NORTH Melbourne’s Sudanese-born rookie Majak Daw admitted he was hurt by the racist comments of a spectator while playing with the Werribee Tigers in a VFL match against Port Melbourne at TEAC Oval on Saturday. ”It definitely did [hurt]. I was pretty flat in the first quarter and that carried on throughout the day and [...]
The half way point of the year is always a good time to sit back, relax, and evaluate the season thus far and where clubs went right, and where they went wrong. One of the most important parts about building a club towards grand final success is recruitment. So who is the best recruit of [...]
If Round 9 of the AFL showed us one thing, it was not to discount the pre season premiership favourites. Going into the 2010 premiership season, there were four main contenders for the flag. They were Geelong, St. Kilda, Western Bulldogs and Hawthorn.
Gary Ayres writes in this week’s Fresh Ayres column – exclusive to Football Nation – that the Bendigo Bombers and Essendon need to make a decision one way or another to go stand alone in the VFL or return to fielding a reserves team.
One thing is for sure so far this season – there is no certainties in 2010. Going into the past three years there were always a few sureties. Everyone thought Geelong would be there on the last Saturday in September, and they weren’t wrong. We all knew Richmond would be lousy, and they were. This [...]
Mature age rookies have been a huge talking point so far this season. For those of you who don’t know, a mature age rookie is someone you can add to your list, without having too put too much commitment into them, and also someone who is old enough to go straight into the first grade [...]
It has only taken seven round of the 2010 AFL season for the jury to be out on one of the leagues pre season favourites. Hawthorn set the footy world alight in 2008 when they surprisingly showed up the more fancied Geelong to take out the Grand Final, and to go down as one of [...]
FORMER Geelong and Adelaide coach and Hawthorn champion Gary Ayres writes in his second column of Fresh Ayres – exclusive to Football Nation – that he would try to attract NRL stars to Port Melbourne in the VFL in an attempt to get them playing AFL footy.
OUR exclusive column called ‘Fresh Ayres’ begins this week with former Geelong and Adelaide coach Gary Ayres joining Football Nation for 2010. He begins with a look at his former team Adelaide and the pressure surrounding them in the lead up to its round three match against Melbourne
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