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.
Kamdyn McIntosh's mum and step dad were fly-in, fly-out workers when he grew up. At 17, he would spend every second week caring for his three young sisters, while going to school, holding down three part-time jobs and going to footy training. Fortunately he likes to keep busy.
Danny Frawley, the last man to coach Richmond in a preliminary final, believes this Tigers side can go further than the one that ran into the possibly greatest team ever.
A preliminary final against Richmond is no time for ex-Tiger Brett Deledio to be humble.
Nick Vlastuin's nickname is Tigger. It has nothing to do with the Tigers.
The timing of the announcements was cruel. Jack Trengove delisted at the same time the player taken with the next draft pick, Dusty Martin, was named the players' choice for best player in the AFL this year.
The football world had underestimated Geelong all year and had now jumped off the Cats too quickly after one bad final, Geelong president Colin Carter said issuing a warning that his Cats were "not dead yet".
Collingwood's overhaul of their coaching structure around Nathan Buckley has resulted in retired Western Bulldogs champion Matthew Boyd joining the Magpies.
Geelong need to find new avenues to goal, and the Daniel Menzel debate might now shift back to what he can do, and not what he doesn't.
Richmond was never going to do a final easily. The game was as tortured as Richmond's path to it.
Michael Hurley didn't know he was upset until he started crying. Hurley is a private man in a public game who made his private thoughts public. He knew he felt angry about what had happened to him and his teammates but he didn't know he felt that emotional until he found himself crying on national television.
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