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The Abu Dhabi Falcons Australia Rules Football Club was established in 2008.
The Abu Dhabi Falcons compete in the Middle East AFL competition that runs from October to March each year with teams based in Dubai, Muscat, Bahrain, Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
After a fantastic year both on and off the field the Abu Dhabi Falcons finished Runners Up to the Dubai Heat in this years Grand Final. Captain Ben Williams was awarded the MVP for the league and our full forward Marc Peterson was the League's leading Goal Kicker for season 2009/10.
For more information regarding training and playing please contact us.
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With season 2009/10 now completed we look forward to recommencing training in the first week of September 2010. Once underway, training is every Monday night from 7.00 PM - 8.30pm at the American International School, Abu Dhabi on 29th Street and Airport Road . Click on the map for more details. New Players and socialites always welcome!
Aus Kick for children here in Abu Dhabi on Friday mornings at the American International School, contact Jay Mears for more details.
Abu Dhabi Falcons Club Song
See the Falcons fly up, up!
To win the premiership flag.
Our boys who play this grand old game,
Are always striving for glory and fame!
See the Falcons fly up, up,
The other teams they don't fear,
They all try their best,
But they can't get near,
As the Falcons fly up!
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by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rocket
It was great to have our boys play in the Grand Final. It was exciting to be involved. Everyone in the club was determined to enjoy it – and enjoy it we did. The elephant in the (locker) room was the absence through injuries and unavailability of some of our very best players – but Coach Free was having no excuses – and the players ran out fiercely determined to acquit themselves well. And they did.
Alas they ran into sand storm in the first quarter and the Heat were on fire - kicking with the aid of a strong wind - they kicked 6 goals 4 to our 1.1 to set up a commanding lead. Even with the breeze in the second term we couldn’t make any head-way and were down by 9 goals at half-time.
A good old-fashioned half-time address from Coach Free that focused on playing for your mates and pride in the guernsey produced a second-half come of sorts that saw the Falcons take the game right up to the Heat in the third quarter to almost outscore them against the breeze and then to “win” the last quarter.
All players in the squad had a run and it was great to see Bogan charging through packs like a bolt of supercharged lightning and Drac attacking the ball like an Apache with a boil on his bum while Troy Patterson was slippery than an eel in the shower in the forward pocket.
Players to stand out stood out like daffodils in a manure pit on the day were:
Nathan Pirouet – who won more kicks than a tap dancing centipede and took more marks than a school desk in Harlem – a most deserved winner of the Etihad Airlines award for the Falcons’ man-of-the match
Dan Brooke - whose agility and elusiveness makes Lionel Messi look like knocked-kneed statue stood out like a beacon in attack
Mick Molnar – is that tough he won’t allow a dog a drink from a mirage turned in a performance that would induce the opposition coach to name his first ulcer after him
Brett Bowman – was almost as impenetrable as a 12th century chastity belt in defence.
Well done to coach Peter Free, his assistant Steve Watson and all the players on making the grand final and for a fine season. Many thanks to club president Jay Mears and the lovely Clare for all their great work behind the scenes that makes the club work with the unerring precision of a Rolls Royce. Also many thanks to our sponsors – Etihad Airways, Emirates Aluminum, DLA Piper, Go-Gulf, Champion Technologies, Insight Engineering, and SNC Lavalin / Worley Parsons Inc. Your support is much appreciated.
It’s been a wonderful season for the Falcons. But as General Custer said at the battle of Little Big Horn, “I think we’ll see a completely different team out there next season”.
Final scores:
Dubai Heat 6.4.40 11.5.71 15.8.98 16.11.107
Abu Dhabi 1.1.7 2.5.17 6.7.43 7.11.53
Goal kickers:
Abu Dhabi: Daniel Brooke 3, Tom Mitchell, John (Pav) Lennon, Mark Deverall, Matthew Wood
Abu Dhabi: N.Pirouet, D. Brooke, M. Molnar
Played at The Sevens, Dubai on Friday 19 March 2010
2010-03-26 11:49:18
This was a classic game of hard-at-it-footy that had spectators gasping at the knock ‘em down, stand-up again contest for the pig skin. In the end the class and experience of the opposition prevailed but not before our gallant team had spent every molecule of energy and effort in pursuit of what would have been a famous victory.
The Heat got away to a good start with the aid of a very stiff unfriendly breeze, but it was pretty obvious early on that our boys weren’t going to be brushed aside like rag dolls in Heroes on a Thursday night. The desire was there, the tackling fierce, and we were getting more hardball gets than a brass monkey in Siberia. To be only 2 points in arrears at quarter time was as uplifting as an elephant on an ant bed.
The approach to the ball that had defined play in the first quarter was taken to a new level in the second term with the mid-field working with the unerring precision of Mussolini’s train timetable, the defenders sticking closer to their opponents than barnacles on an Ethiopian battleship, and the forwards looser than Shane Warne in a bar full of love-hungry maidens at closing time. The result was a handy 13 point lead at half-time.
The third quarter effort was herculean – to outscore the Heat against the breeze was an unbelievable effort and put us 14 points up at lemon-time – coming home with the breeze. The loss of Marc Petterson in a courageous act in this term was a telling blow, but the effort of young Ash Dusting to be in the right spot and to score a goal with his first kick in senior football was a huge highlight that puts him in the same illustrious company as Ted Whitten, Tony Lockett, and Sammy Lebbal.
When Cam Granger slotted home a sausage roll two minutes into the last quarter it was put down your glasses, but alas as it turned out, we had well and truly spent our petrol tickets. The Heat’s experienced old hands got away from us to snatch victory by just 2 points. No excuses, no pack drill, the other mob were too good for us – just.
Players to stand out stood out like bottle of bryllcreme on Telly Savala’s shopping list were:
Brett Bowman – who took more marks than a second-dart board and handled the ball surer than a horse gelder. His effort on the former Sydney Swans super-star Andrew Schauble was monumental.
Ben Williams - who could hide in the shadow of a toothpick, darted around like a hyperactive ant with boils to win a truck load of possessions
Nathan Pirouet – who attacked the ball with the recklessness of a death row victim with ulcers and had more forward thrusts than Paris Hilton’s diaphragm
Daniel Brooke - who with more tape than a mummy slotted through 5 sausage rolls, 3 which were absolutely Diacos magic
Match details:
Scores
Falcons 3.1.19 6.6.42 9.9.63 10.9.69
Heat 3.3.21 4.5.29 7.7.49 10.11.71
Falcons Goalkickers:
DanIel Brooke 5, Nathan Pirouet 2, Cameron Granger, Marc Petterson, Ashley Dusting
Falcons Best: Brett Bowman, Ben Williams, Nathan Pirouet, Daniel Brooke
by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rocket
2010-03-07 10:27:30
