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Contending or rebuilding? Geelong show, again, it doesn’t have to be one or the other
Not even the 40-minute delay at the start of the last quarter, taken as a precaution against a lightning strike, could do more than temporarily stall the Cats on their path to victory over Hawthorn at the MCG on Easter Monday.
- by Greg Baum
Updated
AFL 2024
‘The most disappointing thing’: Ginnivan opens up on Pies exit ahead of Gather Round clash
- by Marnie Vinall and AAP
Updated
AFL 2024
‘We’ve just got to get him to take a breath’: How Rioli jnr can realise immense potential
- by Marc McGowan and Claire Siracusa
Insight & Analysis
Four Points: The real reasons the Lions are battling, and has the penny dropped for Essendon?
The Lions are 0-3 with two losses at home but the fallout from an end-of-season trip to the US is not the reason for their struggles.
Peter Ryan
Sports reporter
AFL and drugs: Beware the crackdown that becomes a crack-up
The AFL must be careful not to throw out the welfare baby with the tough-on-drugs bathwater.
Greg Baum
Sports columnist
How Tarryn Thomas can go to any club, at no draft cost
Suspended midfielder Tarryn Thomas can be signed as a free agent by any club, bar North Melbourne, at the end of the 2024 season.
Jake Niall
Chief football writer, The Age
Latest in AFL
Gawn says win over Port shows Dees are united, club marks Viney’s 200th in style
Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin is lauding the character of his club to emerge gritty seven-point winners over Port Adelaide after another week of controversy.
- by Roy Ward, Andrew Wu, Scott Spits and Steve Barrett
Exclusive
Drugs in sport
He blew the whistle on the AFL drugs scandal. Here is what Melbourne’s ex-club doctor wants to change
Zeeshan Arain says he documented a disturbingly high prevalence of illicit drug use among players at the Melbourne Football Club and wanted to expose a cultural problem, not blow up the league’s drugs policy.
- by Chip Le Grand
