The old stadium was full as a beer glass with froth running down its side. Gil McLachlan had to go outside the stadium and apologize like a publican telling a thirsty group on a hot day that he cannot serve them.
Brisbane open their season with a win over Melbourne in the middle of a thunderstorm that saw the players briefly sent from the ground.
One afternoon in 1996, a girl from Adelaide sat down and wrote some #fakenews.
It was a night Talia Radan never thought possible, and something the "six-year-old version" of her would be over the moon about.
The Collingwood-Melbourne AFL Women's match on Saturday night looks set to be moved from the under-sized Olympic Park Oval to Ikon Park, and be played after the Carlton-GWS match at 5.05pm
Follow our live match tracker for the final game of the inaugural opening round of AFLW.
Almost 28 years after taking her Year 12 homework with her to the "Save the Bulldogs" rally at Whitten Oval, Kylie Watson-Wheeler has been appointed the club's new vice-president.
It was an opening night to remember.
Coaches of AFLW sides must take some responsibility to ensure the game remains attractive, says Western Bulldogs coach Paul Groves.
Having shed the tag of the AFL's "lovable losers" four months ago at the MCG, the Western Bulldogs keep winning.
Former Western Bulldog Nathan Hrovat has made an instant impression with North Melbourne, booting four goals in the Kangaroos' intra-club clash on Saturday.
Dual Olympic basketballer Erin Phillips played a starring role in Adelaide's 36-point trouncing of Greater Western Sydney in Saturday's women's AFL game.
The inaugural match of the AFLW league between Carlton and Collingwood on Friday night was an attendance and broadcast-ratings success but the league insists there are no immediate plans for expansion.
The Bulldogs open their AFLW account at home against Fremantle.
Collingwood defender and women's football operations manager Meg Hutchins says the Magpies were "outworked" by Carlton in Friday night's historic AFLW clash at Ikon Park.
The historic opening round continues as the Crows meet the Giants in Adelaide.
It looks like 'Eddie Everywhere' McGuire can't be everywhere - or at least not when it comes to women's footy.
While AFLW has dominated the recent headlines, there is another revolution league bosses continue to work on - AFL X.
Carlton's goal-kicking star Darcy Vescio is confident the Blues - and the wider AFLW - will have the depth to cover injuries after a "rough" start to the inaugural season.
When it comes to making the leap to the football field in the fledging AFLW league, it's easy to see how a background in basketball, netball, American football and soccer could help.
All 15 of the Giants' interstate recruits are living in the same duplex in Condell Park.
The AFL will consider moving another Collingwood women's home game to Ikon Park after the stunning success of Friday night's AFLW opener.
It's an historic night for Australian football. We're about to see the first game of the new AFLW competition, featuring two heavyweights of the old VFL - Carlton and Collingwood.
The Blues' ball movement was considerably slicker than that of the Pies.
It was a memorable opening night for the AFL Women's competition, with the crowd catching everyone by surprise.
Essendon defender Michael Hurley was a casualty of Friday's intra-club hit out but the Bombers insist he will miss little training.
Six months ago, Canberra's Heather Anderson was told she could never play football again.
The AFL has apologised to more than one thousand disappointed fans locked out of Princes Park for the historic first game of the new AFLW competition.
With the pre-season series less than a fortnight away, Jon Pierik and Daniel Cherny cast their eyes over the big questions in footy for 2017.
It must be a source of great concern to Gillon McLachlan that. in a season in which he is leading the best women footballers across the country onto their field of dreams, he is simultaneously taking the AFL competition into the uncharted territory of a serious industrial dispute.
Ellie Brush and Jenna McCormick will put their AFL rivalry on hold to join forces for Canberra United's W-League title bid.
15,000 LEDs walk into a stadium, and 60,000 spectators light up.
As Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon said at the launch of the Dogs' AFLW season, this is the week when "aspirations" get realised.
The moment has finally arrived, with the AFLW league to spring to life on Friday night when Carlton and Collingwood clash at Ikon Park from 7.45pm.
The patch of artificial turf at Etihad Stadium blamed for an ankle injury to Geelong forward Daniel Menzel in a game last year is set to go as the AFL acts on concerns from its players' union.
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.
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