By Sam Burge and Lachlan Bryce Historians are divided on the origins of Australian Rules Football but there is no doubting that the indigenous game of Marngrook has inspired the modern game we know today. In AFL Canberra’s Indigenous…
Above: TVAFC 1st Grade Womens Captain Kate Greenacre pictured with TVAFC 1st Grade Womens Coach and Club President Leo Lahey. Photo: Lachlan Bryce Tuggeranong Valley Building a Welcoming and Elite women’s program By Lachlan Bryce Tuggeranong Valley’s President…
By Lachlan Bryce Brad Crowe was optimistic his mate Alex Coppinger would show up after being announced missing in early January until it all hit Crowe, Copopinger wouldn’t be back. Young adult Alex Coppinger, an ex-Tuggeranong Hawks 100+ game…
Written by Sam Burge, AFL Canberra Media From a Canberra Raiders pre-season last year to an Eastlake Demons pre-season this year? Yes it seems bizarre, but why not! That’s Tom Robertson’s attitude anyway. The rugby league prop has switched codes…
Canberra’s Tom Highmore will make his AFL debut this Sunday afternoon against the GIANTS, with senior coach Brett Ratten today confirming the mature-age recruit’s place in the starting line-up. The 23-year-old, taken at pick No. 45 from last season’s draft, has…
This weekend, the Manly Warringah Australian Football Club women’s squad will travel to Gungahlin Enclosed Oval, Canberra to take on the Gungahlin Jets in the inaugural ‘Challenge Cup’. After putting plans on hold in 2020 due to COVID-19, the two…
Originally published by gwsgiants.com.au, written by Rob Forsaith, AAP GIANTS midfielder Britt Tully knows the importance of bringing AFLW and AFL games to Canberra as well as anybody, having fallen in love with football at Manuka Oval. The GIANTS have…
It’s a massive weekend of football across NSW and the ACT with the GIANTS’ AFLW team returning to Canberra before the GIANTS’ AFL side host the Sydney Swans at GIANTS Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The GIANTS’ AFLW team are set…
THE AFL is pleased to announce the fixture for Round Six of the 2021 NAB AFL Women’s Competition which will see the GWS GIANTS return to Canberra for the first time since 2019. After no AFL or AFLW action in…
Tom Highmore’s unconventional journey to the AFL is one of persistence, perseverance and determination. First nominating for the draft in 2016, Highmore was overlooked, and then overlooked again, and again, and then again. A product of the GIANTS Academy Program…
