Essendon Bombers
‘We got a good deal. Don’t tell Sheeds’: Essendon defends ambassadorial role
The Bombers’ re-elected president said members would not begrudge the four-time premiership coach his paid role to spruik the club.
- by Scott Spits
Latest
‘We could have managed 2024 better’: Green vows Dees will learn as Bombers members back Barham
Melbourne president Brad Green has told members the club will learn from the experiences of 2024 after they endorsed his plans by electing club-backed board candidates, while Essendon president David Barham was re-elected.
- by Peter Ryan
AFL Briefing
AFL 2025
Dons urge members to vote against anti-pokies push; Pies and Hawks keen to swoop on Harris
An acknowledgement that their 190 poker machines in two venues are causing social harm would affect its financial independence from the AFL, Essendon says.
- by Jon Pierik and Peter Ryan
Exclusive
AFL 2025
‘Twenty years of shortcuts’: Dons president faces board challenge, preaches stability
In an exclusive interview, president David Barham discusses Essendon’s history of “shortcuts”, the club’s shift to long-term list planning after a failed push for a flag, why he is the candidate to bring “alignment” to the club and more.
- by Jake Niall
AFL Briefing
AFL 2025
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.
- by Marc McGowan
‘It’s not often us – it’s the parents’: The staggering private school dominance of the AFL draft
We crunched the numbers and they paint a telling picture of just where the AFL’s draftees are coming from.
- by Marc McGowan
AFL draft first round as it happened: Tigers’ ‘Dusty-like’ pick; Blues like Jagga; Kangas make move on twin
AFL top-draft pick Sam Lalor has put his hand up for Dustin Martin’s famous No.4 jumper and taken early comparisons to the retired Richmond legend in his stride.
- by Scott Spits and Roy Ward
One sleep to go: The latest mail on who your club will pick in this year’s AFL draft
The best and brightest prospects in the land will learn their fate on Wednesday and Thursday in the AFL draft. We’ve studied the form and the needs of the clubs to devise our final phantom draft for the first round.
- by Marc McGowan
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
Analysis
AFL 2025
The good, the bad and who you play twice: Club-by-club look at the 2025 fixture
We have broken down next year’s AFL fixture to reveal the good and the bad for your club, including who your team plays twice and how many top-four and bottom-four games are on the agenda.
- by Andrew Wu, Marc McGowan and Michael Gleeson
Updated
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
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