His desire to move back to his native Adelaide was thwarted, but Carlton's Bryce Gibbs has reassured the Blues that with three years left on his contract, he's more than content to see out his AFL career at the one club.
Geelong Football Club should be debt free for the first time in over half a century at the end of next season.
The Carlton on-baller has plenty he wants to get off his chest. And in an exclusive interview with Fairfax Media, the first since the drama blew up, he does.
Richmond's new-found midfield depth is set to allow superstar Dustin Martin to spend more time forward in season 2017.
Three of the greatest players of their generations will be part of The Age's footy coverage in 2017.
The Outer Sanctum, the unconventional footy podcast that broke one of the biggest stories in the game this year, has struck a partnership with The Age for the historic first AFL Women's season.
Sam Docherty confident Blues midfield powerhouse Patrick Cripps will be fit and firing in 2017.
Highs, lows, quotes, controversies, stories and stars - but the year's biggest news-makers were the premiership drought-breaking Western Bulldogs.
Women's football has never been so popular, but for a least one sport radio station talking about the game remains a male-only domain.
Already signed until the end of 2019, Cyril Rioli's contact at Hawthorn has been extended by a year.
Exciting Sydney youngster Isaac Heeney will urge Swans coach John Longmire to give him more time in the midfield after committing to a five-year contract extension.
Swans young gun Isaac Heeney has signed a five-year contract extension that will keep him in the red and white until at least 2022.
Sydney Swans Ltd has posted a net profit for the sixth-straight year, despite a reduction in AFL funding and substantial compensation payments to ANZ Stadium.
Geelong’s Sam Simpson found out he'd been taken by the Cats in the recent AFL rookie draft in pretty unusual circumstances
Matt Zurbo is as romantic a figure as exists in Australian football. He's like Neale Cassady and Jack Kerouac rolled into one if they'd both been Australian footballers and not members of the American Beat generation.
James Stewart shares a birthday with Joe Daniher. He hopes to share a meaningful partnership with Daniher in the Essendon forward line.
The AFL should tweak its third-man up ruck rules rather than ban the tactic, Adelaide tap-man Sam Jacobs says.
As Melbourne seek to resolve the Heritier Lumumba situation by year's end, they are also chasing a sponsor for the back of their jumper.
Richmond stars Dustin Martin and Alex Rance have been honoured with life membership of their club.
Comment: Tuesday's Brownlow Medal ceremony was well handled with two truly wonderful footballers anointed as the new medallists for 2012. It brings closure to a delicate issue. Or does it?
Players say their pay dispute with the AFL will drag on well into next year but are hopeful of a resolution before the new season starts.
Port Adelaide's leadership group has defended its handling of Jarman Impey's hit-and-run case, saying the defender's wellbeing is their prime concern.
Fremantle coach Ross Lyon denies the club's culture has been eroded by a series of off-field incidents, but says he's not in a position to speculate on the AFL futures of Michael Johnson and Shane Yarran.
Having been singled out by Sam Mitchell as the man who got his career cracking, Western Bulldogs list manager Simon Dalrymple says the 2012 Brownlow medallist's career shows the value of persistence.
It was the middle of December, there was a paucity of glitz and glamour, but there was something about Tuesday's low-key presentation of the 2012 Brownlow Medal to Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin that felt right.
Another bastion of male exclusivity has fallen. On Tuesday, the Carbine Club voted to break with 55 years of tradition to admit two women. They are Peggy O'Neal, the president of Richmond football club, and Nicole Livingstone, an Olympic silver medalist in swimming and now a media figure.
Former West Coast Eagles star Ben Cousins has avoided a jail sentence after pleading guilty to a string of charges in Armadale Magistrates Court on Tuesday afternoon.
The AFL will decide whether Greater Western Sydney are punished in relation to the Lachie Whitfield scandal just three days before Christmas.
Gary Ablett and Jarrod Witts aren't strikingly similar as footballers, but the pair have bonded over an experience familiar to both of them: shoulder problems.
Footy fans knew him as one of the great rogues of the game. But in his autobiography, and over lunch, a different Dane Swan emerges.
Trent Cotchin says he contacted Jobe Watson - the man he displaced as 2012 Brownlow medal winner - because it was "the right thing to do," but fellow new medallist Sam Mitchell refused to comment on Watson when asked about him in the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's presentation ceremony.
Now that James Brayshaw has hung up his two most prominent caps, at Channel 9 and as chairman of North Melbourne, he admits that having several of them jammed on his head at once took a toll that he hopes he can remediate.
Fox Sports announced on Monday that experienced and revered sports broadcaster Kelli Underwood would spearhead its commentary team for the inaugural AFL Women's competition. The term "comeback" was bandied around after that disclosure.
West Coast utility Simon Tunbridge will miss the entire 2017 AFL season after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Fremantle skipper David Mundy insists it's too early to "pull the trigger" on Shane Yarran and Michael Johnson, saying the leadership group can't dish out any punishment until the duo's court cases are conducted.
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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