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History-maker: Eleni first female AFL field ump
SOUTH Australia’s Eleni Glouftsis has received a birthday present to remember, learning she will become the first female field umpire in AFL history.
Shanghai clash Eade keen for Suns to play in China again
THE game didn’t go to plan as Gold Coast were blown away by Port Adelaide and coach Rodney Eade doesn’t want that performance to be his side’s last in Shanghai — he wants to play there again.
Kane Cornes Saints’ vile sledging off limits
SLEDGING directed at Marc Murphy by St Kilda players on Saturday crossed the line and a code of conduct must be established to control comments made on the field, writes Kane Cornes.
Crows Roo: Get used to it, Rory
MARK Ricciuto has challenged Rory Sloane to fight his way out of the opposition tag as he warns the lockdown job on the league’s best midfielders is back in vogue and here to stay.
Saints sorry Leave my wife alone: Murphy
CARLTON captain Marc Murphy has hit out at “hurtful” commentary regarding his wife Jessie as St Kilda conceded vicious sledging at Etihad Stadium on Saturday had crossed the line.
Port Adelaide Port is a top-four side: Bone
CHRIS McDermott is convinced Port Adelaide is a top-four side after its whipping of Gold Coast in China. Listen to our AFL podcast — starring Bone, Reece Homfray and special guest Matt Turner — here.
Crows Thommo ready if Crows call him up
CROWS forward Tom Lynch isn’t predicting any selection changes to play Brisbane this week but says veteran Scott Thompson is ready to go if called upon.
AFL Rankings: Be bold, Don
ENOUGH of the conservative selection approach from Don Pyke, it’s time for Adelaide’s coach to be bold and here are four names who must be considered. Read more in Reece Homfray’s Round 8 power rankings column.
Chris McDermott Bone’s Round 8 Team of the Week
THE midfield heroes came out to play in a big way in the AFL’s Round 8, with veterans and youngsters both featuring in Chris McDermott’s Team of the Week.
Port Adelaide Power rules as Suns set in the East
PORT Adelaide is back from football’s wilderness, even if it had to go to a new frontier in China to prove it. The Power is in the history books and the AFL’s top four after a 72-point win over Gold Coast.
Adelaide ‘Nice’ Crows need to harden up: Ricciuto
BROWNLOW Medallist Mark Ricciuto says Adelaide must get down and dirty and stop playing “nice” footy to fight its way out of a worrying form slump.
- AFL News Purple is the new red and black
- Port Adelaide China captures Jonas’s heart
- Carlton Crossing the line? The great AFL sledging debate
- Port Adelaide Reset Power finding consistency
- Port Adelaide AFL keen as Port sets 5-year China plan
- Michelangelo Rucci Power prises open door to China
- AFL Why Jobe should call it quits
- Port Adelaide Goal ‘out of my backside’, says Hoff
- Fremantle ‘I thought Tigers had kicked another one’
Supercoach
SuperCoach Advice SuperCoach: Hello Newman
NIC Newman has proved he is good enough to start on your field so what are the trade options? Find out in the SuperCoach market watch.
Studs and duds Billings produces SuperCoach stunner
ROUND 8 is in the books, so how did your SuperCoach team fare? We look at every game from the weekend to see who starred and who flopped.
- Will Beams replace Rockliff?
- The Phantom - Round 8 preview
- What to do with Dayne Beams?
- SuperCoach selections we’d like again
- How Lance is helping his buddies
- SuperCoach: Planning for the byes
- SuperCoach investor: Yeo a must-have
- SuperCoach: Welcome back, Goldy?
- SuperCoach: Roughie reward, Parsons pain
- SuperCoach: The Phantom previews R7
- When’s the right time to trade your rookies?
- Lions blow: Beams sidelined again
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Embarrassment of riches for Godden
WOODVILLE-West Torrens coach Michael Godden is facing a selection dilemma for the battle against Port Adelaide. But it’s one that would make many rival coaches envious.
Eagles show they’ll be finals force
WOODVILLE-West Torrens rubber stamped its premiership credentials as it shot clear at the top of the SANFL ladder with a 70-point thumping of Glenelg on Saturday.
Ugly clash, but Blues finally win one
REIGNING premier Sturt produced a slick third term to down West Adelaide in their SANFL clash on Saturday. But the Blues’ first win of the season came in a largely lacklustre affair at Unley Oval.
Saints’ vile sledging off limits
SLEDGING directed at Marc Murphy by St Kilda players on Saturday crossed the line and a code of conduct must be established to control comments made on the field, writes Kane Cornes.
Port is a top-four side: Bone
CHRIS McDermott is convinced Port Adelaide is a top-four side after its whipping of Gold Coast in China. Listen to our AFL podcast — starring Bone, Reece Homfray and special guest Matt Turner — here.
Bone’s Round 8 Team of the Week
THE midfield heroes came out to play in a big way in the AFL’s Round 8, with veterans and youngsters both featuring in Chris McDermott’s Team of the Week.
The damning assessment of Crows’ soft midfield
JONATHAN Brown has slammed the Adelaide midfield brigade, questioning their toughness in tight and their prospects of standing up in September.
Thommo ready if Crows call him up
CROWS forward Tom Lynch isn’t predicting any selection changes to play Brisbane this week but says veteran Scott Thompson is ready to go if called upon.
Roo: Get used to it, Rory
MARK Ricciuto has challenged Rory Sloane to fight his way out of the opposition tag as he warns the lockdown job on the league’s best midfielders is back in vogue and here to stay.
- Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
- ‘Nice’ Crows need to harden up: Ricciuto
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- We can do more for Rory: Jacobs
- Erin Phillips retires from WNBA
- Crows bullied and beaten by Demons
- Crows must be faster, harder: Pyke
- ‘We’ve got to step up for under-siege Sloane’
- Bone rates the Crows
- Smash Rory Sloane, smash Adelaide
- Crows should break bank for Dusty
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
Purple is the new red and black
AFL DAILY: ESSENDON shelved its traditional red and black strip for purple and rainbow colours. Plus, Trent Cotchin escapes punishment for a jumper punch. RECAP THE DAY’S NEWS
Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
COLLINGWOOD has dropped to second last on the AFL ladder in Nathan Buckley’s make or break year, while Richmond missed a huge opportunity. WHERE YOUR CLUB SITS
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Will Beams replace Rockliff?
- Lions sweat on Rockliff injury
- Hawks kids help clear dark clouds
- Lions have nothing to lose: Rich
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
- Inside knowledge won’t beat Hawks: Fagan
- Why 2017 is the AFL’s year of upsets
- Harris on move as AFLW silly season begins
Carey denies Murphy sledging rumours
AFL GREAT Wayne Carey has moved to rubbish suggestions of any involvement in the Marc Murphy sledging affair, revealing he has been in constant contact with the Carlton skipper about rumours.
Shock sledging details emerge
AFL legend Wayne Carey has been sensationally linked to the sledging scandal involving Carlton captain Marc Murphy.
Leave my wife alone: Murphy
CARLTON captain Marc Murphy has hit out at “hurtful” commentary regarding his wife Jessie as St Kilda conceded vicious sledging at Etihad Stadium on Saturday had crossed the line.
- Players need more heroics, less stupidity
- ‘One of the hardest times in my career’
- Saints’ vile sledging off limits
- Crossing the line? The great AFL sledging debate
- Is a Victorian club headed for China?
- Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Roos slams Saints over Murphy sledging
- Jack takes top billing in big win
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
Magpie blow: Reid to miss up to a month
COLLINGWOOD has been dealt a major blow with star swingman Ben Reid to miss up to a month with a quad injury after sustaining the injury in the loss to GWS.
Did untimely score review stop Pies winning?
A MOMENT of Stevie J magic broke Collingwood hearts on Saturday night, but a surprising score review in the dying stages may have contributed to the Magpies losing.
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
- Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Errors allowed Giants to ‘steal it’: Buckley
- Stevie J the hero in heartbreaker for Pies
- Magpies expect Adams to lend a hand
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Pies’ goalkicking worse than you think
- Giants, Pies to pay tribute to Lou
- Dane Swan blond and fit for a Europe summer
- ‘He was kicking them from all parts’
First female field ump set for debut
TRAILBLAZER Eleni Glouftsis will become the AFL’s first ever female field umpire when she makes her league debut in the Essendon-West Coast clash on Sunday.
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- ‘He just called me Cameron Mooney’
- Slack Cats punished by Bombers
- ‘Napoleon Dynamite with size 13s’
- ‘I thought I was done, completely’
- ‘I had some pretty dark thoughts’
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
Bennell to meet with Dockers officials
HARLEY Bennell is set to meet with Fremantle officials, including CEO Steve Rosich, on Tuesday over the strange behaviour he displayed at a WAFL match on Saturday. WATCH THE VIDEO
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
‘I thought Tigers had kicked another one’
ROSS Lyon has revealed how he left the coaches box in disgust and missed the matchwinning play that broke Richmond hearts at the MCG.
- Richmond unravelling, Tigers of old return
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Roos were ‘obliterated’ by Swans
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- ‘I want to be there to pick up the pieces’
- Freo investigating strange Bennell behaviour
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
- Why 2017 is the AFL’s year of upsets
Does Scott want Ablett at Cats?
GARY Ablett wanted to return to Geelong at the end of last year and says this season could be his last if a move can’t be orchestrated, but are the Cats interested in a reunion?
Dogs set for Operation: Dangerwood
WESTERN Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has a plan to stop Patrick Dangerfield and Joel Selwood in Friday night’s huge clash against Geelong at Simonds Stadium.
‘We have to do better’: Selwood
GEELONG captain Joel Selwood concedes the Cats must get better at shutting down opposition sides following his team’s discouraging loss to Essendon on Saturday night.
- Is a Victorian club headed for China?
- Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Cats are playing bruise-free footy
- Guthrie’s umpire push under scrutiny
- Fuming Scott demands more from Cats
- Slack Cats punished by Bombers
- ‘Napoleon Dynamite with size 13s’
- ‘I thought I was done, completely’
- Cats the AFL’s Jekyll and Hyde
- O’Connor makes meteoric rise to debut
Eade keen for Suns to play in China again
THE game didn’t go to plan as Gold Coast were blown away by Port Adelaide and coach Rodney Eade doesn’t want that performance to be his side’s last in Shanghai — he wants to play there again.
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Will Gold Coast play in China again?
- ’I didn’t see that coming’: Eade
- Roos were ‘obliterated’ by Swans
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Suns crucial to success in China
- Ablett, Gray declared certain starters
- Is Rocket the man to launch the Suns?
- Ablett fails to train ahead of China clash
- Rory ready, Suns set for China clash
- Power’s China innovation adds resilience
- AFL finally locks in China TV deal
Taranto already playing like a Giant
YOUNG Giant Tim Taranto has wasted no time settling into life as an AFL footballer both on and off the field and after his performance against Collingwood, has earned a Rising Star nomination.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
Purple is the new red and black
AFL DAILY: ESSENDON shelved its traditional red and black strip for purple and rainbow colours. Plus, Trent Cotchin escapes punishment for a jumper punch. RECAP THE DAY’S NEWS
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- I don’t answer to critics: Stevie J
- Stevie J the hero in heartbreaker for Pies
- Stevie J not done with yet: Bomber
- How Eddie McGuire is fuelling GWS
- Next gen of Giants stars ready to shine
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Giants, Pies to pay tribute to Lou
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Lloyd’s unlikely journey to the big stage
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
Purple is the new red and black
AFL DAILY: ESSENDON shelved its traditional red and black strip for purple and rainbow colours. Plus, Trent Cotchin escapes punishment for a jumper punch. RECAP THE DAY’S NEWS
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Rioli ‘highly unlikely’ to face Magpies
- Lions sweat on Rockliff injury
- Hawks kids help clear dark clouds
- ‘I think they have got to move him on’
- Cooper’s with me everyday: Ratten
- We’ll have a beer after the game: Clarko
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Vickery ‘still part of Hawks plans’
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
Was Oliver’s miracle goal all it seemed?
CLAYTON Oliver beat Eddie Betts at his own game with an incredible goal at Adelaide Oval on Saturday night. But one replay suggests something wasn’t quite right.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Brayshaw’s dad: ‘Just dreadful luck’
- ‘I could see the pool of blood in my hands’
- Boy from bush becomes Bernie Inc.
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Former basketballer on Crows standby
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
- Young Demons still learning, not fragile
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
Purple is the new red and black
AFL DAILY: ESSENDON shelved its traditional red and black strip for purple and rainbow colours. Plus, Trent Cotchin escapes punishment for a jumper punch. RECAP THE DAY’S NEWS
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Roos were ‘obliterated’ by Swans
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Is the sleeping giant finally awake?
- How Cyril gave ‘Roo extra bounce
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- North set for superstar swoop
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
- Sav regrets picking footy over baby
- Dogfight looms over North’s Arden St plan
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
China captures Jonas’s heart
PORT Adelaide defender Tom Jonas wants to return to China — and not just to play another AFL game. And he has pinpointed the Power’s blueprint for success in Shanghai.
- AFL keen as Port sets 5-year China plan
- Reset Power finding consistency
- Richmond unravelling, Tigers of old return
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Roos were ‘obliterated’ by Swans
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- AFL history? ‘We did it,’ says Kochie
- Bone rates the Power players
- Late-arriving Ebert sets the pace
- Win ices cake for Port’s China strategy
- We’ll be back, vows Hinkley
- Goal ‘out of my backside’, says Hoff
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
How Tigers lost a game in 21 seconds
AFTER hitting the lead with 21 seconds left, Richmond should not have lost to Fremantle. But the Tigers blew it and we reveal how they threw another match away.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
- I was desperate to be a Tiger: Bont
- ‘I thought Tigers had kicked another one’
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Roos were ‘obliterated’ by Swans
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Shell-shocked Hardwick flags changes
- Did umps rob Tigers of victory?
- ‘I was one hamstring away from giving up’
- Why they’re smiling at Tigerland now
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Who is the recruit of the year?
Leave my wife alone: Murphy
CARLTON captain Marc Murphy has hit out at “hurtful” commentary regarding his wife Jessie as St Kilda conceded vicious sledging at Etihad Stadium on Saturday had crossed the line.
Players need more heroics, less stupidity
THE AFL needs to develop a Code of Conduct for sledging to educate all players not to cross the line and adapt to community standards in the wake of the Marc Murphy sledging affair, writes Mark Robinson.
Saints’ vile sledging off limits
SLEDGING directed at Marc Murphy by St Kilda players on Saturday crossed the line and a code of conduct must be established to control comments made on the field, writes Kane Cornes.
- Is a Victorian club headed for China?
- Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Jack takes top billing in big win
- Legends make Gresham feel at home
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- The reasons behind Roberton’s meteoric rise
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
Purple is the new red and black
AFL DAILY: ESSENDON shelved its traditional red and black strip for purple and rainbow colours. Plus, Trent Cotchin escapes punishment for a jumper punch. RECAP THE DAY’S NEWS
Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
COLLINGWOOD has dropped to second last on the AFL ladder in Nathan Buckley’s make or break year, while Richmond missed a huge opportunity. WHERE YOUR CLUB SITS
- Roos were ‘obliterated’ by Swans
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Big win proves Swans far from a spent force
- Is the sleeping giant finally awake?
- Consistency key for Swans in North test
- Tippett to earn AFL return in reserves
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Rohan bounces back from neck scare
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
- How Lance is helping his buddies
First female field ump set for debut
TRAILBLAZER Eleni Glouftsis will become the AFL’s first ever female field umpire when she makes her league debut in the Essendon-West Coast clash on Sunday.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
Purple is the new red and black
AFL DAILY: ESSENDON shelved its traditional red and black strip for purple and rainbow colours. Plus, Trent Cotchin escapes punishment for a jumper punch. RECAP THE DAY’S NEWS
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Eagles prevail in a dour struggle with Bulldogs
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Have the experts got the Eagles wrong?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
- Why 2017 is the AFL’s year of upsets
- Confirmed: AFLW to expand in 2019
- ‘I’ve got my Ventolin ready’
- SuperLadder: Saints, Dockers on the rise
Dogs set for Operation: Dangerwood
WESTERN Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge has a plan to stop Patrick Dangerfield and Joel Selwood in Friday night’s huge clash against Geelong at Simonds Stadium.
Is a Victorian club headed for China?
A VICTORIAN club could be on the plane to China next season — with a potential $1 million carrot dangled to sell a home game to Port Adelaide in the Orient.
Barometer: Coniglio adds to Giants toll
GWS has been dealt a massive blow with star midfielder Stephen Coniglio suffering another serious ankle injury. Plus, Hawthorn is in a world of pain. FULL INJURY LIST
- I was desperate to be a Tiger: Bont
- Purple is the new red and black
- Richmond: Play for your team and not yourself
- Buckley just can’t take a trick
- Murphy missed in Dogs’ loss to Eagles
- Eagles prevail in a dour struggle with Bulldogs
- Sunday teams: Tigers bank on Nank
- Trade Talk: Did your club get it right?
- Beveridge’s fears for coaches’ future
- Who is the recruit of the year?
- Teams: Treloar out, Redpath back
- Winners and losers in run home
- Why 2017 is the AFL’s year of upsets