Port Adelaide Football Club

In the Journal of Sport and Social Issues, William J. Morgan posed that, “sport is an essential instrument of the social order to be used to promote economic and political agendas” and in a larger sense that, “this sport ideology is but a reflection of the larger, ideological hegemony of advanced industrial society” and “a reflection of the prevailing economic order” (Morgan 1983). Through this work, I intend to argue that this prevailing economic order can be viewed through the lens of the Australian Football League’s (AFL) contentious desire to professionalize. While critics and proponents of capital-based approaches may argue the benefit of the league’s development, the opportunity cost of alienating fans and degrading tradition is greater. The AFL should retain its current philosophy and prevent professionalization allowing the sport to preserve its traditional values, relationship with Australian communities, and prevent the development of damaging capitalist ideals. It is through the AFL’s current philosophy that it has established its success, collected a dedicated fan…

Essendon Football Club (Essendon) found by the Court of Arbitration (CAS) to have breached clause 11.2 of the Australian Football League (AFL) anti-doping code as a result of their part in the Essendon supplements saga in 2012. Hibberd, along with 33 other past and present Essendon footballers were “sanctioned with a period of ineligibility of two years as of 31 March 2015”. Currently, Hibberd is serving a provisional suspension from all competition expiring on 13 November 2016. As a result of…

that the game takes place on ice there is much more skill and dexterity on ice that requires much more training. However, the actions done in hockey are quite repetitive, only navigating, passing, and shooting a puck with a hockey stick. However ice hockey seems to breed much more aggression than with footy. Players seem to be more aggressive with their opponents to gain control of the puck, and more so every player for themselves, when in the AFL fellow team mates seem to be more collectively …

Australian football is played across the whole of Australia and China are also giving it a go. In 1857, Tom Wills, one of the founders of Australian Football, returned to Australia after schooling in England where he was football captain of Rugby School and a brilliant cricketer. The new game was devised by Wills, his cousin H.C.A. Harrison, W.J. Hammersley and J.B. Thompson. The Melbourne Football Club was formed on August 7, 1858 – the year of the code's first recorded match between Scotch…

the year to celebrate the history and anniversaries of clubs. To represent these matches clubs will wear throwback uniforms more commonly known as Heritage Guernsey's. During these matches clubs and fans can commemorate their succeses and also show football fans the old guernsey's that would have been worn in their first matches being part of VFL/AFL history. Clubs and the Year they joined: Carlton - 1897 Collingwood - 1897 Essenden - 1897 Brisbane Bears - 1987-1996 became Brisbane Lions…

law. A case that exemplifies disrespect towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders is the Eddie Betts case. A football fan was banned for throwing a banana in the direction of Indigenous Adelaide Crows star Eddie Betts. Betts was celebrating a 250th AFL game in Showdown 41 and this all ended on the Saturday night game. According to the ABC News, Port chairman David Koch stated, ”If it was racially motivated not only would she be banned for life from the club, we would encourage her to come…