Magpie win muddies the waters

Rohan Connolly 4:18 PM   So where are Collingwood at? Saturday's great win over GWS probably just muddies the waters further.

Swans' new breed proving their worth

Andrew Wu   Sydney's youngsters are showing they are not just players for the future but can be players for the now, after rewarding coach John Longmire's bold investment in youth in Geelong.

Some advice for Cloke from an older and wiser Lloyd

Matthew Lloyd    Travis Cloke has been on Matthew Lloyd's mind a lot this year. He wonders whether Cloke is just low on confidence or whether the game has passed him by. But he worries about something more important – what's the toll on a player of all this scrutiny.

How the week that was took me back to North's dark chicken day

Samantha Lane   Images of violence against women have long plagued the AFL.

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How Crows handled the aftermath of Phillip Walsh's death

Ashley Porter   Adelaide Football Club CEO Andrew Fagan remembers as if it were yesterday, on Friday, July 3 last year going to his filing cabinet at 4am looking for a document on the procedure in a crisis.

Grundy on belief, balance, and trusting yourself

Emma Quayle   Brodie Grundy is learning about finding the balance, trusting his intuition, his gut, and playing good footy.

Innovation, attack, defence – it's all a matter of balance for teams on the rise

Chris Judd   Under Paul Roos and Simon Goodwin, Melbourne are playing some incredibly attacking football – much like Port Adelaide in 2014.

Bulldog Boyd a master of terrible timing

Rohan Connolly   Tom Boyd has played just 27 games of AFL football, but he is developing an unfortunate knack for very poor timing.

Living the dream, but not in the bubble: Stevie J on life in Sydney

Steve Johnson   From the moment you enter an AFL club these days, your anonymity is generally lost and you find yourself being recognised by people you don't know. But at Greater Western Sydney ...

Are crowds as committed to a TV game?

Rohan Connolly   There were plenty of reasons for the paltry crowd which attended last Friday night's game at the MCG. But was it also a pointer to a more deep-seated problem for AFL football?

Lions' lack of competitiveness disturbing

Andrew Stafford   Few anticipated the Lions climbing too many rungs up the ladder in 2016, but still fewer expected the disaster that has unfolded.

Dane Swan is probably gone - he'll be missed

Wayne Carey   While Dane Swan has declared publicly this week he's still holding out hope of a return late in the season, in my opinion he's played his final game for Collingwood.

VIDEOS

Swans win for Jack

Sydney have sent the competition a message with a dominant 38-point win over Geelong at Simonds Stadium.

FootyFix: Cats battle Swans for the top four

Rohan Connolly previews all the footy action ahead of round 16 in the AFL.

AFL plays of round 15

Jack Silvagni makes his debut, Jason Johannisen saves the day, St Kilda show off their ball skills and West Coast deliver a thumping.

Collingwood creep past Carlton

A second straight win for Collingwood will ease pressure on coach Nathan Buckley.

'Eight-pointers' to sort out the eight

Rohan Connolly   With the race for prime position in the top eight is tighter than ever, a dozen games played between likely finals rivals over the remaining eight rounds will be crucial.

Beating the best doesn't mean beating the rest

Geelong have proved adept at beating the best, if not beating the teams they must.

Joe Daniher: a special talent

Wayne Carey   As I watched Joe Daniher jumping high, I was left wondering how the footy world had forgotten about this guy's talents.

'So close yet we didn't know'

Peter Hanlon   Young Bulldog Lukas Webb has lost two close mates to suicide. He knows more must be done to help.