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Aug 25, 2024 August 2024 Odin Mortgage Coaches Polls![]() Time stops for no one, and rarely does the USAFL season. The 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup has dominated the attention of the international Aussie Rules world for the past month. But back home, the march towards Nationals carried on with sixteen men’s games and two women’s games. There were slight effects thereof upon the August edition of the Odin Mortgage Polls. The Women’s top 10 remained exactly the same as July, while the Men’s top 20 saw slight but significant movement up and down the table. Read more » |
Aug 10, 2024 TAC Day 8 - Revos Rout Canada, Advance to Final![]() There have been 25 years of USA Revolution football. Many unique moments of glory across many dozens of players in locations all over the world. But never have they played themselves into a tournament final. Archrival Canada, despite their best efforts, were no match for the Revos in the 2024 AFL Transatlantic Cup semifinal. Thanks to a 65-11 victory, Kyle Strenski’s team will face off against Ireland on Sunday at 1:45pm ET/10:45am PT in their first ever tournament Grand Final. Read more » |
Aug 9, 2024 TAC Day 7 - Freedom Pip Canada For First Finals Berth![]() Victory and defeat are fickle. They can be decided by wide gulfs or minute margins. The USA Freedom will be playing for a championship thanks to the knuckles of Amanda Boe. It wasn’t a knockout punch, but rather a timely jab of the football over the line in the dying seconds of Team USA’s semifinal match against Canada. The 14-13 win was the first for the Freedom over the Northern Lights in twelve years, and punched their ticket into the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup Grand Final. Read more » |
Aug 7, 2024 TAC Day 6 - Revos Edge Ireland in Thriller![]() Records are made to be broken. So are droughts. In six matches, the Irish Warriors have downed the USA Revolution four times. The last American victory was in the third place game IC05, which gave the Revos their best ever finish. After a scrappy game that was not for the faint of heart, the U.S. came from behind in a feverish fourth quarter to pip Ireland 53-51 in one of the best games in program history. The win left them as the best Americas side at the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup, and will roll them into a semifinal against Canada on Friday. Read more » |
Aug 6, 2024 TAC Day 5 - Freedom Top Group with GB Win![]() Being last is sometimes a good thing. For the USA Freedom, they had the last pool game of the women’s division against Great Britain. Coming in, they would know exactly what they would need to accomplish in order to advance to the semi-finals. And after Colombia’s opening day upset over France, there was the chance that there would be tie-breaker combinations at play. Read more » |
Aug 5, 2024 TAC Day 4 - Britain Outplays Revos in Game 2![]() It has been 22 years since the men of Great Britain and the USA Revolution played Aussie Rules football. The Revos won both matches in 2001 and 2002, and won both. It took two decades for the Bulldogs to flip the script, and they did so with authority. Pinning the Revos back from the opening 30 seconds, Great Britain picked apart the Revos from the second quarter on and despite playing bravely in the back half and getting their chances forward, the Doggies were 47-26 victors at the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup. Read more » |
Aug 4, 2024 TAC Day 3 - Freedom Kick Away over FranceMomentum is a funny thing. Sometimes it lasts a few minutes, sometimes a few games. For the USA Freedom, the boost they got from their fourth quarter against Ireland in their opener carried forward into all four stanzas against Les Gauloises de la France in Game Two. Seizing control from the opening ball up, the Americans put on a stunning display of offense against a game, but outmatched, French team, scoring a 125-0 victory at the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup in Toronto. Read more » |
Aug 3, 2024 TAC Day 2 - Revos Hold Off Plucky France![]() France was the USA Revolution’s last group stage opponent at the 2017 International Cup. Needing a percentage boost to sneak into the Grand Final at the MCG, Les Coqs put an immense amount of pressure on the Americans, and despite a 113-point victory, fought well enough to keep the Revos out of the top two. A similar effort was given by the French men’s team to open the 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup, but seven years on, the Roosters went toe-to-toe with the Americans and gave them a might run for their money. Read more » |
Aug 2, 2024 TAC Day 1 - Freedom Recover Well in Loss to Ireland![]() Ireland had two opponents in their 2024 AFL TransAtlantic Cup opening game against the USA Freedom: the American side, and the humidity. In the end, they handled both, but it was the side in blue who coped with the thick air at Colonel Sam Smith Park in Toronto. After falling behind by 45 points at three-quarter time, Team USA rallied against a fading Banshees group to close the gap in a 56-32 loss. Read more » |
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