Collingwood and Essendon a night of theatre
For someone with a movie star's name James Stewart has no sense of theatre.
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Michael Gleeson
Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
Fearlessly into the future at Demons
The Melbourne succession plan was about grooming a new coach and maintaining stability. It was not about the next coach replicating everything of his predecessor.
Things change but stay the same for Hawks
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Old rule gone, new one helps Gawn
With a new Hawthorn star in the middle, a new coach in the box and different looking players on the ground, Melbourne have got as strong a side as possible for the first JLT series match.
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Friday night is the great Hawthorn comeback.
Collingwood president Eddie McGuire to be re-elected unopposed
Collingwood boss shrugs off doubts and a difficult 2016 to seek re-election unopposed.
Josh Daicos chance to play for Pies
In: Daicos. It's a line Collingwood fans have longed to read since Peter retired 24 years ago. Now his son Josh is poised to play his first game for the Magpies.
Jobe happy to lead but wanted Heppell as skipper
Jobe Watson was happy to captain Essendon again if they felt he was still the right man and wanted him back again as leader. But he felt the time was right for Dyson Heppell to take over.
David Evans makes quiet return to Bombers
Former Essendon chairman David Evans has made a quiet return to the Bombers that was as understated as it was unexpected. Evans was another face in small crowd at a recent practice match.
As the fans pour in, another AFL Women's match looks set to be moved to a larger venue
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
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