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Brian Lake in action for the Western Bulldogs. He says that anything less than a grand final appearance would mean season 2010 was a failure for the club.

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Chat with Crawf

Shane Crawford

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

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

Nathan Hindmarsh and Kevin Sheedy

RUGBY League's Nathan Hindmarsh versus AFL's Kevin Sheedy? Bring it on, says the NRL.

Cat leaders keep pressure on

Mathew Stokes

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

FORMER AFL footballer Jason Love is attempting to have a ban lifted so he can coach Port Melbourne Colts this season.

Winners and losers

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Who will make the eight?

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Fantasy football

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Opinion

Play on at your peril

Boundary umpire

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

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

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

SHANE Crawford looks into his crystal ball and predicts a Bulldogs premiership in 2010.

Shane tips Dogs for flag, Ablett to go

Shane Crawford

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

MATHEW Stokes seemed rather too familiar with an alleged drug dealer for my liking.

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Saints put spin on Ball

Luke Ball

FOR the record, Luke Ball is at Collingwood because he reluctantly, and sadly, came to the conclusion he wasn't wanted by St Kilda.

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Footy's still hard without cheap shots

Neil Sachse

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.

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New Lion will be in my team

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

Staging

IT'S been going on since Big Bob Johnson exploited the dubious art to great advantage for Melbourne during the 1950s and '60s.

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Fans help Brisbane's logo defence

Brisbane Lions

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

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

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

Boundary umpire

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

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

SOME clubs want to win the AFL's NAB Cup pre-season competition, others are not so focussed.

AFL backs Cats on Stokes

Mathew Stokes

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

Adrian Anderson, AFL football operations manager

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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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.

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