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New frontiers … Mal Mennga and Kevin Sheedy.

If Mal wants success in the west he must follow Sheedy’s blueprint

Mal Meninga needs to win over Western Australia. The first GWS Giants coach showed him how to be successful.

  • Neil Breen

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Kevin Sheedy and Leigh Matthews at the Shrine of Remembrance this week.

How Kevin Sheedy’s 1977 miskick sparked a 30-year Anzac Day tradition

Kevin Sheedy was pottering in his garden and focusing on ways to promote the game when he had the brainwave that birthed a blockbuster.

  • Scott Spits
Essendon ambassador Kevin Sheedy.

Bombers paid Sheedy six-figure sum for ambassadorial role

Essendon paid AFL Legend and four-time premiership coach Kevin Sheedy the overwhelming majority of $150,000 in ambassadorial payments in 2024 while he was a club director.

  • Marc McGowan
During Carlton training at Optus Oval in 2005.

A footy icon, and a dad: MCG rings with tales of Ron Barassi at memorial service

AFL great Ron Barassi has been remembered as a loving father, ultimate team man and a visionary with a wicked sense of humour at the AFL icon’s state memorial service.

  • Jon Pierik
Kevin Sheedy

Sheedy’s ringing endorsement for Scott as Bombers footy boss departs

A year after famously voting for James Hird, Kevin Sheedy says there is “not a doubt in the world” Brad Scott has been a good appointment as Essendon coach.

  • Andrew Wu
Kevin Sheedy and Alex Carey.

‘Great skill’: As Lord’s went nuts over Carey’s stumping, old fox Sheedy swelled with pride

Never one to miss a chance to do anything within the rules – or even occasionally on the edge of them – to win a game of football, Kevin Sheedy described Alex Carey’s stumping of Jonny Bairstow as an example of great skill that filled him with pride.

  • Peter Ryan
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Sam Draper shows some dash last year.

Will Dons tag Daicos? Who will handle the heat? The burning questions on Anzac Day

Rightly or wrongly, Essendon and Collingwood own the home and away season’s biggest stage. This year it’s also a heavyweight platform. Who will best handle the heat?

  • Greg Baum
New Essendon coach Brad Scott is yet to announce his captain for this year.

‘We’ve got a problem here’: What Brad Scott found at Essendon

Brad Scott bluntly told Essendon president David Barham and his board that if they believed they were close to a turnaround in on-field results, they shouldn’t hire him.

  • Jake Niall
Alex Carey celebrates his first Test century for Australia.

‘I’ll send him an invoice’: Carey joins Australia’s keeping greats with maiden Test ton

As a footballer, Alex Carey harboured ambitions of being out on the MCG on grand final day but a landmark moment in the venue’s other storied sporting feature is not a bad consolation prize.

  • Andrew Wu
Outgoing Saints list boss James Gallagher.

Saints list manager departs, Essendon members make call on open board positions

Essendon’s year of upheaval might finally be over, with members voting for stability with the two board positions up for grabs. Meanwhile, the Saints’ list manager will leave the club at the end of the year.

  • Marc McGowan

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