The AFL flag blueprint:Is your club in the premiership window?
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AFL 2025

The AFL flag blueprint:Is your club in the premiership window?

There’s a blueprint which history suggests is required to be in premiership contention next season. What does that look like,and where does your team sit? We take a look.

  • byJon Pierik

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The $70 million funding gap that could threaten the Demons’ dreams

The $70 million funding gap that could threaten the Demons’ dreams

The Demons missed out on the stadium boom but will consider multiple funding options in their bid to bring to life a long-awaited training and administration base.

  • byPeter Ryan
‘It’s time for me to give back’:Bombers flag hero to run for club board

‘It’s time for me to give back’:Bombers flag hero to run for club board

Dean Solomon played in the Bombers’ 2000 premiership team before a career in coaching took him around the country. Now he wants Essendon members to elect him to the board so he can give back to the club.

  • byJake Niall
The 504 players who have nominated for this year’s AFL draft

The 504 players who have nominated for this year’s AFL draft

See the full list of players who have nominated so far for this year’s AFL draft,which will run across two days on November 20 and 21.

  • byMarc McGowan
Pick a winner:Who your team will target in the AFL draft

Pick a winner:Who your team will target in the AFL draft

We now know the ins and outs,the draft picks and the list spots that are available,so what will your club’s strategy be at the national draft and what players do they have their eyes on?

  • byMarc McGowan
Ex-Bulldogs president Peter Gordon assists Pucovski concussion case,requests medical records

Ex-Bulldogs president Peter Gordon assists Pucovski concussion case,requests medical records

The prominent lawyer has provided advice to the AFL on its duty of care in concussion matters and is now assisting Will Pucovski,whose promising cricket career was cut short after he sustained repeated blows to the head.

  • byDaniel Brettig
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Footballers are not the victims here:Why the AFLPA’s Giants statement landed out on the full

Footballers are not the victims here:Why the AFLPA’s Giants statement landed out on the full

The union’s statement started on the right note,but quickly shifted the onus of responsibility from the players towards the clubs,the AFL and an amorphous “culture”.

  • byJake Niall
Which AFL team does your club want to see tumble down the ladder in 2025?

Which AFL team does your club want to see tumble down the ladder in 2025?

Sure the AFL has some fierce rivalries,but future trading means fans will be cheering for the demise of certain rivals in 2025,as club boffins try to predict how opponents will fare.

  • byMarc McGowan
The top draft chance who left hospital to watch his mates win a grand final without him

The top draft chance who left hospital to watch his mates win a grand final without him

Leading AFL draft hopeful Harry Armstrong has Matthew Lloyd in his corner,a great set of hands,and bundles of goals. But he had to overcome a serious infection barely a year ago.

  • byMarc McGowan
‘We need to be a bit better’:AFLW coach hits out at ‘shabby’ conditions after water pipe bursts pre-game
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‘We need to be a bit better’:AFLW coach hits out at ‘shabby’ conditions after water pipe bursts pre-game

Adelaide overcame both the Magpies and a burst water pipe to prevail by 43 points at Victoria Park on Sunday and bolster their hopes of an AFLW top-two finish.

  • byHannah Kennelly
‘I had a stinker’:Oliver vows to atone in 2025 after failed move to Geelong

‘I had a stinker’:Oliver vows to atone in 2025 after failed move to Geelong

Days after Melbourne shut the door on a move to Geelong,Clayton Oliver pledges to atone for his self-described “stinker” of a season next year.

  • byAndrew Wu