Dustin Martin
‘Totally skewed the voting’: Was Cripps’ 2024 season the best Brownlow year this century?
Patrick Cripps toasted a record-breaking 45 votes to claim this year’s Brownlow Medal, but was it really the greatest season on record?
- by Jon Pierik
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Letters
Our great, meritocratic game of footy’s shrinking talent pool
Readers discuss the number of AFL draftees plucked from private boys’ schools and argue it sells public school football talent short.
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Commercial real estate
Tigers star Dusty Martin kicks off $25m property portfolio sale
Retiring Richmond footy star Dustin Martin and his manager Ralph Carr are selling a string of Victoria Street properties in Abbotsford.
- by Nicole Lindsay
Analysis
AFL 2024
The Dusty dilemma: The questions Gold Coast and Martin are asking
Dustin Martin is likely to land at the Suns – but once, a team asking if it wanted Dusty would have been a rhetorical question. It is not now.
- by Michael Gleeson
Dustin Martin’s bikie uncle avoids deportation after proving Indigenous heritage
Dean Martin, a former Rebels bikie president who was once in a relationship with ex-Greens senator Lidia Thorpe, has been released from immigration detention.
- by Hannah Kennelly
Analysis
Trading and drafting
Trade tightrope: The huge calls Richmond face on their stars
The path that Richmond takes on whether to trade out Daniel Rioli and/or Shai Bolton represents the most consequential decision the club has faced since the exit of Damien Hardwick.
- by Jake Niall
Sidebottom’s up: Collingwood great to play on in 2025
Steele Sidebottom’s career is set to stretch into a 17th AFL season, meaning all nine of Collingwood’s 30-and-over players are slated to continue in 2025.
- by Jake Niall
Opinion
AFL 2024
What’s Dusty like? I spent four years at Punt Road and this is what I know
Dustin Martin is a largely unknowable figure, who is what he does. Konrad Marshall spent four years embedded in the modern Richmond dynasty, and reflects on the career of the totemic Tiger.
- by Konrad Marshall
A long time, and a good time, as Tom Hawkins bids farewell
Chris Scott described Tom Hawkins, who will retire at the end of the season, as an all-time great at Geelong. There was not even a hint of debate.
- by Peter Ryan
Tiger Dustin Martin and Cat Tom Hawkins announce their retirements
Hours after Richmond great Dustin Martin announced his 15-year AFL career was over, Geelong great Tom Hawkins followed suit and announced his career would close at the end of the season.
- by Jon Pierik
The retiring Tiger and the cool Cat were big-game hunters
With the retirements of Dustin Martin and Tom Hawkins, the AFL loses two greats of the game who both performed on the biggest stage.
- by Peter Ryan
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