Geoff Pemberton is a typical true-blue Cairns boy. Born-and-bred in the North Queensland ‘capital’, he loves fishing and camping, and the easy-going lifestyle of the north but loves Australian football more. This is why he’s a super-stalwart of the code…

by Daniel Viles BOND UNIVERSITY v ASPLEY Saturday 8 July 2023, 2pm at Bond University Oval, Robina Live stream with commentary on YouTube Head-to-Head: Played 9 – Bond University won 7; Aspley won 2 Head-to-Head at Bond University Oval: Played…

Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend With just six rounds to go until finals, each game over the next three weeks will go a long way to determine who makes the top six. Teams over the next two weeks will either see their…

Danny Craven watched it rain eight weeks in a row through the winter of 1992 in Melbourne and decided there had to be a better way. A pocket-sized rover from Chiltern via Wangaratta and St.Kilda, he tossed up the sunshine…

By Peter Blucher. Saturday afternoon 2 April 2011 at the Gabba. On centre wing, Stanley Street side of the ground, Michael Rischitelli kicked on the bounce to Jared Brennan. He gathered beautifully and went by hand to Brandon Matera, who…

Howard Kennedy was a key figure in the growth of Australian football across North Queensland as a player, coach, and administrator for more than 60 years. He began a lifetime love affair with the game in the 1920s at a…

Saturday 27 November 2022. A capacity crowd of 8,000-plus packed the new Brisbane Lions headquarters at Springfield for the AFLW grand final against Melbourne. If Bree Brock had a moment to spare, she might have thought to herself “how good…

AFL Queensland proudly unveiled Yowogurra, a Yarning Circle, in front of distinguished guests, indigenous trailblazers of footy in Queensland and AFL, Gold Coast SUNS and Brisbane Lions staff. The Yarning Circle, which is located at the AFL Queensland grounds in…

Josh Drummond is a triumph for perseverance. Overlooked in no less than eight drafts before finally getting his chance, he forged an excellent 94-game career with the Brisbane Lions that was more impactful than it was long and catapulted him…

Daniel Merrett is a triumph for AFL Queensland’s Talent Identification Program. He grew up playing rugby league, cricket, volleyball, and touch football and finished a 200-game AFL player with the Brisbane Lions. It all changed one Saturday afternoon in mid-2001…

Ben Hudson was an almost an accidental footballer. First and foremost, he was a basketballer studying physiotherapy while living on campus at the University of Queensland in 2000. For a bit of fun and exercise, and a little pocket money,…

David James was a Southport great through the early 2000’s. He played 211 games in 11 years and was as good as anyone at the club through that era. And more than a decade on his legacy lives long and…

Ten Queenslanders have been named as part of the Woomeras and Medleys squads named by the AFL today.  More than 75 of the country’s most promising 16-and-under girls footballers with Indigenous or multicultural backgrounds will come together on the Gold…

Paul Shelton was a Morningside man through and through, starting his football career in the red, white and black as a four-year-old and finishing it 26 years later when he was chaired from the ground a senior premiership captain in…

By Peter Blucher. Tom Hickey now holds two Queensland AFL records. He shares with Ben Hudson the distinction of being the State’s only four-club AFL players, and now among 197 Queenslanders to play in the AFL he boasts the biggest…

Saturday 1 July marks the first time in over a decade that Queensland and Tasmania’s men’s and women’s football teams have played an interstate rep clash against each other. The afternoon’s football double header at the infamous North Hobart Oval…

Darren O’Brien was a Mildura boy who travelled far and wide living the football dream and headed to Queensland in 2003 for one year. Twenty years on he is not only still here but is one of Queensland football’s greats.…

Southport was a long-time powerhouse club of Gold Coast football before stepping up to the QAFL in 1983. The Magpies turned Sharks became a QAFL powerhouse before climbing to the NEAFL in 2011 and the VFL in 2021. They have…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend. Aspley continued its impressive defense of its premiership title; Redland Victoria Point fought hard against Sherwood; Broadbeach made it four wins on the trot; Wilston Grange tasted victory against Noosa; Surfers Paradise pipped a determined Labrador…

David Bain is the only person in football history to win the Sandover Medal, the Gardiner Medal and the Grogan Medal for the best player in the WAFL, the VFL and the QAFL, winning the Grogan Medal not once but…

Collingwood’s Victoria Park was of one the most intimidating AFL venues in its day.  Full of character, it was more than a home ground – it was a fortress. So when Steve McLuckie, 45 days beyond his 19th birthday, played…

Michael McCormick moved to Queensland for a change of lifestyle. A footballing great from the tiny Murray River town of Mathoura, he was looking for some sun when he relocated to the Gold Coast in 1981. So began a commitment…

Brad Edwards is an adopted favourite of Queensland football, a country boy from Western Australia who played with Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears in the VFL before stamping himself as one of the all-time greats at Morningside. Having grown up…

By Daniel Viles ASPLEY v MAROOCHYDORE Saturday 24 June 2023, 2pm at Zupps Aspley Oval, Carseldine Live stream with commentary on YouTube Head-to-Head: Played 9 – Maroochydore won 7; Aspley won 2 Head-to-Head at Zupps Aspley Oval: Played 4 –…

By Chris ‘Yeendy’ Yeend Hold onto your seats for Round 13 of the Senior Men’s QAFL competition. Old scores will be settled at Hickey Park; the Roos look to have found their pounce when they take on a determined Vulture…

Aasta O’Connor doesn’t like words like pioneer and trailblazer, but it’s an escapable fact that she was both. A monumental figure in the growth of women’s football in Queensland, and a great in the women’s game across the country. Born…

Two AFL South Pacific Region national talent academies – PNG and Nauru – will be represented in the upcoming PacificAus Sport U19 Talent Academy Challenge, to be held at the home base of the Gold Coast SUNS, the AustWorld Centre…

On 24 July 2007, the Tweed Heads Daily Telegraph published a story under the heading ‘Last Siren for Wally’. It was a tribute to local football stalwart Wally McKenzie, who had died three days earlier and it said it all.…

By Peter Blucher. Adrian Fletcher, a 231-game AFL player born and bred in Hobart, won the Leitch Medal as the best player in the Tasmanian Football League as an 18-year-old in 1988. He also played in the TFL grand final…