Aboriginal People and Australian Football in the Nineteenth Century: They Did Not Come from Nowhere Roy Hay ISBN: 9781527526488 Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK, 2019. Hardback, A5, 315 pages, illustrated. RRP £64.99. Australia $99.00....
SESA is still in business Sports & Editorial Services Australia is saddened that Dennis Jones had to put his distribution company Dennis Jones & Associates into administration recently. SESA benefitted considerably from Dennis and his loyal and proactive...
SESA is delighted to announce the publication of Ian Syson’s The Game That Never Happened: The Vanishing History of Soccer in Australia. This is a pioneering cultural history of the game in Australia demonstrating that the game has been around as long as any of the...
Geelong Rangers topped the ladder in the Community Cup Roy Hay (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong Rangers and Geelong previewed the Geelong Community Cup final when Rangers just pipped the host side to top the ladder in the final round robin match at...
Signs point to a Geelong versus Geelong Rangers final in Community Cup Roy Hay (Click on photos below to enlarge them) After Geelong Rangers fielded some of its promising youngsters but still ran up seven goals against a scoreless Barwon and Geelong scraped home by...
Rangers hit Golden Plains for six in Geelong Community Cup (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Roy Hay Geelong Rangers ran up six goals without reply by Golden Plains in the Geelong Community Cup on Wednesday night. Corio struggled to beat Barwon by a single...
Geelong Community Cup 2018 - Matchday 4 Steven Ginoski Rangers flex their muscle against Bell Park Bell Park 0-4 Geelong Rangers Geelong Rangers recorded their first victory of the tournament with a 4-0 win over Bell Park. It wasn’t all smooth sailing for the Dark...
Both games drawn in Wednesday’s Geelong Community Cup Roy Hay (click on photos below to enlarge them) Barwon got its first point in this year’s Geelong Community Cup when it held Bell Park to a one-all draw in the early game at Stead Park, while the high-quality match...
Geelong tops Geelong Community Cup after two rounds Roy Hay (Click on the pics below to enlarge them) The second round of matches in the Geelong Community Cup were played on Friday 2 February resulting in a two-one win for host club Geelong against Corio, while Bell...
Geelong Community Cup 2018 Roy Hay (Click on pictures below to enlarge them) Geelong’s Community Cup, the long running pre-season tournament that began as the Geelong Advertiser Cup in 1981, kicked off at Stead Park on Wednesday night in a new format. Geelong hosted...
On 14 November 2017 the members of the Australian football team that went to Saigon and won our first international trophy celebrated the 50th anniversary of their victory over lunch at the Sydney Cricket Ground at the invitation of the SCG Trust. (Click on...
50th Anniversary of the victory in Vietnam By Roy Hay In 1967 at the height of the Vietnam War, the Australian government, led by Harold Holt, agreed it would be a good idea if the national football team took part in a tournament in Vietnam to boost morale in some of...
Aboriginal Australian men playing football in a paddock at Coranderrk. N. J Caire 1837-1918, photographer. State Library of Victoria. (This article was first published in The Conversation on 25 May 2017 and is republished here with permission) It would be wonderful if...
Corio win Geelong Community Cup at last Roy Hay (Click on the photographs below to enlarge them) Corio have appeared in the last five finals of the Geelong Community Cup and its predecessors, and lost the lot, but on Sunday night at Myers Reserve it was sixth time...
Corio meets Golden Plains in Geelong Community Cup Final Roy Hay Corio will be an unbackable favourite to win the Geelong Community Cup on Sunday when it takes on newcomer Golden Plains in the final at Myers Reserve at 6 pm. Corio has been in the last five finals and...
Golden Plains shock Rangers to gain place in Geelong Cup final Roy Hay (Click on the images below to enlarge them) In probably the biggest upset in the long history of the Geelong pre-season Cup, newcomers Golden Plains downed host and joint tournament favourite...
Golden Plains wins last place in Geelong Community Cup finals Roy Hay A one-all draw against Corio secured the last place in this year’s Community Cup finals at Geelong Rangers’ Myers Reserve on Sunday. Corio was already through and the result meant that Lara United...
Puskas statue unveiled in Melbourne Roy Hay A statue of Hungarian and world football’s all time great players, coaches and inspirations, Ferenc Puskas, was unveiled in Melbourne today as close as could be to Olympic Park where the last game of his Australian coaching...