Download or read book Footy Dreaming written by Michael Hyde and published by Ford Street Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben and Noah play on opposing teams in a footy-obsessed town. They each dream of playing on the G - and this is their make or break season. Tensions rise as sledging goes too far.Will Noah lose his cool, and his chance, in the face of prejudice?Will Ben reject racism and forge his own path?Noah and Ben have the potential to play in the AFL. It's up to each of them whether they make it.
Download or read book Footy Banners written by Leigh Meyrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating one of AFL's longest-standing and most iconic traditions Have you ever wondered what makes Australian Rules Football so unique? Sure, the rules are unmistakably different to other sports, but it's the bizarre traditions and idiosyncrasies that make the game uniquely ours. One of those quirks is the team banner – an essential element of the pre-match build-up that has connected fans with their heroes for more than 80 years. The humble banner, or run-through as it's known by the purists, has become an iconic symbol of our love for the game. It's why cheer squads around the country dedicate countless hours each and every week to delicately craft their messages on crepe. This painstaking process culminates in a fleeting moment of glory as the teams run onto the ground before the banner is torn (quite literally) to shreds. From the funny to the offensive, the emotional to the political, banners come in all shapes and sizes and have evolved considerably, reflecting not only a changing cultural landscape but a changing game itself. Footy Banners: A Complete Run-Through is a collection of historical images, stories and unforgettable moments that pay homage to one of our game's longest-lasting rituals.
Download or read book Paper Dreaming written by Lorna Munro and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Paper Dreaming is a compelling collection of 16 short stories and poems written by a range of Indigenous Australian writers from different walks of life, sharing their reflections on growing up, their connections to the past, their expectations of today and their hopes for the future. Suitable for lower and middle secondary students of English, these lesson-sized stories and poems cover a range of themes and styles that introduce students to writing techniques and the skills of critical literacy."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Playbook written by Dennis S Haley and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you dream about? What have you achieved? Are you still dreaming? Former NFL player, Dennis Haley, takes his readers on a laborious journey about the art of dreaming. The trials and tribulations that he endured on his journey to becoming a professional football player were enough to quit, but his spirit of resiliency would not let him stop dreaming when things seemed impossible. Dennis introduces and illustrates as a playbook would, the five pillars to achieving your dreams, that he created about dreaming and achieving a dream. Dreaming never stops even in the face of adversity.
Download or read book Collingwood written by Paul Daley and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multi-generational saga of football, love, war, forgiveness and, most critically, identityEvery year when Collingwood plays Essendon in the AFL’s annual Anzac Day match, Collingwood president Eddie McGuire carries an old horseshoe into the team’s changing rooms and passes it around. The players examine it as he relates the great footy club story behind it. It’s early in the twentieth century and Doc Seddon, a Collingwood player, introduces his childhood sweetheart, Louie, to his dashing team mate, Paddy Rowan. Paddy sweeps Louie off her feet and they marry. But war intervenes. Doc and Paddy go off to fight, leaving Louie to raise Paddy’s baby. When Paddy is killed, Doc promises that he will always look after Paddy’s wife and child. Just before the 1917 Grand Final, he sends a horseshoe back from the Somme, where he continued to serve. It brings the Magpies luck—they win.It is a lovely story. Except, of course, that fairytales didn’t come true in Collingwood, the biggest slum of Melbourne. What really happened to them is a much grittier tale.
Download or read book Football Dreams written by David Guy and published by Playboy Enterprises. This book was released on 1980 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan enters the posh and private Arnold Academy with hopes of proving himself at something.
Download or read book Morrison Mr Moore written by Michael Hyde and published by in case of emergency press. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morrison is 17. Smart, sarcastic, annoying, and very angry. Mr Moore, a school principal on the verge of retirement, has seen it all. Now coping with a wife who has Alzheimers, his plans for his life in retirement are in tatters. The last thing he needs is someone like Morrison. What happens when two unlikely people find strength in each other? This unique story is captivating and surprising, bringing tears and laugh-out-loud moments and brilliant insights into the nature of friendship and the problems of ageing at every age. A novel of strength, hope, humility, and acceptance… and that kid who wears petticoats…
Download or read book I Want to Be a Footballer written by Sally Carbon and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dane is footy mad and has always dreamed of becoming a star player. but it takes more than just dreaming to get him to where he wants to go... We follow Dane from his first Auskick game, through to the National School Boy Championships, in an inspirational read for all budding footballers. Filled with footy facts, a potted history of the AFL, and the low down on every club in the AFL, the story is also informative and educational.
Download or read book Magnificently Mundane written by Daniel Bryant and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life can seem boring and repititious at times. We all need a reason for living, and we need for our life to have purpose. I think, that with the proper perspective, we can find meaning and purpose in the most basic, seemingly ordinary, day to day things that most of us take for granted.
Download or read book The Standard written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Bad Boys of Footy written by Matthew Webber and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AFL, Football, NRL and Rugby: Modern Failings Of Football's Finest. We read about footballers every day. We celebrate their physical feats, their freakish athleticism, their guile and poise. We rejoice in their glories. We feel their hurt. We share their tears. But more and more, football is not enough. Nowadays off-field behaviour steals more than its share of column space. Private lives are no longer. Mistakes are magnified. And we in the outer are voyeurs. We delve for details. We delight in knowing everything. We are judge and juror. Sometimes we are executioner. And when footballers stumble our damnation is usually ruthless. In the end we measure men to a standard we'd never come close to matching ourselves. Crossing all four winter codes, The Bad Boys of Footy shines a critical light on the tales of a host contemporary footballing miscreants those who've tripped up, boozed, lied, cheated, whacked, thumped, kicked, scratched, frittered, robbed, and bottomed out. Everybody screws up. Of course they do. But no one screws up like a modern day gladiator.
Download or read book Jon Smith written by Richard Proctor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 2020, and the world has become a place run by a socialist/corporatist government. The preceding ten years brought about large changes in America, and the world as laws were passed that enabled the government to take total control of people’s lives. Hunting, sports, eating real food, and everything else of our current world has been banned or outlawed. Only the few that fled the change still live the life that the forefathers of America sought. Into this comes Jon Smith, a man who fled and went off the grid ten years prior. In the new world, he and his son live a life of freedom along with two hundred or so other folk in the valley. It is a story of struggle, reunion, and conflict as the New Government finds that they cannot let Jon and his people remain free. It is a decision of whether to live a life of freedom and die or acquiesce.
Download or read book Back to the Roots A Definitive Guide to Grassroots Football Development written by Shaji Prabhakaran and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents an insight into football development and every aspect of it is comprehensively covered with a special focus on grassroots football. Back to the Roots illustrates in detail the player development process, underlining and envisaging key aspects required for the successful and sustainable player development pathway. It highlights the importance of football in schools and training academies for young talent. The author, being associated with the game and its development for many years, presents a road-map for making football an integral part of the school education system. With an emphasis on the role of leadership in football development for bringing in a change or developing the game from every aspect, this book is a must read for everyone involved with the beautiful game – be it budding players, administrators, fans, policy makers, parents, coaches as well as young and old enthusiasts of the game.
Download or read book A Boy Called Bob written by Bob Murphy and published by Piccolo Nero. This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a boy called Bob. He’s a little scrawny, a little scruffy, and he likes to sniff footballs (weird). But he has the game in his veins and he’s determined to be one of the greats, like his hero from the mighty Tigers, Matthew Richardson. And he will be! But not without a few misadventures first … His older brother and sister are the worst, he has a major crush on a girl who doesn’t seem to notice him, and his footy oval at school is actually a rectangle and instead of grass, it’s covered in gravel! But that’s not going to stop him. Follow Bob as he gets drafted to the Western Bulldogs at 17, slogs his guts out at training with the big Dogs, and – finally – becomes one of the greatest football captains ever.
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Download or read book Journey written by Andrew Zimmerman and published by Radius Book Group. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Mitch Albom, Paulo Coelho, and Elizabeth Gilbert, Journey is a novel of magical realism that takes the reader from the NYC high-tech corporate world to the mystical city of Glastonbury, England. Amazon’s #1 New Release for metaphysical fiction in 2020, Journey is a tale of both spiritual and emotional awakening. In his effort to be the next CEO of Ascendant, a New York-based tech giant, Paul Moore neglects everything―his family and himself―in his race to the top. But a trip to Glastonbury, England changes everything. A complete counterpoint to Paul’s corporate day job, Glastonbury is a spiritual Disneyworld, catering to would-be witches, goddesses, druids, fairies, neopagans, and burned-out hippies. Exploring the city, Paul is drawn to the energy of a nearby hill―Tor―said to be the mythical Isle of Avalon of Arthurian lore. At Tor, Paul meets a beautiful soul reader, Christine, who plants the seeds that turn his life upside down. Returning home, Mary, Paul’s wife, sees the changes in him and is both scared and intrigued as she watches him struggle to navigate between the business and spiritual worlds. When a series of synchronistic events pull Paul to return to Glastonbury and Christine, Mary reluctantly agrees to share his journey back. They depart, both unaware that their lives will never be the same. Journey is a story inspired by real events. Part of a planned trilogy.
Download or read book Manhattan Dreaming written by Anita Heiss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-08-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning Wiradyuri author, Anita Heiss, comes a fun, light-hearted and empowering story featuring a deadly Koori heroine who is forced to choose between her dream job and the man of her dreams. Lauren is a curator at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra. She's good at her job, passionate about the arts, and focused on her work – that is, when she's not focusing on Adam, halfback for the Canberra Cockatoos. But Adam is a player, both on and off the field. Lauren knows he's the one, but he doesn't seem to feel the same way about her. If she just waits long enough, though, surely he'll realise how much he needs her? Then her boss offers her the chance of a lifetime – a fellowship at the Smithsonian in New York. Lauren has to make some big decisions: the man or Manhattan?
