World Footy News

Fun and festivities are happening today at St Joseph's Tenaru in the Solomons today.

Media release from SIAFL below

Tension rises between Barbarians and Sharks for charity AFL game

The originally scheduled 4 test series has now been reset to a 3 match series, commencing Friday November 16 with subsequent matches on Tuesday November 20 and Friday November 23. All matches are scheduled for 5-7pm at Albert Park in Suva.

AFL Fiji unveiled their jumper as well as announcing the Fiji Tribe team list for the upcoming matches.

The Gold Coast Suns are sweating it out at their preseason camp in Arizona. The two videos below reveal just what the club gets up to on their high altitude camp.

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Port Adelaide rallied inside the last minute to kick the winning goal, ending the most fantastic game of footy Europe has ever seen.

The Bulldogs put out a young team, but they came out strong in the first quarter, with early goals from Ayce Cordy, Liam Jones and Luke Dalhaus. The Bulldogs then further extended their lead in the second quarter, with new recruit Koby Stevens putting on an impressive debut performance and Liam Picken exciting the curiosity of the crowd by leaping onto the shoulders of the Port defence in a textbook specky to grab the mark.

The Dogs were able to effectively control play for the majority of the game, seemingly unanswered by Port. And by midway through the third quarter, Port were trailing by 39 points, a gap that was surely insurmountable, and it looked like it was game over for the young and inexperienced Port team.

 

The Fijian press has reported that AFL Fiji is to receive a $A10,000 ($F18,458.93) grant towards the 2013 development program. 

The Acting Australian High Commissioner, Glen Miles, promised the grant during a presentation of $800 cash to support the Fiji Tribe senior team in its preparation for the upcoming 'test series' against Nauru beginning November 13 at Albert Park in Suva.

The 2012 AFL Vanuatu Grand Final day has been held at Kaza Field. With 4 clubs represented on the day the fairy tale outcome of 4 clubs coming away with a premiership each was realised.

The day kicked off at 9.30am with the under 12s with Erakor vs Mele and Mele got up for the win. The Women’s match scheduled for 10.30 saw Freswota defeat Mele. The Under 16’s at 11.30 am and this time it was Malapoa with the win over Erakor.

Tobietta Rhyman interviewed the captains of both the Continent and Islands teams after match at The Oval earlier today and filed the following videos. The European Islands team defeated the European Continent team 11.11 (77) to 2.3 (15).

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Thanks to the great coverage on Twitter by Tobietta we can tell you that the European Islands team defeated the European Continent team 11.11 (77) to 2.3 (15) at The Oval in London. In the main game Port Adelaide stormed home to snatch victory 14.4 (88) to the Western Bulldogs 13.9 (87). More to come from Tobie...

AFL Europe present their first ever Footy Show to preview the JLT All Stars match being played as the curtain raiser to the Western Bulldogs vs Port Adelaide match at The Oval in London.  Hosted by Ben MacCormack and Ciarán O' Hara.

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Fresh out of the Euro Cup and having put on some impressive performances at country level, the very best of European Aussie Rules talent is now set to take the stage one step further as they go head to head against each other for the JLT European All-Stars game.

What better place and time to showcase Europe’s very own football stars, than as a curtain raiser for the Elastoplast AFL European Challenge, where the Western bulldogs will face off against Port Adelaide this Saturday at Kia Oval.

World Footy News caught up with some of the players to hear what they had to say about the game.

The players from the Western Bulldogs and Port Adelaide arrived in London today ahead of Saturday’s AFL European Challenge exhibition game. AFL Europe reported that the players also got their first look round Kia Oval, the venue for the game, for some pre match training runs.

Meanwhile Port Adelaide’s new coach Ken Hinkley and Bulldogs’ coach Brendan McCartney were at the pre-match press conference.

Both clubs have fielded young teams for the tournament and are expected to use the opportunity to debut new recruits.

Despite this, Port Adelaide coach Hinkley said he told his players, “Just go out and play the game of footy. You’ve got to go after the game in a fair dinkum way, because it’s a contact game. If you’re not prepared to play footy, you’ll end up in real trouble. Hopefully they get through the game okay.”

On the opposite side, Bulldogs coach McCartney added, “With young players, the more you see them, the more you learn about them. To see them go away for eight weeks and then to come back and their body shape changes; they’re a bit bigger in the leg and a bit stronger in the hips – you can see their progression and that’s really important.”