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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 » |
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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 » |
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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 » |
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Aug 4, 2024 TAC Day 3 - Freedom Kick Away over France Momentum 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 » |
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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 » |
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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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Jul 31, 2024 Freedom Ringing - TransAtlantic Cup Preview Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And from where we sit, the growth of women’s Aussie Rules is the apple of our collective eyes. Women’s footy was repressed for many years in Australia, and seen as a curiosity when leagues started to be formed. But by the 2000’s, there was growth and the will to make something sustainable. By the 2010’s, there were calls for a professional league in line with their men’s counterpart, and that all came to a head in 2017 with the birth of AFLW. Read more » |
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Jul 30, 2024 Revolution Revs Up - TransAtlantic Cup Preview Twenty-five years ago, a Revolution began. It wasn’t a revolt, rebellion, or a mutiny, much like the one that led to the foundation of our country. But it was, in a sense, a coup. A new national team in a sport that no one representing it had played growing up. This was the USA Revolution Aussie Rules football club. In 1999, they played their first game, a 20-point win over Canada in Chicago. Back then, there was around a dozen or so clubs, and the local American players were easily distinguishable by their lack of skills. Read more » |
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Jul 19, 2024 July 2024 Odin Mortgage Coaches Polls I feel a Freeze in the atmosphere. No, not just that my air conditioning is turned up high thanks to the summer heat. It’s the chill of a brand new team at the top of the July Odin Mortgage Women’s Poll. Minnesota’s ascension was one of a slew of post-regionals shifts to both the Women’s and Men’s tallies. No fewer than 21 of the thirty spots found themselves with new occupancies, including all top six spots for the women and seven of the top ten for the men. Read more » |
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Jul 16, 2024 2024 Regionals Recap, All Regionals Team The summer of 2024 is proving to be hotter than in years’ past. Not just in temperature, though it’s certainly beginning to feel that way in places across the country, something something global warming something something. Read more » |
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