Max Gawn’s draft interview in 2009 stood out from the pack for its candour and flashes of humour. In a new interview,the premiership skipper looks back at that scruffy teenager.
Against the backdrop of the Hawthorn saga,Brisbane’s coach has kept his team in the premiership hunt,with his Lions joining the Cats with the most wins in the AFL in the past five years.
The Blues are unbeaten in the first three weeks of the season but there are cracks beneath the surface that show Carlton have a long way to go.
While there are three or four senior players capable of leading Collingwood,Darcy Moore is the player best placed to replace the formidable Scott Pendlebury as captain of the game’s most visible team.
The AFL has proposed handing a sizeable share of $55 million owed to men’s players to the AFLW cohort - a move that has incensed the players and been rejected by them in negotiations.
Hawthorn great Shaun Burgoyne says the club had erred in their handling of a racial incident at a 2013 end-of-season trip.
Sam Mitchell’s building blocks aren’t nearly as spectacular as those that Alastair Clarkson had in place by the time the Hawks took the field in 2005,the last time they were embarking upon a youth-led recovery under a first-time coach.
Freed from desire,the confident Demons are eyeing a dynasty. What are their prospects of achieving just that,and how did they get to this position?
Hodge's career at Hawthorn is already the stuff of legend and doesn't need to be reprised. What he's done for the Lions across 41 games,though,is almost immeasurable.
The Hawk-turned-Lion has made some mistakes in a brilliant career,but learned from them. He's not the Brisbane captain but he's always a leader.
Lured out of retirement after the 2017 season,four-time premiership winner Luke Hodge feels privileged to be in the running for finals football again with Brisbane.