Kick2Kick" is aimed at 5-12 year olds who play Auskick, which is where most of today's AFL stars have come from. This year, more than 150 thousand Australian kids will play Auskick.
The program will air every Saturday at 6:45am, through to the end of the finals. The idea was to give kids something to watch as they lace up their footy boots each Saturday morning before playing Auskick. What better way to motivate them to play AFL!
The show is hosted by Totally Wild presenter Wes Denning, and filmed from a different junior club each week. Auskick players will be on hand each episode to help build the enthusiasm, illustrate footy drills and help create the atmosphere and excitement that is junior footy.
Please if you have a whistle or horn to blow bring it, lots of noise please.
May even have Struty on his timekeepers siren.
The theme for the Mardi Gras is Looking forward Looking Back from the Slim Dusty song. Looking back to the origins of the game, what has, is and the future of AFL.
Have and will ask for more information from AFL to help with float information.
Some ideas :
Aborigines (with paint?) with the origins of the game coming from them. The name they called it ?
2 Cricketers in whites with a game designed to keep cricketers fit. (placard, A game to keep us fit.)
Early VFL teams on placards. Champion VFL players/ brownlow winners names on placards.
Theme songs from the clubs/ one day in September / up their cazaly etc playing.
Next generation & auskick posters & info. Red tops of the auskick people. School teachers. Letter to all auskick kids asking to join in? or school newsletters.
Umpires in their strip. Field, boundary & goal umpires.
Pickerings & Southern cross banners. Major sponsors.
Web site placards, club placards.
Victoria to Australia / Australia to the world / world to the universe
Countries that play afl on placards.
New oval info
Kangaroos & lions info being QLD. What about mascots from the clubs.
40 years of Mount Isa AFL.
Have everybody in a jumper.
footies / packs to give away ?
Mums & sisters in the action too(family)
Couch / chairs, esky & TV with people watching footy on tele ?
Placards of for the future teams
Mars roos V Jupiter swans
Moon bombers V Satan hawks
venues Lions v Uranus Demons
A score board. use our scoreboard names.
blow up afl footy or pvc goal posts in buckets of sand.
Spot lights & colored lights? generator? streamers to throw out.
NI TRANS offered his semi low loader, What is the satin truck Maddo?
Anything else ideas, leads? Cardboard supplier / paint for placards.
If you could help in anyway or have an idea please email me.
Jonny Freeman
History of Australian rules football
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Main article: Australian rules football
The history of Australian rules football began in Melbourne in 1858, with a call by Tom Wills to develop a local code of football and the formation of the Melbourne Football Club. What is considered to be the first match of Australian rules football was played at the Richmond Paddock on 31 July and the oldest surviving set of laws were drawn up the next year on 17 May 1859. It is not clear to what extent the early game was influenced by the football played in English public schools, but there are similarities have been observed between some of them and the Australian game. The code also has features in common with the Aboriginal game Marn Grook and Gaelic football.
The Victorian Football Association was formed in 1877 and the game, then known as "Victorian Rules" or "Australasian Rules", spread to other colonies in Australia. By federation in 1901, it was particularly strong in the "southern states", with the Victorian Football League, South Australian National Football League and West Australian Football League operating as separate competitions. The code struggled in New South Wales and Queensland and in other countries for much of the 20th century, however its popularity in these areas is now increasing. In the 1990s, the VFL expanded to become the Australian Football League, now a national body and the premier league in Australia as well as the de facto world governing body.
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. Initially, he advocated the winter game of football as a way of keeping cricketers fit during off-season.
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 College and Melbourne Grammar School.
The game quickly blossomed. The Geelong Football Club was formed in 1859 and in 1866 an updated set of rules was put in place and competition started.
The Victorian Football League was established in 1896 and the following year the League's first games were played among the foundation clubs - Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon, Fitzroy, Geelong, Melbourne, St Kilda and South Melbourne.
In 1908, Richmond and University joined the competition. But after the 1914 season, University left the League. In 1925, Footscray (now the Western Bulldogs), Hawthorn and North Melbourne (now the Kangaroos) joined the VFL.
This line-up of 12 clubs would remain unchanged until 1987 when the competition expanded to include the West Coast Eagles and the Brisbane Bears. BY 1997, the competition comprised 16 clubs after Adelaide (in 1991), Fremantle (in 1995), and Port Adelaide (in 1997) joined the now Australian Football League and foundation club Fitzroy merged with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions (after the 1996 season).
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Marn Grook
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Marn Grook (also spelt marngrook) is an Australian Aboriginal ball game, and is said to have had an influence on the modern game of Australian rules football, most notably in the spectacular jumping and high marking exhibited by the players of both games.
Marn Grook, literally meaning "Game ball", was a traditional game played at gatherings and celebrations of up to 50 players by the Djabwurrung and Jardwadjali people of western Victoria.
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* 1 Eye-witness accounts
* 2 Marn Grook and the football term "mark"
* 3 Ki-o-Rahi influences
* 4 The "Marngrook Trophy"
* 5 References
* 6 External links
[edit] Eye-witness accounts
Robert Brough-Smyth, in an 1878 book The Aborigines of Victoria, quoted Richard Thomas, a Protector of Aborigines in Victoria, who stated that in about 1841 he had witnessed Aborigines playing the game.
The men and boys joyfully assemble when this game is to be played. One makes a ball of possum skin, somewhat elastic, but firm and strong. The players of this game do not throw the ball as a white man might do, but drop it and at the same time kicks it with his foot. The tallest men have the best chances in this game. Some of them will leap as high as five feet from the ground to catch the ball. The person who secures the ball kicks it. This continues for hours and the natives never seem to tire of the exercise.
In 1889, anthropologist Alfred Howitt, wrote that the game was played between large groups on a totemic basis
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