Brisbane Lions
Opinion
AFL 2025
The fix-ture is in: Why handicapping teams flies in the face of AFL’s integrity
The fixture should not be another lever for equalisation. The premiership race should be run at even weights, like the Derby – not weighted in the manner of the Melbourne Cup.
- by Jake Niall
Latest
The big fix: Revealing the secret formula that goes into making the most-read list in Australian sport
If you thought footy fans were obsessed with the AFL fixture, spare a thought for the man whose job it is to balance the interests of all 18 clubs and the broadcasters, while accommodating the league’s traditions and quirks.
- by Jon Pierik
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AFL 2025
See the full 2025 fixture: AFL banks on Blues, Magpies, as Dreamtime at the ’G moves to Friday night
The full 2025 AFL fixture has been released, and the league is banking on Carlton and Collingwood being big drawcards.
- by Peter Ryan and Jon Pierik
‘It gave me a lot of perspective’: The sick kids behind Ashcroft’s rise
He is the AFL’s youngest Norm Smith Medal winner, and he’s set to be joined by his brother at the Lions. But off the field, Will Ashcroft is changing lives.
- by Nick Wright
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AFLW
Clash after siren as tempers flare in Hawks-Lions final
Hawks coach Daniel Webster was asked about the fiery post-match altercation, including whether comments had been directed at Hawthorn captain Emily Bates, and said: “something might have been there”.
- by Hannah Kennelly
Finals
AFLW
‘Playing for a million dollars, that’s pressure:’ Inside the Hawks’ stunning rise to AFLW flag contenders
Trailing Richmond in the last term of last week’s final AFLW home-and-away round, Hawthorn needed to avoid defeat to lock in a $1 million bounty for the club. But Hawthorn’s women’s players did not buckle under the pressure.
- by Scott Spits
Forward planning: Lions meet to craft plan for flag defence without Joe Daniher
A month after their grand final win, the Lions are getting serious about the premiership defence and developing a strategy to fill the hole Joe Daniher will leave in their line-up.
- by Michael Gleeson
Pick a winner: Who your team will target in the AFL draft
We now know the ins and outs, the draft picks and the list spots that are available, so what will your club’s strategy be at the national draft and what players do they have their eyes on?
- by Marc McGowan
Can the wounded Swans recover? Four experts give their thoughts
After so much hope, the Swans’ season ended in bitter disappointment with a resounding grand final defeat against Brisbane.
- by Jonathan Drennan
AFL trades day five as it happened: Dees ridicule claim on Oliver; Blues pounce on high Hawthorn pick
Interim Melbourne president Brad Green takes to social media to ridicule a claim that Clayton Oliver – the star player who is subject to intense trade speculation – had “cleaned out his locker”. On a busier day of the AFL’s exhange period, there were various pick swaps as Carlton secured Hawthorn’s first-round pick.
- by Scott Spits
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AFL 2024
Joe Daniher’s 12-month retirement wait to win flag
Joe Daniher would have retired if the Brisbane Lions had won last year’s AFL grand final, a match in which this year’s premiers were narrowly beaten to the flag by Collingwood.
- by Scott Spits, Marc McGowan, Michael Gleeson and Roy Ward
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