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June 2010
Exhaustive North Hobart History DVD "From out the narrow streets and back alleyways emerged the great Redlegs teams of yesteryear." Dan Garlick writes to advise that North Hobart has produced a comprehensive history DVD which is available for sale, priced $29.95, via the club's website at http://www.nhfc.com.au/. The DVD is entitled The Tribe - The story of the North Hobart Football Club from 1881 to 2006. It has a running time of 59 minutes + 40 minutes of extra interviews – includes player, committee and supporter interviews plus historical footage and photos. The club's history book, Never Say Die, has also been updated, and is available via the club's website. I was recently alerted to the existence of a fantastic website dealing in detail with the history of football in the sunshine state. The site is called www.qldfooty.com, and is the brainchild of long-time friend of Full Points Footy and avid football historian Greg Parker. I feel rather ashamed not to have stumbled across the site earlier, as Greg tells me it's been online since December 2008. It contains sections devoted to AFL Queensland, Brisbane Lions, the new Gold Coast club, Queensland football's Hall of Fame, plus plenty more, and is heartily recommended. If you like it (and I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't) please drop Greg a line or two saying so. Entries for the following clubs have recently been added: Adelaide Lutheran, Adelaide University, Angle Vale, Athelstone, Ballajura, Bassendean, Beechboro, Blackfriars Old Scholars, Brahma Lodge, Brentwood Booragoon, Broadview, Bullcreek Leeming, Canning South Perth Victoria Park, Central United, CBCOC, Cockburn Lakes, Collegians (WAAFL), Colonel Light Gardens, Coolbellup, Coolbinia West Perth, Cowwarr, Dianella Morley, Donald, East Fremantle Amateurs, Eastern Park, Elizabeth, Ellenbrook, Fitzroy, Flinders Park, Flinders University, Gaza, Glengarry, Glenunga, Golden Grove, Goodwood Saints, Gosnells, Greenacres, Greensborough, Hampton, Hampton Park, Hastings, Heatherton, Heathmere, Hectorville, Heidelberg, Heidelberg West, Henley, Heyfield, Heywood, High Wycombe, Highett, Hope Valley, Houghton Districts, Hurstbridge, Imperials (Hamilton), Ingle Farm, Irymple, Kalamunda, Karingal, Katamatite, Katandra, Katunga, Kenilworth, Keysborough, Kilburn, Kilmore, Kingsley, Lalor, Lancefield, Langwarrin, Lindenow South, Lockleys, Lower Plenty, Lyndale, Lynwood Ferndale, Macedon, Macleod, Manning Rippers, Mathoura, Melton Central, Melville and Mernda. This brings the total number of clubs profiled on the site to 959. |
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May 2010
Vin Maskell emailed me recently with information about a DVD which many visitors to Full Points Footy might well find of interest: Where The Seagulls Nest is an eleven minute documentary made by Williamstown teenager Jesse Maskell during his VCE media studies in 2009. The documentary traces the origins of Burbank Oval and its various uses over the past 150 years. It combines archival footage and home movies as five locals who love the ground tell their stories: Williamstown Football Club general manager Brendan Curry, president Trevor Monti, ex-player Ronnie Williams, and lifelong supporters Janet Dooley and Geoff van Wyngaaden. A full colour flyer for the documentary can be viewed here or by clicking on the thumbnail above. The latest club histories added to the site have been for Ali Curung, Anmatjere, Augusta Margaret River, Baldivis, Bay Power, Bayulu Bulldogs, Bidyadanga, Blyth Snowtown, Boddington, Borden, BITS Saints, Boyup Brook, Boxwood Hill, Bridgetown, Brinkworth Spalding Redhill, Brookton Pingelly, Broome Bulls, Broome Saints, Brothers (Bundaberg), Brothers (Rockhampton), Bullsbrook, Burra Booborowie Hallett, Busselton, Cable Beach, Cairns City's Cobras, Cairns Saints, Calingiri, Callington United, Canteen Creek, Carnamah Perenjori, Central Augusta, Central Yorke Peninsula, Centrals, Chidlow, Coffs Harbour, Collie Eagles, Coolamon, Coorow Latham, Dalwallinu, Dampier Sharks, Deanmill, Denmark Walpole, Dongara, Donnybrook, Dowerin, Eastern Hawks, Echunga, Elmore, Esperance, Eudunda, Euston, Federal (Alice Springs), Fingal Valley, Gepps Cross, Gibson, Gidgegannup, Gingin, Gladstone, Glenthompson Dunkeld, Gnowangerup, Gol Gol, Goomalling, Grafton, Great Western, Gumeracha, Halls Creek, Hamilton, Harcourt, Harrow Balmoral, Harvey Brunswick Leschenault, Harvey Bulls, Hawkesdale Macarthur, Hay, Hermannsburg, Hermit Park, Hill End, Hopetoun, Huntly, Imalu, Inglewood, Irrimuru, Jeparit Rainbow, Jerilderie, Jerramungup, Kalkee, Kangarilla, Karratha Falcons, Karratha Kats, Kent Districts, Kersbrook, Kojonup, Kukerin Dumbleyung, Kundat Jaru, Kununurra, Laharum, Lake Grace Pingrup, Lakes, Lancaster, Lexton, Lismore Derrinallum, Lockington Bamawm United, Macclesfield, Maldon, Mandurah, Manjimup Imperials, Manunda, Marong, Maryborough (Bundaberg), Maryborough Rovers, McLaren, Merrigum and Yeppoon. More to follow shortly. This brings the total number of clubs profiled on the site to 877. |
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May 2010
I'm still trying my best to update the site, but certain pieces of information are proving rather elusive. Specifically, if any one can provide me with the score in the 2009 Riverina Football League grand final between Ganmain-Grong Grong-Matong and Leeton-Whitton I'd be very grateful. Ditto the leading goalkickers, with number of goals kicked, in AFL Queensland's State League, AFL Canberra's Premiership Division One, and Tasmania's Southern Football League and Northern Football League. Belated Updates To The Site - Mark Two If you visited the site any time in December '09 or early January this year you may have thought it appeared to be pretty well up to date, i.e. all of the major developments occurring in the 2009 season were reflected in the chronology, club and league profiles and so forth. However, if you have accessed the site since then you might have felt a little confused - where was all the updated information? Well, you can rest assured that 1) you weren't imagining things back in December or early January, the site had been more or less fully brought up to date and 2) there is a perfectly simple explanation for the disappearance of the updates - in the middle of January, in a rash moment that I still can't fully explain, I somehow inadvertently managed to delete the entire Full Points Footy website. What makes the whole thing even more irritating is that this spectacular faux pas occurred precisely as I was backing up the updated version of the site which existed on the server to my hard drive. Or at least that's what I thought. When I'd finished there was no site on the server, and the version on my hard drive was dated March 2009, which is the version I had no alternative but to upload to the server, a process which in itself did not go entirely smoothly. So I'm afraid that what you currently have is a Full Points Footy website which is nowhere near as up to date as I would like, and as if that wasn't bad enough, because of problems with uploading the replacement back up version there are numerous formatting issues which also need addressing. Rest assured, I shall do the best I can to correct and update everything as speedily as possible, but in the meantime, please accept my apologies for the less than satisfactory state of the site. Oh, and rest assured it won't happen again as I now have the entire site automatically backed up every twenty-four hours. The Full Points Footy Encyclopedia Of Australian Football Clubs Volume Three As you may have noted above, the sixth Full Points Publications football title, The Full Points Footy Encyclopedia Of Australian Football Clubs Volume Three, has now been published. If you'd like an idea of the book's content you can view its index here. If you're interested in buying you will be pleased to note that the price of postage has been significantly reduced. |
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8th August 2009
'All My Most Memorable Times Have Been Imagined' My debut novel, All My Most Memorable Times Have Been Imagined, has just been published. Whilst it is not a football novel per se, much of the action takes place in Australia, and Australian football gets more than a few extended references. You can find out more about the book at http://stores.lulu.com/fullpointsfooty. It's available in both hardcover and paperback editions. 'Champions Of The Colony' Myth As mentioned last year I am now completely convinced, thanks to the detailed research carried out by Ross Smith, that the so called 'Champion of the Colony' award never actually existed. Rather, it was a list privately and subjectively compiled in 1958 by the football historian CC Mullen. Consequently, I erased all references to the award on Full Points Footy - or at least thought I had. Ross, though, was one step ahead of me, and noticed that quite a few references in the Biographies section had slipped through the net. Needless to say, I'm indebted to Ross for pointing this out, and the offending references have been deleted. Hopefully, now, all references to the award on the site have now been removed, but with almost 3,000,000 words of text to sift through, I wouldn't bet on it. If anyone spots any such remaining references I'd be grateful to hear from them. |
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July 2009
An updated version of an old essay of mine, Football History - Let's Have More Facts And Less Propaganda has just been added to the Essays And Articles section. The latest club entries have been for Bostons, Lincoln South, Mallee Park and Marble Range (Port Lincoln Football League), Cervantes, Dandaragan and Jurien Bay of the Central Midlands Coastal Football League, Bruce Rock, Burracoppin, Corrigin, Hyden Karlgarin and Kulin Kondinin (Eastern Districts Football League), Kiewa Sandy Creek (Tallangatta and District Football League), Kolora Noorat and Merrivale (Warrnambool and District Football League), Maffra (West Gippsland Latrobe Football League), Glenorden and Hoppers Crossing (Western Region Football League), Horsham, Horsham Saints and Horsham United (Wimmera Football League) and Kinglake (Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League). This brings the total number of club profiles on the site to 765. |
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June 2009
Among the 743 clubs profiled on the site you will now find entries for the Barossa, Light and Gawler Football League quintet of Angaston, Barossa District, Freeling, Gawler Central and Kapunda, the Eastern Eyre Football League's Cleve, Cowell and Kimba Districts, plus Grovedale, Lara and Leopold of the Geelong Football League. |
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May 2009
Ken Mansell's lively and highly absorbing account of how he came to write his song, The Ballad Of Haydn Bunton, about Haydn Bunton senior is the latest addition to the Essays and Articles section. Rest assured you don't have to be familiar with the song to appreciate the article. The latest clubs to have their profiles added to the site are the Yorke Peninsula Football League trio of Ardrossan, Bute and Kadina, Beacon, Bencubbin and Koorda of the Central Wheatbelt Football League, Heathmont, Kilsyth, Knox and Lilydale (Eastern Football League), Goolwa-Port Elliott (Great Southern Football League), Beverley, Cunderdin and Kellerberrin-Tammin (Avon Football Association), and Banks, Casino Sharks, Combined Services and Jabiru of the Top End Australian Football League. |
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March 2009
The latest additions to the Clubs section of the website have been for Eltham, Epping and Fitzroy Stars (Northern Football League), the Eastern Football League quartet of Ferntree Gully, Forest Hill, Glen Waverley and Mitcham, Geelong West Sporting Club and Inverleigh (Geelong and District Football League), Girgarre (Kyabram District Football League), Mitiamo (Loddon Valley Football League), Finley and Moama of the Murray Football League, Mitta United (Tallangatta and District Football League), Cudgewa and Federal (Upper Murray Football League), Moe of the West Gippsland-Latrobe Football League, and Monbulk (Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League). The site now contains a total of 718 individual club profiles which you will find listed in alphabetical order here. |
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January 2009
Full Points Footy's SA Football Companion Now Available Full Points Footy's SA Football Companion has now been published. The 666 page hardback book provides an encyclopedic survey of the history of Australian football in South Australia, including club, coach, player, umpire and administrator profiles, reviews of important matches, copious records and statistics, information about amateur and country football, and much more. To view a selection of preview pages from the book as well as find out how to purchase copies click on the following link: http://stores.lulu.com/fullpointsfooty Alternatively, all three Full Points Publications titles can now be purchased direct from me, so if you prefer not to use Lulu, simply drop me a line with your requirements, either via the site's feedback form, or by email. If you purchase more than one title from me in the same transaction you are entitled to a discount on the overall price. (This offer does not apply to purchases made via Lulu.) In the past few days a number of new club profiles have been added, i.e. East Geelong of the Geelong and District Football League, Edenhope-Apsley (Horsham and District Football League), Dunolly (Maryborough Castlemaine District Football League), Cranbourne, Crib Point, Devon Meadows, Doveton and Dromana, Edithvale-Aspendale, Frankston Bombers and Frankston YCW (Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League), Diamond Creek (Northern Football League), Dookie United (Picola and District Football League), Diggers Rest (Riddell District Football League), Dartmoor (South West District Football League), Dandenong Demons, Dingley, Doncaster, Doncaster East, Donvale, Doveton Eagles, East Brighton, East Burwood, East Ringwood and Eastern Lions (Southern Football League), Dederang Mount Beauty (Talangatta and District Football League), Deakin University and Dennington (Warrnambool and District Football League), East Gambier (Western Border Football League) and Deer Park (Western Region Football League). The total number of club profiles on the site now stands at 700. |
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December 2008
SA Football Companion Slightly Delayed Owing to a combination of issues, some of my own making, others to do with the printing process, the publication of Full Points Footy's Football Companion will be delayed slightly. This is unfortunate, and a little annoying, but I'm doing all I can to speed things up. Watch this space for updates. Champion Of The Colony Myth - An Update It would appear that the list of alleged 'Champions of the Colony' included in various publications from the 1950s onwards was the work of noted football historian C.C. Mullen, and was based on nothing more substantive than his own research-derived opinions. |
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November 2008
Recent research by Ross Smith, which you can access at http://au.geocities.com/sportandhistory/football/awards/champion.html has cast immense doubt over whether a discrete 'Champion of the Colony' award for the best Victorian footballer of each season ever existed. Consequently, I have removed all references to the award from the site. (The earliest reference I've been able to find to this alleged award is in Hugh Buggy's and Harry Bell's 1958 history of Carlton, The Carlton Story.) Obviously, if anyone has concrete evidence that the Champion of the Colony award did in fact exist, I'd love to hear from them. Australia-Wide Football Facts And Records James Hothersall's excellent website containing football records from all over Australia has just been updated to reflect this season's developments as well as other matters which have recently come to light. It's well worth visiting and bookmarking. You can find it at |
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September 2008
It's only very basic at present, but Full Points Footy now has a MySpace presence, which you can expect to see expanding pretty rapidly over the coming months, and which you can find at http://www.myspace.com/fullpoints. Famous AFL Queensland club Morningside has just launched a revamped website which is well worthy of a visit. The site contains extensive historical information about both the junior and senior sections of the club. It's at www.morningsideafc.com.au. |
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1st September 2008
Full Speed Ahead For SA Football Companion An unexpected and quite dramatic improvement in my health has enabled me to make some significant progress on the next Full Points Publications title, Full Points Footy's SA Football Companion, which now seems well on course for publication in late October/early November. The book is basically a 1,072 entry 'A-Z' (Aamodt to Zucker) of the key people, clubs, competitions, records and stats, important matches, events and developments and so forth from the game's one and a half century long history in the state. It's intended as a general reference rather than as the sort of book people will want to read from cover to cover. Some of the material has appeared previously on the Full Points Footy website, but a sizeable proportion of it is completely new and will remain unique to the book (i.e. it won't subsequently be added to the site). Another beneficial consequence of feeling better has been a renewed desire to bolster my meagre knowledge of the game's history. Among the sizeable swag of titles eagerly devoured over the past month or so, two stand out, and I would unreservedly and avidly recommend both of them to everyone, although getting hold of the Storer title might be difficult. Woodville-West Torrens Football Club historian John Storer has produced a two volume, limited edition history of West Torrens, the first of which covers the period between 1897 and 1944. It's detailed, capably written, well researched and beautifully set out, and should appeal to all true fans of the game. John Gascoyne's The Mail Medal, an updated version of a book first published in 1996, is similarly exhaustive and magnificently presented as well as being - from this reader's perspective at any rate - almost 'unputdownable'. Again, it's heartily recommended, and unlike the Storer title should be relatively easy to track down. |
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July 2008
Profiles of two former Geelong area clubs, Chilwell and Newtown, have just been added, as have entries for current Ballarat Football League clubs Melton, Melton South and Sebastopol, and Camperdown, Cobden, Koroit, North Warrnambool and Port Fairy of the Hampden Football League. Those who find trivial facts diverting might care to note that Chilwell was the 600th club to be profiled on the site. I'm a bit late with this one (but arguably not as late as Subiaco), and I'm indebted to regular Full Points Footy correspondent Julio for bringing it to my attention, but the Subiaco Football Club has now joined every other club in the WAFL except Claremont, South Fremantle and Peel by naming an official 'Team of the Century'. The team, in full, reads:
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June 2008
Footy 150 Years Conference In Melbourne Peter Burke has alerted me to a forthcoming conference aimed at assisting club and league officials to learn more about preserving, recording and presenting their club's history. 150 Years Of Australian Football will take place at Victoria University Conference Centre, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne on Tuesday 15th July 2008, commencing at 9.00 am. Registration for the conference is FREE, but bookings are nevertheless required. To register, email jmcbeth@unimelb.edu.au with your name, institution/club/affiliation, email address and telephone number. THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS 8 JULY 2008. Speakers and contributors include Bob Stewart, David Parkin, June Senyard, Lionel Frost and Brendon Gale. For further information, including details of the subjects to be addressed, go to www.historical-studies.unimelb.edu.au/events or take a look at the conference fliers 150 Years Of Australian Football.pdf and 150 Years Community Football Heritage.pdf It's the sort of event I'd love to attend personally, but unfortunately that won't be possible. However, I'd love to hear from anybody who does go. A new site devoted to Essendon has just started. The Essendon Footy Zone currently contains match reports and a forum, with other features soon to be added. Check it out at http://www.essendonfootyzone.net78.net/ Latest Tasmanian Football HoF Inductees Named Regular site contributor Len Colquhoun recently supplied details of the latest twenty-four inductees to the Tasmanian Football Hall of Fame, as selected by AFL Tasmania. They are: BEN ATKIN - a triple b&f winner with Glenorchy followed by a starring role with the Tassie Devils. KEVIN BAILEY - Mercury cartoonist during the 1970s, '80s and '90s. JOHN BONNEY - a hard as nails rover with both Cooee, where he won a hat trick of b&f awards, and St Kilda, for whom his 89 senior games included the losing VFL grand final of 1971 against Hawthorn. Represented Tasmania 8 times. As a coach, he led Cooee to the 1978 NWFU and state titles. COLIN CAMPBELL - star Essendon rover of the 1890s who helped the Dons to 5 premierships. LANCE CROSSWELL - a top centreman with Launceston and Longford 1945-54. HAROLD 'TIGER' DOWLING - Cooee's games played record holder who helped the club to the 1961, 1964 and 1965 premierships. Also played for East Devonport, and coached Wynyard to a flag in 1975. ROBBIE DYKES - a prominent performer for both Glenorchy and New Norfolk 1970-96. Represented the state 20 times. TIM EVANS - star full forward for Port Adelaide, kicking 1041 goals in 248 games, and representing SA. Also played 59 VFL games for Geelong. STEVEN GOULDING - a fine on-baller for North Launceston in the 1980s and '90s. Also played briefly with North Melbourne, and coached Claremont in WA. RON HALL - a star on-baller with North Launceston (245 games 1963-78) who played 5 times for the state. LES HEPPER - New Norfolk administrator who oversaw his club's most successful era to date in the 1960s and '70s. NATHAN HOWARD - inaugural captain of the Tassie Devils who also played successfully with Ulverstone, North Launceston and Launceston. RAY JAMES - a leading journalist and media commentator with 'Southern Cross' and TNT-9 from the 1970s to the early 1990s. ANDY LOVELL - a dual premiership player with Glenorchy (1985-6) before playing successfully in the V/AFL with Melbourne (121 games) and West Coast (43 games). GRAEME MACKEY - top centreline player and on-baller in 269 games for Sandy Bay 1968-85. A regular state player. RAY MAYNARD - a top defender, and North Launceston's senior games played record holder with 323 games 1970-86. Represented Tasmania. DON MCLEOD - gave North Hobart great service, mainly as a key position forward, in 265 games 1972-86. Won five club b&f awards, and played 18 times for Tasmania. KEITH ROBERTS - enjoyed a thirteen season (1923-35) career with Wynyard, Yeoman, New Town and City which included winning the TFL's official best and fairest award in 1927. GRAEME SHEPHARD - rover with Cooee and Collingwood, helping the former to two flags, and playing 46 senior VFL games for the latter. A regular state rep. including two carnivals. COLIN STOKES - a top full forward for Longford between the wars. CHARLIE THOMPSON - a top ranking wingman and rover with North Launceston 1955-74. DARREN TRAVENA - played successfully with South Launceston, South Adelaide, North Launceston and North Hobart, and the current coach of the Tassie Devils. KEVIN WILLIAMS - a top field umpire from 1965 to 1990, his 300-plus games included ten regional grand finals, a state grand final, and five representative matches. MARK WILLIAMS - field umpire in more than 400 games 1986-2007 including seven grand finals and five state games. The official induction ceremony takes place on 4th July at Wrest Point, Hobart. Profiles of Bacchus Marsh, Coorparoo Kings, East Point, Lake Wendouree, Newtown and Chilwell, and Warrnambool have recently been added. Thanks to Joshua Ryan for supplying me with details about the Coorparoo Kings, and for clarifying the situation vis-à-vis that club's relationship with the original Coorparoo Football Club in the process. I'm also indebted to Newtown and Chilwell's historian Christine Kelly for providing information about her club's history as well as the photograph which appears in the profile. Finally, Len Colquhoun is to blame (again!) for kindly supplying me with much of the information that appears in the entry on Warrnambool. |
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April 2008
The second Full Points Publications title, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion, is now out. Visit the new Publications page for more information, or go here to view some sample pages. Bellarine Football League and Benalla and District Football League Club Profiles The latest entries in the Leagues and Clubs section are for Anglesea, Barwon Heads, Drysdale, Geelong Amateur, Modewarre, Newcomb Power, Ocean Grove, Portarlington, Queenscliff and Torquay of the Bellarine Football League, and the Benalla and District Football League's Bonnie Doon, Devenish and Swanpool. |
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April 2008
Football's appeal continues to win it new friends across the globe, not least in Europe. Even in countries with no history of playing the game, interest is being generated by TV, the internet, and the efforts of dedicated aficionados such as David Valente from Portugal, whose footy website at http://futebolaustraliano.googlepages.com/home has just opened for business. Whether or not you speak Portuguese I reckon you'll get a buzz from visiting the site simply because it presents so much that is familiar in what, to many, will seem an unfamiliar and unique way. David is hopeful that Australian football, which has never previously been played in Portugal, might get off the ground in a limited way soon, perhaps in 9-a-side form utilising soccer or rugby pitches. Nearby Spain has already witnessed considerable growth in the game and looks likely to send two teams - Spain and Catalonia - to Melbourne for the International Cup later this year. It would be great if Portugal could follow suit, and I'm sure all genuine footy fans will join me in wishing David and his fellow lovers of the game the very best of fortune in their endeavours. Northern Areas FA and Alberton FL Club Profiles Profiles of all current Northern Areas Football Association clubs Booleroo Centre–Melrose–Wilmington (BMW) (BMW for short), Broughton-Mundoora, Crystal Brook, Jamestown-Peterborough, Orroroo and Southern Flinders, and the Alberton Football League's Devon Welshpool-Won Wron Woodside, Fish Creek, Inverloch-Kongwak, Kilcunda Bass, Korumburra-Bena, Meeniyan-Dumbalk United, Phillip Island, Tarwin, Toora and District, Wonthaggi Power and Yarram are the latest to be added to the Leagues and Clubs section. |
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March 2008
Full Points Footy 'Out Of Hibernation' A combination of illness, internet connectivity problems and other demands on my time meant that I managed to add very little to the website over the past couple of months. However, there are plenty of new things in the pipeline. Just by way of reminding myself where all the knobs and buttons are, and what they do, I've added profiles of 'Pat' Rodriguez and 'Nugget' Hilsz to the Biographies section. Back in January, Max Sayer kindly provided information about the Northern Areas Football Association, which I was in the process of adding to the site when I lost my internet connection. This was a prelude to well over a month of, at best, only very spasmodic internet access, which ultimately necessitated the installation of a new telephone line. Thank fully, since then, everything has been working normally. |
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It's long been my ambition to supplement the material on Full Points Footy with more enduring content, and with the imminent launch of the Full Points Publications imprint this ambition will finally be realised. The first title to be published will be The Full Points Footy Encyclopedia Of Australian Football Clubs Volume One, which contains historical and statistical information about every club ever to have competed in any of the major designated state competitions (including by extension the AFL). If everything proceeds according to plan the book will be published in the UK at the end of next week, and in Australia a few weeks after that. It's a 6"x9" hardback with dust-wrap containing 700 pages. Some of the content has previously appeared on the website, but there is also much that is new, including some superb (to my eyes, anyway) old photographs that have never, to the best of my knowledge, previously been published. As the title implies, this is the first of a projected series of books . Volume Two, which will cover amateur, Melbourne metropolitan, and leading country league clubs, will be published in a year's time. Further information will be posted when it's to hand, so be sure to check back if you're interested. |
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2008
There can be few better ways of tuning up for a new footy season than by tapping into the thoughts of fellow obsessives. In this respect, The Footy Almanac 2007, edited by John Harris and Paul Daffey, is tantamount to a godsend. Just prior to Christmas I was fortunate enough to be sent a copy by Rod Gillett, long time Full Points Footy subscriber and contributor, who happens to be one of the book's authors. As the title implies, the book is a chronological account of the 2007 AFL season. It contains reviews of every match, each written by one of a team - or 'Almanackery', to use the technical term - of writers of varying backgrounds, all of whom share a passion for the game. I found my reaction to the whole was pretty similar to watching an engrossing football match in that I was in turns admiring, amused, exhilarated, contemptuous and, on one occasion, downright seething. Can't recommend it enough. Should be easy enough to track down, but if you're having trouble, you can email the publisher, Malarkey Publications. For the first nine years of its existence the North Adelaide Football Club was known as Medindie. North Adelaide history committee member Nick Haines takes a fascinating in depth look at this little known phase in his club's history here. |
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November 2007
NTFL club Ulverstone now has its own website (has had for some months now, in fact), which you'll find at http://www.ufcrobins.com.au/. It's still growing, but already contains a wealth of historical information and pictures, a news section, current club details, interactive features, and much more. It's well worth a visit. |
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October 2007
Most additions to the site during October have been to do with events from the 2007 season, but there have also been several new player profiles added, i.e. Alec Albiston (Hawthorn & North Melbourne), Ken Albiston (Richmond & Melbourne), Les Borrack (Geelong), Neil Doolan (North Melbourne), Bill Hickey (South Melbourne & Carlton), James Hird (Ainslie & Essendon), Jack Julian (St Kilda & Prahran), Les Kaine (Hawthorn), August Kearney (Essendon), Brian Kelly (South Melbourne & New Town), Jack Kelly (St Kilda), John Kennedy junior (Hawthorn), Rick Kennedy (Footscray), Frank Mockridge (Geelong), Ian Salmon (Footscray), Maurice Sankey (Latrobe & Carlton), William Scanlan (Melbourne & Footscray), Tom Waye (Port Adelaide & Footscray) The Bigger Than BIG AFL Ladder 1997-2007 The following ladder, which was compiled using the *Ruckman* statistics application, appeared recently on Footystats, the internet's best and most exhaustive statistical football resource:
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