West Australian Football Golden Era 1984-86

West Australian Football Golden Era 1984-86 PDF Author: Kieran James
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244049866
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
This book is the memoir of Kieran James, and details his experiences as co-founder of West Perth Football Club's unofficial cheer squad from 1984 to 1986. The book details "traditional", "hot" support for West Perth Football Club among teenaged supporters from middle-class and working-class backgrounds. The book shows how, because of neo-liberal ideologies and the corporatization of football, the new national league (the "expanded VFL" / AFL) relegated the WAFL to a second-tier league in 1987. This move took place over the heads of ordinary football supporters and two WAFL club presidents. Moves to bring the game closer to the people in 1984, such as holding the best-and-fairest award count night at Perth Entertainment Centre, should be seen in this light. This book will allow supporters to relive great teams, great players, and great matches from a wonderful era in WA football 1984-86 before West Coast Eagles joined the expanded VFL.

The Last Balmain Tigers

The Last Balmain Tigers PDF Author: Nicholas R W Henning
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781660419098
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
In 1999 the Super League war was supposedly over, yet the peace treaty and unification of rugby league was far from complete, as the seventeen-club National Rugby League (NRL) competition still had to be reduced to fourteen clubs by the year 2000. The 1908 foundation club Balmain Tigers had been potent over many decades, yet the 1990s was perhaps one of their most challenging periods. Some might have seen them as easy prey to be culled to make way for the fourteen-club competition, but Balmain was a proud club, and while they were not the most winning of teams, they were still one of the most determined. Balmain would decide its own future in 1999, and the direction they chose was different from the past. The players that took the field for them in 1999 would be the last to do so at the NRL level. They were a unique group of characters with varying experience, and it was they who took the last steps as NRL Balmain Tigers. Their story comprises the final year of Balmain's ninety-two seasons. With exclusive insights from the coach, players, and the club's chief executive officer, Balmain's last season is explored with details from those who were there, and author Nicholas Henning assesses and pays tribute to the final season of one of rugby league's most admired clubs.

Goodbye Leederville Oval: History of West Perth Cheer Squad 1984-86

Goodbye Leederville Oval: History of West Perth Cheer Squad 1984-86 PDF Author: Kieran James
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244624119
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 236

Book Description
This book details the author's experiences as co-founder of West Perth Football Club's unofficial cheer squad from 1984 to 1986. The book describes "traditional", "hot" support for West Perth Football Club among teenaged supporters from middle-class and working-class backgrounds. The author shows how, because of neo-liberal ideologies and the corporatization of football, the new national league (the "expanded VFL" / AFL) relegated the WAFL to a second-tier league in 1987. This move took place over the heads of ordinary football supporters and two WAFL club presidents. Moves to bring the game closer to the people in 1984, such as holding the best-and-fairest award count night at Perth Entertainment Centre, should be seen in this light. This book will allow supporters to relive great teams, great players, and great matches from a wonderful era in WA football 1984-86 before West Coast Eagles joined the expanded VFL/AFL.

The Night the Music Died

The Night the Music Died PDF Author: Ian Heads
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780987564146
Category : Amco Cup (Rugby tournament)
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
Forty years ago, a flashy new rugby league competition, the 'Amco Cup', was launched. Played under lights, televised live on Wednesday nights with commentary by a young Ray Warren, it was supposed to be won by one of the rich Sydney clubs. Instead, the trophy went to Western Division, a team from western NSW that included a timber cutter, a slaughterman, a greyhound trainer, a policeman, a brickie, miners and farmers. One player, a balding back-rower nicknamed 'TV Ted' Ellery, became an instant celebrity. Along the way, TV Ted and his mates fought a match against Great Britain that might have been the most violent football game ever played. Three players were sent off and the referee needed a police escort to get not just out of the ground but out of town. Ian Heads has in effect written two books in one: describing in vivid detail a memorable season highlighted by an implausible triumph... and revisiting the players to discover what has become of them. The tale told by the referee of the Great Britain encounter, a family secret until Heads came upon it in the course of his research, is one of the most revealing and controversial ever published. The Night the Music Died is the classic story of the underdog winning against all odds. It could be the sporting book of the year.

Rugby League

Rugby League PDF Author: Jack Pollard
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780701814793
Category : Rugby League football
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description

The History of Rugby League Clubs

The History of Rugby League Clubs PDF Author: Ian Collis
Publisher: New Holland Australia(AU)
ISBN: 9781742570105
Category : Rugby League football
Languages : en
Pages : 447

Book Description
Contains over 400 pages with as many photographs. Each chapter contains club records and time lines outlined in an easy to read format. Essential reading for every league fan.

Voices from Brisbane Rugby League

Voices from Brisbane Rugby League PDF Author: Greg Mallory
Publisher: Boolarong Press
ISBN: 0975770411
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
This book is an oral history based on interviews with some of the legends of the game. Greg Mallory presents the stories of these greats the memories, the achievements, the disappointments, and the characters they met along the way in their own words, in a tribute that derives from Greg’s own love of the ‘the greatest game of all’. Such names as Crocker, Lovejoy, Gallagher, Metassa and Leis just to name a few of the people pertrayed in this book.
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