AFL


Big Week In Art: Glouftsis and the Book of Revelation

El Greco

Thirteen years after Chelsea Roffey became the AFL's first female goal umpire, Eleni Glouftsis became the first female field umpire. As American rock band R.E.M. sang, "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine."

Evolution at least gets AFL gaming off the ground

AFL Evolution

Will the AFL's new video game AFL Evolution help win back some of those gamers being lost to soccer through the spectacular success of the FIFA series? Our own guinea pig takes the new game for a spin.

'We're ready now': Cats, Saints made to wait for AFLW teams

Chelsea Randall, Bec Goddard and Erin Phillip hold the cup aloft after the Crows won the inaugural AFLW premiership ...

Geelong and St Kilda are unhappy that the AFL has put the brakes on their push for an AFL Women's team, with Cats chief executive Brian Cook declaring: "We are probably more ready to join the competition than some teams already in [it]."

Over the rainbow

Penny Cula-Reid and Mia-Rae Clifford in the garden at home.

Lace up some rainbow laces next weekend and help kick prejudice out of sport.

It's past time for AFL to support same-sex marriage

Erin Phillips with wife Tracy Gahan on the coral carpet at the inaugural AFLW awards.

Speaking as an Australian, there was sadness – heartbreak really – to watch AFLW best and fairest winner Erin Phillips pay tribute to her partner in the knowledge that the couple have returned to a country that still bans them from getting married.

WBBL braces for clash of codes

Multi-tasker: Emma Kearney would be affected by a clash between the WBBL and AFLW.

The prospect of a showdown between the Women's Big Bash League and AFLW next summer is becoming more realistic, and Cricket Australia hopes its beefed-up pay offer to female players will help sway them to choose cricket over football

AFLW to axe marquee model

Marquee players were paid $27,000 this season, the next tier of players $12,000 and the remaining listed players $8500.

The list size of AFL Women's clubs will increase by three and the marquee concept is likely to be scuttled under plans outlined to players.

Love letters from an AFLW coach

 Bec Goddard with the Crows.

On the eve of the first AFL women’s grand final Samantha Lane reveals the love letters that have bonded Adelaide’s history-making team.