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AFL 2023
Buddy, Riewoldt top the class: Ranking the AFL’s retirees
The first XI of this year’s AFL retirees have a host of premierships and honours to their name, but as is often the case, it’s the key forwards who stand out above the rest.
- by Jake Niall
AFL Briefing
AFL 2023
De Goey, Hill out of Lions clash; Concussion stops Seedsman; Star Bombers push for recall
- by Damien Ractliffe and Jon Pierik
Money Talks
AFL 2023
Red-hot Blues poised to sign two Irish talents after recruiting mission
- by Marc McGowan
Insight & Analysis
Glass breaker: How Marvel can rescue AFL from finals flux
Victorian footy fans would love an all-Melbourne start to the AFL finals. But for the league, it creates a number of headaches.
Sam McClure
Sports reporter
If your club has fallen for this myth, they are in trouble
Don’t believe the rumours; the tagger lives. Sam Mitchell has used one to rejuvenate Hawthorn’s season, but Andrew McQualter has refused to follow suit, and that might cost him the Tigers coaching job.
Kane Cornes
AFL columnist
Meeting the godfather: Why incoming AFL boss sought a touch of ‘Magic’
Michael McLean has been fighting racism on the footy field for 30 years, and he’s still doing it in his own, quiet but profoundly effective, way.
Jake Niall
Chief football writer, The Age
Latest in AFL
‘I care deeply for this ... football club’: Hinkley inks Power coaching extension
Port Adelaide and coach Ken Hinkley said they’d decide in August whether their union would continue, and now the decision has been made.
- by Jake Niall
Analysis
AFL 2023
Revealed: What the Tigers are asking for in their next coach
The job description document that Richmond sent out to candidates for the senior coaching position contains words not traditionally associated with AFL coaches, nor with a combative macho game that has been a playground for Alpha males.
- by Jake Niall
Opinion
West Coast Eagles
Mesmerising to witness: How Nic Naitanui changed the game forever
- by Brendan Foster
More news
AFL Briefing
AFL 2023
Concussion issues force Sydney’s Paddy McCartin to retire, Eagles star Naitanui also calls time; doubt on Wingard’s future
- by Peter Ryan and Jon Pierik
For one glorious night only, the football codes kicked a goal together
- by Jon Pierik and Scott Spits