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Tim O'Brien (footballer)
Tim O'Brien (born 28 March 1994) is a professional Australian rules footballer who last played for the Western Bulldogs in the Australian Football League. A tall utility player, O'Brien is known for his high leaping for high marks. Early career The red-headed O'Brien used to make 10-hour return car trip to Glenelg to play under-15 games. At 16 he played in his first West Gambier senior premiership in the Western Border league. West won again the following year with O'Brien playing in the ruck. He has a terrific mark and good leg speed, where he recorded the third-best result in agility draft camp. AFL career Hawthorn selected O'Brien with pick 28 in the 2012 AFL Draft. He spent 2013 developing in the VFL playing for Hawthorn's reserve affiliate side, the , and was a member of their premiership winning side. Entering into his second season, O'Brien changed from number 40 to Hawthorn's famous number 23 guernsey following Lance Franklin's move to Sydney at the end of the 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Gambier, South Australia
Mount Gambier is the second most populated city in South Australia, with an estimated urban population of 33,233 . The city is located on the slopes of Mount Gambier, a volcano in the south east of the state, about south-east of the capital Adelaide and just from the Victorian border. The traditional owners of the area are the Bungandidj (or Boandik) people. Mount Gambier is the most important settlement in the Limestone Coast region and the seat of government for both the City of Mount Gambier and the District Council of Grant. The city is well known for its geographical features, particularly its volcanic and limestone features, most notably Blue Lake / Warwar, and its parks, gardens, caves and sinkholes. History Before British colonisation of South Australia, the Bungandidj (or Boandik) people were the original Aboriginal inhabitants of the area. They referred to the peak of the volcanic mountain as 'ereng balam' or 'egree belum', meaning 'home of the eagle hawk', but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2017 AFL Season
The 2017 AFL season was the 121st season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eighteen clubs, ran from 23 March until 30 September, and comprised a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs. The premiership was won by the Richmond Football Club for the eleventh time, after it defeated by 48 points in the 2017 AFL Grand Final. Rule changes The following amendments were made to the Laws of the Game for the 2017 season: *Rules relating to around-the-ground ruck contests were amended such that only the nominated ruckman for each team is permitted in the contest, eliminating the option for another player to enter the contest and take the tap, otherwise known as the "third man up" strategy. This was done to make ruck contests easier to adjudicate, to reduce the risk of inj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1994 Births
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Box Hill Football Club Players
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Hawthorn Football Club Players
Hawthorn or Hawthorns may refer to: Plants * ''Crataegus'' (hawthorn), a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae * ''Rhaphiolepis'' (hawthorn), a genus of about 15 species of evergreen shrubs and small trees in the family Rosaceae * Hawthorn maple, '' Acer crataegifolium'', a tree variously classified in families Sapindaceae or Aceraceae * ''Crataegus monogyna'' the common hawthorn, the species after which the above are named Places *Hawthorn, Pennsylvania, a city in the United States * Hawthorn, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia **Hawthorn railway station, Melbourne in the above suburb **Electoral district of Hawthorn, a Victorian Legislative Assembly seat based on and named after the above suburb *Hawthorn, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia *Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia, a suburb of Perth, Australia *The Hawthorns, the stadium for the West Bromwich Albion F.C. in England **The Hawthorns station, a train and metro station that serv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glenelg Football Club Players
Glenelg may refer to Places Australia * Glenelg, South Australia, a beachside suburb of Adelaide * Glenelg River (Victoria) * Glenelg River (Western Australia) * Glenelg County, Western Australia, a former county * Shire of Glenelg, Victoria * Shire of Glenelg (former), Victoria, abolished in 1994 * City of Glenelg, a local government area in South Australia * Electoral district of Glenelg (South Australia), a former district of the South Australian House of Assembly * Electoral district of Glenelg (Victoria), a former district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Canada * Glenelg Parish, New Brunswick, Canada * Glenelg, Nova Scotia, Canada, a community * Glenelg, Ontario, Canada, a former township which was merged into West Grey township Elsewhere * Glenelg, Highland, Scotland, a community area and civil parish * Glenelg, Maryland, United States, an unincorporated community * Glenelg, Mars Sports * Glenelg Baseball Club, a member of the South Australian Baseball League * Gl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 VFL Season
The 2015 Victorian Football League season was the 134th season of the Victorian Football Association/Victorian Football League Australian rules football competition. Fifteen teams competing in the league. The season commenced on Friday 17 April and concluded Sunday 27 September with the VFL Grand Final, won by , who defeated by 54 points at Etihad Stadium. It was Williamstown's 14th top division premiership. League membership The size of the league reduced from sixteen teams to fifteen for the 2015 season, following the withdrawal and disbanding of the Bendigo Football Club. Bendigo had enjoyed stability from 2003 until 2012 in a reserves affiliation with the Australian Football League's , but following Essendon's establishment of a stand-alone reserves team in 2013, Bendigo had struggled to remain competitive as a stand-alone club. In June 2014, half-way through what would finish as its second consecutive winless season, the club concluded that it was not financially viable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 AFL Season
The 2023 AFL season is the 127th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season will feature eighteen clubs and is scheduled to run from 16 March until 30 September, comprising a 23-game home-and-away season, the longest in league history, followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs. Background The fixture was extended to 23 matches per club, the longest in history. This was to accommodate the introduction of the 'Gather Round' – known in full as 'Gather Round... a festival of footy' – a special round featuring all eighteen clubs playing in the same city; this was modelled on the Magic Round, which the National Rugby League had scheduled annually since 2019. South Australia won the bid for the event, beating a bid from New South Wales. Six of the nine matches will take place at Adelaide Oval, with Norwood O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 AFL Season
The 2022 AFL season is the 126th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season features eighteen clubs, is scheduled to run from 16 March until 24 September, and to comprise a 22-game home-and-away season followed by a 2022 AFL finals series, finals series featuring the top eight clubs. Impact of COVID-19 pandemic The 2022 season is being played during the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, COVID-19 pandemic. At the start of the season, the roll-out of Australia's vaccination program was almost complete with 95% of adults vaccinated to a two-dose standard and about 50% having received a booster; and across all states except for Western Australia, practically all social and interstate travel restrictions which had been in place through the latter half of 2021 had been lifted; Western Australia maintained some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impact Of The COVID-19 Pandemic On Sports
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the most significant disruption to the worldwide sporting calendar since World War II. Across the world and to varying degrees, sports events have been cancelled or postponed. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were rescheduled to 2021. At the time, spectators had no games to watch and players no games to play. Only a few countries and territories, such as Hong Kong, Turkmenistan, Belarus, and Nicaragua, continued professional sporting matches as planned. International multi-sport events Summer Olympics The 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were scheduled to take place in Tokyo starting 24 July and 25 August respectively. Although the Japanese government had taken extra precautions to help minimize the outbreak's impact in the country, qualifying events were being canceled or postponed almost daily. According to Japanese public broadcaster NHK, Tokyo 2020 organizing-committee chief executive Toshiro Muto voiced concerns on 5 February, that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 AFL Season
The 2020 AFL season was the 124th season of the Australian Football League (AFL), the highest level senior men's Australian rules football competition in Australia, which was known as the Victorian Football League until 1989. The season featured eighteen clubs. Played during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the season commenced on 19 March and was suspended four days later; it resumed on 11 June and ran until 24 October. A shortened season was played, comprising a 17-game home-and-away season followed by a finals series featuring the top eight clubs; all matches were shortened to 80% of their usual length. Virus outbreaks and interstate travel restrictions precluded games in many states for much of the season, with all clubs spending parts of the season temporarily relocated to quarantine hubs, particularly in South East Queensland where almost half of all matches were played – including the Grand Final, the first time it had been played outside Victoria. Health direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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