The AFL now looks highly unlikely to expand its eight-team national women's competition until at least 2019 in a move which has placed it at odds with a number of losing bidder clubs who believe they have been misled.

The most recent Brownlow medallists from Hawthorn and Richmond respectively will present Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin their 2012 medals next week.

Another of football's great characters has been lost with the passing of former Richmond star Billy Barrot. Is there even a place in today's game for characters of his stature?

A change of scenery and culture, rather than a better chance at a flag, drove Brett Deledio's decision to leave Richmond, he says.

With the draft period over, Emma Quayle and Michael Gleeson assess each club's playing stocks and forecast the impact in 2017 - positive, negative or unchanged.

Former Richmond star centreman Billy Barrot has died, aged 72.

Emma Quayle runs the rule over each AFL club's new cohort of young talent.

The AFL Commission will award a Brownlow Medal each to 2012 winners Trent Cotchin and Sam Mitchell at a ceremony in Melbourne on Tuesday December 13.

The fight for a seat on the Richmond board continues to intensify, with challenger Peter Casey questioning why the Tigers have "ring-fenced" president Peggy O'Neal.

Richmond will attempt to make it harder for agitators to launch potential boardroom coups in a motion to be presented to their annual general meeting on 14 December.

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Richmond have released troubled West Australian Chris Yarran from his contract, effective immediately.

Neither Trent Cotchin nor Sam Mitchell plan to contact Jobe Watson to commiserate with the Essendon captain after they replaced him as 2012 Brownlow Medal winners.

Richmond's on-field struggles have hit the Tigers in the hip pocket, with the club reporting a financial loss for the first time in more than a decade. 

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The resignation of another long-serving Richmond board member and the club's move to legislate against dead wood directorships should be seen as a victory for those challengers to the club who have been portrayed in recent months as the lunatic fringe of AFL supporters.

Jobe Watson will not be scratched from the 2012 All-Australian team despite the AFL Commission re-awarding his Brownlow Medal to Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin.

Shane Crawford

Sam Mitchell and Trent Cotchin have expressed mixed feelings after the AFL declared them joint winners of the 2012 Brownlow Medal.

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AFL opts to retrospectively award game's highest individual honour after Jobe Watson ceded the medal in the wake of his doping ban.

Richmond board challenger Peter Casey has declared coach Damien Hardwick has "nowhere to hide" and should have only 10 matches to save his job, declaring greater change is needed at Punt Road.