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Chat with Crawf
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SHANE Crawford defended his fearless predictions for the year ahead in a live chat. See what he had to say.
Get a life, Stokes
![Mathew Stokes](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/02/08/1225828/046110-mathew-stokes.jpg)
MATHEW Stokes must get a job and a taste of life outside the privileged AFL bubble before he is allowed to play football again.
NRL tackles AFL
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RUGBY League's Nathan Hindmarsh versus AFL's Kevin Sheedy? Bring it on, says the NRL.
Cat leaders keep pressure on
![Mathew Stokes](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/02/09/1225828/073054-mathew-stokes.jpg)
THOSE of us who have been musing about the resolve of Geelong's leadership group post-Tom Harley have our answer.
Love still Forbidden
![Jason Love](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/02/08/1225828/052090-jason-love.jpg)
FORMER AFL footballer Jason Love is attempting to have a ban lifted so he can coach Port Melbourne Colts this season.
Opinion
Play on at your peril
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Mike Sheahan LEAVE the game alone, they cry. Year after year. Why? Inaction on flawed rules is no better than change for change's sake.
Cat leaders keep pressure on
![Mathew Stokes](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/02/09/1225828/073054-mathew-stokes.jpg)
Mike Sheahan THOSE of us who have been musing about the resolve of Geelong's leadership group post-Tom Harley have our answer.
Chat with Crawf
![Shane Crawford](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/02/06/1225827/440156-shane-crawford.jpg)
Shane Crawford SHANE Crawford defended his fearless predictions for the year ahead in a live chat. See what he had to say.
Dogs drought over - Crawf
![Adam Cooney](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2009/09/11/1225771/725313-adam-cooney.jpg)
Shane Crawford SHANE Crawford looks into his crystal ball and predicts a Bulldogs premiership in 2010.
Shane tips Dogs for flag, Ablett to go
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Glenn McFarlane AFL great Shane Crawford has tipped the Western Bulldogs to end the AFL's longest drought this season.
Cat's future lies in court
![Mathew Stokes](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/02/05/1225826/941502-mathew-stokes.jpg)
Mike Sheahan MATHEW Stokes seemed rather too familiar with an alleged drug dealer for my liking.
Saints put spin on Ball
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Mike Sheahan FOR the record, Luke Ball is at Collingwood because he reluctantly, and sadly, came to the conclusion he wasn't wanted by St Kilda.
Footy's still hard without cheap shots
![Neil Sachse](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/02/02/1225826/079679-neil-sachse.jpg)
Mark Robinson I DROPPED into The Alfred hospital last week to visit my cousin-in-law, who lay prostrate with a neck brace supporting two broken vertebrae in his neck.
New Lion will be in my team
![Kevin Sheedy](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2010/02/02/1225826/054481-kevin-sheedy.jpg)
Kevin Sheedy A WISE man once said: watch out for players with a point to prove. That's why I'm looking closely at Brendan Fevola for my SuperCoach team.
Diving has no place in AFL
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Mike Sheahan IT'S been going on since Big Bob Johnson exploited the dubious art to great advantage for Melbourne during the 1950s and '60s.
More Footy News
Fans help Brisbane's logo defence
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FITZROY fans have provided documentation the Brisbane Lions believe will scuttle a court bid to ban the club's new logo.
Sticking by rules
![Field umpire](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/02/08/1225828/070664-field-umpire.jpg)
THE AFL has ruled out tinkering with the rules for the home-and-away season after introducing a raft of experiments for the NAB Cup.
Johnno achilles delays return
![Brad Johnson](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2009/11/22/1225801/854036-brad-johnson.jpg)
WESTERN Bulldogs captain Brad Johnson is managing a lingering achilles injury but is expected to play late in the NAB Cup.
Play on at your peril
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LEAVE the game alone, they cry. Year after year. Why? Inaction on flawed rules is no better than change for change's sake.
Sheeds steps up the Sydney fight
![Kevin Sheedy](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2009/11/10/1225795/937682-kevin-sheedy.jpg)
KEVIN Sheedy is spending his final week in Melbourne before moving to Sydney and the greatest challenge of his career.
Blues adapting to post-Fevola attack
![Brendan Fevola](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/01/14/1225819/484167-brendan-fevola.jpg)
SOME clubs want to win the AFL's NAB Cup pre-season competition, others are not so focussed.
AFL backs Cats on Stokes
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UPDATE 6.00PM: THE AFL has given the thumbs up to Geelong's range of sanctions for Mathew Stokes following his drugs charge.
League backs drugs policy
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THE AFL has strongly defended its illicit drugs policy in the wake of Mathew Stokes' criminal charges.
Four new rules for NAB Cup
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THE AFL will introduce four new experimental rules as part of an NAB Cup campaign which gets underway this weekend.
Cats appoint pioneer to board
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GEELONG has appointed pioneering football administrator and corporate lawyer Diana Taylor to their board.
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Tennis
Double delight for Stosur and Stubbs
![Samantha Stosur and Rennae Stubbs](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/02/07/1225827/631270-samantha-stosur-and-rennae-stubbs.jpg)
SAMANTHA Stosur and Rennae Stubbs last night dug deep when it mattered to give Australia victory against Spain in the Fed Cup tie at Memorial Drive.
Cricket
Caught short at MCG
![MCG](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2009/09/30/1225781/194982-mcg.jpg)
FANS cast further doubt over one-day cricket's long-term future by voting with their feet, as only 25,463 spectators turned up to the MCG yesterday.
Soccer
Door ajar for Van Dijk
![Sergio Van Dijk](http://web.archive.org./web/20100208202303im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2009/11/21/1225801/631171-sergio-van-dijk.jpg)
ROBBIE Fowler's chances of putting on Adelaide United's tricolours have been scuttled, but Brisbane Roar striker Sergio van Dijk may be heading south.