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Dogs show Stringer to their bow in downing Saints
Jake Stringer went back and slotted his fifth goal of the day. No other player on the ground had more than one. The margin was out to 34 points, and the game was as good as over.
Jake Stringer went back and slotted his fifth goal of the day. No other player on the ground had more than one. The margin was out to 34 points, and the game was as good as over.
It's another huge Saturday of football with four matches taking place in Melbourne, Alice Springs and Adelaide.
A new map depicts describes where every indigenous player comes from in Australia
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The Sydney Swans will have four days off to contemplate Friday's nail-biting loss to Hawthorn.
Recovery will be the key for Hawthorn this week as they fight to remain in touch with the top eight against Port Adelaide on Thursday night.
When the Blues take to the field against North Melbourne on Sunday, they will come across a former teammate who would have been more than handy.
Collingwood insist contract negotiations with Brodie Grundy are proceeding smoothly despite hopes of a new deal dragging into the middle of the season.
Carlton will toss the challenge to young big man Jacob Weitering to help quell North Melbourne's tall forwards' threat at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
GWS defender Nathan Wilson will proudly display his Indigenous heritage against West Coast on Sunday.
Football's history wars in Australia are as fraught as all history wars.
Jarryd Roughead's match-winner at the SCG is going to take some beating as far as feel-good stories go this AFL season.
Roughead lands a late bomb to throw the 2017 Swans back onto life support.
Who would have picked this at the start of the season? Both teams are in the lower rungs of the ladder with 3-6 records. The loser tonight surely is officially out of finals contention.
Travis Cloke is still capable of featuring in the Western Bulldogs' best 22 this season despite being dropped this week, according to coach Luke Beveridge.
While Essendon's immediate Dreamtime focus is tackling Richmond at the MCG on Saturday night, another dream is to lure Dustin Martin to the club.
EON sports, the digital 24-7 sports radio network, has been forced to abandon local programming due to cost issues.
GWS Giants ruckman Tom Downie has retired from AFL football to battle mental health issues.
The Laguntas — an aboriginal word for tiger — were controversially introduced into the Victorian football landscape in 2013 at a time when the competition was largely bereft of Indigenous talent raised in this state.
The AFL is set to introduce lifetime free agency next season, with boss Gillon McLachlan describing it as a logical change.
Former North Melbourne captain Andrew Swallow's career looks to have reached a crossroads after he was dropped for the second time this season.
Coinciding with the AFL's Sir Douglas Nicholls round, a researcher has discovered never before recognized evidence of the first ever football match between a VFL side and an Aboriginal team.
Indigenous footballer Tyrone Bean says his "spirit took a beating" last year when he was racially vilified while playing for amateur club University Blacks.
Is this the year of the long slow deception? Are the Bulldogs reprising last year and flattering to deceive, or have they genuinely fallen away?
St Kilda coach Alan Richardson says the Saints' decision not to rest Nick Riewoldt three weeks ago is unrelated to the veteran's latest injury.
Delays in the CBA negotiations will mean the NRL is likely to beat the AFL to the punch in the latest TV broadcasting innovation.
The Western Bulldogs and St Kilda are set for a huge match at Etihad Stadium on Saturday. It's eighth versus ninth with both teams 5-4 and desperate to stay in/re-enter the top eight.
Port Adelaide forward Aaron Young has refused to blame umpiring for his side's loss to Geelong on Thursday night despite the game's dying minutes being shrouded in controversy.
Sydney are back in business, and there's one player who can help them into the finals.
When it came down to the last 100 seconds, there was only one man who could stop Port.
Every team, every match. See how your side is lining up.
The Cats looking to keep their winning home form rolling but Port have a point to prove.
Eagles coach Adam Simpson has stuck by his promise to swing the axe, with at least five changes for this Sunday's game against the Giants.
The Western Bulldogs have dropped veteran forward Travis Cloke for Saturday's clash against St Kilda, while the Saints will be without an injured Nick Riewoldt.
Port Adelaide chief Keith Thomas has backed Brisbane's call for longer-term contracts for draftees saying young players went into the AFL system "with their eyes open".
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.
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.
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