The back-to-back blueprint
JON PIERIK How AFL premiers can join the short list of those who followed up with another flag.
The complete AFL injury list
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MATT MURNANE Check what players your side has lost over the summer, or better yet, your rivals.
Blight pumps up Hawthorn's deal
King seen with underworld
Injured van Berlo still Crows captain
Adcock named as Brisbane captain
Murphy closer to extension
Coaches: who is under gun?
Dons lose ruckman for start of season
Grant sidelined due to foot fracture
Montagna would consider captaincy
Move against homophobic vilification
Jones sure Dees will improve
Hurley feels 'at home' in defence
Latest sport newsA testing pattern
ROHAN CONNOLLY TV doesn't seem to care about the golden years of footy - so it's up to others to preserve.
Top of the class
JAKE NIALL Private school education could be the best way of winning a spot on an AFL list.
Fixture: hits 'n' misses
ROHAN CONNOLLY There's a bit of something for everyone in the AFL fixture for 2014, and we're not just talking about the marketing and football departments of the 18 clubs.
The most divisive year since 1996
JAKE NIALL The year of 2013 is the worst season that the AFL has endured in terms of image.
Club practices were 'inappropriate'
Essendon chairman addresses his troubled club's AGM.
Different sides of equalisation
JAKE NIALL Why Hawthorn is one of the AFL's most powerful clubs while St Kilda is rubbing shoulders with the stragglers.
Bombers' blame game
ANDREW TATE To the clubs the footy public resembles a bloated, overflowing pot of doubloons.
When Essendon was great
MARTIN FLANAGAN Essendon stalwart invokes the passion that once helped his now-embattled club soar.
Hard to see past spin over probe
The league hierarchy is struggling with an image problem over its impartiality in the supplements issue.
Pre-season and rookie draft picks
A full list of which clubs picked which players in the pre-season and rookie drafts.
The 2013 AFL grand final
Full coverage All the news, player ratings, photos, videos, polls and plenty more as the season concluded.
VIDEOS
Essendon supplement plans ran to 2013
Emails between senior staff reveal Essendon's plans to continue its supplements program until 2013, including injections of an anti-dementia drug.
Nathan Buckley takes the high road
Darren Jolly still dealing with "his footy mortality", says Collingwood coach, following the former player's bitter parting shots calling Buckley a "coward".
Lance Franklin gets hero's welcome
Sydney Swans recruit Lance Franklin was mobbed by fans outside his new club after he made his first press appearance wearing red and white.
Hawks sink determined Dockers
Hawthorn too strong for Fremantle, winning the 2013 AFL grand final by 15 points despite a spirited late fightback from the Dockers.
VOTES
Age Footballer of the Year
Round 23 votes for the Age's major award.
Hawks fans' luxury of losing count
GREG BAUM A Hawthorn supporter can still be of working age, and claim to have seen 11 flags.
PHOTOS
Boots and all
The Age, in association with Coles and Linfox, launches Boots for Kids, a special community project to help football-living children in northern Australia.