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AFL
Blues star Weitering sidelined with serious calf strain
Carlton have suffered an early blow ahead of their 2024 campaign after key player Jacob Weitering strained his calf, an injury that is likely to sideline him for an extended period.
- by Scott Spits
Insight & Analysis
Warnings for AFL, Sport Integrity Australia and players as Demon fights for career
There will be little sympathy for Joel Smith, but there also should be an examination of whether the process for drug testing is fit for purpose.
Peter Ryan
Sports reporter
The draft has become farcical and needs major surgery
The mechanism for distributing players is unnecessarily complicated and failing to fulfil its basic mission. It is neither fair nor a system that genuinely equalises as it once did.
Jake Niall
Chief football writer, The Age
Everyone feels wronged: Why Hawthorn can’t move on
Not even the promise of a new home and the arrival of an exciting group of draftees this week could save the Hawks from another blow-up related to the club’s cultural safety review.
Michael Gleeson
Sports columnist
Latest in AFL
St Kilda poach talent scout who shaped Bulldogs flag team
Saints have poached Sydney and former Western Bulldogs recruiting manager Simon Dalrymple, the man who helped build the Western Bulldogs’ 2016 premiership list.
- by Michael Gleeson and Peter Ryan
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AFL 2024
AFL gives Pies star all-clear to resume playing career
The AFL has cleared Collingwood key defender Nathan Murphy to resume his playing career after an examination by the league’s concussion panel.
- by Jake Niall
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NRL 2024
Why V’landys has turned Las Vegas into the new battleground for NRL and AFL
- by Andrew Webster
