Download or read book CREZZA From AFL glory to prison and the long road to redemption written by Daryn Cresswell and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a decade Daryn Cresswell gave his all for the Sydney Swans. Over a career spanning 244 games he was smart, strong, unflinchingly brave and unwaveringly loyal. But when the curtain fell, things changed fast. Embroiled in a world of fast earns, chronic gambling and entangled in a web of lies, Cresswell lost everything--his wife, his money, friendships and, in the end, almost his life. In a very real way it was only jail that could save him. Here Cresswell tells his story, one of hard-earned highs and self-inflicted lows. It's the story of a driven man who risked everything and lost. It's also the story of a man who clawed his way back.
Download or read book CREZZA written by DARYN CRESSWELL AND MATTHEW. WEBBER and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collingwood at Victoria Park written by Glenn McFarlane and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farewell, Victoria Park. For more than 100 years, this was the place Collingwood called home. Victoria Park, in working class, semi-industrial, inner-suburban Melbourne, was where the club played its first ever game way back in 1892. It's where legends were built and famous victories fashioned. Even now, it remains one of the most famous of all football grounds. Victoria Park's special atmosphere came from its historic roots and the black and white army of fanatical and one-eyed supporters who filled the grandstands and terraces. As a venue it was worshipped by the faithful and feared by opponents; a visiting coach once said you had not made it in football until you had succeeded against Collingwood at Victoria Park. This book commemorates 112 years of Victoria Park memories - tracing the ground's development and recalling the many magic moments and champions who graced the turf along the way. This revised edition also includes photos and recollections from the emotional day late in 1999 when we said goodbye to the ground, the pre-Grand Final training sessions of 2002 and 2003, and finally the move to the Lexus Centre in 2004.
Download or read book Don t be where the Ball Ain t written by Jack Dyer and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late AFL legend Jack Dyer will go down in Australian sport history books as one of the most charismatic and influential sportsmen the media has ever seen. Renowned for his unique interpretations of every aspect of life, Jack quickly became one of the most quoted commentators ever, with his own innovative language that was called Dyerisms.
Download or read book Tiger Time written by PEGGY O'NEILL and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richmond's 2017 AFL premiership proved that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. The club finished a dismal 13th in 2016, and only the most blindly optimistic member of the Tiger Army would have believed Richmond were set to break a 37-year flag drought. Yet that was exactly how this gloriously unpredictable season played out. The suburb formally known as Struggletown rejoiced to that famous club song: "YELLOW AND BLACK!" Thanks to midfield superstar Dustin Martin's record-breaking, Brownlow Medal-winning season, the manic brilliance brought to the table by Jack Riewoldt's 'mosquito fleet' of tenacious small forwards, disciplined and versatile team defence following the lead of Alex Rance, and the rebirth of captain Trent Cotchin as a smiling, content and ultimately inspirational leader, the Tigers were simply irresistible come September. Tiger Time tells the story-through stunning images taken by AFL Media's photographers-of a campaign during which Richmond coach Damien Hardwick stood in front of his loveable and committed group of players and asked one simple question: "Why not us?" Tracking the highs, lows and thrilling conclusion of Richmond's dream run to the Premiership dais, Tiger Time captures the defining moments of the Tiger renaissance. Running the gamut from tear-stained struggle to fist-pumping joy, it shows that football miracles really do happen after all-even in Tigerland. A must-have for all Richmond fans, Tiger Time, a Slattery Media publication, under licence from the AFL, will be published in November 2017 at a RRP of $39.95.
Download or read book Carn written by Andrew Mueller and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 807 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been histories of Australian football before. There has not been one like Carn. Carn tells the story of the Victorian Football League and its successor, the Australian Football League, from 1897 to the present day, by focusing on 50 of the thousands of games which have been played down the decades. Some of these matches have been significant to the game of Australian football; others have been significant to Australia as a whole. Carn recognises that while the game is only a game, it has also always been much more than that: anything which consumes so much of the nation's attention can't help but reflect something of the nation's character. Carn is a book replete, as the Australian game is, with great yarns and extraordinary people. It is a book for fans of Australian football, and fans of Australia.
Download or read book Comeback written by James Button and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, James Button fell in love with the Geelong Football Club. It was a family affair. But as the years wore on and the defeats and disappointments mounted, it became clear to him: his team would never win a flag. This book tells the story of his glorious mistake. Writing as a reporter, not primarily as a fan, James interviews hundreds of people to tell the story of how one organisation changed its culture, on and off the field. He relates not only the fortunes of the team over fifty years but of the town with which it is so closely entwined. And he tries to explain why so many of us, whoever we barrack for, are gripped by an unreasonable passion for football.
Download or read book Drills Skills in Australian Football written by David Wheadon and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Last Quarter written by Martin Flanagan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Flanagan has been writing about Australian football for 25 years. The Last Quarter brings together three of his books that sum up that period. In 1970 he re-created the grand final of that year, said to be the best of the 20th century, by talking to the players, coaches and umpire. Southern Sky, Western Oval, written in 1993, portrays the events of a season set against the backdrop of a club, Footscray (now the Western Bulldogs), fighting to survive. The Game In Time of War, which starts with the first game after 9/11 and ends with the first game after the invasion of Iraq, describes an unnerving period in Australian history through the eyes of a man who distracts himself by watching football. The collection ends with an essay about the controversy that marked the AFL's 150th year and Flanagan's part in it, titled: Tom Wills: Confessions of a Ghost Writer.
Download or read book Black and Proud written by Matthew Klugman and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when racial abuse was entrenched in Australian sport but rarely discussed, and indigenous AFL players still received regular death threats, Nicky Winmar was photographed lifting his jumper and pointing with pride to the colour of his skin--an image that changed the nation. Controversy erupted, race and football dominated public debate and the AFL announced that racial abuse was reportable, setting the scene for the first ever sporting racial vilification laws. Once 'part of the game', racial abuse by AFL players and spectators became socially unacceptable. Yet the enduring appeal of this image also lies in the continued racism and discrimination faced by Australia's indigenous peoples, who endure appalling rates of disease and crime, life expectancies 20 years below non-indigenous Australians, ongoing struggles for social and cultural recognition, and controversial government policing strategies and welfare interventions. On what is now the 20th anniversary of this image, Black and Proud (working title) traces a story of triumph and enduring social and cultural loss.
Download or read book The Art of Goalkicking written by David Wheadon and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rise of the Suns written by Campbell Brown and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Campbell Brown is a former Hawthorn premiership player who moved at the start of 2011 to play for the Gold Coast Suns in their debut season in the AFL. Brown is keeping a diary and offering a running commentary on a season in which history of some sort of another will be made on a weekly basis. AFL superstar Gary Ablett, the freakish Jared Brennan and future stars David Swallow, Dion Prestia and Maverick Weller will be among his teammates.
Download or read book The Game written by Dennis Cometti and published by Fairfax Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of the AFL and great sports writing, this collection provides a compelling look at events on and off the field.
Download or read book Moving the Goalposts written by Mark Courtney and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Courtney's world ended in October, when the Rabbitohs were excluded from the NRL. In his despair he wrote this remarkable saga of childhood, teenage and adult life, and his club's mortal struggle against corporate greed. His is the story of every sports fan.
Download or read book The Footy Lady written by Stephanie Asher and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No tragedy, no challenge, has proved too hard for Susan Alberti. The woman from the working-class suburbs has battled boardrooms, courts, lymphoma and adult diabetes;and was one of the driving forces behind the AFL's move into women's football. When her first husband was killed by a truck, Susan took over their construction business, becoming a female pioneer in the building industry. When her daughter was diagnosed with type-1 diabetes she embarked on a mission to find a cure. When her beloved football club the Western Bulldogs was threatened with annihilation she worked as vice-president to bring home the 2016 premiership flag. Confronted with the exclusion of women from AFL, she battled to open the game to all and kept up the fight with money and on-ground support when others were ready to signal defeat. This is a story of passion, generosity and a woman who will inspire you to take on the seemingly impossible and triumph.
Download or read book On the Take written by Tony Joel and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On The Take shines a light on one of the VFL's earliest stars, Carlton's Alex 'Bongo' Lang, a three-time Premiership player, and his sudden and unexpected fall from grace following his central role in one of the Victorian Football League's most scandalous episodes-when Lang was convicted by the League of taking a bribe to play 'dead' in the semi-final of 1910. '
Download or read book The Rise of the Swans written by Martin Blake and published by Michael Joseph. This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of 2005, the Swans had not won a premiership for 72 years. Now, in the Paul Roos-John Longmire era, they have become an understated, efficient footballing machine with two more flags. This is the story of how the Swans changed the direction of their club, establishing their own blueprint for winning: spirited team performance, a never-say-die attitude and a refusal to deviate from the plan. This is the culture people speak about. But success is not easily won at this level. Smart drafting and trading - turning so-called strays into role-playing premiership players - and incredible injury management have been critical to the story. Names such as Richard Colless, Andrew Ireland, Paul Roos and John Longmire sit alongside Adam Goodes, Brett Kirk, Jarrad McVeigh, Jude Bolton, Ryan O'Keefe, Barry Hall, Leo Barry, Nick Malceski and Dan Hannebery. The legend of the Bloods has been passed on. No longer merely a bunch of blue-collar workers who pinched a premiership in 2005, the Sydney Swans who hoisted the cup again in 2012 are a fine tribute to their South Melbourne forebears. Hard. Disciplined, Relentless. 'It's not just about the premiership. It's the way we're respected in the football world. We never, ever had that before.' Bob Skilton
