AFL Toyota 2006 AFL Premiership Season
The 2006 AFL Premership season will kick off under way tonight at the M.C.G with Collingwood and Richmond battling it out under lights. The awaited 2006 footy season is here and what a weekend it is going to turn out to be. The AFL is ready to get Australia back on track and excited about the 2006 Premiership season under way.
The Off season
Kangaroos and the Gold Coast
Alot of contreversy over the Pre Season this year. The Kangaroos have been approved by the AFL that they can play 8 matches at the Gold Coast. The AFL agreed to this bid that the Kangaroos have been trying to produce for a few years now. Kangaroos coach Dean Laidley had this to say "Well, you know we are excited to be playing 8 matches up in the Gold Coast this year, we would like to thank the AFL in giving us this oppourtunity, and we urge for Kangaroos memebers to get up and go to those matches, we would like a big crowd up there. You know we will get alot of wins up there". Laidley was asked if the Kangaroos would like to officially move to the Gold Coast, and said this. "Well we are just happy at the moment getting 8 matches up there, so we will take it one year at a time, but we are trying to produce good scores and crowds up there so the AFL would look further into the issue. But sure, we would like to, some day be training and playing all our home matches at the Gold Coast".
Channel 7 outbids Channel 9
Channel 7 will be back to hosting the AFL in season 2006. Channel 7 who has been out of the AFL for 5 years, has come back and wants to call the AFL again. Over the Pre Season, it was a bidding war for 7 and 9, but in the end, Channel 9 gave up and Channel 7 will now host the AFL. Foxtel has also got into the bidding, with earlier in the year saying that they would like to have a break from calling the AFL, but now they have also got rights to hosting games this year. Channel 7 will host the Friday Night matches, and the Sunday Afternoon matches. Channel 10 will hold a Saturday Night Match, Sunday Afternoon Match and a Saturday Afternoon Match. While Foxtel will take a Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Night and a Sunday Afternoon Matches. The Channel 7 team will be led by Bruce McAvaney, Dennis Cometti (Who came from Channel 9) David Schwarze and Liam Pickering doing the boundary.
So all things have been going on in the off season, i think that the AFL would just like to get the footy started and forget about the whole off season, and just get on with the footy. And so would the crowds. And it kicks off tonnight at the M.C.G with Collingwood taking on Richmond Round 1 action......... stayed tuned
2006 AFL Captains
Adelaide: Mark Ricciuto
Brisbane: Simon Black
Carlton: Brendon Fevola
Collingwood: James Clement
Essendon: Matthew Lloyd
Fremantle: Peter Bell
Geelong: Cameron Ling
Hawthorn: Shane Crawford
Kangaroos: Adam Simpson
Melbourne: David Neitz
Port Adelaide: Warren Tredrea
Richmond: Kane Johnson
St.Kilda: Nick Riewoldt
Sydney: Barry Hall
West Coast: Chris Judd
Western Bulldogs: Brad Johnson
The 2006 AFL Premership season will kick off under way tonight at the M.C.G with Collingwood and Richmond battling it out under lights. The awaited 2006 footy season is here and what a weekend it is going to turn out to be. The AFL is ready to get Australia back on track and excited about the 2006 Premiership season under way.
The Off season
Kangaroos and the Gold Coast
Alot of contreversy over the Pre Season this year. The Kangaroos have been approved by the AFL that they can play 8 matches at the Gold Coast. The AFL agreed to this bid that the Kangaroos have been trying to produce for a few years now. Kangaroos coach Dean Laidley had this to say "Well, you know we are excited to be playing 8 matches up in the Gold Coast this year, we would like to thank the AFL in giving us this oppourtunity, and we urge for Kangaroos memebers to get up and go to those matches, we would like a big crowd up there. You know we will get alot of wins up there". Laidley was asked if the Kangaroos would like to officially move to the Gold Coast, and said this. "Well we are just happy at the moment getting 8 matches up there, so we will take it one year at a time, but we are trying to produce good scores and crowds up there so the AFL would look further into the issue. But sure, we would like to, some day be training and playing all our home matches at the Gold Coast".
Channel 7 outbids Channel 9
Channel 7 will be back to hosting the AFL in season 2006. Channel 7 who has been out of the AFL for 5 years, has come back and wants to call the AFL again. Over the Pre Season, it was a bidding war for 7 and 9, but in the end, Channel 9 gave up and Channel 7 will now host the AFL. Foxtel has also got into the bidding, with earlier in the year saying that they would like to have a break from calling the AFL, but now they have also got rights to hosting games this year. Channel 7 will host the Friday Night matches, and the Sunday Afternoon matches. Channel 10 will hold a Saturday Night Match, Sunday Afternoon Match and a Saturday Afternoon Match. While Foxtel will take a Saturday Afternoon, Saturday Night and a Sunday Afternoon Matches. The Channel 7 team will be led by Bruce McAvaney, Dennis Cometti (Who came from Channel 9) David Schwarze and Liam Pickering doing the boundary.
So all things have been going on in the off season, i think that the AFL would just like to get the footy started and forget about the whole off season, and just get on with the footy. And so would the crowds. And it kicks off tonnight at the M.C.G with Collingwood taking on Richmond Round 1 action......... stayed tuned
2006 AFL Captains
Adelaide: Mark Ricciuto
Brisbane: Simon Black
Carlton: Brendon Fevola
Collingwood: James Clement
Essendon: Matthew Lloyd
Fremantle: Peter Bell
Geelong: Cameron Ling
Hawthorn: Shane Crawford
Kangaroos: Adam Simpson
Melbourne: David Neitz
Port Adelaide: Warren Tredrea
Richmond: Kane Johnson
St.Kilda: Nick Riewoldt
Sydney: Barry Hall
West Coast: Chris Judd
Western Bulldogs: Brad Johnson
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