Talk about getting out of jail. 30 points up at the last change, Melbourne did everything it could to surrender its clash with a plucky Carlton. That was until a moment of composure from the often-errant Clayton Oliver.
Collingwood’s coaching succession plan was well-known by the 2011 finals series. While rumours swirled of a player push to keep Mick Malthouse in charge, the coaching great says he never put pressure on the board. SACKED PODCAST
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St Kilda has one of the best young ruckmen in the game — Rowan Marshall — and has been linked with Sam Draper. But it’s an experienced big man Brendon Goddard says the Saints should be chasing.
It’s time for Essendon fans to see the best of Jake Stringer. But before that, they’ve got to pull off a blockbuster trade that could change the direction of the club.
Forget the ladder position and the win-loss record. The Blues are on the way up. But if they want to take the next step, they need to get Patrick Cripps a right hand man in the midfield.
The AFL’s umpiring department has ticked off the controversial score review officers’ decision to award a match-tying goal to Essendon in its clash with GWS as AFL greats, players and the league’s CEO weigh in.
He went at pick 12 in the 2017 draft, but Darcy Fogarty remains stuck in the SANFL. Rival clubs are showing interest in the out-of-favour young Crow. CONTRACT WHISPERS
AFL players have been asked to “pledge” their brains to a new Melbourne bank that aims to shed more light on the game’s concussion scourge amid alarming figures and revelations of brain disease in a pair of former NRL guns.
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