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The 2021 AFL draft has been completed, with a host of the game’s newest crop of stars set to head to their new homes for the 2022 season. While the rookie draft is still to come on Friday night, the building blocks for your team’s future success have been set in place over the last […]

North Melbourne will almost certainly draft South Adelaide prospect Jason Horne-Francis with the first selection later this month.

Melbournes Simon Goodwin will invoke the coaching spirit of Malcolm Blight in AFL grand-final week as he seeks to emulate his former mentor by climbing onto the premiership dais.

"It just didn’t suit me at the time."

The best twelve Australian rules players I have seen in 50 years watching the game A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size I have been watching Australian rules football at the top level since the early 1970s and have seen the semi-professional Victorian Football League (VFL) evolve into a professional Australian Football League (AFL) with players today generally faster, stronger and fitter than decades before. ...

"He’s too good to be putting in efforts like this."

Malcolm Blight tells his side of 2009 Kangaroos coaching approach with Wayne Carey By 2021-05-20T09:39+10:00 A fascinating approach from North Melbourne to bring in both Malcolm Blight and Wayne Carey as coaches in 2009 was revealed on the weekend and confirmed by the latter. With Dean Laidley stepping away from the role, a powerful board member approached the duo with the plan for Blight to take the reins, with Carey to take over as part of a succession plan. Triple M over the weekend and put...

AFL by Ronny Lerner 8th May 2021 7:21 PM Shai Boltons ridiculous mark in the first quarter of Friday nights clash against Geelong has confirmed just how valuable the 22-year-old is to Richmonds forward line. The 175cm Tiger jumped on the shoulders of the 198cm tall Mark Blicavs, then got an extra boost to go so high into the air that he ended up taking a chest mark. There were shades of Shaun Smiths classic 1996 screamer against B...

AFL by Ronny Lerner 8th May 2021 7:21 PM Shai Boltons ridiculous mark in the first quarter of Friday nights clash against Geelong has confirmed just how valuable the 22-year-old is to Richmonds forward line. The 175cm Tiger jumped on the shoulders of the 198cm tall Mark Blicavs, then got an extra boost to go so high into the air that he ended up taking a chest mark. There were shades of Shaun Smiths classic 1996 screamer against B...

AFL by Ronny Lerner 8th May 2021 7:21 PM Shai Boltons ridiculous mark in the first quarter of Friday nights clash against Geelong has confirmed just how valuable the 22-year-old is to Richmonds forward line. The 175cm Tiger jumped on the shoulders of the 198cm tall Mark Blicavs, then got an extra boost to go so high into the air that he ended up taking a chest mark. There were shades of Shaun Smiths classic 1996 screamer against B...