AFL Hall of Famer Tim Watson says he's changed his stance players self-regulating on-field sledging and says officials should have issued penalties for the family slights directed towards Carlton's Marc Murphy during the match against St Kilda on the weekend.
Essendon captain Dyson Heppell has made light of a cut hand, blaming it on a kitchen accident during his birthday dinner.
Cancer survivor Sam Rowe wants expectations tempered about when Jesse Hogan might return to the AFL.
Collingwood skipper Scott Pendlebury and his wife Alex are celebrating the arrival of a boy in one of the most keenly anticipated AFL births in recent memory.
Fremantle have vowed not to direct any vicious sledging at Marc Murphy on Sunday.
Hawthorn captain Jarryd Roughead believes there are "blue skies" ahead for his team, despite the club being hit by three significant injuries.
Melbourne forward Jesse Hogan is unlikely to require chemotherapy or radiation therapy for a cancerous growth.
The star Demon knew he would be OK, but telling his mum about the C-word was another thing.
Fremantle have fined troubled midfielder Harley Bennell $10,000 and ordered him to undergo counselling for his bizarre off-field behaviour.
The irony of the AFL proudly unveiling its first woman field umpire in a week in which it had utterly failed to take a stand on a series of disgusting sexist verbal attacks aimed at Carlton captain Marc Murphy was lost on the game's leaders.
Phil Tagell doesn't remember the king-hit, but when he woke up in hospital, cranial fluid was oozing from his left ear. He was told how close he came to "doing a Hookesey". That was more than eight years ago, but he lives with some of the legacy still, including dulling of his senses of smell and taste.
Umpires don't expect cheers, but this shout-out to Eleni Glouftsis was surprising.
It is 12 months since Hawk skipper faced his own battle.
Jimmy Bartel takes a close look at the Cats' game style in the latest episode of The Age Real Footy Podcast.
The AFL wants to be the moral compass of the world but they have been extraordinarily quiet on the verbal sledging by St Kilda players towards Carlton's Marc Murphy.
Opinion remains split about the punishment dished out to Richmond captain Trent Cotchin for his jumper punch, even on the AFL's match review panel.
League declines to sanction Saints for "extremely hurtful" attack on Marc Murphy's wife, saying club had appropriately "owned" its behaviour.
Hawthorn has hit an injury roadblock with confirmation that Cyril Rioli, Ben Stratton and James Frawley are set for lengthy injury spells.
Fremantle will decide this week whether dashing midfielder Steven Hill resumes from injury in Sunday's home clash with Carlton.
Melbourne forward Jesse Hogan has been diagnosed with a form of testicular cancer.
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Fremantle coach Ross Lyon has backed injured midfielder Harley Bennell to return to football despite a string of off-field indiscretions to go with his injury woes.
West Coast big man Nathan Vardy wants to prove he can be a key weapon up forward as he plots a way to stay in the side long term.
West Coast's forward line is hungry, and coach Adam Simpson says it's time they get fed better.
The football fraternity's somewhat feeble response to a series of repulsive verbal attacks levelled at Carlton captain Marc Murphy does not reflect well on the game and its still clear default position regarding what happens verbally on the field.
History will be made on Sunday with a female field umpire set to officiate in the AFL for the first time.
St Kilda captain Jarryn Geary said his teammates "probably overstepped the mark" in making vile comments about Blues captain Marc Murphy's wife.
Club chiefs to consider new format championed by McLachlan to effectively turn the finals into 10-team proposition.
Melbourne are preparing a management plan for midfielder Angus Brayshaw, who will miss at least one game after suffering his fourth concussion in 12 months.
Viewers took to Twitter to slam Danny 'Spud' Frawley's racist humour over historic Shanghai AFL game.
Should Collingwood miss playing finals this year as appears likely, what they can't afford to have done is bring in players in the twilight of their career on big money.
Neither Greater Western Sydney nor young star Josh Kelly will renegotiate the terms of a two-year contract extension to keep him at the club, despite his rich vein of form this season.
Richmond made a series of ultimately diabolical mistakes which allowed the Fremantle Dockers to head back to Perth with another win at the MCG.
Both West Coast and Fremantle continued their winning ways in round eight with nailbiting victories against the Western Bulldogs and Richmond respectively.
Troubled Dockers onballer Harley Bennell will never play a game for Fremantle, claims respected football writer Mike Sheahan.
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.
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