An article by Roy Hay on the real costs of sport is in the current issue of Ken Davidson's magazine Dissent, No. 28, Summer 2008/2009, pp. 58-60. Quite timely given the recent contribution from the taxpayer of $45.6 million to the Football Federation of Australia's...
2009
Go-for-your-Life Cup 2009
Day Date Time Home Team Goals Away Team Goals Grp Fri 6-Feb-09 6.00 Corio 0 Geelong Regional Football Assn 0 A Fri 6-Feb-09 7.20 North Geelong 0 v Surfcoast 0 B Sun 8-Feb-09 6.00 Geelong Rangers (Troy Hardy, Chirs Harding own goal, Jumo Wade, James Blackburn, Alister...
National Youth League 2008-09
Melbourne Victory Youth 0 Queensland Roar Youth 2 On a dry, bumpy and windswept pitch at Green Gully Reserve, Melbourne Victory went down by two goals to nil in the opening match of the new National Youth League on Friday, 26 September 2008. The Victory squad was only...
National Youth League 2008-09
National Youth League resumes at last After a hiatus of four years the new National Youth League kicked off again yesterday at Green Gully Reserve when Melbourne Victory went down by two goals to nil to Queensland Roar. The Victory squad was only finalised this week...
National Youth League 2008-09
Melbourne Victory Youth 0 Perth Glory Youth 2 Melbourne Victory Youth played Perth Glory Youth at Green Gully Reserve on Sunday 5 October and looked much better in the first half than they had in the opening game against Queensland Roar. Nick Ward, the marquee youth...
What were they doing in 1863?
Goal Weekly, Monday 11 May 2009, p. 12. I know this column is called Blast from the Past, but given that most people believe the first game of Association Football was not played in Australia until the 1880s, what, you may ask, am I on about? It is, however, 150...
Rangers wins Goforyourlife Cup
Geelong Rangers won the Goforyourlife Cup by a single goal against Surfcoast on Sunday night. It was the first time that Rangers had triumphed in a Geelong pre-season tournament since 1987 and James Blackburn’s superb strike in the 57th minute conjured up memories of...
49ers and Barwon Heads take out Masters
Two of Geelong’s teams won gold medals in the Australian Masters Games tournament held at Bell Park last week. The Geelong 49ers led by Steve Radojevic and Rod van der Chys won the over-45 age group while in a big upset Barwon Heads knocked off the highly fancied...
Goforyourlife Cup 20 and 22 February 2009
Geelong Rangers continued its march to the finals of the Goforyourlife Cup with a two-one win over North Geelong at Myers Reserve on Friday night. North introduced a number of senior players, while Rangers stuck to the players who have got it through the opening two...
Australian Masters Games 2009
The Australian Masters Games for 2009 kicked off at Bell Park Sports Club in Geelong on Saturday with 17 teams competing in four groups, men’s 30–35, 40–45, over 45 and women. Geelong 49ers opened with a three-one win over MG Force from Mount Gambier. Mick Oppermann...
Massacre at the dome
It was a St Valentine’s Day massacre at Telstra Dome on Saturday night when Melbourne Victory trounced Adelaide United by four goals to nil in the second leg of the major semi-final of the A-League. The Victory team and fans celebrated with what my colleague Alan...
Go-for-your-life Cup
Host club Geelong Rangers ensured qualification for the finals of the Goforyourlife Cup, sponsored by the Victorian government, at Myers Reserve on Friday night. Provisional League club Surfcoast held Rangers scoreless in the first half despite playing against a...
Go-for-your-Life Cup 2009
Geelong’s pre-season competition has a new sponsor, the Victorian government, and the tournament will be called the Go-for-Life Cup. The format will be similar to that of the long-running Geelong Advertiser Cup which became established as the best non-metropolitan...
Early games of football in Western Victoria
Published as 'New Evidence: When did Aborigines first play Aussie rules?', Geelong Advertiser, Wednesday 21 October 2009, p. 21. The footy season is done and dusted and trade week is behind us, so it is time for historians to put away the beanies and the scarves and...
Simply Superb
Geelong Advertiser, Monday 15 May 2009, p. 19. If Baz Luhrmann’s Australia was not Australia’s greatest film of recent times, then a small, understated entry to the Cannes Film Festival might just be it. Warwick Thornton’s love story of two Aboriginal children is as...