Anthony Colangelo is a sports reporter at The Age
Collingwood have named son-of-a-gun Callum Brown to play Port Adelaide on Sunday for his third game of AFL football, while fellow father-son pick Josh Daicos will yet again be an emergency for the Magpies.
Two of the leading figures in the AFL's push into esports and the managing director of one of Australia's foremost esports firms have presented to club CEOs about opportunities in the growth industry.
There are plenty of reasons why Saturday's Geelong-Richmond clash shouldn't be played at Simonds Stadium and perhaps the most compelling is that thousands will be robbed of the chance to see 2017's two best players go head-to-head.
Matthew Boyd says "in many ways" he wasn't ready to be Western Bulldogs captain at the start of the 2011 season but that he's grateful for being thrown straight into the deep end.
The Western Bulldogs are confident premiership captain Easton Wood will be fit to play in the finals if the club makes it that far after deeming that the defender does not need hamstring surgery.
GWS officials have debated and discussed the club's long list of 2017 hamstring injuries and have found no need to alter training methods or ways of preventing and treating the hamstring setbacks.
St Kilda football club have advised their players to avoid bathing in Melbourne beaches after a boy was left with gruesome and bloody ankles after apparently being bitten by sea lice on Saturday.
Not only did St Kilda’s Jack Steele play the best statistical game of his career on Sunday - gathering 26 disposals, 10 clearances and 11 tackles - he simultaneously kept West Coast’s Luke Shuey to his lowest disposal count since 2015.
An inspirational moment of attack on the football and the contest by retiring champion Nick Riewoldt propelled St Kilda to victory over the West Coast Eagles and kept the Saints' finals hopes alive, according to coach Alan Richardson.
St Kilda's hopes of playing in their first finals series since 2011 are still alive after pulling off a stirring eight point victory over the West Coast Eagles at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.
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