Section
The draft, the ladder, the finals and how Australian football is run.
AFL
In Australian Rules Football’s (AFL) season, clubs are first ranked by premiership points and then by percentage when the points are equal. A win is worth four premiership points, a draw two, and a loss zero. The ladder percentage is…
Older material. These pages were published on this domain before the current desk and are kept online for readers and researchers.
Aboriginal Australian men playing football in a paddock at Coranderrk. N. J Caire 1837-1918, photographer. State…
Footy Town (first published in Neos Osmos, 16 June 2013) Where is the heart of football when the game at top level is…
NFL or EPL or keeping their eye on the ball at home? The Australian Football League is sending a deputation to the…
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Where did what we now call Australian Rules football come from? Many people still believe that the game was influenced by Gaelic football, an…
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Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 5 January 2008, p. 31. The turn of the year is a time to take stock. But why? What is it about certain dates or events…
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Published as 'Footy fiction', Geelong Advertiser, Tuesday 16 October 2007, p. 15. by The recent rediscovery of an etching at the Museum of Victoria…
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Published as ' Footy facts', Geelong Advertiser, Thurday 31 July 2008, p. 21. The Newspapers in Education column of the Geelong Advertiser is one of…
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Published as 'PC Footbrawl', Geelong Advertiser, Saturday 17 May 2008, p. 37. Here in Australia we have one of best games of football on the planet…
