gore

Big congratulations to the winners and thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket

The second match of the historic 3 test series that sees Fiji host Nauru over 8 days was played yesterday evening at Albert Park in Suva. The FijiSun reports that the Fiji Tribe showed a much improved performance going down to the Nauru Chiefs by 40 points. The final result Nauru 75 def Fiji 35.

See full match report below.

WFN World Rankings and Game One Fiji v Nauru.

WFN's unofficial World Rankings for Nauru and Fiji after the first of the 3-Test Series in which Nauru 22.15 (147) defeated Fiji 7.5 (47) brought about a Rating Points exchange of 2.71points pushing Nauru's Rating points up to 48.86 and Fiji slipping to 42.99.

This sees no actual change in Rank, Nauru at 6th Place and Fiji highest placed Provisional Nation.

WFN World Rankings and Game Two Predictions - Fiji v Nauru.

If we assume that Fiji Tribe are able to reduce the margin (hopefully they can) but not less than 40 points (which appears to be fairly likely) in Game Two there would be a Rate Exchange of 1.49.

Nauru's Points rating will climb to 50.35 to climb above South Africa into 5th Place.

Fiji will now become a Fully Ranked Nation with 41.00 Rating Points and squeeze in between Samoa and Canada at 11th Place.

If the Tribe can really improve and reduce the margin to less than 40 points then a rate exchange of 0.99 would see Nauru with 49.86 Rating Points and Fiji at 41.50 Rating points. The nations still ranked 5th and 11th respectively.

Game Three Predictions to follow after Game Two!

The second match of the historic 3 test series that sees Fiji host Nauru over 8 days was played yesterday evening at Albert Park in Suva. The FijiSun reports that the Fiji Tribe showed a much improved performance going down to the Nauru Chiefs by 40 points. The final result Nauru 75 def Fiji 35.

A full match report of game two will follow soon.

The first match was won by Nauru by 100 points with the full match report provided by AFL Fiji below.

A last reminder of the AFL Vanuatu major raffle to help get the Under 15 Vanuatu Volcanoes squad to Suva in Fiji for the Oceania Cup in December.

The winning ticket will be drawn this Thursday, November 22nd - tickets can be purchased at $20.00 each via the Trybooking website link here.

The fabulous first prize is a Vanuatu holiday package, including flights with Air Vanuatu (from Brisbane) for 2; 5 nights accomodation at Moorings Hotel and a further 2 nights accomodation at Eratap Hotel plus an Oceanwalker Helmet Dive for 2. Total package valued at over $2700 (AUD).

For those Australians who have wondered what it would be like to undertake the big tour of Europe and possibly see a little Australian Football as well I would like to try and make it a little less daunting.
 
In 2010 my wife and I took the trip of a life time to tour Western Europe. After much research we chose a VW rental camper and staying at caravan parks as the optimum mode of travel - for convenience, flexibility, comfort and affordability. Ease of parking and driving on narrow congested roads were prominent considerations. With finances settled,  we flew into Frankfurt Germany and took possession of our vehicle. Cautiously driving out of the yard I indicated a right turn by switching the window wipers on and immediately stalled the van. Nervously I continued, adapting to driving on the right, reversed vehicle controls, unfamiliar road signs, differing road layouts, a new GPS and my wife’s directions.  Surprisingly, everything quickly fell into place as we travelled down the nearby “Romantische Strasse” (Romantic Highway), a road linking a string of walled medieval cities. Soon, we would be completely relaxed, executing a massive clockwise spiral into Austria, Italy, France and Spain.

The Australian Football season in Europe was mostly coming to an end. Searching the internet there were few games available to visit matching our rough itinerary.

Two Americans Derrell Acrey and Quinn Porter remain on the GC Suns permission to train list this week.  The two athletes who previously took part in the AFL's draft combine in LA trained last week with the Suns in Arizona.

Gold Coast football operations manager Marcus Ashcroft told the AFL website "It was a really good opportunity for them to come up here and join in and see where they stack up against our lads in skill work and conditioning work and it also broke the camp up with a bit of fun from our boys' point of view,"

The AFL wishes to advise the following unlisted players currently have permission to train with AFL clubs. Recent additions since the last notification on November 5 are underlined:

 

 

The AFL today announced the locations for the 2012/2013 Australia Post AFL Community Camps, with Greater Western Sydney Giants to kick off the first camp in Canberra on December 4.

 

The Australia Post AFL Community Camps will see more than 800 AFL players take the game to regional and rural communities across Australia, as well as overseas when St Kilda Football Club visits Wellington, New Zealand in January 2013.

 

The AFL stars will carry out training sessions and visit schools, local football clubs, nursing homes and hospitals, to bring together individuals and communities, irrespective of backgrounds and beliefs, while promoting healthy lifestyles.

 

 

Thanks to AFL India president Sudip Chakraborty (pictured) for contributing this article.

It has been over a year since India won its first international match of footy against Timor Leste during AFL International Cup 2011 on 24th August. A historic day in Indian sports history. A day that came after almost four years since India started playing the game officially.

After a fairly good show in the later stages of IC08, the players had gone back to a complete standstill for over a year, with the previous body in charge disappearing due to lack of interest and enthusiasm. That was when two of the players from the IC08 squad took up the challenge and got the AFL to dissolve the previous body and helped them set up a new board to get things going again.

Fiji v Nauru 3-Test Series Impact On WFN World Rankings

With the second match of the 3-Test Series Fiji will become the 20th Fully Ranked Nation on WFN World Rankings.

WFN World Ranking system 'predicts' that the Higher Ranked nation in any match will win more often than not and the only previous meeting between emerging Fiji and Nauru was in the Seeding Rounds at IC11, with Nauru taking the honours in that match, 6-6 (42) to 2-3 (15).

Currently Nauru is ranked 6th with 46.15 Rating Points and Fiji is the highest ranked nation among the Provisional Nations with 45.21 Rating Points (courtesy of their four wins in the second Division of IC11).

The Greater Western Sydney GIANTS have welcomed the announcement by the Federal Government of a partnership to support young people from migrant and refugee backgrounds in Greater Western Sydney.

The Federal Minister for Multicultural Affairs and Sport, Senator Kate Lundy, announced at ŠKODA Stadium that the Federal Government through the Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has committed $1.2 million over three years to fund a national approach to youth settlement through the Multicultural Youth Affairs Network Australia (MYAN)

As part of this commitment, $270,000 has been earmarked to fund the establishment of a new independent service in New South Wales through a partnership between the GIANTS, the Centre for Multicultural Youth and Multicultural Youth Affairs Network NSW and its local host organisation, Settlement Services International (SSI).