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A COMMUNITY is once again showing off its blooming wonderful flower displays at an annual garden competition. Mold Town Council’s launched their annual garden competition ‘Blooming Mold’ at the start of July and once again the competition is being held online. July’s competition attracted 18 floral entries with delightful photos of wonderful mature gardens, colourful baskets, bee friendly areas and. The Blooming Mold judges, Mayor of Mold Councillor Sarah Taylor, Deputy Mayor Co...

By 2021-07-21T11:52+10:00 Future Hawthorn coach Sam Mitchell has strongly denied reports he wants Alastair Clarkson to depart the club a year earlier than agreed to in the succession plan. It was reported earlier in the week by Caroline Wilson on Footy Classified that Mitchell’s preference was to take the head coaching role in 2022 rather than 2023, while Clarkson was set to dig his heels in and stick around. Speaking on SEN’s Whateley, Mitchell admitted the last few weeks have bee...

Hawthorn has taken one of the biggest gambles in club history By Hawthorn has taken one of the biggest gambles in club history. Get this - they are moving on perhaps the best coach in AFL history, a man who has won four premierships, who at 52 years of age is hungry still and in his coaching prime - for an untried coach. On Tuesday, Clarkson revealed that Collingwood moving on Nathan Buckley after Round 13 forced Hawthorns hand. The club had no choice, it was Sam Mitchell or Clarkson. Stunn...

Burgoyne 400: A Life in Footy By 2021-07-03T13:25+10:00 On the eve of his 400th game, Shaun Burgoyne spoke to AFL Record and SEN senior writer Ashley Browne. Here is the full interview. What’s the secret to getting to 400 games? There’s no real secret, just a fair bit of luck to be at two really good clubs. Port Adelaide was winning a lot of games in my first nine years there and then I ended up coming to Hawthorn at the right time. Two strong and professional clubs and two stable coaches ...

Collingwood: The era that was A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Before looking forward, it’s worth recapping the era that has just closed at Collingwood. If you had to pick a starting point for it, it was back in 2009. Eddie McGuire hastily concocts the succession plan, with many of the finer details to be ironed out later. Share In 2010, Collingwood grows to be a powerhouse, but exp...

Nathan Buckleys girlfriend Alex Pike has gone back to work at her Melbourne clinic. 

Departing Collingwood AFL coach Nathan Buckley has been spotted running errands with his kids in suburban Melbourne days after quitting his role with the Magpies.

Taking to Instagram on Thursday, the glamorous cosmetic nurse, 44, shared an inspirational quote about letting go - seemingly a reference to Nathans decision to quit his role with the Magpies

2018 preliminary final Mason Cox will forever be the hero, but this was surely Buckleys greatest accomplishment as the Magpies stopped what appeared to be an unstoppable Richmond. The Tigers say they had hit the wall and learnings from 2018 have helped them time their run for the past two premierships, but for Collingwood it was a preliminary final upset for the ages. Buckley had gone from zero to hero, leading Collingwood to a grand final only 12 months after most in the football world suspec...

Nathan Buckleys new girlfriend Alex Pike was seen dropping in to his home in Melbourne, no doubt to help the AFL star through after he stepped down as coach of Collingwood.