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If anyone could make a comeback after three years out of the game, Alex Rance could according to his premiership coach Damien Hardwick. Rance, a five-time All-Australian defender, made the shock decision to retire at the end of the 2019 season after…
Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire says the furore surrounding its ugly board stoush has left him “cut to the core” and the club “look like a laughing stock”. It comes after reports emerged last week that lawyers – led by Francis Galbally…
Marc Murphy’s chances of becoming the sixth man to play 300 games for Carlton have hit another wall, with the former Blues captain overlooked for selection this weekend. Murphy has been named as an emergency substitution for this weekend’s clash with North…
A top-four spot remains their goal, but the Brisbane Lions are confident they can win the AFL premiership from anywhere in the top eight. Successive losses to St Kilda and Richmond have led to the Lions falling to fifth on the ladder…
Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin could only laugh as he defended the toughness of one player, the form of another and reminded everyone the Demons had to be mentally strong to sit on top of the AFL ladder. A midweek chip at leading…
An improved Adelaide asked some stern questions of West Coast on Sunday, but the visitors ultimately had the answers with Jamie Cripps booting five goals in a 42-point win that moved his side back into the top eight. The Eagles dropped out…
Former Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley has questioned the contagiousness of Covid-19 in a bizarre social media post – his first in more than a month. A near-record number of Victorians underwent Covid tests on Saturday (53,283), with 16 new cases recorded in…
Dustin Martin shrugged off the agony of a serious kidney injury to return to the field and shake hands with Lions and Tigers teammates in the minutes before he was taken to hospital. The superstar was ruled out for the rest of…
An undermanned Port Adelaide pulled off a 13-point win against the odds against a St Kilda side hoping to jump into the top-eight. The Power, missing a host of their best players, will end the round inside the top four thanks to…
The AFL season is again at crisis point after news emerged Saturday four clubs have been forced to put players and staff into hard lockdown. Essendon star Andrew McGrath is the only player to be publicly identified in reports. It has been…
An injury to Richmond superstar Dustin Martin has overshadowed Richmond’s upset victory over the top-four Brisbane Lions at Metricon Stadium on Friday night. It’s unclear as to the exact nature of the injury, but it looks as though the Brownlow Medallist suffered…
AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan has vowed the league will press on with its Victorian-based matches this weekend, after a person infected with Covid-19 attended a game at the MCG on July 10. The ground was listed as an exposure site on…