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Boomer a 'long shot' to play on
Brent Harvey's manager says the North Melbourne great is a "long shot" to play on next year, and is preparing to play with his brother in the Northern Football League.
Brent Harvey's manager says the North Melbourne great is a "long shot" to play on next year, and is preparing to play with his brother in the Northern Football League.
A famous win unites Bulldogs old and new; pain for a losing Swan; controversy follows call; farewell to all-time great of commentary.
The Western Bulldogs have finished their triumphant AFL premiership season with the most favourable free-kick differential of any team in the competition.
Premierships are built on tactics, skill, hard work and endeavour, but the Western Bulldogs had extra help on Saturday as they won just the second grand final in their history.
It took less than 24 hours for Brenton Holdsworth to have a permanent reminder of his beloved Bulldogs' 2016 premiership win inked on his left leg.
Tom Boyd has arrived, and Age readers believe his career breakout game should have been rewarded with a Norm Smith Medal.
Sydney midfielder Dan Hannebery will undergo scans to make sure he has avoided damage to his anterior cruciate ligament as Swans chairman Andrew Pridham vowed the club will return better and stronger next year.
At some point in the next week or two Tom Mitchell will tell Sydney whether he will stay with the side his father played for or leave for one of the Swans' most fierce rivals, Hawthorn. It will be seen as a loss for the Swans if he heads south but nowhere near the body blow it may seem.
Our football reporters look at who's on your club's radar ahead of the trade period.
Make no mistake. Luke Beveridge has just pulled off one of the great coaching performances. In fact, I believe it may have been the single greatest coaching performance of all time.
Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon has taken a cheeky dig at Sydney's multi-million-dollar man Lance Franklin following his below-par performance in Saturday's grand final.
The Western Bulldogs, in romping through the AFL finals series to win their first premiership for 62 years, have turned themselves into something more resembling Great Danes.
Winning the premiership gives the Bulldogs the financial clout for sustained success.
Bulldogs supporters were bathed in sunshine and the ecstasy of victory at Whitten Oval on Sunday.
Thanks to Bevo's unflinching ambition, the longest era of suffering in AFL/VFL history is over.
Dale Morris played it down. Everyone plays with the injuries he said modestly to the thousands in the crowd below him.
Calls have been made for another medal to be cast for Bulldog coach Luke Beveridge, who passed on his to injured captain Bob Murphy.
Western Bulldogs ruckman Jordan Roughead has revealed how close he came to pulling out of the team - and denying himself what turned out to be premiership joy.
I fell in love with football at the age of 13 because I saw a team win a premiership when everyone said they couldn't.
Sentimental favourites overcome a perennial hard luck story: AFL media columnist of the year Tim Boyle's analysis.
Forgotten Sydney defender Alex Johnson is aiming to make a return to senior football next season, more than four years after he played his last game.
The GWS Giants turn to two Canberra sporting stars for the inaugural women's AFL competition.
The Western Bulldogs celebrate their drought-breaking premiership with fans at Whitten Oval.
Fans have poured into Whitten Oval to celebrate the Western Bulldogs epic premiership win.
Western Bulldogs breaking of a 62-year premiership drought is like some sort of fantasy. But how they won it should enter football folklore as well.
On a feel-good day for Bulldogs supporters this was a moment to crown them all.
Jason Johannisen won the 2016 Norm Smith Medal.
Two losses in two years leaves supporters still craving redemption.
If you were going to win take 60 years to win a premiership, and you wanted to make it a premiership worth the wait, how would you script it? Here's one way
Sydney's second grand final defeat in three seasons has raised questions about the club's depth as coach John Longmire rued not having a full team contribution on Saturday.
Easton Wood is the newly minted captain of a premiership team - one that defied every expectation,
Well, there you have it. David slew Goliath, The Rebels beat The Empire, and the never-say-die Bulldogs took down the Swans.
An old Dog teamed up with a new one to make sure their team beat Sydney.
Jason Johannssen's mind was a whirl. He felt numb. He was a Norm Smith Medallist.
David Smorgon, Bulldogs president for 17 years, says the Dogs' premiership for the ages vindicated the club as a modern day template and should prove a lesson and example for the AFL and the league broadly.
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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