Dennis Cometti will call his last game this weekend
It's over. Dennis Cometti, the man with tonsils of silver and a wit that can cut like a hot knife through butter, will call his last AFL game this weekend.
It's over. Dennis Cometti, the man with tonsils of silver and a wit that can cut like a hot knife through butter, will call his last AFL game this weekend.
Barry Hall is a Swans man but he can't help but get caught up in the Western Bulldogs' fairytale.
The game has changed dramatically since the Swans arrived in Sydney but there has been a regular ingredient to football in the town: the glamour forward.
Luke Beveridge's blend of romance and ruthlessness has paid dividends for the Western Bulldogs.
Preliminary final hero Clay Smith got a leave pass from the Bulldogs this week to make a 600-kilometre round trip and deliver a eulogy for his close friend who lost his life in a road accident.
What's happening and where to watch it. This is your comprehensive guide to the AFL grand final 2016.
So the day Western Bulldogs people thought would never come dawns at last, and a shiver runs down Melbourne's spine.
Isaac Heeney, one of the AFL's brightest young stars but a grand final debutant, went extreme with the best piece of advice he got about navigating this week. He did not simply turn off his mobile phone to find peace. He broke the thing.
Sydney's consistent competitiveness at the pointy end of the season argues a convincing case they’ve been the most successful club in the AFL for 20 years now.
The Western Bulldogs can expect first-quarter blitz from the Swans in Saturday's AFL grand final.
Our footy scribes have had to name their winner for the 2016 AFL grand final, the winning margin and their tip for the Norm Smith Medal.
The moment of truth for the Western Bulldogs and Sydney Swans has almost arrived. How will they handle the key questions?
WA Labor wants the doyen of Australian Rules football commentators - Dennis Cometti to be honoured at the new Perth stadium.
This is the flag of the millionaire recruit. Bulldog or Swan it does not matter, both have chased the big-dollar recruit and won.
Bob Skilton believes Luke Parker has epitomised the Swans' run to Saturday's AFL grand final.
Of all the great players to grace the stage in AFL finals over the past 50 years, one man stands clear.
The Western Bulldogs' Lin Jong was one of the unlucky ones this year.
Shane Biggs used to have to clean up after Sam Naismith. The pair were both Swans rookies, living in Rosebery near Sydney airport. It wasn't exactly glamorous.
West Coast champion Dean Cox is set for an elevation in his blossoming coaching career that further paves way for an arrival of discarded North Melbourne big man Drew Petrie to the Eagles.
The Bulldogs and Sydney have arrived at grand final day from very different parts of the ladder. But they have a quite similar look.
Saturday's grand final will be a clash of the AFL's most manic midfields.
So what if you were attending the birth of your first child, Mick Malthouse's deeply reproving look said to West Coast's Michael Brennan one day in January, 1990. You've missed half of training.
Fremantle Docker young gun Darcy Tucker and West Coast Eagles speedster Lewis Jetta will both compete to be crowned the fastest AFL player in the country during Saturday's grand final sprint.
His hamstring is good to go, and now Callum Mills hopes to top his debut season with an AFL premiership.
All Melbourne appears to have turned out ... and all Melbourne, it seemed, was there for the Western Bulldogs.
The Bulldogs' rise has captured something that's very hard to describe. But I can feel it, and I know I'm not alone.
Franklin, who on Saturday will be spearheading the Swans' tilt at the flag, said there would be "no chance" he would be following Mundine's advice.
Integrity. Honesty. Empathy. Talk to anyone about what makes John Longmire such a good coach and these are the qualities that come to the fore time and time again.
Swans skipper Jarrad McVeigh has declared he is over a calf injury and will "definitely" line up in Saturday's grand final against the Western Bulldogs.
Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has declared his team is ready to ride the wave of emotion on Saturday in what will be the "biggest game our lives".
The experts have been saying the Western Bulldogs can't win for the past three weeks. Who's to say they can't take one more?
Isaac Heeney has been tracking towards the AFL's biggest sporting stage his entire life.
Ah Sydney, it's all about you!
More than 100,000 Bulldogs and Swans fans are expected to converge on the city for Friday's grand final parade. Here's all you need to know to get the most out of the much-loved procession.
Eye specialist clears Western Bulldogs ruckman Jordan Roughead for selection for the big game.
Brendon Lade is returning to Port Adelaide after seven years as an assistant coach at AFL rivals Richmond.
The Western Bulldogs won't look back at their painful history of preliminary final losses in the lead up to their Saturday night clash with GWS Giants.
Melbourne great David Schwarz says the potential defection of Jesse Hogan would not be "as catastrophic" now as it would have been last year.
There’s two very contrasting narratives developing heading into the penultimate weekend of the AFL season. And sentimentally, they’re at opposite ends of the spectrum.
The thing that AFL fans love about the game is risk and the unknown outcome accompanying it: the risk players take when they commit to a physical contest, when they launch three deep in a pack to stand on someone's shoulders in a marking contest, when they have a shot from the boundary. All are weekly features on highlights reels.
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