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Dockers, Swans in draw at SCG
9 hours agoSydney and Fremantle battled to the first draw of the AFL season on Saturday night, with Dockers big man Michael Johnson unable to drag his side over the line at the SCG after a thrilling final-quarter fightback. The Dockers trailed by 27 points early in the fourth term, but when Johnson snapped truly with three [...]
Kevin Sheedy sticks by comments
5 days agoGreater Western Sydney coach Kevin Sheedy says he meant nothing untoward by Sunday’s comments in which he described Western Sydney Wanderers’ A-League success as getting a leg-up from the “immigration department”. While pondering the crowd of just 5830 that turned up to see the Giants against Adelaide, the lowest at a regular-season AFL match since [...]
Record low AFL crowd for GWS home match
6 days agoOn and off the field, AFL club Greater Western Sydney were singing the second-year blues on Sunday. Adelaide dished out a 135-point thumping at Showground Stadium, with a crowd of just 5,830 on hand for the Giants’ first game of the year at their Sydney Olympic Park home. It was the lowest attendance figure for [...]
Voss baffled by awful AFL opening terms
6 May 2013For Brisbane coach Michael Voss the problem is obvious – insipid opening quarters on the road. Unfortunately for the under-pressure AFL coach, the solution is proving a little more complex. Lions midfielder Tom Rockliff summarised Sunday’s 10-goal loss to Sydney at the SCG succinctly, saying “we’ve matched it with the best team in the comp [...]
GWS's Corr to be sure in AFL debut
3 May 2013Mentored by Tadhg Kennelly and befriended by Setanta O’hAilpin, Greater Western Sydney’s Aidan Corr will need all the pluck of the Irish when he debuts against Essendon on Saturday. Corr will be the latest Irish-born player to make it onto an AFL field when the winless Giants look to bring down the ladder-leading Bombers. Unlike [...]
Suns share load in big AFL win over GWS
28 Apr 2013On what was arguably Gold Coast’s brightest day in the sun, coach Guy McKenna took great delight in the fact Gary Ablett wasn’t standing head and shoulders above his teammates. Charlie Dixon booted six goals as the Suns downed fellow expansion side Greater Western Sydney by 44 points in Canberra on Saturday. The difference a [...]
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