Sport
AFL
Analysis
AFL 2024
Essendon the big losers, Blues’ Houdini strikes again: Key takeouts from round four
The round of football started slowly and built to a crescendo with controversy, comebacks, scandal and a celebration of a round now embedded in the football calendar.
- by Peter Ryan
The circuit-breaker that helped Crisp; How Docker explained dissent free kick
- by Jake Niall and Peter Ryan
Opinion
AFL 2024
Priced out: In ‘footy country’, you’ll struggle to watch a game on TV at the pub
- by Michael Gleeson
Insight & Analysis
A top Cat departs without a new home to go to. What’s behind the call?
On Wednesday, as the who’s who of Melbourne’s footy industry touched down in Adelaide for the AFL’s second Gather Round, some surprising news broke about a very familiar name.
Sam McClure
Sports reporter
No serious AFL player would take drugs: Why I can’t fathom blase attitude
Despite attempts to downplay the issues, the reports of illicit drug use and disharmony caused by footy trips should be ringing alarm bells for the AFL and its players’ association.
Kane Cornes
AFL 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
Finlayson apologises for homophobic slur, Koch compares case to Clarkson fine
Finlayson apologised on Sunday for the slur he made in Friday night’s game, and is now waiting for the AFL to finalise its investigation of the matter. But his chairman knows where he thinks it stands in comparison to the matter that saw Alastair Clarkson fined.
- by Greg Dundas
‘They deserve the goal’: Beveridge backs goal-line mark to Cat Stengle
At first, it looked like a behind to Geelong. But on video review, a mark was awarded to Tyson Stengle, who turned it into a goal as the Cats got home by four points.
- by Peter Ryan
‘We only have each other’: How the Demons galvanised amid raging scandals
- by Peter Ryan and Michael Gleeson
More news
Scott rues his club’s soft tissue injuries as Rozee, Power blunt Essendon’s edge
- by Roy Ward, Andrew Stafford and Peter Ryan