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Seconds out: Charlie Dixon.

Port call time out on shot-clock blame game

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.

Crameri has undergone hip surgery.

Bulldogs lose Crameri for rest of season

Stewart Crameri's persistent hip injury has officially ended his AFL season, leaving the Western Bulldogs forward with just two games to his name this year after missing all of 2016 due to his doping ban stemming from former club Essendon's supplements program.

Newlyweds Natalie Croker and Adam Goodes.

Adam Goodes: same man, new goals

Adam Goodes is happy and busy. His cause now is to look out for opportunities for Indigenous youth to make the most of themselves.

Alastair Clarkson.

Senior Hawks safe ... for now

The likes of Shaun Burgoyne, Cyril Rioli and Jarryd Roughead have failed to match lofty standards they'd previously set.

More surgery: David Armitage has gone under the knife again.

St Kilda's Armitage goes under the knife again

St Kilda's star midfielder David Armitage will be sidelined for at least another month after undergoing a second round of surgery to resolve adductor issues that have plagued his season.

A melee erupted during the St Kilda-Carlton match.

Four AFL clubs fined for melees

Carlton and St Kilda players involved in melees during their spiteful round eight AFL fixture have earned their clubs $10,000 fines.

Angus Brayshaw: Back on the training track after another concussion.

Brayshaw back on track after concussion

Melbourne have had some positive news on the injury front with midfielder Angus Brayshaw back on the training track after suffering his fourth concussion in 12 months.

Geelong's Daniel Menzel is back in business.

Newtown hails Menzel's new-found durability

It only took eight seasons, four knee reconstructions and a groin injury that kept him out of last year's preliminary final, but all of Geelong on Thursday night finally gets to cheer Daniel Menzel's 50th game.

Patrick Dangerfield continues to prove a hard man to stop. This week it's Port Adelaide's turn.

Power won't tag Dangerfield, says Hinkley

Ken Hinkley says coaches can go "crazy" worrying how to negate Geelong's potent midfield but he claims he will not send a specialist tagger to the man who could destroy his Port Adelaide side on Thursday night.

Patrick Ryder has been vital around the ball.

Port powers back into finals thinking

Port Adelaide was all but ignored in speculation about potential improvers in 2017. But the pundits appear to have underestimated the Power's capacity to improve with what was already at their disposal.

Who got Lade?: Brendon is back at the Power.

Who got Lade? Port did

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

Dale Morris celebrates on the final siren.

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.

Switched: Sydney Swan Lance Franklin moved from Hawthorn to Sydney as a free agent in 2013.

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

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