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PERTH, AUSTRALIA - AUGUST 15: The Blues celebrate after Jack Newnes scores a goal after the siren to win the match during the 2020 AFL Round 12 match between the Fremantle Dockers and the Carlton Blues at Optus Stadium on August 15, 2020 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Will Russell/AFL Photos via Getty Images)
AFL

Newnes GOTY snub ‘hard to fathom’

Jack Newnes’ matchwinning after-the-siren kick against Fremantle was the AFL’s biggest “jump-off-the-couch” moment in 2020. Why then, as Jon Ralph writes, was it overlooked for Goal of the Year?

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Brownlow
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - SEPTEMBER 23:  Dustin Martin of the Tigers celebrates winning the Second AFL Preliminary Final match between the Richmond Tigers and the Greater Western Sydney Giants at Melbourne Cricket Ground on September 23, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia.  (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)

Tiger, Tiger burning bright

THERE are two big questions at Monday night’s Brownlow Medal count — will Tiger Dustin Martin claim a votes’ record and will Cat Patrick Dangerfiled be left red-faced?

Crows
AFL Finals series launch at the MCG.  2017 Brownlow medal . Pic: Michael Klein

Crows’ low-key night for ‘Charlie’

ADELAIDE will have its own Brownlow function at Adelaide Oval rather than have its players have their preparations hampered by travel in the week leading up to the club’s first grand final in 19 years.

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