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Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Shoulder surgery rules Fyfe out for months
Fremantle says midfielder Nat Fyfe will miss up to 12 weeks after he goes under the knife to correct a shoulder injury.
Fyfe dislocated his shoulder in round three and was a late withdrawal from the Dockers side that faced St Kilda in round four, but returned to the team to take on Carlton last Friday night.
However the 20-year-old aggravated the injury at training on Tuesday and will now undergo surgery.
Dockers coach Ross Lyon had previously said that the injury reappeared on Fyfe's radar, the club would have no hesitation in booking him for surgery.
Fremantle general manager of football operations Chris Bond said in a statement that the Melbourne specialist whom Fyfe consulted last month would perform the surgery.
"We believe that the appropriate course of action for Nat's long-term playing future and his general well being is to have the operation at this time," he said.
"Based on the advice of our medical team, we envisage that Nat will require a recovery and rehabilitation period of about 12 weeks, which would make him available for selection in the latter part of the season."
Tags: australian-football-league, sport, fremantle-6160, wa, australia First posted May 01, 2012 18:00:36Monday, June 6, 2011
Premier rules out Bellerive funding
The Premier Lara Giddings has decided the state cannot afford to pay for AFL games at Bellerive.
The Government was considering a proposal for North Melbourne to play two games a year from next season in Hobart.
The Premier says she cannot justify spending $500,000 a year while the state faces financial challenges.
"A time when we are having to cut back in key areas like education and health and police we just cannot put money into football," Ms Giddings said.
She says she is confident of securing third party backing for AFL matches at Bellerive that would mean no money would come from the state budget.
She hopes to announce a deal early this week.
Tags: states-and-territories, australian-football-league, hobart-7000, launceston-7250, ulverstone-7315 First posted June 5, 2011 13:21:00Sunday, May 22, 2011
Mike and Mike's Rules for Sports and Life
Every morning more than three million listeners tune in to Mike and Mike in the Morning on ESPN Radio—mostly to hear the Mikes’ (Golic and Greenberg) riotous back-and-forth on everything from why baseball managers should dress like real people to how to lose a fight with the wife with dignity. In Mike and Mike’s Rules for Sports and Life, the beloved mic jockeys put their unique stamp on, well, the rules for sports and life. In years on the road, in the studio, and at home, Greeny and Golic have learned that it’s all about the big stuff: separating order from chaos, ensuring our survival as a species, and keeping peace. For instance:• The Fourth of July should be eliminated and replaced with an Independence Day that falls on the first Thursday of the month, creating a four-day weekend like Thanksgiving, which, by the way, could do without the Detroit Lions.
• “The Human Element” in sports officiating and weather forecasting sucks.
• The top pick in the NBA draft lottery should go to the team that came closest to making the playoffs—not to the team that rips off fans by mailing it in after the All-Star break.
• When someone says, “I’m being completely honest,” they might as well be claiming that they go to Hooters just for the wings.
• Kids do not get to eat french fries for breakfast. Ever. And who cares what the kids at the next table are ordering.
• No more designated hitter!
If you’re one of Golic and Greeny’s legions of followers, you probably can’t get enough of this sort of provocative, hilarious, and occasionally obsessive stuff. And if you’re one of those fans who live by the rule “There oughta be a rule,” then Mike and Mike’s Rules for Sports and Life is the book for you.
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Demons tackle within rules: Bailey
The Demons lucked out in their bid to have the hefty suspension for a dangerous tackle on Adelaide's Patrick Dangerfield quashed by the AFL appeals board.
Ahead of Saturday's clash with North Melbourne at Docklands Stadium, Bailey believed his players' tackling style was within the rules.
"Our tackling technique is what it is and we believe it's in accordance with what's expected," Bailey said.
"We've been tackling like that for three years ... our technique won't change.
"We'll go about our business on Saturday and continue to tackle with the intent of winning the ball back and preventing the opposition from disposing of the footy."
Trengove could have accepted a two-match ban for an early guilty plea but Bailey said the club was right to challenge the charge - and would do it again.
"The club swung everything they possibly could behind Jack to make the point that we felt that what he did was fair and reasonable," he said.
"Would I do it again tomorrow? Absolutely I would.
"We've got a young man who we think has tackled effectively and we've defended him strongly and threw every resource at it and we'll do it again tomorrow with another Melbourne player."
The Demons must respond by midday Friday to a please explain letter sent by the AFL after several of Trengove's team-mates used Twitter to slam the original tribunal verdict on Tuesday night.
Bailey said his frustrated players were being "open and honest".
He did however, instruct his players not to tweet about the appeal outcome.
"I said to them yesterday in regards to Twitter, hold your Twitters, no point in going on again," he said.
"It was frustration first time, be smarter the second time and I don't think too many did it - so they adhered to my advice which was a smart thing to do."
-AAP
Tags: sport, australian-football-league, australia, vic, melbourne-3000Thursday, April 21, 2011
Concussion rules Stevens out
Adelaide defender Scott Stevens has been ruled out of Saturday's AFL clash with Carlton.