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AFL injury ward
Crows thump Blues to win AFLW premiership as Phillips does ACL
Adelaide superstar Erin Phillips was stretchered off in the Crows' commanding AFLW grand final win, confirming after the match that the injury was an ACL.
- by Steve Barrett
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Adelaide Crows
How can you stop AFLW Adelaide star Erin Phillips?
The Crows co-captain is clearly the best player in the women's game, so how will the Blues look to stop her on Sunday in the grand final.
- by Daniel Cherny
Analysis
'Bring it on': Carlton's ruck code-hopper steps into limelight
How code-crossing Alison Downie became one of the league's best footy players as she lines up for the Blues in Sunday's AFLW grand final.
- by Megan Hustwaite
Carlton
AFLW grand final: Crows and Blues unchanged
Adelaide and Carlton have named unchanged teams for Sunday’s AFLW season finale at Adelaide Oval.
AFL 2019
Saturday serve: Facebook and Twitter need to become verified
"Someone has to be accountable for this." Geoff Toovey was right and six years after the ex-Manly coach's legendary blow up that someone is social media.
- by David Polkinghorne
Opinion
Opinion
The AFL gives away a not-so-free kick
By enforcing copyright over use of the famous Tayla Harris photograph, the league has once again shown that it thinks it owns the world.
- by Greg Baum
Analysis
Resistance to AFL plan for joint funding of men, women
Under new plan professional stars of the men’s game would help subsidise their female counterparts.
- by Caroline Wilson
AFL Grand Final
'Surreal': Hoskings keeping things normal ahead of AFLW grand final
Jess and Sarah Hosking will be the first pair of twins to play together in an AFLW grand final, but are just trying to keep things normal.
- by Yan Zhuang
'I was shocked': Amy Shark's grand final gig inspired by Tayla Harris controversy
The ARIA winner will be performing on the pitch before Sunday's final.
- by Robert Moran
Designer stops selling Tayla Harris T-shirt after AFL legal threats
Independent online shop pulls T-shirts with an 'original design' depicting footy star Tayla Harris after AFL claimed artwork breached copyright.
- by Michael Fowler and Simone Fox Koob
Opinion
Opinion
Buti's Call: History shows female footballers have faced resistance
The footballers who play for the 10 clubs in the AFLW are the modern pioneers of women’s football. They are the modern day trailblazers who will always have a special place in female sport going forward. But women playing football is much older than the three-year-old AFLW competition.
- by Tony Buti