Geelong decide to shrink leadership group
Matt Murnane 7:17 PM The need to streamline decision-making has lead Geelong to announce a smaller leadership group for 2015, leaving out star premiership veterans Steve Johnson, James Kelly and Mathew Stokes, as well as younger midfielder Mitch Duncan.
Anti-doping call could drag on further
Jon Pierik 9:37 AM After his cobbled-together side was beaten by St Kilda on Saturday, James Hird was asked whether the AFL had been over officious in banning six players from match simulation on Friday.
Different penalties for Dons on cards
Hamstrung Saints unlucky: Cox
Suns lose Lynch to ban as Waite cleared
Thomas praises Tigers for jumper
Toughest season looms: Brad Scott
Kelly's ode to Shakespeare and Sherrins
Lethal becomes Lions deputy chair
New Roo Waite reported
Hawks upbeat despite defeat
Eagles count the cost of loss to Port
Griffen dominates for Giants
Saints tip over top-up Dons
Hird keen on recruiting Brown
Hird: feels like more than three teams
Fishing for an even bigger catch
Rohan Connolly By his own admission, when it comes to football, Ben Cunnington isn't a great talker. Get him started on fishing, however ....
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Clarkson changing landscape
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The decision by Andrew Demetriou to glowingly endorse his former executive casts a shadow over headquarters.
AFL players 'ready to emerge'
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Laser of ridicule closes on Hird
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Priddis proves the power of humility
Peter Hanlon Nowhere in an increasingly blocked-out calendar do the howls of "look at me" echo louder than on Brownlow night.
Coaches exit as player power rises in the AFL
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Hawthorn in the hunt in bid to become best of era
Jake Niall The Hawks have matched Geelong, their great adversary, by winning a third premiership since 2007.
Defeats beget victories
Rohan Connolly There's a very strong common denominator between Hawthorn's first back-to-back premiership sides of 1988-89 and the Hawks of 2013-14.
