From: marino@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.australian
Subject: AFL News Tues. - Thurs. 8-10/9/1992
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:35:15 +1000
Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia

The AFL News for Tuesday - Thursday 8-10/9/1992.
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 Welcome to the news in this second week of the finals. Firstly, Spiro Malake-
llis of Geelong was reported on video evidence of striking Doug Hawkins of
Footscray. He was cleared because the evidence was not conclusive enough.
Hawthorn's Greg Dear was also cleared of kicking Dean Kemp of the Eagles. In
injury news:

-St.Kilda will be without Danny Frawley for this week's match after he strained
 his achilles tendon in Saturday's match. He should return for the preliminary
 final if the Saints can get past Footscray.

-Footscray will regain Scott Wynd after he missed Sunday's match with a thigh
 strain. Unfortunately they have lost Brian Royal with a hamstring tear that
 will keep him out of the rest of the finals series. They should regain Peter
 Foster at center half-back after he played in the reserves for the first time
 in 14 weeks. Tony Campbell may miss Saturday's match with an ankle strain.

-Geelong may be without Peter Riccardi after he sustained an ankle injury in
 Sunday's match. Mark Bairstow will return, and Trevor Poole may also return
 after having a knee operation six week's ago.

-West Coast looks certain to lose Michael Brennan for this week's match which
 will be a big blow to the Eagles.

In other news:
-Moves are already afoot for player swaps in the off-season. Collingwood's
 James Manson, Michael Christian and Ron McKeown is touted as going anywhere
 from Brisbane to Richmond. In another unsubstantiated rumour, Fitzroy's Richard
 Osborne is rumoured to go to Collingwood. Stay tuned for more news.

-Essendon's Terry Daniher has received many offers to coach at senior level.
 He is rumoured to be a candidate to coach Subiaco in WA.

-Adelaide is stepping up its pressure on Steven Kernahan to sign for them in the
 1993 season. Kernahan is out of contract with Carlton at the moment.

-The AFL has made some changes to the team lists for the 1993 seaon and beyond.
 At the end of the season eaxch team will prune their lists from 52 to 42, and
 then they can pick 8 players to make their lists up to 50. The march draft
 will allow teams to boost their lists to 52. The supplementary lists are to
 be scrapped from next season, and the age limit of drafted players is still 17.

-St.Kilda players Tony Lockett and Robert Harvey will use new boots specially
 designed for elite sportsmen by Puma. The 'Puma Phantoms' are a kevlar compo-
 site boot that are also used by Allan Langer of the Brisbane Broncos Rugby
 League team, and international soccer players like Rudi Voller of Germany and
 Paul Gascoigne of England.

 In VFA news, the first semi-final on the weekend saw Williamstown defeat Box
Hill in a fairly rough game. Sandringham defeated Prahran in the second semi-
final to go to the Grand Final. This week's preliminary final is between Prahran
and Williamstown which is a repeat of the Qualifying Final two weeks ago where
the game had to go to extra time. In that game Prahran won by 5 points.

Hope you enjoy this. Until tomorrow.............

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