Patrick Dangerfield is very good at football, but he may be even better at social media.

After being blown off the park by Sydney in last year's preliminary final, Geelong have identified tackling as one of the major areas of their game to improve on in season 2017.

Fake news has been with us longer than you might imagine.

The formula for premiership success in football is something the game's greatest minds have battled over for years. But there's one ingredient they all agree on.  

The 2016 AFL season saw great comebacks, neck and neck tussles, and several kicks to win games, one in a final no less. These, in our view, were the 10 best games of 2016.

Geelong Football Club should be debt free for the first time in over half a century at the end of next season.

Geelong’s Sam Simpson found out he'd been taken by the Cats in the recent AFL rookie draft in pretty unusual circumstances

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.

Geelong have backed reigning Brownlow medallist Patrick Dangerfield following the star midfielder's refusal to rule out a players' strike in response to the pay dispute with the AFL.

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AFL financial chief Ray Gunston tried to empathise with leading players by making reference to his son - star Hawthorn forward Jack - at Friday's meeting of league executives and key AFL Players' Association personnel.

Geelong have recruited Western Bulldogs great Brad Johnson as a specialist coach, working with the club's small and medium forwards.

New Cat Esava Ratugolea was excited about meeting Joel Selwood and Patrick Dangerfield in his first week at the club.

New Cat Brandan Parfitt will be working hard over the summer, hoping to create his own success story wearing recently-retired great Jimmy Bartel's famous No.3.

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.

Having recorded consecutive net losses in 2014 and 2015, Geelong have reversed their off-field fortunes with a $2.3m profit in 2016.

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

Geelong and Adelaide are set to secure respective father-son prospects Sam Simpson and Ben Jarman at Monday's AFL rookie draft.

During the '90s, James Button, then a Fairfax journalist, wrote an exceptional piece about being a Geelong supporter and watching the Cats each week with his father, Labor Senator and Hawke government minister John Button, and brother Nick. You'd see them at the footy – three highly intelligent men with anxious looks on their faces.

New Geelong forward Aaron Black says his AFL trade wasn't about getting away from North Melbourne but rather about the opportunity the Cats presented.