After a flat afternoon in the country, the Royals come home to Cross Keys on Friday night needing the response that the home ground has produced all season. The numbers from the road still sting. A single goal settled it for GV Suns, the gap to the top two stretched to eight points, and Essendon […]
A two-hour drive up the Hume, past Seymour, past Avenel, into the country. The bus pulls into John McEwen Reserve on Saturday afternoon, and the Royals face their biggest test of the season to date. Three months and one weekend ago at Cross Keys, we hosted this same Goulburn Valley Suns side at Broadmeadows and […]
The Essendon Royals produced an emphatic performance under the Friday night lights at Cross Keys – putting five past the side who bested them in Round 1. Essendon seemed to have Nunawading’s measure from the opening whistle, forcing mistakes and turnovers off the high press. Dean Clarke took advantage within five minutes, as his shot […]
Round 14 brings the season’s symmetry home to Cross Keys as Royals look to flip the Round 1 result against a sliding Nunawading.
Some Friday nights at the football promise fireworks. Others promise a slow burn that never quite catches. This was the latter kind. A cold evening at Keilor Park Recreation Reserve, and a game that drifted along until one moment of transition decided it. Our four-game winning run ends here, and there is no point dressing […]
This preview is proudly brought to you by Nicholas James Lawyers. The last time Essendon Royals turned up to Keilor Park Recreation Reserve, they left with five goals and a finish line in sight. Saturday afternoon, 13 August 2022, second-last round of State League 1, a 5-0 result on the way to the promotion that […]
This preview is proudly brought to you by Nicholas James Lawyers. “Three wins from three” is the sort of sentence that changes the way a team walks into training. Essendon Royals have spent the back half of April building something genuine out of a difficult start, and Friday night at Cross Keys Reserve is the […]
Back-to-back wins have a way of changing the mathematics. Two weeks ago the Royals were looking up at the top four from a long way back; now they head into Round 10 with momentum, a sharpened attack, and a fixture that is very much there to be won. Essendon Royals travel to HC Kim Reserve […]
A huge thanks to Nicholas James Lawyers for presenting this weekend’s men’s fixture. Last week marked the 60th Anniversary of the infamous UFO sighting over The Grange Reserve in 1966. The Royals men head to the very same spot this Friday to take on Kingston City, and if the past fortnight is anything to go […]
Round 1 offered intensity. It offered drama. It did not offer points. Essendon Royals opened 2026 with a 3–2 defeat to Nunawading City FC, conceding in stoppage time after twice fighting their way back into the contest. The Royals were strong for much of the first half. Josh Markovski finished a well-constructed move after Adrian […]
