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AFL stock market: Pre-season edition A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size There are always reports during the pre-season in the AFL about a certain player who is ready for a breakout or playing a revamped role. Everyone wants to nail predictions about a player and to make it easy, I will be playing the AFL stock market. For each of the 18 AFL sides, I will be buying, holding and selling stocks, attempting to ...

What Tim Watson found interesting about Essendons new leadership group By 2021-01-27T12:51+11:00 Former Essendon captain Tim Watson has outlined what he believes was the most interesting aspect of the club’s revamped leadership group in 2021. The Bombers announced their streamlined leadership group for the upcoming season last week, with Zach Merrett back as a joint vice-captain with Michael Hurley and Andrew McGrath. Dyson Heppell will skipper the club for a fifth consecutive year. Both ...

The players your AFL club can reinvent in 2021 AFL by Staff writers Premium Content Subscriber only With the new AFL season fast approaching, clubs will be looking at every way possible to improve on last year - including moving the magnets. Whether its Jeremy Howe going from a high-marking forward to intercept defender, or Josh Dunkley transforming from inside midfielder to undersized ruckman, theres sure to be plenty more surprises on the horizon as Roun...

He was obnoxious at times. He was opinionated. But his friends will remember him as a “big-mouthed rock star.” Kreiser, who was known for being the frontman and/or promoter for many Northwest Florida metal bands, such as Bomb Threat, In Harm’s Way, Television Graveyard and Holding God Hostage, died Dec. 30 in a hit-and-run incident. The collision occurred about 8 p.m. Dec. 30 as Kreiser was walking along U.S. Highway 98 near East Timberlake Drive in Florosa.  A white vehicle traveling w...

Article content A Health Canada-approved antibody drug engineered by a Vancouver biotech company to treat COVID-19 is not being used in B.C. The drug — bamlanivimab — is made by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly using technology from AbCellera Biologics. AbCellera is valued at over US$10 billion since its debut on the NASDAQ exchange last month. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Health Canada-approved COVID-19 treatment drug rejected by Brit...

The Week’s Big 5 1. Policy and placemaking go direct. Policymakers, funders and other stakeholders are putting cash and control in the hands of U.S. residents to address the interlocking challenges of COVID-19, inequality and racial justice. The Week’s Agent of Impact Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital. Venture capitalists love to invest in disruption. Arlan Hamilton is disrupting venture capital. She created Backstage Capital in 2015 with a conviction that backing “underestimated” found...

Nick Dal Santo wants to see more from the midfield star.

It happened just before 11 p.m. on the 1200 block of South 56th Street. According to Captain Scott Drissel, the officer "narrowly escaped a very serious injury" after the suspect tried to shoot him in the head while he and fellow officers were responding to a 911 call. Drissel said the officer and his partner disarmed the suspect, without firing their weapons, and made the arrest. "This is yet another example of the relentless and heroic work Philadelphia police officers do every day during unp...

ST CATHERINE: The annual Linstead Grand Market is raising concerns among stakeholders and citizens in the St Catherine community, who want the day and night Christmas Eve event cancelled this year due to the novel coronavirus pandemic that has been spiking in this and some other parishes. Since the announcement by chairman of the St Catherine Municipal Corporation and mayor of Spanish Town, Norman Scott, at the general meeting of the corporation held on Thursday, that the event will be staged f...

Mick McGuane rates every AFL team’s midfield from 1-18 AFL by Mick McGuane Premium Content Subscriber only Geelongs ability to win the ball and use it effectively from inside the contest to outside the contest has the Cats boasting the premier midfield of the competition, according to former Collingwood and Carlton player Mick McGuane. The Pies premiership player and dual All-Australian ranks the Cats engine room at No.1 in the league. McGuane based hi...