AFL's match review panel failed to apply the rules on Nat Fyfe and Toby Nankervis

• COMMENT

The match review panel got it wrong. Twice in one day. This is not a matter of opinion it is a matter of the rules.

Super football. Crows soaring to new heights

Super football is a tag yet to creep into the game’s ever-expanding vernacular, but if it does, it may well be accompanied by an image of Adelaide from any game this season.

I kept telling myself, 'I'm a beautiful set shot, it will turn around'

First, Alex Fasolo had to admit he had a problem.

AFL answers Buckley: Pies knew what they signed up for

The AFL has returned serve at Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley over his barb about the Anzac Day fixture.

To age well, Jones must learn to pay a different price

Ageing and the decay it places on an athlete's body is not a challenge to try to fight and conquer like so many of the battles Nathan Jones has waged on a football field. Rather it's a problem to be negotiated and mitigated, using the brain, rather than the body as the tools.

Don dive: Lloyd worried about Watson's form

• ANALYSIS

One retired AFL great said on Monday it was essentially unfair to put speed and Jobe Watson in the same sentence, for the Essendon champion's game had never been built on that advantage.

Hands off Clarkson, says new Hawthorn CEO Tracey Gaudry

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Former Olympic road cyclist Tracey Gaudry has been announced as the new chief executive of Hawthorn Football Club.

Greene faces two-week ban as umps cautioned on chat

Umpires will be reminded to limit conversations with players about what happens during a match, as Greater Western Sydney consider whether to challenge the classification of Toby Greene's three-match suspension – two with a guilty plea – at the AFL tribunal.

China bound: Power preparing for lift-off in Shanghai

If Port Adelaide players are expecting to sit back and relax on their historic trip to Shanghai, they need to think again.

The Last Word on round six

Saint kicks the greatest ever clanger, umps make a fine mess, the maestro returns, and a Giant acts up again.

AFL on verge of reaching landmark six-year pay deal with players

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The AFL is on the verge of striking a landmark six-year wage agreement with its players.

Petracca 'feared the worst' about his knee

Christian Petracca feared he would require another knee reconstruction after a knock during Melbourne's loss to Richmond last week.

'It's not the travel, it's consistency with our intent:' Simpson

West Coast coach Adam Simpson will call on successful hit and run mission intelligence from trips to Adelaide ahead of a big clash with in-form Port Adelaide at Power's intimidating fortress on Saturday.

AFL 101: Three things we learned from round 6

West Coast bounced back from another MCG shocker to win their fourth Western Derby in a row in comfortable fashion.

Basketball great Jackson's post-career 'nightmare'

Numerous former athletes have opened up about their struggle to cope with life after elite sport.

Tigers no match for brilliant, creative Crows

Adelaide produced their most comprehensive and finest home-and-away victory against another top-ranked side in their 25-year AFL history.

Bucks rapt with the win but not with the AFL

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley was happy to win against undefeated Geelong but said the fixturing was "just not right" and his side would lose most times playing off a five day break.

'Torment' for Hardwick in Crows taming of Tigers

Watching his unbeaten side get ripped apart by a ruthless Adelaide was the greatest torment in his 163 games as coach of Richmond.

Swans and Hawks: Rebuilding from the rubble of fallen empires

One-time powerhouses Sydney and Hawthorn are shot for this season. It’s in how they approach the future that matters most now.

Rohan cleared of serious injury after sickening fall

Gary Rohan returned to Sydney on Sunday after spending the night in a Melbourne hospital with concussion.

Live: Super Sunday of AFL

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Join us for live coverage of a big Sunday of football, including the Bombers and the Dees, Cats and Pies and Crows and Tigers.

Hungry Pies catch Cats napping

Determined Collingwood take advantage of a tentative display by Geelong.

Giants defender Haynes out for 10 weeks with hamstring injury

Defender Nick Haynes will miss 10 weeks after tearing a hamstring tendon in Friday night's win over the Western Bulldogs.

Worsfold not disappointed in Daniher

Essendon coach John Worsfold is keeping his faith in Joe Daniher despite another horror goalkicking display from the Bombers spearhead.

Dees' third-term class breaks tired Bombers

How to explain the poor kicking early in this match?

Effort OK, attitude is not, say Hawks

Hawthorn vice-captain Isaac Smith says he doesn't think the Hawks' fluctuating form can be attributed to varying effort levels. But former captain Luke Hodge says the players' attitude has to change.

'Rocket' to ring umps coach Kennedy

AFL umpires coach Hayden Kennedy can expect a phone call from Gold Coast coach Rodney Eade on Monday after some controversial calls in a narrow loss to North Melbourne.

Geelong extend Chris Scott's contract

Geelong have extended coach Chris Scott's contract until the end of 2019.

'I've never been so sick in my life': Saint's salmonella scare

St Kilda midfielder Koby Stevens says his recent bout of salmonella poisoning left him feeling the sickest he has been in his life.

Will the tide turn for Nathan Buckley?

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It remains one of the major debating points of a season suddenly spiralling out of control for the Magpies. While Nathan Buckley insists the focus on his future is "definitely still outside of the four walls" of the club, he must know more defeats will surely change that.

Richmond and Riewoldt get back to basics

Richmond in 2017 seem to have turned back the clock. They've had five straight wins to start the season. They’re playing a longer-kicking, more contested brand. And in Jack Riewoldt, they’ve got a spearhead actually kicking some goals.

Vardy injured, Eagles' ruck stocks take another hit

West Coast may be forced to upgrade ruckman Fraser McInnes from the rookie list before Saturday night's clash with Port Adelaide.

Eagles return to the comforts of home and dominate Dockers

There's no place like home for West Coast.

From the cheap seats

The restless, inquiring minds in AFL commentary continue to provide us with a bewildering array of new terms.

Who got Lade? Port did

Brendon Lade is returning to Port Adelaide after seven years as an assistant coach at AFL rivals Richmond.

Dogs won't be hoodoo gurus

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.

Hogan departure won't be 'catastrophic': Schwarz

Melbourne great David Schwarz says the potential defection of Jesse Hogan would not be "as catastrophic" now as it would have been last year.

Football romance, or the road to the future?

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.

Chris Judd: It's time to deny the top four clubs access to free agents

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.