A local footy player talks about going from unassuming defender to the centrepiece of a viral video after he copped a flag in the face from a goal umpire. See the video and more in our One-Percenters Adelaide Footy League wrap.
Goodwood Saints left it to the dying minutes to win on Saturday but more late season drama is set to come this weekend in the Adelaide Footy League’s notoriously tight top flight.
Meet the Adelaide Footy League talent who hails from the same small WA town as Sam Petrevski-Seton and Shane McAdam and has sparked the interest of AFL clubs.
A 100-goal season beckons in the River Murray league, Multicultural Round in the Spencer Gulf, top-of-the-table clashes in Hills and Adelaide leagues and a qualifying final preview down south. Here are some of the best local footy games around SA.
AMATEUR league leading goalkicker Matthew Reed is closing on his century but says it will be meaningless unless he can help North Haven end a 30-year flag drought.
NORTHERN suburbs clubs continue to dominate reports in the amateur football league but, overall, incidents are continuing to trend down.
A MITCHELL Park footballer has lined up alongside his teenage son in a match that was one mate’s 300th and another’s farewell.
MATES and premierships ensure Nick O’Connell keeps coming back to Goodwood Saints. Now he is getting ready for his 500th game for the club.
NAIRNE-BREMER full forward Wade Hancock has made a name for himself with his high marking and he put on a show for his home fans against the Roos at Nairne Oval on Saturday. WATCH THE VIDEO
DAN Ward simply wanted to retire from football on his own terms. That’s why he returned to the field for Hope Valley five years after being hit by a truck on the South Eastern Freeway.
A JUNIOR football coach in Adelaide has been banned until 2017 after a tribunal found he failed to stop an on-field brawl — and he’s “bitterly disappointed”.
LEON Davis’s face lights up when he talks about his son Levi wearing the number one guernsey in junior games for Kenilworth Football Club.
FORMER Collingwood star Leon Davis knows a thing or two about surprise football retirements.
A LOYAL gentleman with a tireless devotion to SMOSH West Lakes Football Club. That is how friends have remembered Rodney “John Boy” Moody, who passed away last month.
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