Football

Will’s AFL ’dream come true’

Will McCabe, son of Luke, has been selected by Hawthorn as a fatherson prospect with Pick 19 in the national draft. PHOTO: HAWTHORN FOOTBALL CLUB Former Alma local and Hamley Bridge footballer Will McCabe has been selected by Hawthorn as...

Tyler Powell

22 Nov 2023

Football

Locals receive SANFL awards

Kristy Lewis with her SANFL Community Volunteers Award for School Teacher of the Year - Female. PHOTO: Supplied Kristy Lewis was rewarded for her coordinating and educating of football at the SANFL Community Volunteers Awards night held at the...

Terry Bevan

15 Nov 2023

Football

Nothing Brand new for Scott

The Southern Flinders Football and Netball Clubs announced Scott Brand will be returning to the role as A grade coach for season 2024. Brand is no stranger to the Tigers’ head football role having coached the A grade from 2008 to 2017, before...

Tyler Powell

14 Nov 2023

Football

Students have a BAAALLLL!

About 15 young umpires qualified last week to umpire AFL games in the local leagues. SANFL’s umpire recruitment, development and retention lead, Matthew Northcott held the foundation umpiring course at Clare High School last week, which included...

Yana Zanette

05 Nov 2023

Football

Combe honoured as four-time Club Champion

For the fourth consecutive season, Crystal Brook export Campbell Combe has been awarded the 2023 Barrie Robran Club Champion Medal at North Adelaide. The midfielder said it was “very unexpected” to be awarded the medal on four occasions but said...

Tyler Powell

10 Oct 2023

Football

Maggie named league’s best

Jamestown’s Maggie Clark claimed this year’s under 17.5 girls SANFL Junior Best and Fairest in her first season with the Flinders Park Football Club. Maggie, 16, was not present to accept her award on the day due to being away with cricket...

Tyler Powell

05 Oct 2023

Football

Jed claims runner up honours at North Adelaide

Former Orroroo footballer Jed Dignan, in his last season of Under 18s at North Adelaide, was rewarded with runner up Best and Fairest honours. Dignan, 18, spent the past two seasons with the Roosters and said it was nice to be rewarded for...

Tyler Powell

04 Oct 2023

Football

1000 up for Vaughn

Adelaide Plains Football League field umpire Vaughn Harvey blew the whistle in his 1000th game for the league at Long Plains for the preliminary finals. Harvey’s love of football is long-standing, he started out his playing career at Westfields...

Tyler Powell

22 Sep 2023

Football

NAFA GRAND FINAL: Can Roo believe it?

Despite finishing fourth on the ladder, Orroroo showed its experience come finals and caused an upset, defeating BMW by six points at Gladstone on Saturday. It was a low-scoring but evenly contested first quarter, just two goals kicked between the...

Tyler Powell

20 Sep 2023

Football

APFL GRAND FINAL: Three-peat for Two Wells

Two Wells secured its third consecutive premiership on Saturday with a 17-point win over Mallala at Virginia. Both sides missed opportunities in the first quarter but it was Mallala with the early lead, up by five points at the first change...

Tyler Powell

19 Sep 2023

Football

APFL PRELIMS: Magpies fly to the big stage

In one of the upsets of the season, Mallala knocked Angle Vale out of the finals race on Saturday when it secured a 19-point win to progress to the grand final. After Mallala kicked the opening two goals of the game, they took the foot off the pedal...

Tyler Powell

13 Sep 2023

Football

NEFL GRAND FINAL: Tigers fourth straight flag undefeated

The BSR Tigers won their fourth straight A grade flag on Saturday and remained undefeated with a 44-point win over Eudunda/ Robertstown in the 2023 grand-final. On a magnificent day for football with a crowd of 6000 at the newly vamped Clare Oval...

Terry Bevan

13 Sep 2023

Football

NAFA FINALS ROUND 1: Lions first to reach grand final

BMW recorded a 31-point win against Crystal Brook at Jamestown on Saturday to secure its spot in this year’s Northern Areas grand final. It was a relatively slow start to the game with just three goals kicked between the sides in the opening...

Tyler Powell

06 Sep 2023

Football

APFL Medal Count: Kwaterski goes one better in ’23

Hummocks-Watchman on-baller Ethan Kwaterski claimed the 2023 Plains Producer medal on Monday night at the Adelaide Plains Football League presentation night held in Two Wells. After finishing as runner up last year, Kwaterski polled 22 votes this...

Tyler Powell

06 Sep 2023

Football

APFL 2ND SEMI-FINAL: Roosters one step closer to triple

Two Wells secured its third consecutive spot in the Adelaide Plains grand final with a 49-point win over Angle Vale in the second semi final at Balaklava on Saturday. Angle Vale missed three of its four shots on goal in the first quarter while Two...

Tyler Powell

06 Sep 2023

Football

Morgan wins NEFL Mail Medal

BSR on-baller Alex Morgan polled 25 votes on Monday night to win the 2023 North Eastern Football League Mail Medal by two votes. The signs were ominous early in the count with Morgan sitting on 10 votes after round five, Southern Saint Dustin Launer...

Terry Bevan

06 Sep 2023

Football

NEFL PRELIMS: Saints bounce back for Grand Final berth

The Southern Saints bounced back from their second semi flop with a 20-point win over the Min/Man Eagles in the preliminary final at Snowtown on Saturday. On a great day for footy with the oval in immaculate condition, in front of a bumper crowd...

Terry Bevan

06 Sep 2023

Football

National medals for Min Man duo

Local footballers, Heath Willmott and Millie Duncan have returned from the National Football Championships held in Albury from August 7 to 11, with medals. Heath’s boys team, coached by Clare’s Chris Slattery fell 13 points short in their only...

Yana Zanette

31 Aug 2023

Football

NAFA ROUND 16: Eagles claim elimination final preview

Broughton-Mundoora rounded out the minor rounds with a narrow six-point victory against Orroroo ahead of the elimination final between the two sides this weekend. The Eagles got off to a fast start at Orroroo, kicking five goals to two in the first...

Tyler Powell

30 Aug 2023