AFL Week 4 Review

In a weekend that was meant to contain one tightly contested affair and one lopsided encounter the AFL managed to give us two ... lopsided encounters, quite a disappointing Saturday for anyone that tuned in I'm afraid.

Unfortunately, playing like a Raider meant emulating JaMarcus Russell.
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DC Writer NFL Mock Draft: Picks 1-5

In the build up to the NFL draft we'll be running a number of features, our first is a round table mock with eight of our writers picking for teams. This is the line up:

Nathan James Sharrocks 1st - Chiefs, 9th - Jets, 17th - Steelers, 25th - Vikings from Seattle

Tommy Gibbs 2nd - Jags, 10th - Titans, 18th - Dallas, 26th - Green Bay

John Winter 3rd - Oakland, 11th - San Diego, 19th - Giants, 27th - Texans

Ross Watson 4th - Philly, 12th - Miami, 20th - Chicago, 28th - Denver

Tom Snee 5th - Detroit, 13th - Tampa Bay, 21st - Cincinnati, 29th - New England

Richard Penwright 6th - Cleveland, 14th - Carolina, 22nd - St.Louis from Washington, 30th - Atlanta

Jon Goddard 7th - Arizona, 15th - New Orleans - 23rd - Minnesota, 31st - San Fran 

Simon Love 8th - Buffalo, 16th - St. Louis Rams, 24th - Indianapolis, 32nd - Baltimore

GB Abroad: South-West England to Scandinavia

This summer will be one requiring passports and oversize luggage allowances for 4 members of the Plymouth Blitz.

Offensive co-ordinator Charles Rifenbark will be undertaking a new challenge, taking up the Head-Coaching position of Seinajoki Crocodiles in Finland. It will be Coach Rifenbark's first Head Coaching role and his chance to show his coaching acumen with one of the top Finnish teams.

Coach Rifenbark will be at the Seinajoki Crocodiles. Image c/o www.gridiron.fi 

Irish Football Weekend Roundup

Another weekend gone in the Irish American Football Leagues and what a weekend it was! New leaders in both the Shamrock Bowl Conference North and South as well as a shock result in the North coupled with a gutsy performance from the Mullingar Minotaurs in IAFL-1 made the weekend more than interesting.

Photo by Nathan James Sharrocks

Irish Football Weekend Previews

Shamrock Bowl Conference Match Previews

With the worst of the weather hopefully firmly behind us the Shamrock Bowl Conference can pick up some momentum. We have three more games this week, two in the north and one in the south. One game is the rescheduled

West Dublin Rhinos v Dublin Rebels – Castleknock College 2pm

First up the Dublin Rebels head across the city to face the Rhinos at Castleknock. They beat them 22-0 at home earlier in the season and will be looking for a similar result against a West Dublin side that is still yet to score a point in three games.

The Dublin Rebels will be looking to go 3-0 this weekend - photo by Ariane Boudias