Geelong and Hawthorn also meet in first week backThe Showdown scheduled in prime Saturday slotThe AFL has delivered clarity on the 2020 season restart after confirming multiple blockbusters in the first week back.Victorian heavyweights Richmond and Col…
There have been better grand finals involving more accomplished teams, but 2009 encapsulated everything that is brutal, cruel, sublime and unique about this sportSome grand finals are jolly romps. Some are stinkers. Some are knife fights. The 2009 vers…
There have been better grand finals involving more accomplished teams, but 2009 encapsulated everything that is brutal, cruel, sublime and unique about this sportSome grand finals are jolly romps. Some are stinkers. Some are knife fights. The 2009 vers…
Modified training from 18 May; full contact from 25 MayRevised fixture will not be released until next weekThe AFL will resume its 2020 season on 11 June with players back in training from Monday and to be tested for Covid-19 twice a week. AFL chief ex…
SA health officials reject training, travel exemptionsCrows and Power resigned to moving to interstate hubSouth Australia’s AFL clubs are prepared to move interstate within days if the state’s health authorities reject a last-ditch appeal to relax coro…
Club faces sanctions after group of players train together‘We have got it wrong and we own our mistake’The Adelaide Crows expect AFL sanctions after the group of players and assistant coach Ben Hart, who were meant to be self-isolating in the Barossa V…
Club faces sanctions after group of players train together‘We have got it wrong and we own our mistake’The Adelaide Crows expect AFL sanctions after the group of players and assistant coach Ben Hart, who were meant to be self-isolating in the Barossa V…
In some ways, the AFL is indebted to the NRL’s bulldozer tactics during the coronavirus crisisFooty next month, anyone? When Gillon McLachlan spoke of an “endorsed pathway” on Saturday – quite possibly the perkiest two words the AFL chief executive has…
Rising hope 2020 season can resume by end of JuneClubs begin to call back players in readiness for restartFederal sports minister Richard Colbeck says the AFL season will be able to resume without quarantine hubs if Covid-19 cases continue to decline. …
Whatever happens on the far side, professional sport cannot come back pretending it’s as important as when it left now that we’ve seen a world without itCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFor a while when the coronavirus first …
Playing at a former cathedral like Princes Park would restore the sense that footy belongs to the suburbs as well as the city“The whole of consumerism is based on us wanting the next thing rather than the present thing we already have,” Matt Haig lamen…
A crowd of 50,617 were present at Football Park to witness to a masterclass by the Roosters There are few years as significant in the timeline of Australian football as 1987. It was the year the VFL welcomed teams from Western Australia and Queensland,…
Players accept 50% cut rising to 70% if delay extends past MayThey are also prepared to play into December to finish seasonThe bitter stand-off between the AFL and its players has ended, with players agreeing to a 50 per cent pay cut until the end of M…
A retrospective account of the classic match at the MCGEvery goal as it happened over 30 years ago 3.18am GMT Q1. 14:45 gone: Hawthorn 4.2 (26) v Geelong 1.0 (6) Brilliant hands from Dipper to Whitman, who is the linkman again to Platten this time, the…
AFL staff cut by 80%; players offer to take 50% pay cutA-League players out of contract at end of MayThe huge financial cost of the coronavirus outbreak is being felt in the major football codes as Australian sport braces itself to feel the full impact…
The AFL is facing the biggest financial crisis in its history after the coronavirus crisis forced the suspension of the 2020 season until at least 31 MayIn the end the AFL came to its senses. In arriving at a decision many hoped might have been made la…
All matches called off until 31 MayAFLW season ends without a premiership awardedNRL and A-League under pressure to followFollow the latest coronavirus updates hereThe 2020 AFL season has been postponed after just one round and the AFLW competition can…
League had previously indicated a 14-day cessation‘It is a problem that is not going away,’ says McLachlanThe AFL season will suspend play for at least 30 days if any player tests positive to coronavirus, the league’s chief executive Gillon McLachlan s…
All teams will play each other once in 17-round seasonLeague will shut down if just one player tests positive The AFL has cut its season from 23 rounds to 17 but doubt remains over Thursday night’s opening game kicking-off as planned. All 18 teams will…
Cricket: Australia v NZ ODI series cancelled W-League semi-final: Melbourne Victory 0-1 Sydney FCNRL: Souths pip Sharks; Knights hammer WarriorsAFLW: Big wins for Pies and SaintsSuper Rugby: Blues and Crusaders triumph on tough day for NZ 8.29am GMT Th…
