Essendon Bombers
Sign a star, break a curse, play finals: Your club’s 2025 wishlist
What your club needs to get right to ensure they have a happy and prosperous 2025.
- Michael Gleeson, Scott Spits, Jon Pierik and Marc McGowan
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‘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.
- Scott Spits
‘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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Marc McGowan
Download your 2025 AFL fixture
The AFL draft is done for another year, Brisbane’s stunning premiership remains in the rearview mirror and the summer sport calendar is kicking into gear. But you can still check out the 2025 AFL draw.
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.
- 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.
- Marc McGowan
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