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This year’s AFL retirees include Richmond’s Jack Riewoldt, North Melbourne pair Ben Cunnington and Jack Ziebell, West Coast’s Nic Naitanui, and former Hawthorn teammates Isaac Smith and Lance Franklin, who finished their respective careers at Geelong and Sydney.
Opinion
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

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
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
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
Jake Niall

Chief football writer, The Age

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Ken Hinkley’s future at Port Adelaide has been assured.

‘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
Richmond are on the lookout for a new senior coach.
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

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