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Boomerangs get revenge on South Pacific

Oceania

Result from the Flying Boomerangs v Under-18 South Pacific match played today at Albert Park, Suva, Fiji. 

After last years surprise win by the South Pacific over the Boomerangs in Tonga, this years rematch has seen the  Flying Boomerangs 10.12 (72) exacting revenge over the Under-18 South Pacific 3.4 (22).

AFL Gold comes to i-Phone and i-Pad

  • Friday, December 16 2011 @ 09:11 am ACDT
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General News
Finally, after much speculation, Aussie rules gameplay finally comes to the smart phone and tablet PC with the AFL Gold edition, brought to you by Tru Blu entertainment and Wicked Witch Software. This latest AFL game is an adaptation of the popular AFL Wii for recent iOS devices and captures many popular features of the original game, such as teams from AFL, VFL and TAC Cup, player and team creator, and career management. 
 
The graphics are in full 3D, from the player characters to the realistically represented AFL stadiums. With motion captured animations and real ball physics linked to high quality sound effects, the game creates a live experience, which combined with dynamic camera angles, television like transitions and smooth effects, lands you right in the middle of the action.

Eagles Fly in Wellington

  • Thursday, December 15 2011 @ 03:42 pm ACDT
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Oceania

Wellington had a tough Aussie rules season this year, resulting in a season of struggle after struggle. The North City Demons were unable to field a team this season, leaving a three team competition. Round robins were supposed to be played each weekend over 6 weeks before culminating in a December final. Unfortunately the Wellington City Saints Saints defaulted multiple games throughout the season with the Eastern Suburbs Bulldogs also struggling on a couple of weekends.

Throughout the season clubs catered for Demons players wanting a game, as were any available players whose team defaulted. This continued even on Grand Final day, with six players from the Saints and Demons playing in the final.

There are two schools of thought with this from my experience, allow them to play and keep them passionate so that they don’t walk away from the sport and come back to rebuild their Clubs next year, or cut them off from playing and ensure that the teams who do the right thing and turn up with a team aren’t compromised in who takes the field in their jumper. A tricky quandary but I believe Wellington took the right approach here.

During the year there were a number of administrative changes across the league, including new Club Presidents for both the Saints and the Bulldogs. The addition of these new and enthusiastic participants to the League administration hopefully sets a solid foundation for the league moving forward.

Radio Australia AFL Oceania Youth Cup coverage

  • Thursday, December 15 2011 @ 09:50 am ACDT
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Oceania

In the audio clip below Tony Woods speaks to Radio Australia's Geraldine Coutts about the early stages of the competition and the off field activities.  Funding of the tournament is also discussed although no numbers are detailed.

2012 NEAFL fixture announced

  • Thursday, December 15 2011 @ 06:00 am ACDT
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Australia

The AFL today announced the 2012 North East Australian Football League (NEAFL) season fixture has been finalised in the following press release.

Now in its second year, NEAFL is expanding to a 19 team competition with the introduction of the Sydney Hills Eagles and Sydney University to the Eastern Conference. The Northern Conference will remain at ten teams for next season. 

To kick off the year on March 24 will be the highly anticipated curtain-raiser match between the UWS GIANTS and the Sydney Swans in the Eastern Conference. In the Northern Conference, the inaugural NEAFL Grand Finalists NT Thunder and Morningside will officially launch the new season.

AFL Youth Oceania Cup 2011 - Round 1

Oceania

The AFL has released the results from the opening round of the 2011 Youth AFL Oceania Cup played today at Albert Park in Suva, Fiji.  Also, the Flying Boomerangs kicked off action today with a match against an Oceania Squad selected after yesterdays Lightening Tournament.  Obviously, the Oceania squad had limited preparation time and the result is far less important than the activity itself.

First day coverage - Oceania Youth Cup

Oceania

The first day of the AFL Youth Oceania Cup is underway after Tuesday’s Lightening Carnival. Encouragingly for the AFL and their efforts and those of the many volunteers helping to grow the game in the region – there is solid local coverage of the event.

The AFL website is carrying an excellent 3 minute video casting Tony Woods in the role of interviewer. He speaks to a number of players, and Alisha Thiel who has been helping out with the Vanuatu Volcanoes.

 

Looking back - Irish celebrate on the MCG

  • Wednesday, December 14 2011 @ 07:39 am ACDT
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International Cup 2011

Today's video shows the Irish team celebrating their new Champions status on the MCG moments after the final siren went to end the 2011 International Cup.

Ireland celebrate

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