Kangaroos reject ACT talk
Caroline Wilson | May 7, 2009
NORTH Melbourne has dismissed speculation it would return to Canberra in a bid for cash, describing talk of the national capital as one option put forward and quickly dismissed in a strategy meeting with the AFL.
The meeting, which...
North Melbourne push for better financial deal between AFL clubs and Telstra Dome
January 04, 2009
NORTH Melbourne chief executive Eugene Arocca is hopeful the AFL can broker better financial deals for clubs in legal action against Telstra Dome management.
According to a report in the...
Roos thrown into deep end
Rebecca Williams | December 02, 2008 12:00am
THERE was surf, sand and spectacular scenery, but it was certainly no picnic for North Melbourne's draftees at Wilsons Promontory yesterday. Just two days into their careers as AFL footballers, Jack Ziebell, Sam Wright...
Sponsor thwarts North Melbourne bid for Cousins
Caroline Wilson | November 21, 2008
NORTH Melbourne re-emerged as a contender to draft Ben Cousins, only to be thwarted three days ago by the club's major sponsor, Mazda.
The Age understands that Kangaroos chief executive Eugene Arocca...
Kangaroos members put share issue to vote
Damian Barrett | October 29, 2008 12:00am
NORTH Melbourne Football Club is expected to be handed back to its members tonight. After 22 years of private ownership, the outcome of a shareholder vote at Telstra Dome is tipped to create a new legal...
Trade Week Wrap
4:23 PM Fri 10 October, 2008
Hamish McIntosh, Daniel Harris and Corey Jones will remain at the North Melbourne Football Club for season 2009.
Senior Coach Dean Laidley said that the club was happy that McIntosh, Harris and Jones will continue their careers at the club.
"We...
Sorry about this thread, but i need some help with my votes relating to the best three umpires of the season.
Please feel free to pick your 3 best umps of the season from the list below & post them in a 3-2-1 format.
26/27 games
8 Brett Rosebury
25/26 games
3 Stephen McBurney
25 Shaun Ryan...
Pagan ready to coach again
Cameron Noakes | September 9, 2008
THE coach of the nineties, Denis Pagan, is ready to jump into coaching again and could be heading to West Coast or Fremantle.
According to a report in the West Australian newspaper, North Melbourne's premiership coach of 1996 and...
September 'screamers' to contend for mark of year
Nick Sheridan | August 5, 2008
IT HAS been a great year for the big grab. In the past two weeks alone, we have had a series of textbook contenders for mark of the year.
Jamie Charman taking a classic screamer over Richmond's Adam...
Patrick Smith | June 13, 2008
THREE club presidents have made a call for the AFL - in its 150th year celebration of the birth of the indigenous game - to pay off the clubs' debts totalling $11million. A symbolic gesture. The request is made because the AFL has enough money to establish new...
Relocation just won't go away but clubs might without it
Patrick Smith | June 11, 2008
IT says everything about the ruthless AFL environment that when the competition is at its wealthiest - with much more to come - three Melbourne clubs are threatened with all but instant execution...
Players ejected after Boston-Tampa Bay basebrawl
US baseballers Coco Crisp and James Shield were ejected from today's Boston-Tampa Bay game after sparking an mass brawl at Fenway Park.
After being struck on the hip by a pitch in the bottom of the second inning, Red Sox centre...
Pratt's conundrum: how to keep a hard edge in a changing game
Michael Gleeson | May 14, 2008
DANIEL Pratt is learning to play a new game. It is football, but not as he knows it. He is taking some time to learn it — too much time for his frustrated coach.
After the Kangaroos' loss...
This is a serious game
Mark Robinson
April 28, 2008 12:00am
ON ANY given Thursday, James Brayshaw's persona waxes and wanes around gay jokes, Gaz's hair, and "Foss" doing whatever he pleases.
On any given game day, Brayshaw leaves The Footy Show host at home and brings his football...
Just wanted to know whats the plan for Sunday?
Are we going to all get to gather before the game, or after?
Where are we going to all catch up? Captains bar? Social club?
Thought i would start this thread so we all can know 100% so we don't get mixed up.
Kangas use heat maps to stop Franklin
Jon Ralph | April 04, 2008 12:00am
THIS is the cutting-edge data the Kangaroos hope will bring Hawthorn hot shot Lance Franklin to his knees tomorrow.
The Roos will enter tomorrow's finals rematch armed with detailed "heat maps" that show...
Pagan reassures Laidley
Stephen Rielly | April 02, 2008
BY Friday, North Melbourne chairman James Brayshaw expects to announce his club has signed its 30,000th member, a record Arden Street figure that will add more than $1million of unexpected revenue to a bottom line habitually written in...
Private shareholdings threaten Roos' plan
Jake Niall | April 2, 2008
A KEY plank in North Melbourne's survival strategy — the investments reaped from three wealthy "white knights" — is being threatened by the messy shareholder issue, the club has told its members.
North Melbourne chairman...
Fleet-footed Kangaroo finds room in the midfield
Len Johnson | April 2, 2008
SMALL forwards live and die by their feet. Foot skills — acceleration, speed, evasiveness — are their weapons of choice.
Matt Campbell has all those skills, but he has had to find his feet in other ways. Born in...
Relocation back on table
Patrick Smith | March 27, 2008
THE AFL commission has not ruled out the possibility of a Victorian club or clubs relocating to the Gold Coast and western Sydney as the league continues to plan its push into the northern markets.
AFL chief executive Andrew...
The mafia plotting to stop Essendon
Courtney Walsh | March 24, 2008
THE North Melbourne mafia has been at it again this summer.
Meeting in the back rooms of Errol Street restaurants to discuss dismantling rivals' weapons. Plotting over coffee in Victoria Street on how best to stitch up an...
...big picture, and yesterday revealed to The Australian his personal long-term goal for the Kangaroos
Within three to five years, he projects:
* 30,000 members;
* No debt;
* Regular profits of between $1.5m-$2m;
* Footy department spending increased to $13.5 million;
* Revenue...
Chip Le Grand | February 06, 2008
JAMES BRAYSHAW has a line for every occasion.
With a schoolboy smile and fist full of dollars from new sponsor Vodafone, the Kangaroos chairman yesterday spoke of bomb-proofing his club and getting his ducks in line. Of X-factors and circuit breakers, and...
Carey in need of reality check
31 January 2008 Herald Sun
Mike Sheahan
RETIREMENT always was going to be a testing, demanding time for Wayne Carey.
Wild one: An alleged violent relationship with relationship with partner Kate Neilson has caused Wayne Carey him to jeopardise a blossoming...
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