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Tony Ryan

AFL club hosts Inclusion Round at Hollymount Park

By Tony Ryan of the Northern Districts Tigers Game day looked a little bit different at Hollymount Park on May 18, with the Northern Districts Tigers hosting a community-driven inclusion round. The club partnered with the southern branch of the...

Tony Ryan

June 2024

Sport & Leisure

Things I Just Do Not Get

Thirroul’s Tony Ryan gives pineapple lovers and others a pizza his mind. I was walking around Sydney the other day around lunchtime, when at a set of traffic lights I heard a huffing and puffing behind me. I turned to see a bloke in full running...

Tony Ryan

February 2024

Sport & Leisure

Horrible Holidays: it’s the journey that counts

tony to come

Tony Ryan

November 2023

Clubs & Community

Funerals I remember

As Father Time moves on and I get into my late 50s (wow, that makes me feel old!) we still have our fair share of parties, engagements and weddings, but funerals seem to be coming up more frequently. Most funerals are pretty serious, but I’ve seen...

Tony Ryan

August 2023

Sport & Leisure

The travel curse continues

When the AFL Gather Round was announced, texts were flying around my group of old mates in Melbourne that we should head along. Flights, accommodation and tickets were sorted. We arrived at midday on Friday, and by 1pm the first drink was cracked...

Tony Ryan

May 2023

Sport & Leisure

Regrets? I’ve had a few

Watching a pre-season game of the Northern Tigers AFL in the glorious sunshine last week, I was asked if I could journey out into the middle for a couple of quarters as the main umpire had to leave at half-time. I was in shorts and thongs, so I made...

Tony Ryan

April 2023

Sport & Leisure

‘The sea was angry that day’

Thirroul’s Tony Ryan tries deep-sea fishing on holiday Bumping into people on the street and getting feedback from friends, it seems the readers of this fine publication seem to get enjoyment from my misfortune, especially when I am on holidays...

Tony Ryan

February 2023

Sport & Leisure

Gift buyer, beware

As this fine publication arrives in your letterbox, for the last time this year, it begins the countdown to Christmas. It’s time for alcohol-fuelled work Christmas parties, to tell your boss or your ‘crush’ what you really think of them (no...

Tony Ryan

December 2022

Sport & Leisure

How ‘roughing it’ has changed

For some people, a tiny van might seem like an ordeal. Not when you remember the good ol’ days of camping, writes Tony Ryan After buying a very small caravan, it was time to take ourselves “way out west”, to go places in NSW that I had never...

Tony Ryan

November 2022

Sport & Leisure

Memories of L-plates

Thirroul’s Tony Ryan travels back in time, thanks to a space-saving spare tyre

Tony Ryan

September 2022

Sport & Leisure

Tigers Triumph at Grand Final

The Northern District Tigers AFL Women’s side – featured on the March 2021 cover of 2515 magazine – have won their first premiership! Coach Tony Ryan reports.

Tony Ryan

September 2022

Sport & Leisure

Vote 1 for Tony Ryan

Too soon? It’s never too soon when you have 2025 election promises like these! As this fine publication reaches your letterbox, the election will be over. During it, you may have seen our politicians as they flew over or drove through Wollongong...

Tony Ryan

May 2022

Sport & Leisure

‘My spider senses were tingling’

Tony Ryan presents a timely reminder of the perils of international travel With the international borders now opening up, my kids (22 and 20) are talking about travelling overseas for the first time without us. With the bride living in England for...

Tony Ryan

March 2022

Sport & Leisure

Grand tradition of nicknames

How they arise at school, work and on the footy field. By the Northern District Tigers women’s coach Tony Ryan I was at Ryan’s Hotel and there was a group of women all calling each other by their first names. There was Terrie, Peta, Clare, Lis...

Tony Ryan

December 2021