Charity Shield a success
The season may not have started yet, but football is at the forefront of Riverina life after the Charity Shield gave the locals their first taste of AFL action for the year.
The season may not have started yet, but football is at the forefront of Riverina life after the Charity Shield gave the locals their first taste of AFL action for the year.
Things are heating up in the Riverina as the start of the AFL season draws nearer, with some exciting developments preceding the first bounce of the ball.
AFL Sydney has announced its coaches for the 2013 representative program which kicks off on the June long weekend in Sydney and the Riverina.
Wagga Wagga teenagers Sam Wemyss and Pat Ross will experience their first taste of elite football this weekend after they were selected to officiate in the opening round of the NEAFL in Canberra.
Joseph Redfern experienced his first taste of elite football as he attended the launch of the NEAFL in his capacity as UWS GIANTS captain.
Many months of hard work was acknowledged by Kevin Sheedy and Michael Voss as they praised the multi-million dollar re-development of Robertson Oval.
Some of the brightest young talent Wagga Wagga has to offer have been rewarded with selection in the 2013 Slater & Gordon GIANTS Academy.
In Albury-born Tony Armstrong’s eight appearances for the Swans in 2012, he always felt he was only temporarily borrowing someone else’s place in the side.
The GWS GIANTS hit the Riverina over the weekend as they visited fans and played a NAB Cup clash against the Lions at Robertson Oval in Wagga Wagga.
The official opening of Robertson Oval has kicked off a weekend of AFL footy action in Wagga Wagga, with the GWS GIANTS training on the new surface.