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Gold Coast Suns to celebrate their tenth anniversary this Saturday night A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size The Gold Coast Suns will indirectly mark the tenth anniversary of their AFL debut when they host Carlton at Metricon Stadium this Saturday night as part of a huge Round 4 of the 2021 AFL season. It seemed like only yesterday the club, which had the working name GC17, took to the field for its first ever AFL match which was played against the Blues on a warm Saturday evening at the Gabba, with the vis...

Suns at their Witts end A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Jarrod Witts going down injured is a disaster for the Suns so early in the season, particularly after losing three other backups since the preseason began. With coach Stuart Dew admitting his coaching team will have to “get creative” over the next few weeks, the Suns are down to part-timers and project players in their battered ruck division. Jarrod Witts has been a solid performer for the Suns ever since his Round 1 debut in 2018, winning a ye...

WHITEHAVEN RLFC 8 An encouraging first-half display came to nothing as Whitehaven failed to emulate their Challenge Cup victory of two weeks ago against Dewsbury and get their Championship campaign off to a winning start. For 37 minutes there was every reason to be optimistic that Gary Charlton’s men could replicate that 23-16 success that took them through to round two of the famous knock-out competition. But a burst of three Rams’ tries either side of the interval swung the contest in the West Yorkshire side’s favour and Haven never really got into top gear again. A fair proport...

AFL 2021: All the Round 3 teams as they drop AFL by Marc McGowan Premium Content Subscriber only Lance Franklin is set to back up from his successful return game to face reigning premier Richmond at the MCG on Saturday. All-Australian defender Jake Lloyd confirmed on Thursday morning that Franklin had been named in the Sydney Swans' side to take on the Tigers. Franklin kicked three goals in the Swans' 33-point defeat of Adelaide that maintained their perfect start to the year after the shock upset of Brisbane in Round 1.   Watch the 2021 Toyota AFL Pr...

Cochrane calls out "VFL decision" on Grand Final timeslot By 2021-04-01T07:20+11:00 Tony Cochrane has taken aim at the AFL for their decision to return to a traditional day-time Grand Final timeslot. The 2020 Grand Final took place at night at the Gabba as part of what was a tumultuous year. Cochrane was one of the architects of the change and has labelled the call to return to a traditional slot “a VFL decision”. “There’s a lot of people in our AFL that conveniently forget they’re the AFL and slide back into the VFL and it was ‘what the fans in Victoria need is the certainty o...