the smart alec, cryptic, cutting, surly and dismissive Ross Lyon from Thursday's media conference is back for good ...

TO SAY Damien Hardwick is not a fan of bouncing the footy would be an understatement - and statistics show there might be some merit to his belief. In Gold Coast's win over West Coast last weekend, ...

THERE was a play in Opening Round where Aaron Naughton barely got a stat to his name, but earned the plaudits of Luke Beveridge and the Western Bulldogs' coaching staff for days afterwards. In the ...

IZAK Rankine returns to the AFL stage on Friday night for the first time since being handed a four-game suspension for a homophobic slur seven months ago. The 25-year-old watched on in September as ...

TESS Craven was missing her cricket. The Ashes was underway and she was feeling that old itch, having played for Drysdale for around eight years in both boys and girls teams prior to being drafted to ...

Using the most sophisticated algorithm ever applied to our game, the Official AFL Player Ratings have assessed every single ...

Milan Murdock (MID, $292,000) and Brayden Cook (MID/FWD, $386,000) are popular rookie options, but do coaches need both? And ...

Ed Curnow has been awarded the Col Austen Trophy at the Box Hill Hawks’ best and fairest presentation night. Curnow polled in 10 of the 12 games he played for Box Hill before fracturing his leg ...

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MATT Rowell will see his specialist on Thursday afternoon and is likely to miss more time than Gold Coast thought as he ...

Pickett's first ever AFL major encapsulated everything great about Melbourne on Sunday. It was exciting, lively and full of fun. But was it the best first goal kicked by a player in recent memory? In ...

Ella Wood’s high expectations fired her progression from the GWV Rebels all the way to the VFLW Grand Final with the Western Bulldogs, but they also mean she has unfinished business.