Posts Tagged "Melbourne"

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, any followers of the A-League will not have failed to notice the controversial issue of the day – the concept of a consortium representing former NSL powerhouse South Melbourne FC making a $3.5 million bid to at least buy into (if not all of) Melbourne Hearts’ shares, with [...]

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With all of my live A-League experience thus far having being restricted to the Harbour City, it was with a great deal of anticipation that I travelled to Melbourne for the Victory v Heart season opener.

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With so much of the Grand Final ticketing allocation going to corporate partners rather than supporters, fans need more ways to get close to their team during the build-up to the big game.

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As you load the fridge, order some pizza and buckle up for Origin XXXII, kindly pause and ask yourself the following question: “Would I care if tonight’s State of Origin game was the last to be hosted by the city of Melbourne?”

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Living in Melbourne is amazing. But if you don’t follow AFL then you just aren’t with the masses. Here is a sample conversation with the average sports goer in Melbourne:

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What is glowingly clear is that Melbourne and Sydney live in their own world and the rest of the country needs to get real on the fact that sport in this country is ready to take the next step and become proper, professional sports.

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On Monday, the AFL’s worst kept secret was made official when Melbourne’s Tom Scully officially joined the league’s newest franchise Greater Western Sydney Giants on a bumper six-year contract worth approximately $6 million. That’s not bad for a 20-year-old who’s played 31 games of senior AFL footy.

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Brisbane Lions captain, Jonathon Brown, along with a number of teammates and Lions coaching staff, have recently claimed the way the West Coast Eagles have gone from last in 2010 to fourth in 2011 should give the Lions fans hope for future seasons.

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Have we put AFL on too high of a pedestal? Everything recently seems to be played up for the salivating and waiting media who jump on any piece of information to gain that highly-sought exclusive.

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The AFL home and away season is slowly coming towards an end and this week, Round 19 is upon us. Three teams have the bye this week in Richmond, Brisbane and Sydney, so there are only seven games in this round. Starting with…

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There was a simultaneous groan from Melbourne fans on Friday night at Etihad and it wasn’t because of the insipid performance. For the second time this year, demon Jack Trengove had made what many would label “the perfect tackle”.

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Adelaide take on Sydney on July 2 in the round 15 of the AFL at the AAMI Stadium.

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As a born and bred Sydneysider, I’ve always felt lucky to live in the harbour city. After travelling some of the world’s great cities – Paris, London, Barcelona – my love of Sydney has never wavered.

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Twice a year, blokes around this great brown land complete a socks and jocks stock take. Armed with this knowledge, they head off with their better halves to the great suburban temples of post-industrial consumerism, for a spot of shopping at the sales.

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After failing to have his three-game suspension reduced to two, Joel Selwood will spend the next four weeks on the sidelines for a much-deserved rest, much to the dismay of the competition.

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The Melbourne Demons hope to get their AFL season back on track tonight but face a hot Carlton, who lost narrowly to the unbeaten Geelong Cats last round.

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Someone recently posted on the Roar what I have believed to be true for a fair while now: football in Australia operates within the environment that we have in Australia, meaning a final series with a grand final.

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Everybody in the football universe is harping on about how bad the Demons were on Thursday. Past players are lashing out at the half-hearted underperformers, commentators are questioning the baffling “game plan”, and Facebook groups are calling for a clean-out of the coaching panel.

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Melbourne, do you want a Grand Prix or not?

By Adrian Musolino, 29 Mar 2011

 

They say it’s the little things that make up life. In the case of the Australian Grand Prix, it’s the little signs scattered around Melbourne that tell us the city is becoming more polarised over the future of the event, perhaps with a growing antagonism thrown in the mix.

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While we may have seen a decline in attendances across the board in the most recent A-League season, the two Melbourne clubs have managed to take a major share of the market across the country, with over 25 per cent (or 353,190) of the A-League attendees flooding through the gates of either AMMI Park and [...]

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