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Radio swaps continue; Tim Lane joins 3AW
Football's radio
merry-go-round continued last night when Tim Lane, one of
Australia's most respected sporting broadcasters, quit the ABC after
more than 30 years, to join 3AW.
Caroline Wilson reports in The Age: Lane has signed on with 3AW
to call football each Sunday until the end of 2011, the duration of the
current AFL broadcast agreement. He will call the 2010 grand final with
the station's other big-name recruit, Brian Taylor.
Lane's decision to quit 774 ABC, where he has worked as a contracted
caller for five years after joining Channel Ten in 2003, follows
Taylor's move from Triple M to head up 3AW's football team, replacing
Rex Hunt
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The
following voices are set to burble their thoughts on AFL football in
radio broadcasts next season:
3AW
Brian Taylor, Dennis Cometti, Tim Lane, Shane Healy,
Tony Leonard, Shane McInness
Special comments: Leigh Matthews, Tony Shaw
ABC 774
Gerard Whately, Drew Morphett, Dan Lonergan
Special comments: Stan Alves, Mark Maclure, Aussie Jones
SEN
Anthony Hudson, Matt Granland, Wayne Schwass, Kevin Bartlett
Special comments:
Billy Brownless, David Schwarz,
Dermott Brereton, Terry Wallace
Triple M
Rex Hunt, James Brayshaw, Stephen Quartermaine,
Luke Darcy, Hamish McLachlan
Special comments:
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Geelong caps off premiership with $651,794 profit
AFL premiers Geelong
have capped an outstanding 2009 by announcing an operating profit of
more than $650,000.
The Age reports the Cats marked their 150th anniversary by
winning their second premiership in three years when they beat St Kilda
by 12 points in the grand final.
On top of that, Geelong said their operating profit of $651,794 was the
club's 10th consecutive profitable result.
"The club's 150th anniversary season culminated in our second
premiership in three seasons while works on the second stage of the
Kardinia Park (aka Skilled Stadium) redevelopment continued, reducing
our capacity," club chief executive Brian Cook said.
"To be able to return another strong profit in the circumstances that we
operated under is a significant achievement."
Paul Kelly tipped to join Team GWS
Sydney legend and
1995 Brownlow Medal winner Paul Kelly is expected to sign a
six-figure deal with the new AFL club being developed in western Sydney
within days. He will be used to identify talented players and promotional purposes Herald Sun
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to see a few getting the taste of having a code rammed down their
throats when you know deep down you already follow the *greatest
game in the land*. It's like living in Sydney or Brisbane over the last 100
years and following St Kilda.
There's not a lot around to talk over what happened on Saturday.
Australian football's been around for 150 years pity the poor rest
who are still playing *catch up".
Memo to FIFA: if needed, we'll have a mid-year break of a fortnight
in whenever year you want to name.
Them's our terms, for you to play your game on our grounds. |
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 What
seems as the ultimate slap in the face, Tim Lane, as one of the
Tobin Brothers, replaces Rex Hunt at 3AW. |
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 The
AFL are set to announce details of an AFL exhibition match to be
played in Shanghai on October 17, 2010.
The Melbourne and Brisbane clubs will play at the 30,000-seat
Jiangwan Sports Centre as part of the six-month long World Expo in
which the Victorian Government have invested $6 million. |
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Jordon Bannister takes up the whistle
Delisted Carlton defender Jordan Bannister may soon find
himself in charge of former teammates and opponents after joining a
fast-track umpiring scheme set up by the League.
The AFL's Player to Umpire Pathway Academy aims to establish a process
for ex-players to move into umpiring.
Bannister, who played 53 games for the Blues and 14 for Essendon, has
signed on with the Academy in a bid to emulate former Collingwood and
Essendon player Mark Fraser and win a position as a senior list
AFL umpire.
Fraser umpired five AFL matches before a hip injury forced his
retirement during the 2006 season.
The League intends to have up to three former players working in the
program at any one time, according to AFL umpiring director Jeff
Gieschen.
The former players will be under the direction of a specific coach who
will be appointed in the coming weeks AFL webpage
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AFL seeks compensation for soccer disruption
Caroline Wilson
of The Age details AFL chairman Mike Fitzpatrick held
crisis talks yesterday with the 16 clubs in which he outlined how a
successful bid by Football Federation Australia could hurt the
home-and-away season.
The AFL will hold talks not only with Australian soccer chiefs but
also the Federal Government, fearful of the impact on the competition
should it be forced to move games from every Australian mainland capital
city for up to 10 weeks in the middle of the 2018 or 2022 seasons
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Death severs last link with legendary Roy Cazaly |
Roy Cazaly's last
surviving child and the inspiration behind the Hawthorn team's nickname died
quietly on Monday (16th) at a Hobart nursing home.
Launceston's Examiner newspaper reported in their obituary on Wednesday
the passing of Patricia Whitecross, 85, marks the end of an era, the severing of
the closest remaining link with one of football's famous sons.
Patricia Whitecross was born on November 17, 1923, the fifth of six children to
Roy and Agnes Cazaly.
Her arrival
coincided with her fathers career taking off at South Melbourne where he was
part of the team's famed ruck division.
Although discouraged from going along to her father's football games, Patricia
and her siblings played key roles in helping him prepare.
Her duties often included polishing his boots and in later years she recalled
that the family was always full of footballers.
Over the years, Patricia and her family moved often as her father took up
various playing and coaching positions in Melbourne, country Victoria,
Launceston and Hobart.
It was while her father was coaching Hawthorn during World War II that Patricia
made her own mark on history.
Roy was not impressed with the team's "sissy" Mayblooms tag and asked his family
for a more manly nickname.
Patricia suggested the Hawks and the rest was history, the club remaining her
favourite team.
Speaking to The Examiner in 2007, a year before their latest premiership,
Patricia said: "Lord only knows how they would be going if they still had the
nickname of a flower."
The Cazaly family eventually settled in Tasmania on an old orchard at Lenah
Valley and Patricia and her soldier husband Russell joined them there after the
war.
Patricia was immensely proud of her father and never tired of hearing Mike
Brady's anthem Up There Cazaly even though it may her teary.
She leaves a daughter, two sons, nine grandchildren and numerous great
grandchildren.
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Collingwood will profit by $594,000 this year
Collingwood has ambitious
plans to become the first AFL team to boast 60,000 members, as the club closes
its books on a profit of almost $600,000 this year.
Glenn McFarlane reports in Melbourne's Herald Sun: Chief executive
Gary Pert is
confident the Magpies can push beyond this year's club record 46,327 members,
with a 50,000 target next year and 60,000 a medium-term goal.
Only two clubs, Hawthorn and Adelaide, have surpassed 50,000 members in a
season, with the Hawks' 2009 figure of 52,929 an AFL record.
"We have plans to work towards 60,000 members and, with that, 50,000 needs to be
a realistic stepping stone within the next year or so," Pert said yesterday.
Pert said he was pleased with this year's operating profit of $594,061,
particularly because the club had made a significant investment in the football
department and membership services
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They said it Rebecca Wilson
Why Sam must get the boot |
Channel 9 is a blokey world
that shamelessly exploits every antiquated notion of sexism in both its
Sydney and Melbourne footy shows. I had the displeasure of working for a
single show on the Sydney version, which I can safely say was the worst
and most humiliating two hours of my life.
The male hosts, former rugby league players Paul Vautin and Peter
Sterling, refused to speak to me. They made it well known in the media
before my appearance that I would not be welcome.
They insisted they would not talk to me before, during or after the
program. I was even forced to sit in a separate empty room before the
show because they refused to be in the same space. They kept their
promise during the telecast as well.
The Jack Daniels-swilling audience of blokes sitting in the front row,
loved the hatred, because it gave them a feeling that the old, macho
world is pretty damned good after all.
Just like Newman's small and vocal fan base, they refuse to believe
footy is any different from the good old days and the public humiliation
of a woman proved it
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 Former
Carlton player Ian Prendergast has been appointed to the
position of general manager player relations for the AFLPA.
He will take up the role in December.
Since retiring as a player in 2006, Prendergast has worked as a
lawyer in South Australia where he initiated the South Australian
National Football League Players Association.
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Colquhoun is a lot more than your average reader, he carries a
passion for noting the progressive history of the day.
Without Leonard's nose of a good news item, we may have been denied
the noting from Launceston's Examiner newspaper of the
passing of Mrs Patricia Whitecross, the last surviving child
of the legendary Roy Cazaly.
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 Former
Fremantle ruckman Justin Longmuir has joined the AFL club's
coaching ranks as a ruck and development mentor.
Longmuir played 139 games for the Dockers over nine years
(1999-2007) at the club but was forced to hang up the boots due to a
degenerative knee injury.
He takes over the ruck coach duties from Earl Spalding, who quit the
role due to business and family reasons.
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Joel Macdonald fails to nominate for national draft
52 delisted players seek new homes
Joel Macdonald
has joined fellow former Brisbane player Daniel Bradshaw in not
nominating for the AFL national draft.
The Age reports Bradshaw is already training with Sydney and most
likely headed to the Swans in the December pre-season draft.
But Macdonald was a notable name missing from Wednesday's list of 52
delisted former senior players who have nominated for the November 26
national draft.
Melbourne have first pick in the pre-season draft.
Delisted former senior players who have nominated for the 2009 NAB AFL
Draft:
Luke Ablett (Sydney), Jarryd Allen (St Kilda), Luke
Ball (St Kilda), Jordan Bannister (Carlton), Adam Bentick
(Carlton), Ryan Brabazon (Sydney), Simon Buckley
(Melbourne), Chris Bryan (Collingwood), Adam Campbell
(Fremantle), Cameron Cloke (Carlton), Scott Clouston
(Brisbane), Eljay Connors (St Kilda), Mark Coughlan
(Richmond), Jake Edwards (Carlton), Leigh Fisher (St
Kilda), Andrew Foster (Fremantle), Greg Gallman
(Adelaide), Jonathan Giles (Port Adelaide), Nick Gill
(Adelaide), Scott Harding (Brisbane), Daniel Harris (North
Melb), Rhan Hooper (Brisbane), Aaron Kite (Adelaide),
Matthew Laidlaw (Sydney), Nick Lower (Port Adelaide),
Malcolm Lynch (West.B'dogs), Dan McKenna (Geelong), Jamie
McNamara (West Coast), Matt Maguire (St Kilda), John
Meesen (Melbourne), Michael Newton (Melbourne), Jarrad
Oakley-Nicholls (Richmond), Daniel O'Keefe (Sydney), Guy
O'Keefe (West.B'dogs), Paul O'Shea (West.B'dogs), Adam
Pattison (Richmond), Kayne Pettifer (Richmond), Sam Power
(North Melb), Dean Putt (Richmond), Matt Riggio (North
Melb), Russell Robertson (Melbourne), Jason Roe
(Brisbane), Scott Simpson (Geelong), Wayde Skipper
(West.B'dogs), Jesse Smith (North Melb), Danny Stanley
(Collingwood), Kane Tenace (Geelong), Mitchell Thorp
(Hawthorn), Matthew Tyler (Brisbane), Cameron Wight
(West.B'dogs), John Williams (Essendon), Michael Wundke
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Richardson heads nominees for Madden Medal
Recently retired
Tiger Matthew Richardson heads this year's list of nominees for
the AFLPA's Madden Medal.
Mic
Cullen notes on the AFL webpage, the medal is awarded to a player
who has recently retired and who demonstrated outstanding on-field
football achievements, a high level of off-field football achievements
and a display of great personal growth over their career, community and
charity endeavours.
The others to be shortlisted are Leo Barry (Sydney Swans),
Matthew Lloyd (Essendon), Tom Harley (Geelong), Adam
Simpson (North Melbourne), Joel Bowden (Richmond), Michael
OLoughlin (Sydney Swans), Jared Crouch (Sydney Swans) and
David Wirrpanda (West Coast).
Robert Harvey was presented with the medal in 2008 and Glenn
Archer in 2007.
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Essendon to rebuild Windy Hill
Caroline Wilson
of The Age details that Essendon has revealed its $20 million
plan to rebuild Windy Hill in a bid to keep the Bombers at their
traditional home for the long-term future.
Retiring chairman Ray Horsburgh and his new chief executive
Ian Robson spent yesterday in Canberra holding talks with key
Federal Government leaders, outlining the club's bid to remove cricket
and bowls from the Essendon home ground, extend the oval to MCG-size and
build a state-of-the-art new training facility on the Raleigh Street
side of the ground
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Melbourne's Herald Sun notes that
delisted Geelong
winger Kane Tenace has been given permission to train with
Melbourne.
The full list of unsigned players who have been given permission to
train with AFL clubs are:
Adelaide nil
Brisbane Lions Niall McKeever (Ireland)
Carlton Aaron Kite (Adelaide), Matt Maguire (St Kilda)
Collingwood Daniel Frost (Collingwood, VFL), Kristopher
Pendlebury (Collingwood, VFL)
Essendon nil
Fremantle Trent Dennis-Lane (Subiaco), Andrew Foster
(Fremantle), Kyle Hardingham (East Fremantle), Matt Riggio (North
Melbourne), Alex Silvagni (Casey), Danny Stanley (Collingwood)
Geelong nil
Hawthorn Dean Putt (Richmond), Wayde Skipper (Western
Bulldogs), Jesse Smith (North Melbourne)
Melbourne Kane Tenace (Geelong Cats), Mitchell Thorp
(Hawthorn)
North Melbourne Simon Buckley (Melbourne), Matthew Laidlaw
(Sydney Swans)
Port Adelaide nil
Richmond Ryan Allen (Coburg), Ben Clifton (Coburg), Rhan
Hooper (Brisbane Lions), Justin Kadhlefelt (Southport), Thomas
McCann (Ireland), Jason Morgan (Coburg), James ORielly (Ireland),
Graham Polak (Richmond)
St Kilda David Moran (Ireland)
Sydney Swans Luke Ablett (Sydney Swans), Daniel Bradshaw
(Brisbane), Sam Crichton (Sydney Uni), Henry Playfair (Sydney Swans)
West Coast nil
Western Bulldogs John Morris (Coburg), Dane Rampe
(Williamstown), Patrick Rose (Williamstown).
They said it Geoff McClure
AFL trivia from 2009 Footy Almanac |
The 2009 edition of the
Footy Almanac will be launched in Melbourne today, and among lots of
must-know information about the AFL season just gone are a couple of
pages of some stats that are not so vital for footy fans. But they make
some fun reading all the same. Including:
During 2009, all but three of the margins between 0 and 50 were recorded
at least once. And all of them ended in nine 29, 39 and 49.
It seems AFL
footballers are an unromantic lot. Of the more than 700 players on AFL
senior and rookie lists in 2009, not one has a birthday of February 14.
St Kilda honoured
Sam Fisher's 100th game in an unusual way in round four. The Saints'
goal sequence across the four quarters was 5, 3, 4, 5. And 5345 is the
postcode of the town of Fisher in South Australia.
No wonder the Magpies
got slaughtered by St Kilda in the season's only Monday night game, in
round seven. Magpies v Saints is an anagram of ''massive pasting''.
The only final score
between 50 and 120 not recorded at least once during 2009 was 113. (Yet
in 2008 it was recorded six times.)
The most common score
of 2009 was 85; it was registered 11 times, one ahead of 94 and 67.
With North
Melbourne's Jack Ziebell and David Zaharakis from Essendon
playing their first AFL games in 2009, it marked the first year that two
players having a surname beginning with ''Z'' had made their debuts in
the same season.
Five points was the
most frequently occurring margin of the season. It was recorded nine
times.
Adelaide's 117-point
win over Fremantle in round 15 was the only three-figure margin of the
season. Not since 1973 has there been a season with fewer than two
margins of 100 points or higher.
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know it works both ways, but it sure brings lotsa laughs when the
holier than thou *other* codes give away a free kick.
For instance, on face value, the NRL ruling that last August when Parramatta as a
surprise flew in from NZ the nine-year-old son of a player,
providing a priceless post-match tearful embrace, which will draw a
$1500 cost to be added to their 2009 salary cap.
Everyone is waiting for the answer to, why was it $1500 when the
full cost of travel, including taxes, amounted to just $134.15.
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ever-alert Michael Rogers has noted that the last two times
Geelong has lost on a Sunday were the matches against St Kilda,
round 14 2009 and Port Adelaide, round 21 2007. |
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Richmond and Bulldogs star Nathan Brown (219 games, 349
goals, Rch 2004-09, WB 1997-2003) has accepted the inevitable,
formally announcing his retirement from AFL football.
Brown, who was delisted by the Tigers at the end of the season, had
been hoping to be picked up by another club in one of the upcoming
drafts.
But yesterday, he said that once again his body had let him down,
saying clubs had been scared off by a troublesome groin. |
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North Melbourne midfielder Liam Anthony will miss the next
two months of ball work after severing a tendon in his finger in a
freak accident.
The slick wingman gouged his left ring finger when he bumped an
uncovered glass lamp outside an Albury hotel room at the weekend.
Anthony, 22, had corrective surgery on the finger on Tuesday and
returned to the club yesterday with his bandaged hand in a
protective sling.
He told club officials he was on the phone to his girlfriend when he
accidentally knocked the lamp as he brushed past it
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par from the Caroline Wilson article in The Age on
Essendon's future caught my eye A scheduled meeting of the Moonee
Valley council next month could spell the end of cricket at Windy
Hill, leaving only Richmond and North Melbourne with home grounds
beholden to the summer sport and unable to enjoy a full pre-season
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Rex Hunt to leave 3AW after 21 years
Brian Taylor takes over footy helm at AW
After 21 years,
Rex Hunt leaves a gaping hole in Melbourne football broadcasts
following the announcement on Tuesday that he is leaving to pursue an
offer from rival footy broadcaster Triple M on the FM band.
Hunt's unique style has found many devotees across Melbourne and the
Victorian country network of stations who carried his broadcasts each
weekend through two decades.
Hunt was said to have
been offered to remain at AW at a significantly reduced salary down
from $500,000 to $100,000 to call on Sundays only.
Triple M's offer to Hunt is for next year only as the FM station
attempts to groom either Hamish McLachlan or Luke Darcy as
its top caller.
Sportal in their reporting of the changes noted: Hunt, who played
for Richmond, St Kilda and Geelong (202 games, 276 goals, 1968-78), has
a distinctive calling manner and it has divided audiences.
But the station built its coverage around the former policeman, who
became a celebrity during the 1990s with his work in both the football
media and in promoting his favourite past time, fishing.
However, the combination of several incidents in his personal life and
falling ratings for the station had led to speculation about his future.
His decision to leave comes as only a minor surprise, with 3AW keen for
a new start after being beaten by ABC 774 in Melbourne's radio football
ratings this season.
Brian Taylor will move from Triple M to follow the tradition of
top football broadcasters on 3AW down the years Norman Banks
(1953-71), Harry Beitzel (1972-88) and Hunt (1989-2009).
Taylor will head the 3AW broadcasts on Friday nights and Saturday
afternoon. He will continue to call Sunday football for Foxtel and is
expected to remain in the popular League teams program on Fox Sport each
Thursday night during the AFL season.
Hunt will complete his assignments on 3AW this Friday when he will talk
to Neil Mitchell for his last spot in the morning program (8.30am to 12
noon) and will host his final fishing program this Friday evening at
7pm.
Hear
Brian
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Adam McPhee quits the Bombers
Essendon have
confirmed Adam McPhee will leave the club, with the 2004 AFL
All-Australian now expected to join Fremantle through the pre-season
draft.
The Bombers say the tall utility rejected a two-year offer.
Fremantle have the second pick in the pre-season draft, behind
Melbourne.
It is understood the Dockers have offered McPhee a three-year contract.
McPhee, 27, made his debut with Fremantle in 2001 and played 25 games
there before joining the Bombers in 2003.
He played another 142 games with Essendon and also won the club's best
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Financial, 2009
Hawthorn announce $2.7 million profit |
Hawthorn have offset a
disappointing 2009 on the field by announcing a net operating profit of
$2.7 million.

The Hawks finished ninth and could not defend their 2008 premiership
win, but the financial results were pleasing given the difficult
economic circumstances.
Hawthorn said their membership reached 52,929 in 2009, three years ahead
of the prediction they would break the 50,000-mark Yahoo! Sport |
Stuart Dew joins Sydney as development coach
Former Hawthorn and
Port Adelaide premiership player Stuart Dew has joined Sydney as
a development coach.
The 206-match veteran retired earlier this season, despite having first
hung up the boots when at the Power in 2006.
ABC Sport reports he was coaxed out of his retirement and
selected by Hawks coach Alastair Clarkson in the 2007 national
draft before playing in the club's 2008 premiership.
He replaces Brett Allison, who has returned to North Melbourne.
Port Adelaide adopts the striking black jumper
Port Adelaide have
entered a new era by adopting the striking black guernsey with a "V"
that they wore in two matches last season as their permanent jumper from
2010.
Andrew Capel reports in The Advertiser the AFL has given
the Power approval to don the new guernsey in at least 18 matches next
season, with a new clash strip which will be unveiled at Alberton Oval
on Wednesday expected to be worn in away matches against Essendon,
Richmond and St Kilda, and possibly, Melbourne Demons.
Port's new main jumper featuring a teal and white V is based on the
design of seven-year-old schoolgirl Lucy Burford, who won the
club's Planet Teal guernsey design competition for South Australian
primary school students this year.
Barry Hall still on crutches after ankle surgery
Western Bulldogs
recruit Barry Hall is a fortnight away from walking without the
aid of crutches following minor ankle surgery last week, according to
coach Rodney Eade.
Martin Boulton reports in The Age: The former St Kilda and
Sydney spearhead is expected to start jogging in three weeks, but Eade
is confident the 32-year-old's fitness base will allow him to catch up
to teammates who resumed training this week.
''He can start cross-training next Friday (and) start jogging and
running in three weeks,'' Eade said.
''He probably should have had the op when he finished his footy mid-year
but he's done a fair bit of fitness work and a fair bit of weights so
he's not going to lose a lot. He'll be fine.''
The veteran forward was among a dozen players at Whitten Oval to have
post-season operations, but only Sam Reid and Stephen Tiller
are expected to miss the start of the pre-season competition. Both had
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WADA bans the "Chappy" treatment
The controversial
blood injection therapy that helped Paul Chapman win this year's
Norm Smith Medal has been banned by the World Anti-Doping Body Agency.
Jon Ralph reports in Melbourne's Herald Sun that Chapman's
troublesome hamstring was helped by a technique in which blood was
drained from his body, "spun" to increase its oxygen content, then
re-injected into the injured muscle.
The technique was not illegal this year and was seen as critical in
allowing Chapman to play in September, when he kicked three goals as
best afield in Geelong's grand final victory against St Kilda.
But changes to the WADA code, which will apply from January 1, mean
doctors can no longer inject blood back directly into a player's
muscles.
The AFL is aware of WADA's change and will apply the new rules
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announced its chairman Ray Horsburgh will stand down from the
position in December.
Horsburgh, who will officially step down at the clubs AGM, has
endorsed David Evans as his successor.
Evans is the son of former Bomber great and AFL chairman Ron
Evans.
Horsburgh, 65, joined the Essendon Football Club board in 2003 and
became chairman in late 2005.
His time at Essendon saw the appointment of Matthew Knights
as senior coach and Ian Robson as CEO but was at his most
high profile when he oversaw the end of Kevin Sheedys
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of the key Lexus sponsorship currently worth some $2 million a
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director wins defamation action
Channel Nine pay-out near $750,000
Channel Nine will pay close to three-quarters of a
million dollars for defaming Western Bulldogs director Susan Alberti,
but Sam Newman remains unrepentant over his attack on her.
Alberti was one of five
female AFL club directors Newman described as ''liars and hypocrites''
after they wrote a letter of complaint to Channel Nine last year about a
skit in which Newman groped a lingerie-clad mannequin that had a picture
of The Age newspaper's chief football writer, Caroline Wilson,
stapled to it.
Alberti yesterday told The Age she felt vindicated by the
$220,000 payout close to the maximum under Australian law which she
insisted be made public and agreed to only minutes before a Supreme
Court jury was due to be empanelled.
Kate Hagan and Samantha Lane report in The Age that under the
settlement, Nine will also have to pay both parties' legal fees, which
are expected to total half a million dollars.
Nine's lawyer Jeremy Ruskin, QC, yesterday read the apology in
court on behalf of the network's executive director, Jeff Browne.
He apologised ''if [Alberti] suffered any hurt or distress''.
But there was no personal apology from Newman or the show's co-host
Garry Lyon, who were also sued as part of the case and were absent
from yesterday's hearing
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Three seasons, 2007-08-09
Geelong's extraordinary era |
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Geelong across its 113
League seasons of 2214 matches has enjoyed many patches of success but
none quite as spectacular as during the past three years.
Bruce Kennedy has committed the playing records of the 40 players
involved over the span and extraordinary records by five players
Steve Johnson, James Kelly, Max Rooke, Brad Ottens
and Travis Varcoe who enjoyed playing success rates of 90 per
cent.
For the record
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Blues eye Matt Maguire
Carlton are poised
to take a punt on discarded St Kilda defender Matt Maguire in the AFL
pre-season draft.
Yahoo Sport report while Blues coach Brett Ratten remained
non-committal on whether the 25-year-old will be picked up, Maguire is training
with the club and was involved in Carlton's first pre-season skills session in
Melbourne on Monday.
Carlton have also cleared a spot on their playing list which could accommodate
Maguire axing ruckman Cameron Cloke late last week.
Ratten ruled out any play for ex-Melbourne forward Russell Robertson in
the wake of Brendan Fevola's trade week departure for Brisbane.
   
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career of St Kilda's Andrew Lovett is on a knife edge after a
police charge of being drunk in a public place, the AFL club
announced on Monday night.
A St Kilda statement said the incident happened when Lovett, while
on annual leave, was celebrating his birthday with friends at a
private residence in St Kilda early Saturday morning
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Hurn and Kennedy added to Eagles leadership
West Coast have
added defender Shannon Hurn and forward Josh Kennedy to
their leadership group for the 2010 season.
Kennedy has only played for the Eagles for two years after moving West
as part of the trade that saw Chris Judd move to Carlton.
Hurn and Kennedy were recognised by both their teammates and the club's
match committee as suitable replacements for the retiring Tyson
Stenglein in the leadership group.
Darren Glass has retained the captaincy, with Beau Waters,
Dean Cox, Matt Priddis and Adam Selwood rounding
out the leadership group AFL webpage
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Sheedy tackling geography of code and city
Peter Lalor
of The Australian writes the GWS side will make its debut in the
AFL competition in 2012. There's been a lot of half-baked jokes made
around those initials. Some say it should be GPS. Someone else says it
stands for God-knows Where it iS.
Victorian football reporters shuttled in for meet and greets at the
code's $30m Blacktown complex, rub their weary eyes and talk of the
drive from the airport. How they got to Homebush and kept driving and
driving. And driving
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New-look Lion sparks anger from Fitzroy fans
Angry Fitzroy
supporters are pushing for court action and an extraordinary general
meeting to stop Brisbane Lions from using their new playing jumpers.
Robert Craddock in The Courier-Mail reports the club
on Friday unveiled new home-and-away strips, featuring a stylised
Lion with a more hostile face staring out from the jersey, replacing
the more sedate Fitzroy lion which was part of the old jumper.
A group of supporters, who have attracted more than 2000 signatures
of protest to their
"saveourjumper.com.au"
website, announced they were hoping to attract the five per cent of
the membership about 1000 needed to sanction an extraordinary
general meeting.
They have called the new lion a "cartoonish monstrosity"
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Comment
Have the marketing people at Brisbane moved to make change just because it
was needed to generate new interest?
It seems a rather doubtful reason the club put forward at the end of October
"Having a dated and
complex logo that has been historically difficult to reproduce, especially
on clothing fabrics, wood and metal, no longer fits with the fearless,
determined and fresh outlook of our club that is constantly looking to
improve and evolve forward," they said Diary, October 30.
That reason sounds a lot of drivel in the age of technology where almost
anything is possible and one can churn out a graphic in a split second.
The Brisbane marketeers will have to try a little harder to substantiate the
need to change a design with traditional heraldic elements with modern
simplicity.
Or, is it another instance of dumbing down?
   
   
They said it ...
Melbourne's "Herald Sun"
Hawks snare teen |
Hawthorn has signed New Zealander Kurt Heatherley, 14, as an
international scholarship player and part of a community-based program
called NANZ-YP! (Hawthorn and New Zealand).
The program initially a three-year commitment, is the brainchild of
Hawthorn player personnel and strategy manager Chris Pelchen.
"Kurt is widely recognised as one of New Zealand's most talented junior
athletes," Pelchen said.
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Round One
Thursday, March 25
Rch v Car, MCG (n) 7.10pm
Friday, March 26
Gee v Ess, MCG (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, March 27
Mel v Haw, MCG, 2:10pm
Syd v StK, Hom (n) 7:10pm
Bri v WCE, Gabba (n), 8:10pm
Sunday, March 28
PA v NM, FP, 1:10pm
WB v Col, Dok, 2:10pm
Fre v Ade, Sub (n), 8:10pm
Round Two
Thursday, April 1
Bri v Car, Gabba (n), 8:40pm
Saturday, April 3
Col v Mel, MCG, 2:10pm
StK v NM, Dok (n), 7:10pm
WCE v PA, Subiaco (n), 8:40pm
Sunday, April 4
Ade v Syd, FP, 1:10pm
Ess v Fre, Dok, 2:10pm
Rch v WB, MCG, 4:40pm
Monday, April 5
Haw v Gee, MCG, 2:10pm
Round Three
Friday, April 9
StK v Col, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, April 10
NM v WCE, Dok, 2:10pm
Syd v Rch, SCG, 2:10pm
Car v Ess, MCG (n), 7:10pm
PA v Bri FP (FOX) 7:40pm
Sunday, April 11
Mel v Ade, MCG, 1:10pm
WB v Haw, Dok, 2:10pm
Fre v Gee, Sub, 4:40pm
Round Four
Friday, April 16
WCE v Ess, Sub (n), 8:40pm
Saturday, April 17
NM v Syd, Dok, 2:10pm
Ade v Car, FP, 3:10pm
Col v Haw, MCG (n), 7:10pm
Bri v WB, Gabba (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, April 18
Rch v Mel, MCG, 1:10pm
Gee v PA, KP, 2:10pm
StK v Fre, Dok, 4:40pm
Round Five
Friday, April 23
WB v Ade, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, April 24
Syd v WCE, SCG, 2:10pm
Mel v Bri, MCG, 7:10pm
PA v StK, FP (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, April 25
Col v Ess, MCG, 2:40pm
Haw v NM, York Park (n), 5:40pm
Fre v Rch, Sub (n), 8:40pm
Monday, April 26
Car v Gee, MCG, 2:10pm
Round Six
Friday, April 30
WB v StK, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, May 1
NM v Mel, Dok, 2:10pm
Ade v Pt Adelaide, FP, 3:10pm
Ess v Haw, MCG (n), 7:10pm
Syd v Bri, SCG, 7:10pm
Sunday, May 2
Gee v Rch, KP, 1:10pm
Car v Col, MCG, 2:10pm
WCE v Fre, Sub, 4:40pm
Round Seven
Friday, May 7
Mel v WB, MCG (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, May 8
Ess v PA, Dok, 2:10pm
WCE v Haw, Sub, 3:10pm
Col v NM, MCG (n), 7:10pm
Bri v Fre, Gabba (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, May 9
Gee v Syd KP (FOX) 1:10pm
Ade v Rch FP (FOX) 4:40pm
Monday, May 10
StK v Car, Dok (n), 7:20pm
Round Eight
Friday, May 14
Fre v Col, Sub (n), 8:40pm
Saturday, May 15
WB v Syd, Manuka, 2:10pm
Mel v WCE , MCG, 2:10pm
Bri v Gee, Gabba (n), 7:10pm
NM v Ade, Dok (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, May 16
Rch v Haw, MCG, 1:10pm
PA v Car, FP, 3:10pm
StK v Ess Dok (FOX) 4:40pm
Round Nine
Friday, May 21
Col v Gee, MCG (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, May 22
NM v WB, Dok, 2:10pm
Syd v Fre, SCG, 2:10pm
Ess v Rch, MCG (n), 7:30pm
Mel v PA, Marrara (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, May 23
Ade v Bri, FP, 1:10pm
Car v Haw, Dok, 2:10pm
WCE v StK, Sub, 4:40pm
Round 10
Friday, May 28
Ess v WB, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, May 29
Gee v Mel, KP, 2:10pm
PA v Rch, FP, 3:10pm
Bri v Col, Gabba (n), 7:10pm
StK v Ade, Dok (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, May 30
Haw v Syd, MCG, 1:10pm
Car v WCE, Dok, 2:10pm
Fre v NM, Sub, 4:40pm
Round 11
Friday, June 4
Rch v StK, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, June 5
Car v Mel, MCG, 2:10pm
Ade v Fre, FP, 3:10pm
NM v Bri, Dok (n), 7:10pm
WCE v Gee, Sub (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, June 6
Syd v Ess, SCG, 1:10pm
Haw v PA, MCG, 2:10pm
Col v WB, Dok, 4:40pm
Round 12
Friday, June 11
NM v Car, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, June 12
Haw v Ade, York Park, 2:10pm
Ess v Gee, Dok (n), 7:10pm
PA v Syd, FP (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, June 13
Rch v WCE, MCG, 1:10pm
WB v Bri, Dok, 2:10pm
Fre v StK, Sub, 4:40pm
Monday, June 14
Mel v Col, MCG, 2:10pm
Round 13
Friday, June 18
Haw v Ess, MCG (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, June 19
Car v Fre, Dok (n), 7:10pm
Bri v Rch, Gabba (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, June 20
NM v PA, Dok, 1:10pm
WCE v WB, Sub, 4:40pm
Friday, June 25
StK v Gee, MCG (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, June 26
Syd v Col, Hom (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, June 27
Ade v Mel, FP, 3:10pm
Round 14
Thursday, July 1
Car v Bri, Dok (n), 7:10pm
Friday, July 2
Haw v WB, MCG (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, July 3
Fre v PA, Sub, 3:10pm
Col v WCE, Dok (n), 7:10pm
Ade v Ess, FP (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, July 4
Gee v NM, KP, 1:10pm
Rch v Syd, MCG (n) 2:10pm
StK v Mel, Dok, 4:40pm
Round 15
Friday, July 9
PA v Col, FP (n), 8:40pm
Saturday, July 10
Gee v Haw, MCG, 2:10pm
WCE v Ade, Sub, 3:10pm
Bri v StK, Gabba (n), 7:10pm
Rch v Fre, Dok (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, July 11
Syd v NM, SCG, 1:10pm
Mel v Ess, MCG, 2:10pm
Car v WB, Dok, 4:40pm
Round 16
Friday, July 16
Ade v Gee, FP (n) 8:40pm
Saturday, July 17
Col v StK, MCG, 2:10pm
Haw v Bri, York Park, 2:10pm
Ess v WCE, Dok (n), 7:10pm
WB v PA, Marrara (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, July 18
Car v Syd, Dok, 1:10pm
Rch v NM, MCG, 2:10pm
Fre v Mel, Sub, 4:40pm
Round 17
Friday, July 23
StK v Haw, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, July 24
Col v Rch, MCG, 2:10pm
Gee v Bri, KP, 2:10pm
NM v Ess, Dok (n), 7:10pm
WCE v Car Sub (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, July 25
WB v Fre, Dok, 1:10pm
Mel v Syd, MCG, 2:10pm
PA v Ade, FP, 4:40pm
Round 18
Friday, July 30
Ess v StK, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, July 31
Col v Car, MCG, 2:10pm
PA v Haw, FP, 3:10pm
Syd v Gee, Hom (n), 7:10pm
Bri v Mel, Gabba (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, August 1
Rch v Ade, MCG, 1:10pm
WB v NM, Dok, 2:10pm
Fre v WCE, Sub, 4:40pm
Round 19
Friday, August 6
Ess v Car, MCG (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, August 7
Syd v Haw, SCG, 2:10pm
NM v Fre, Dok, 2:10pm
Gee v Col, MCG (n), 7:10pm
WCE v Bri, Sub (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, August 8
StK v PA, Dok, 1:10pm
Mel v Rch, MCG, 2:10pm
Ade v WB, FP, 4:40pm
Round 20
Friday, August 13
Ess v Col, MCG (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, August 14
Car v Rch, MCG, 2:10pm
Fre v Syd, Sub, 3:10pm
WB v Gee, Dok (n), 7:10pm
PA v WCE, FP (n), 7:40pm
Sunday, August 15
Bri v Ade, Gabba, 1:10pm
Haw v Mel, MCG, 2:10pm
NM v StK, Dok, 4:40pm
Round 21
Friday, August 20
Gee v Car, Dok (n), 7:40pm
Saturday, August 21
StK v Rch, Dok, 2:10pm
Haw v Fre, York Park, 2:10pm
Col v Ade, MCG (n), 7:10pm
Syd v WB, SCG (n), 7:10pm
Sunday, August 22
PA v Mel, FP, 1:10pm
Ess v Bri, Dok, 2:10pm
WCE v NM, Sub, 4:40pm
Round 22
August 27-28-29, time and day, tba
Ade v. StK, FP, tba
Haw v Col, MCG, tba
Gee v WCE, KP, tba
Rch v PA, Dok, tba
Fre v Car, Sub, tba
Mel v NM, MCG, tba
Bri v Syd, Gabba, tba
WB v Ess, Dok, tba
Finals
Week 1, Sept 3-4-5
Week 2, Sept 12-13
Week 3, Sept 18-19
Week 4, September 26 |
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FIRST ROUND
Friday, February 12 WCE v Ess, Subiaco, 5.40pm
Saturday, February 13 Ade v PA, Football Park, 4.10pm
Saturday, February 13(n)
Haw v Rch, York Park, 7.40pm
Sunday, February 14
WB v Bri, Manuka Oval, 4.40pm
Friday, February 19(n)
StK v Col, Docklands, 7.40pm
Saturday, February 20(n)
Syd v Car, Blacktown, 7.40pm
Sunday, February 21
Gee v NM, Docklands, 4.40pm
Fre v Mel, Subiaco Oval, 5.40pm
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February 25(n)
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