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QAFL PREVIEW – ROUND 18

Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Just three games this weekend with each one shaping the finals, either at the top or from the outside.   NOOSA v MT GRAVATT Noosa Key Ins – Matthew Field, Aaron Laskey, Sebastian Rogers, Mason Gilfillan Key

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2023 Queensland Hall of Fame – Shane Johnson

The Brisbane Lions’ AFL premiership hat-trick of 2001-02-03 was a lot of things to a lot of people, but to Shane Johnson it was like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Vindication of more than 20

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AFL Shines Spotlight on Local Women in Coaching – Emma Zielke

The AFL has launched the third annual ‘Women’s Coaching Month’, supported by BHP, to take place throughout July.   Women’s Coaching Month presents an opportunity to celebrate the contribution of current women and girls in coaching roles across the country

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Queenslanders in the AFL – Round 19

By Peter Blucher A shattered Will Ashcroft can take one small consolation from his season-ending knee injury last week … the knowledge that he has had the most productive first 18 games by a Queenslander in AFL history. With 398

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – The Holman Family

The Holman Medal is awarded each year to the best and fairest player in the Darling Downs Football League and with very good reason. Without the Holman family the competition, and particularly the Goondiwindi Hawks, wouldn’t be anything like what

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Queensland state Under 17 team announced

Queensland has named its state under 17 squad to take on the Victoria Country side in a showcase match up at Werribee on 13 August. The game is an opportunity for the selected players to play for a spot in

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Leo Camm

Leo Camm was of an impact man of community football in Queensland. And not in one region or two but five different regions. From Sandgate to Surfers Paradise, Mackay to the Darling Downs, and a little bit more, wherever he

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QAFL REVIEW – ROUND 17

Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Just when the QAFL Senior Men’s competition had reached some epic highs in recent weeks, it continues to take some massive turns that keep fans guessing on what will happen next. Round 17 threw some major surprises.

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Bundaberg’s Kirstyn Abbott shines during AFL’s Women’s Coaching Month

The AFL has launched the third annual ‘Women’s Coaching Month’, supported by BHP, to take place throughout July. Women’s Coaching Month presents an opportunity to celebrate the contribution of current women and girls in coaching roles across the country and

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Jim Conlan

Jim Conlon was a Wilston-Grange star of the 1950s and ‘60s who had the distinction of winning the club’s first Grogan Medal – 30 years after three clubmates had won the League’s highest honour a combined five times. In one

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Marlo Brack

Marlo Brack was a six-year-old girl playing Under 7’s football with the boys at Moorooka. She played until she was 12 and was told girls could no longer play. She did some coaching and umpiring and helped run some junior

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Bill Peirce

When you think of Bill Peirce and Sherwood Football Club you think of loyalty and longevity. They define perfectly the man who was the son of the club president and played more than 600 games for the Magpies. He was

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Corey Lambert

Corey Lambert is one of the great football journeymen. He travelled far, wide and often in pursuit of the Sherrin, and all that goes with it, and left an indelible impression on the game in Queensland as a Grogan Medalist

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BOND UNIVERSITY QAFLW TEAMS – ROUND 15

by Daniel Viles WILSTON GRANGE v MAROOCHYDORE Saturday 22 July 2023, 4:45pm at iiNergy Oval, Stafford Live stream with commentary on YouTube Head-to-Head: Played 13 – Maroochydore won 8; Wilston Grange won 5 Head-to-Head at iiNergy Oval: Played 6 –

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QAFL PREVIEW – ROUND 17

Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Seven players will march out onto grounds across the QAFL competition in Round 17 for the first time at Senior level. This is the single most number of debutants in a round since across the season since

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Queenslanders named in the 2023 AFL National Championships U18 Boys All-Australian Team

Pictures: AFL Photos The AFL has today announced the 2023 AFL National Championships U18 Boys All-Australian Team. The Allies have eight representatives named in the team after producing an unbeaten run through their four matches to win the title for

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Warren Selvage

Warren Selvage is the Queensland football equivalent of Hawthorn’s AFL premiership record-holder Michael Tuck, plus two. He played in an extraordinary nine senior premierships with Sherwood in 1973 and from 1975-82 in a career that spanned more than 50 years.

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Coorparoo’s Charlotte Howard shines spotlight on local women in coaching

The AFL has launched the third annual ‘Women’s Coaching Month’, supported by BHP, to take place throughout July. Women’s Coaching Month presents an opportunity to celebrate the contribution of current women and girls in coaching roles across the country and

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Maurie McNamee

When Sherwood Football Club launched their Hall of Fame in July 2022 there was only one person who could be the first inductee – Maurie McNamee. After all, he founded the club with Wally Hunter and Bill Michel in 1956,

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Sherwood AFC 1975 – 1982

Sherwood is a people-first club in Brisbane’s western suburbs that has played a big role in Queensland football, highlighted by a staggering eight consecutive premierships at SQAFA level from 1975-82. It earned the club that wears the black and white

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2023 Toyota AFL National Inclusion Carnival heading to Qld

Queensland will host the 2023 Toyota AFL National Inclusion Carnival when the event takes place in Brisbane from October 8-13.   The annual carnival for the most talented male footballers with an intellectual disability will again see representative teams from eight

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Richard Griffiths

Richard Griffiths could have been excused for thinking his football world had caved in when the proposed Melbourne-Hawthorn AFL merger and the birth of the would-be ‘Melbourne Hawks’ collapsed in September 1996. He was unceremoniously sacked as Melbourne Football Manager.

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She Can Coach – an AFL match day experience

On Saturday, four aspiring female coaches had the opportunity to experience an AFL match day between the SUNS and Saints, from start to finish through the She Can Coach program during Women’s Coaching Month. SUNS AFLW Coach Cameron Joyce talked

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QAFL REVIEW – ROUND 16

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend The foundations of the QAFL Senior Men’s competition was rocked to the core on the weekend as Round 16 produced some stunning results that will shape the rest of the home and away season in a

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Fiona Sessarago

Fiona McLarty was a high-jumper of national standard and a state level basketballer. She studied exercise science in the hope of working in development with either of her sporting loves. Yet, with no connection whatsoever to Australian football at the

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Alastair Lynch

It is a rare footballer who, at 25, is offered and signs a 10-year playing contract, and an even more rare footballer who has to extend his 10-year contract because he’s out-lived it. That’s Alastair Lynch. A born-and-bred Tasmanian, he

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2023 Queensland Football Hall of Fame – Jack Cavanagh

Twelve thousand fans packed the Gabba on 17 September 1967 for one of the classic games of Queensland Australian Football. The Western Districts Bulldogs were described by the AFLQ Hall of Fame journalist and Test Cricket umpire Col Hoy as

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BOND UNIVERSITY QAFLW TEAMS – ROUND 14

by Daniel Viles WILSTON GRANGE v SOUTHPORT Saturday 15 July 2023, 10am at Giffin Park, Coorparoo Live stream with commentary on YouTube Head-to-Head: Played 3 – Southport won 3 Last time they met: 22 April 2023 – Southport 10.6 (66)

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QAFL PREVIEW – ROUND 16

Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend If we thought that Round 15 of the QAFL Senior Men’s competition was full of surprises, check out this weekend that should provide the most appetising round of football in the competition this season to date. Morningside

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The countdown is on to the StreetSmarts AFLQ Schools Cup finals

The StreetSmarts AFLQ Schools Cup finals have returned for 2023, with the countdown on to crowning this year’s champions.   Across terms one and two, 693 teams and almost 16,000 students have participated in gala days as a part of

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