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Danny Frawley
Daniel Patrick Frawley (8 September 1963 – 9 September 2019) was an Australian rules football player, coach, administrator, commentator and media personality. He played 240 games for the St Kilda Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL)/Australian Football League (AFL) from 1984 to 1995, captaining the club for nine seasons, and won All-Australian selection and the St Kilda best and fairest award in 1988. Frawley coached the Richmond Football Club from 2000 to 2004, with his most successful season coming in 2001, when he coached Richmond to a preliminary final. He later served as chief executive officer of the AFL Coaches Association from 2008 to 2014, and had part-time roles with the Hawthorn Football Club and St Kilda. Following his coaching career, Frawley was an AFL commentator for Fox Footy, Triple M and 1116 SEN, and also appeared on '' The Sunday Footy Show'' on the Nine Network. On television, he is best remembered for his work on the Fox Footy program ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballarat
Ballarat ( ) is a city in the Central Highlands (Victoria), Central Highlands of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 Census, Ballarat had a population of 116,201, making it the third largest city in Victoria. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. Within months of Victoria History of Victoria#Separation from New South Wales, separating from the colony of New South Wales in 1851, gold was discovered near Ballarat, sparking the Victorian gold rush. Ballarat subsequently became a thriving boomtown that for a time rivalled Melbourne, the capital of Victoria, in terms of wealth and cultural influence. In 1854, following a period of civil disobedience in Ballarat over gold licenses, local miners launched an armed uprising against government forces. Known as the Eureka Rebellion, it led to the introduction of male suffrage in Australia, and as such is interpreted as the origin of democracy in Australia, Australian democracy. The rebellion's symbol, the Eureka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawthorn Football Club
The Hawthorn Football Club, nicknamed the Hawks, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Mulgrave, Victoria, that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was founded in 1902 in the inner-east suburb of Hawthorn, making it the youngest Victorian-based team in the AFL. Hawthorn is the only club to have won premierships in each decade of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. In total, it has won 13 senior VFL/AFL premierships. The team play in brown-and-gold vertically striped guernseys. The club's Latin motto is '' spectemur agendo'', the English translation being "Let us be judged by our acts." Upon inception and until 1973, the Hawks played home matches at Glenferrie Oval in Hawthorn; they subsequently shifted home matches to Waverley Park and the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The club moved its training and administration facilities from Glenferrie to Waverley Park in 2006, which by that point was no longer hosting AFL mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven News
''7NEWS'' is the television news service of the Seven Network and, as of 2021, the highest-rating in Australia. National bulletins are presented from Seven's high-definition television, high definition studios in Martin Place, Sydney, while flagship 6pm bulletins are produced in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth city based studios. The network also produces local news bulletins and updates for the Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast, as well as regional markets in Queensland, New South Wales (including the ACT), Victoria, Australia, Victoria and Western Australia. It draws upon the resources of ITN, NBC News, NBC, Warner Bros. Discovery, CBC News, CBC, CNN, Associated Press Television News, APTN and Reuters for select international coverage. The network's Director of News and Current Affairs is Craig McPherson. History ''7NEWS'' — previously known as ''ATVN News'', ''Channel Seven News'', ''Seven Eyewitness News'', ''Seven National News'', ''Seven Nightly Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bungaree, Victoria
Bungaree is a town in Victoria, Australia. The town is located west of the state capital, Melbourne and east of the regional centre of Ballarat, on the Western Freeway and in the Shire of Moorabool The Shire of Moorabool is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, located in the western part of the state. It covers an area of and, in June 2018, had a population of 34,158. It includes the towns of Ballan, Bacchus Marsh, Balliang, ... local government area. At the , Bungaree and the surrounding area had a population of 302. Bungaree Post Office opened on 1 August 1863. The town is home to the Bungaree Demons, who play in the Central Highlands Football Netball League. References See also * Bungaree railway station, Victoria Towns in Victoria (Australia) {{VictoriaAU-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AFL Record
The ''AFL Record'' is the official program available at Australian Football League (AFL) matches. The publication began as the ''Football Record'' in Melbourne, Australia in 1912, making it one of the oldest magazines in Australia. The publication is also known affectionately by fans as the ''Footy Record'' and many other leagues have since adopted a similar format and produce their own "footy record". The price of the Grand Final Record and post Grand Final magazine, “AFL Record Premiers”, are both $15 as of 2021. A book version of the AFL Record, published every year prior to the AFL season, is called the “AFL Record Season Guide”, with the year for the AFL fixtures, e.g. AFL Record Season Guide 2021 which includes fixtures for that particular year. The price of this publication is $39.95 as of 2021. This publication includes statistics on all AFL Clubs, South Australian Football League, and West Australian Football League, although the statistics are not as comprehensiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ballarat Football League
The Ballarat Football League (BFL) is an Australian rules football competition that operates in the Ballarat region of Victoria, Australia. The competition formed in 1893 as the Ballarat Football Association and was renamed Ballarat Football League in 1908 and was briefly known as the Ballarat-Wimmera Football League between 1934 and 1936. Overview The league features 11 senior clubs. North Ballarat City Football Club joined the league in 2008 season raising the number of teams to the present number. North Ballarat City previously played in the Bendigo Football League for the previous two seasons prior to joining. The BFL is also a strong league for grass roots football with 9 junior clubs consisting of 63 teams from U/10 through to U/16.5 (Ballarat, Bacchus Marsh, Darley, East Ballarat, Lake Wendouree, Mount Clear, North Ballarat, Redan and Sebastopol ). The Ballarat Football League season normally commences in early April with the regular season matches finishing in Aug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Ballarat Football Club
The East Ballarat Football Club was an Australian rules football club which competed in the Ballarat Football League. First formed in 1885 the club remained a junior club in their district, their senior club being Ballarat Imperial Football Club. The upheaval of the 1930s in which the Ballarat competition merged with the Wimmera league for three years resulted with the dissolving of the Imperial. Reformed during the WWII the club in 1944 was promoted to the top level BFL competition. They won six premierships in 1949, 1950, 1964, 1989, 1990 & 1993. They merged with Golden Point in 2001 to form the East Point Football Club.''The Age'"Woofer see the Point of it all" 7 August 2006, Martin Blake Premierships * Ballarat Football League (6): 1949, 1950, 1964, 1989, 1990, 1993 Notable players *Graham Donaldson *Danny Frawley *Sean Simpson * Tony Evans See also * Golden Point Football Club * East Point Football Club The East Point Football Netball Club is an Australian rules f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Patrick's College, Ballarat
, motto_translation = To Do and To Teach , city = Ballarat , state = Victoria , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Independent secondary day and boarding school , religious_affiliation = Catholicism , denomination = Congregation of Christian Brothers , trust = Edmund Rice Education Australia , established = , founder = Christian Brothers , chairman = Peter Wilson , headmaster = Steven O'Connor , years = 7– 12 , gender = Boys , enrolment = 1,430 , colours = Green, white and blue , slogan = Raising Fine Boys To The Status of Great Men , test_name = VCE , test_average = 30 , affiliation = Ballarat Associated Schools , website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Dunstall
Jason Hadfield Dunstall (born 14 August 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Hawthorn Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Dunstall is arguably the greatest Australian rules footballer to come from Queensland. Dunstall was one of the first of a generation of big bodied lead-up full forwards who could also out-wrestle opponents for position in a marking contest and was also an agile team oriented player. He made his name as a full-forward during an era in which power forwards including Tony Lockett, Gary Ablett Sr., Simon Beasley, Warwick Capper, Allen Jakovich, Saverio Rocca, John Longmire, Tony Modra and Peter Sumich dominated the league goal scoring. He is one of only six players to have kicked over 1,000 career goals in the VFL/AFL, and only Lockett and 's Gordon Coventry have kicked more career goals. In an interview in 2011, champion footballer Wayne Carey regarded Dunstall as the best player he had seen and played against. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bounce (Australian TV Series)
''Bounce'', formerly known as ''Before the Bounce'' and ''After the Bounce'', is an Australian light entertainment television series focusing on Australian Rules football. The show, currently airing on Fox Footy, takes a comedic look back at the previous week in the Australian Football League. First aired in 2007, the show is currently hosted by former footballers Jason Dunstall and Cameron Mooney and former basketballer Andrew Gaze. History Originally called ''Before the Bounce'', the show was broadcast on Friday nights before the opening game of the round. The original hosts were Dunstall, Frawley, journalists Gerard Whateley and Damian Barrett, and former footballer Billy Brownless. In 2011, the show's name changed to ''After the Bounce'' and it moved to Sunday nights, normally immediately after the final game of the round. Whateley hosted the show for the final time in 2011, before his other show, AFL 360, was extended to be broadcast four nights per week in 2012 with the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Network
The Nine Network (stylised 9Network, commonly known as Channel Nine or simply Nine) is an Australian commercial free-to-air television network. It is owned by parent company Nine Entertainment and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. From 2017 to 2021, the network's slogan has been "We Are the One". Since 2021, the network has changed its slogan back to the iconic Golden Era slogan "Still the One". As of 2022, the Nine Network is the second-rated television network in Australia, behind the Seven Network, and ahead of the ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS. History Origins The Nine Network's first broadcasting station was launched in Sydney, New South Wales, as TCN-9 on 16 September 1956 by ''The Daily Telegraph'' owner Frank Packer. John Godson introduced the station and former advertising executive Bruce Gyngell presented the first programme, ''This Is Television'' (so becoming the first person to appear on Australian television). Later that year, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sunday Footy Show (AFL)
''The AFL Sunday Footy Show'' is an Australian rules football program aired on the Nine Network on Sunday mornings at 10am to 12pm hosted by Tony Jones with a panel consisting of Damian Barrett, Nathan Brown, Matthew Lloyd and Kane Cornes. History and synopsis ''The Sunday Footy Show'' was the original incarnation of the ''Footy Show'' and was based on the footy show for rugby league which had debuted earlier in 1992. Following its success in 1993, it was decided to present a special Grand Final edition with a live studio audience. The success of this special meant that the Thursday night show was to be installed as a permanent fixture in the Nine schedule. ''The Sunday Footy Show'' discusses the weekend's matches so far, showing scores and highlights and interviews players from the sides that have played that round. Before the Nine Network obtained the TV rights to AFL matches. The program was a lighter look at the AFL with a panel hosted by Max Walker and featured the like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
