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The Bombers and Carlton will kickstart round 24 in the Thursday-night timeslot.

Final round fizzer? Blues, Dons to play another Thursday night

It will be another Thursday night outing for both the Bombers and Blues as they both draw towards the end of a disappointing 2025 campaign.

  • Jake Niall

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Brad Scott has a number of his best players unavailable.

The next major change coming at Essendon

Having decided to part with their head of high performance, Essendon are ready for more major change at season’s end. Next will be their enlarged playing list.

  • Jake Niall
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AFL teams and tips for round 19: Membrey out, ‘managed’ by Magpies

Here are all the teams and tips for an intriguing round 19 of the season.

New Collingwood AFLW skipper Ruby Schleicher.

Buckley is about to return to Collingwood – he just doesn’t know it; Dons’ high-performance chief departs

The Magpies have named a Fox Footy boundary rider as their newest captain. Meanwhile, Sean Murphy’s departure comes at the height of a horror stretch of injuries for the Bombers.

  • Jake Niall and Danny Russell
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 17: Liam McMahon of the Bombers celebrates a goal during the round 19 AFL match between Essendon Bombers and GWS Giants at Marvel Stadium on July 17, 2025 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Morgan Hancock/Getty Images)

When opportunity knocks: The silver linings for battered Bombers

Essendon was all in at the mid-season draft in May, using all of their four selections to pick up Archie May, Lachlan Blakiston, Oskar Smartt and Liam McMahon. All four have now played senior AFL footy.

  • Scott Spits
Kieren Briggs of the Giants tackles Sam Durham of the Bombers.

‘We just missed’: Scott won’t blame luck on Essendon’s woeful goal-kicking; Dunstall backs Briggs to avoid ban for Durham tackle

The GWS Giants were too good for the injury-riddled Essendon on Thursday night as Dons coach Brad Scott calls for his young forwards to improve their kicking while Giants ruckman Kieren Briggs has received support as he nervously waits to see if he is cited for a tackle on Essendon’s Sam Durham.

  • Roy Ward and Scott Spits
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Elijah Tsatas has joined Essendon’s casualty ward.

Four fit players not in this week’s squad: Essendon’s injury crisis worsens yet again

The Bombers’ shocking run of injuries shows no sign of slowing down after scans showed midfielder Elijah Tsatas suffered a hamstring injury during round 18.

  • Jake Niall, Peter Ryan and Hannah Kennelly
Essendon have had a major injury crisis in season 2025, with the large number of injured players including (from left) Mason Redman, Kyle Langford and Sam Draper.

Where should the bad-luck Bombers look to find a cure for their injury curse?

The Bombers have used two full teams of players this season as their best and brightest continually topple over injured.

  • Libby Birch
St Kilda’s Rowan Marshall, Hawthorn’s James Worpel and Essendon’s Elijah Tsatas could be used as trade bait this year.

The expendables: The players your club could offload as trade bait

AFL clubs have started assessing their lists and identifying which valuable players they might be willing to offer on the trade table when the silly season comes around.

  • Peter Ryan and Michael Gleeson
The incident which led to Tristan Xerri’s suspension

Xerri’s three-game ban stands, Cerra fined for ump bump; Dons lose Caddy as injury crisis deepens

North Melbourne ruckman Tristan Xerri tried to overturn his three-game ban at the AFL tribunal but failed, meanwhile the Bombers are on their knees with two more players ruled out of Thursday night’s match against GWS.

  • Hannah Kennelly

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