Michael Gleeson is a senior AFL football writer and Fairfax Media's athletics writer. He also covers tennis, cricket and other sports. He won the AFL Players Association Grant Hattam Trophy for excellence in journalism for the second time in 2014 and was a finalist in the 2014 Quill Awards for best sports feature writer. He was also a finalist in the 2014 Australian Sports Commission awards for his work on ‘Boots for Kids’. He is a winner of the AFL Media Association award for best news reporter and a two-time winner of Cricket Victoria’s cricket writer of the year award. Michael has covered multiple Olympics, Commonwealth Games and world championships and 15 seasons of AFL, He has also written seven books - five sports books and two true crime books.
This weekend and the Queen's Birthday game has turned focus to motor neurone disease. Neale Daniher has given voice to those like Kimberley Sparks who wanted to scream to the world about this awful disease.
Western Bulldogs president Peter Gordon trusts the umpires to call it as they see it against the Swans.
Collingwood's injured trio will miss the Queen's Birthday match with Melbourne.
Midfielder James Aish is likely to be fit to come back into the depleted Collingwood team for the Queen's Birthday game.
With Jamie Elliott at fullforward Collingwood offers a nod to Peter Daicos and Gavin Brown as short key forwards. Short target forwards have been successful for short periods, but what is the ideal structure?
Collingwood forward Alex Fasolo will take a break from AFL to manage his mental health.
Western Bulldogs captain Bob Murphy will undergo more knee surgery while he also recovers from a hamstring strain that will sideline him for a month.
Collingwood's game against Brisbane was a microcosm of their season. Good in parts, dominant in others, frail at times.
Inaccurate goal kicking had cost Collingwood several wins and up to 15 percentage points this year, coach Nathan Buckley said, after the familiar problem plagued them again against Brisbane. This time, it only cost them percentage, not premiership points.
A new map depicts describes where every Indigenous player comes from in Australia.
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