“I lost my drive and passion for sport after dad passed away but he kept at it, worked hard”. The sister of Tigers star Luke Partington is making her mark on the game – spurred on by her brother.
Dylan Jessen has been suspended for five games for striking a Hamley Bridge player during an Adelaide Plains Football League match – and will be eligible for finals.
You thought your weekly sport run was a nightmare? How about five kids, five separate footy matches and 10 hours a week running the squad across town.
Dylan Jessen has worked over the past eight years to escape his bikie past, but fears his reputation won’t help when he faces the tribunal this week over a “silly mistake” that fractured a man’s jaw.
SEATON Ramblers will look to break a 28-year flag drought this Saturday and Paul Marshall – who played his 450th game in June – is leading the charge in his first season as club president.
FROM suburban ovals to far-flung country leagues, the state’s amateur footballers are stealing the September limelight after the early exodus of Adelaide’s AFL teams — and some are already basking in premiership glory.
Trinity Old Scholars beat Rosewater in the division six grand final at Thebarton Oval on Saturday to snare a breakthrough flag.
IT’S game on again for Salisbury North Football Club. The club has received the news it will be welcomed back into the Adelaide Footy League after a meeting last week.
TWO weeks ago, Carl Teusner’s jaw was broken by a footy thug. But he is now “feeling pretty good” and hoping to play in a grand final tomorrow with Trinity Old Scholars, which is chasing its first A-grade flag.
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan’s concern is only with the family after Collingwood star Travis Varcoe’s sister died in Royal Adelaide Hospital on Thursday from injuries relating to an on-field football collision.
THE football season is still going, even though the Crows and the Power are off to holidays and not contesting the finals — and the football landscape and Adelaide Oval will still be bubbling.
ONE club has totalled 28 matches worth of suspensions from five reports, two others have not been cited in seven seasons. Meet the Adelaide Footy League’s best and the worst behaved sides.
ADELAIDE University has broken a 4389-day Adelaide Footy League drought with help from a huge barrel from full-back. Plus Salisbury’s female flag success and grand finals begin to take shape, all in this week’s One-Percenters wrap.
The football club on the receiving end of Salisbury West captain Adam Jones’s violent incidents wants all Adelaide Footy League games filmed to reduce the likelihood of on-field thuggery.
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