The Age (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
The Western Bulldogs' Adam Cooney swooped late to win the Brownlow Medal last night, beating by a vote Brisbane's Simon Black, a former winner who was runner-up for the second year in a row.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
WHILE the weather may suggest otherwise, we are into September - and Adam Goodes believes his team's ability to play September football gives the Swans confidence they can beat North Melbourne tonight, along with any of the other six finalists, including Geelong.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
SYDNEY'S Adam Goodes said he was feeling the benefits of a week off to rest his groin injury before Saturday night's elimination final against North Melbourne.
ABC (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
Sydney coach Paul Roos says Adam Goodes will not be fit enough to play a midfield role in Saturday's AFL elimination final against North Melbourne.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
SYDNEY'S dual Brownlow Medallist Adam Goodes is fit to play in Saturday night's AFL elimination final against North Melbourne, but will undergo post-season surgery on his groin.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
IN a rare act of defiance, Adam Goodes claims Swans coach Paul Roos has got it wrong.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
... the count with single-figure odds against their names on bookies' charts - bloused when Bulldog Adam Cooney burst to the lead when he accumulated five votes in Rounds 20 and 21, and held on. Ablett, who last year looked forlorn when he sat next to the winner, Bartel, in a count he thought he could win, looked shattered again last night when he failed to poll in the final round. He ended...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
... Robert Harvey (1997, 1998), Shane Crawford (1999), Shane Woewodin (2000), Simon Black (2002), Adam Goodes (2003), Nathan Buckley (2003), Mark Ricciuto (2003), Chris Judd (2004) and Goodes (2006) did not miss a game. Champion Data last year bucked convention by predicting Bartel would win the medal. This year, Champion Data again believes Bartel is Ablett's biggest threat. It...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... to put his side up by 29 points. Defender Dale Morris also deserved enormous credit for his job on Adam Goodes, the Swans superstar managing just one goal and having little other impact.. The Bulldogs had looked in some trouble midway through the second quarter, when a series of free kicks to the Swans turned the momentum their way. The 'Dogs had seemed to be seizing control when...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... Lewis Roberts-Thomson was awarded a free kick in midfield for being tackled without the ball by Adam Cooney, then handed a 50m penalty when Mitch Hahn kicked the ball after the whistle had blown. Roberts-Thomson kicked truly from about 40m and the Swans had a nine-point lead with all the momentum. But the Bulldogs showed enormous spirit to gain the ascendancy in the midfield clinches and...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
... half was very good last week." The Bulldogs had Sydney's powerful forward line, which includes Adam Goodes and Ryan O'Keefe as well as Hall, in mind when they included young tall Stephen Tiller in their side, at the expense of midfielder Farren Ray. Sydney named an unchanged side, but Roos said Luke Ablett-- who was valuable last week with six centre clearances - was under a cloud...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... very outstanding." The seeds that Eade scattered back in his Sydney days - developmental years of Adam Goodes, Tadhg Kennelly, Jude Bolton and co - have germinated and bloomed under Roos into a finals-hardened side in their sixth-straight September campaign. Before this finals series the Swans' list had accumulated 256 finals to the Bulldogs' 93. "We've got an experienced group that...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
... couple of weeks and probably one of the good things is Hally (Barry Hall) is playing really well, Goodesy (Adam Goodes) is contributing extremely well and our midfield group through Jude Bolton and Brett Kirk are playing good footy." Share this article:
ABC (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Fighting Swans end Kangaroos' seasonSeptember 6, 2008 22:21:00September 6, 2008 22:23:00Adam Goodes kick-started the Swans fight back in the third term and finished the match with three goals (Getty Images: Adam Pretty, file photo)Sydney booked a semi-final date with the Western Bulldogs and brought an end to North Melbourne's season with a hard-fought 17.8 (110) to 11.9...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
... that goes on (in Melbourne),” O'Keefe, 27, told AAP today. “I think it's a good thing.” O'Keefe, Adam Goodes and Barry Hall contributed eight goals in Sydney's 35-point elimination final win over North Melbourne and the Swans will rely heavily on the trio to reproduce that form in their semi-final against the Western Bulldogs at the MCG. O'Keefe says with the Swans building momentum...
